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by trentnix 5y ago
This is generally true. And I assume the reliably liberal Texas Monthly spares no opportunity to gore conservative oxen, so I expect this article does so with bias and glee. But Texas politicians have spent a decade laughing at the power w
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It’s not useful because it’s not really an indicator of one’s ability to perform and can’t really be affected through training. It’s primarily affected by genetics and weight. That said, it does provide some correlation to an athletes perfo
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Not at all! And CDA deserves to be spelled correctly, anyway. All good.
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At that effort, close to 0. Maybe 20% for someone with great genetics.
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When I started I was able to run a 5k and that was about it. I trained for 21 or 22 weeks. I think my marathon was a 5:30 or something like that. Lots of walking, but I never stopped moving.
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Sure, but my point was really to suggest I’m just a regular guy who did an Ironman very slowly. There are physiological freaks at Ironman events, but I was certainly not one of them. Regular people with a plan and appropriate training can d
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Yep. Sorry for transposing a few letters. It’s a tremendously beautiful and friendly place. I’d love to go back one of these days.
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This is really great. For those who aren't familiar with what these machines can do, the calculation of an athlete's Vo2 max really isn't all that useful. However, a breakdown of the fat and carbohydrate calories burned at va
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Bet.
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And Amazon paid a number of talking heads and tech luminaries to help them with the blowback they were getting at the time for such a trivial patent. Scumbags, all.
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While there are plenty of close-minded conservatives, in contrast Milton Friedman was genuine, engaging, and patient with all interlocuters. There are hundreds of hours of video available showing how not only was he gracious and humble, he
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I’ve been using DDG for a few years and rarely find myself using Google anymore. I don’t feel like DDG has gotten much better, but Google results definitely seem like they’ve gotten worse. But I could be wrong. Either way, I’ve come to loat
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I bought extra HP cartridges off of Amazon years ago for my business so we would have extras. Imagine my surprise when, after installing the cartridges about a year later, I learned they were the wrong “region”. Turns out HP region locks in
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Let them eat cake!
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> It’s pretty simple. They are more likely to get sick and more likely to infect those whose care they are entrusted with. In a vacuum, that makes sense. But in the midst of genuine shortage of healthcare professionals, it's myopi
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They could start by not terminating perfectly capable doctors and nurses who have decided, for whatever their reasons may be, to refuse vaccination. I’m vaccinated (and boosted) but I cannot understand why it was okay for these people to be
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I worked at a convenience store when I was in high school and worked several Christmas Day shifts. Although I haven’t done it since, it gave me an immense respect for those who do show up and keep the gears on this machine going. Tip of the
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> I think this whole christmas thing makes a lot of people feel alone and depressed. I hate that. My children think “this whole Christmas thing” is the very best day of the year. And there is nothing that brings me more joy than watchi
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Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. - CS Lewis
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Went through a similar situation where I owned (company).com and someone later filed for a trademark and registered the(company).com. I hired a trademark attorney and he sent a nastygram back. We had evidence of first use in commerce and of
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And the pandemic and the billions that have been spent/redistributed in "relief" answered that question: watch Netflix and make TikToks.
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While you reach to justify fascism with paper-thin reasoning, the data indicates vaccinated people are commonly getting infected with and spreading Covid. And although it is clearly effective at improving outcomes statistically, the vaccine
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> A "pre-existing condition" is not a medical term. It is a term used only in US health insurance. To 95% of the world, it has no meaning. You're being pedantic. The point was that outcomes are poorer for the unvaccinate
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There is the question of fairness, should we pay more because people who refuse to get vaccinated fill the hospitals? Fairness doesn't even seem to be in the political lexicon anymore. It has been replaced with equity , which justif
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And don't want people to suffer because of this. I understand this line of thinking, but think it's flawed. You have to be okay with everyone else suffering instead (due to increases in their own healthcare costs to cover for th
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Being unvaccinated is a pre-existing condition . It should inform treatment strategies the same way other co-morbidities might. And since being vaccinated produces better outcomes that result in a decrease in medical costs (which overwhelm
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All while telling us how amazingly transparent the company is.
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Steins Law strikes again… “If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.”
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The press is lazy and incurious. They don't pursue stories, they reprint press releases. And the even sadder part is they believe the press releases and report accordingly. The press assures us they'd be better if we gave them a b
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(I'm in the USA, so my comment is in that context) It's very easy to blame this on various proxies for "capitalism" (like “return on equity”), but I think that misunderstands capitalism. It's assumed that capitalism

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