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by ticmasta 7y ago
certain aspects of nutrition are best met with fresh vegetables, and definitely taste desires, but supplementing with frozen fruits and veggies can be just as healthy, reduce waste and let you stock up in-season for later in the year. It&#x
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>> A team that is doing agile right ... Oh, please stop with the "because you're doing it wrong" defense. Yes, I most likely am doing it wrong, I already know that. Is the fact the process allows the level of flexibilit
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>> Job burnout is an epidemic Start of sub-title. def: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time So a wide-spread, non-infectious phenomena that has been occurring... forever?, doesn't r
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Have you tried a Halo band? Sounds somewhat similar... it's a neoprene headband with a rubber squeege-like trough on the inside. It channels the sweat back behind your ears and down your neck. They are awesome and when I ride without o
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This seems like a cool & intuitive technology, but I'd caution that (similar to the popularity of neck braces) it's far from definitive to provide additional protection. The general principle is MIPS (and others) allow the hel
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I think the key take-aways are: * any helmet provides significant protection vs. not wearing a helmet * there is no correlation between cost and protection level * there may be a correlation between protection and rotational-focused technol
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your statement is soundly countered in a similarly unsupported opinion above. You may not like their domain name but the paper and science behind it appear pretty sound.
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>> This is why things have gotten hard for many people, they don't know how to program But how does this explain programming over the past 30+ years? You can't blame code camps as to why programming in the 90's has not
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Nothing made me enjoy Jira like being forced to move to DevOps. By MS's own admission it's way too complicated, so much so that they've now made the "Basic" workflow (which looks a lot like Jira) the default.
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If you're already in VS Code I prefer the rest extension as well. It's great for making quick one-off calls but is a little under-powered for organizing larger sets of endpoints, credentials, etc
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>> everything was great but the team did not feel the spark. That's a really poor response. I can understand that many of us would have that same implicit gut feeling, but recruitment, and especially supposedly exemplar recruiter
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>> NYC and SF (which are both very bike friendly). What? You need to visit some more cities. Just because bikes & cars co-exist in a city does not make them bike friendly.
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>> It is crowded, unclean, slow, and noisy. in North America it's also expensive and heavily subsidized by those who don't use it. With no judgement, both of these aspects go directly against the capatalist American zeitgei
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>> let J&J and other companies like it sell prescriptions to addicts Sounds like you're pretty angry, but you realize they didn't "sell to addicts" - they created them with a concentrated, coordinated strategy
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Even in the wildest dreams of greens we don't displace oil with renewables today. A huge piece of the puzzle is that all the oil delivered to consumers is not equal. Oil produced in Canada, US , Norway, etc is done so under much tighte
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The alternative to pipelines is not trucks, it's rail, and the impact x frequency of rail-based spills is larger than pipelines.
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Condensate is not typically burned for electrical generation. It's value is as a very low viscosity liquid so it can be blended with heavy oil to make it's transport more efficient. This also necessitates taking it to where the he
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those ads in computer shopper where how you learned what was coming into your price bracket in the next 1-2 years. You saw an external 8x (!) speed CD burner and knew you'd be able to afford one within ~18 months.
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I think it goes even beyond paid vs free; the wiki model of knowledgeable, caring volunteers doing all this work for free seemed pretty crazy to all but a very few. Curated collections like Encarta and encyclopedias also tended to have very
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I'm confused; it goes beyond the big, GP social networks by focusing on more meaningful relationships (how?) but I create them by pulling directly from these sources of relationships? What exactly is a "personal" CRM that doe
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no kidding - anyone truly surprised that their plastic boots sold at a vegan premium are very profitable?
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THis also follows on massive investment and improvement on their restaurant & food side. They admitted their product sucked and put a lot of work into making it better (which it definitely is). Many of their restaurants are converting f
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IMO there's a big difference between shock and intolerance. Shock may usually (but not always) lead to a negative reaction, but intolerance seems more like a default position. To put it another way, shock is someone who jumps when you
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First that job went to Southpark, then Family Guy. Now we show the most offensive plots of all but call it "reality TV"
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biggest cost is probably the cup, straw and labour around servicing customers and cleaning the restaurant, collecting garbage, etc. The biggest cost in the coke is likely transportation to the restaurant
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If I owned a McD franchise and had someone willing to do this repeatedly for free Coke I'd probably allow it indefinitely to create a creature of habit who I know at some point is going to want more than a Coke...
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Sounds like Hover defined the playbook that today's hottest startups use: it's 2019's MoviePass business model.
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"very little regard for anything outside their headspace" thank you for articulating the behavior I continually see in my day-to-day. It's the little things: walking slowly 3 and 4 abreast on a sidewalk at a snail pace; sudde
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I've never met Scott but I worked with Dan briefly in the early 2000's and he is a disconcerting combination of brilliance and quiet modesty. It doesn't seem possible that someone as smart and broadly knowledgeable should be
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When someone questions my work, effort or results from what I feel is an illegitimate place (ex: they're just trying to score easy political points) I find the easiest way to resolve the situation is to ask them to take on some non-tri

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