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by wcarron 7y ago
I'm not sure, based on your sentence structure, whether that was a "command" or your personal experience. Regardless, sometimes, "self-help" books do come through on their promise. I found AH gave me good tools to b
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by wcarron 7y ago
I also read atomic habits recently. I found it really helpful for these types of problems. As the author says, accomplishing things is brought by building good systems and forming automatic habits. Not by fighting urges off left and right.
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by wcarron 8y ago
Good on you for admitting your mistakes and making a change to avoid making the same one again. Sometimes I'll get so fed up with people that, at a stoplight, I'll actually get off my bike and knock on their windows and tell them
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by wcarron 8y ago
Agreed on every count. In LA, where I am, drivers leave only 2-3 car lengths following distance even when traveling over 100/120kmh. It's incredibly dangerous, and one can't really even try to leave proper following distance
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by wcarron 8y ago
Ha! I just saw a guy wearing a cop-like getup on a white R1200RS and let off the throttle immediately (because Vance and Hines pipes + cop + overpass == possible $1k ticket). Totally thought he was a cop until I passed him. I would love it
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by wcarron 8y ago
If I had to guess, probably 100-1000x more people are driving distracted than driving intoxicated.
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by wcarron 8y ago
As others have said, as a motorcyclist, my number one concern on the road is a person using their mobile device while driving. I am less worried about road rage (which is still a top concern for me) than distracted drivers. I see it literal
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by wcarron 8y ago
My Chase branch in KTown in Los Angeles literally always has a wait. I have gone at least a dozen times during the week and there have always been at least 4 tellers solely manning the transactions. The line for the tellers is invariably ov
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by wcarron 8y ago
Nonsense. I've met plenty of runners who absolutely destroyed my pace (and I'm no slouch) well into their 50s and 60s.
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by wcarron 8y ago
I disagree. I think if you took a reasonably fit marathoner (approximately 3:30 time on a flat course) and compared them to someone who only does mild exercise every day, the marathoner will come out as far healthier. I think this because t
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by wcarron 8y ago
Oh I never assumed it was an attack, just healthy discussion. I see your points, though I still disagree about the glorification aspect. I think glorifying athletic feats is not just good for society, but that society is (partially) built u
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by wcarron 8y ago
60% of new cars sold in Norway recently were EVs. That's a start, and a good one at that. I'd be highly doubtful that EVs won't continue to gain steam over the next decade, as VW, Porsche, Audi, Volvo, Ford, GM, and Toyota co
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by wcarron 8y ago
Interesting, /r/the_donald, which has, and continues to this day, explicitly called for perpetrating violence on minorities, people with opposing political views, democratic politicians, etc. etc ad nauseum, remains up and running
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by wcarron 8y ago
I would hope. In full agreement with you.
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by wcarron 8y ago
> It's worth asking whether there's any benefit to this kind of thing past a certain point. Are people their wasting time and causing long term damage to their bodies just to impress their friends? I think it's a bit presu
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by wcarron 8y ago
I'm not Warren, but I would assume that the threshold scales so as not to stifle competition by creating very high barriers to entry. 5000 people isn't a lot per se, especially with the internet. Imposing very heavy handed regul
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by wcarron 8y ago
> I think society's glorification of extreme exercise does more harm than good. Which society? What glorification? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass... , society has clear
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by wcarron 8y ago
Comparing wannabe instagram grifters, vagrants, freeloaders, and fraudsters to Tesla is disingenuous. Tesla gave more to the world than all these losers put together ever have.
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by wcarron 8y ago
I think it's actually a very intelligent threshold structure. It scales with the population of the state/country in which a company committed a crime. For example, let's say Equifax illegally sold the entire contents of the W
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by wcarron 8y ago
You're going to have to learn to deal with some editorialization. That's part of life and reading articles on the internet You're an anonymous observer to two peoples' conversation, who clearly have a history that spans
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by wcarron 8y ago
Disclaimer: opinions incoming. 2lb a week is very aggressive in the long run. That's a 1000 kCal deficit per day. While it may work for some it's not generally regarded as a sustainable target deficit. It may work for a few weeks,
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by wcarron 8y ago
Not OP, but probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
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by wcarron 8y ago
I understand the economic principle of increasing revenue, and I agree that this partnership is worth it financially; but honestly, who the fuck cares about the health care system not getting revenue? Providing transportation for patients i
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by wcarron 8y ago
> Removing books from a "book" marketplace, that do not break any laws, aren't lewd or pornographic, and simply present alternative information on a subject, is not on the same level as spam. From the Article: 'Wired
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by wcarron 8y ago
> only one has a justifiable reason anyone should give a shit what anyone else drives - fuel economy. I give a shit about what other people drive. I hate trucks with a passion because they are: bigger, taller, heavier, slower, and handle
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by wcarron 8y ago
I personally hate trucks and think that we should disincentivize them (here in USA) by adding a federal fee on them to counteract their terrible gas mileage and the wear and tear they induce on roadways. Trucks are simply terrible for traff
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by wcarron 8y ago
Wait... correct me if I'm wrong, but a HANS device doesn't connect to the seat or other car parts. It's a link between the helmet and a stabilizing piece that fits over the shoulders. At least, in Formula 1 that's what i
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by wcarron 8y ago
My apologies. I was referring to "myofibrils" which are the strands within a muscle cell. So I meant to say that hypertrophy is the mechanism of growth. But you are correct, these are simply parts of a single cell and I mistakenly
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by wcarron 8y ago
While your second sentence is definitely true, I disagree with your first. Developing muscle strength is partially caused by training your nerves to better engage your muscle fibers; however, simply adding fibers aka raw muscle mass is the
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by wcarron 8y ago
This is great to see. I love DigitalOcean and they've really stepped up their game wrt. product offerings. But I was surprised at how DO beat AWS EC2 in most but not all of the tests. Their performance is impressive considering that th

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