Declanomous

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by Declanomous 7y ago
I read everything put in front of me when I bought my car. Boy was the finance guy pissed, cause it took me like an hour, and he makes his living upselling add-ons and stuff. I'm also a pretty fast reader, so it is pretty obvious that
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by Declanomous 7y ago
Well recent studies have actually found that women have a different catabolism than men. Women also switch to catabolism while they still have glycogen remaining in their muscles, meaning they don't build up as much lactic acid. This f
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by Declanomous 7y ago
Men generally have the potential to be stronger than women, yes, but in general men are only stronger than women and larger than women, neither of which is particularly meaningful in endurance racing. I replied to the comment above you in g
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. Regardless of your feelings on the matter, the claim that women beat men occasionally because of a small sample size is chauvinistic, regardless of whether or not it was intended to be. Unlike other event
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by Declanomous 7y ago
There's actually very substantial differences in the metabolism inside of muscles for men and women. Nobody realized this because literally every study that created baselines for what was going on inside the muscles in relation to the
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by Declanomous 7y ago
Yeah, exactly. I like to have it relatively cold at night, so with forced air I set the heat to come on about 15-20 minutes before I want to get out of bed, and turn off 15 minutes after I leave for the day. With radiant heat, if I want it
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by Declanomous 7y ago
Based on the views you have espoused here, I would not call you a leftist commie. It sounds like freedom of speech is your number 1 concern, which would be in character for someone with views that could be considered alt-right. Maybe you ar
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I live in a house with steam heat. Steam systems often get converted to hot water, but in general I have a few observations related to radiated heat. 1) Steam and other radiant systems don't deal with temperature setbacks well. They ta
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I used to be annoyed by red light cameras because they triggered on "safe" infractions, like right turns on red. Over the past few years I've changed my mind, because I've almost been hit as a pedestrian and on my bike b
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual reason was they are capturing extra sales from people who bought something, liked it a lot, and then bought another to give to their kids or for their second home. My mom buys me random chotchkies
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by Declanomous 7y ago
Pass them on to their employees, and also society as a whole.
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by Declanomous 7y ago
The new engine is more powerful, and at high angles of attack the nacelles also generate lift. The added power, along with the greater displacement from the center of lift/drag causes the plane to pitch up more easily, and the lift fro
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I think that the author is mistaking the fact that trimming the plane forward means that more force is required to pull back on the yoke for the plane actively pushing the yoke forward.
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by Declanomous 7y ago
On top of that, it's absurd that someone can add my phone number to their advertising platform to get my name. Unlike email addresses, phone numbers are rather finite, and the number itself is tied to a particular geographical area (fo
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I've never been hit, but I also always have lights on my bike, I've completely covered my bike with retroreflective tape, and I live on the West Side. I used to ride my bike to my job in East Lakeview every day, which was about ab
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by Declanomous 7y ago
The fact that you'd need to even own a car to get to your job is a massive barrier for people with low incomes. The fact that we are spending money building roads that we could be spending on other social programs is way more harmful t
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I assumed the failure in the simulator was an MCAS failure, but I'm not sure. I think that the MCAS system pauses for 5 seconds every time you hit the trim button, so it kinda seems like it might be MCAS but I have no idea. The checkli
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by Declanomous 7y ago
The thing that was the most chilling to me was the fact that the last item on the memory checklist is to try and prevent the trim wheel from moving using physical force. At that point it almost seems like "well, you are probably going
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I'd highly recommend anyone who wants to see what an MCAS runaway looks like and the steps needed to correct it watch the following video by Mentour Pilot.[1] He's a 737 pilot for a European budget carrier, and I believe he is qua
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by Declanomous 7y ago
I think a year is usually a cutoff for sentencing rules. For instance, in many places if you serve less than a year you are places in jail, rather than prison. (It is distinctly better to be in prison rather than jail in most cases.) I know
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Still does. I grew up near Oak Brook, IL, which used to have the corporate hq of McDonalds, and still has Hamburger University. I believe every franchisee is required to attend Hamburger U. There are a number of corporate-owned stores in th
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by Declanomous 8y ago
The nice thing about outdoor gear is that the repairs don't have to be very aesthetic. I repair my own camping gear using my grandmother's old signer sewing machine. It's maybe 100 years old, but unlike modern sewing machines
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Publishing total income is way different than publishing all your financial information. There is information in people's finances that should be 100% private. What if an employer looks at the financials of someone applying for a job a
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by Declanomous 8y ago
That article misrepresents what the Illinois tax credit is. It only applies to the portion of the income tax that the employer pays. Basically the state law allows employers who create new jobs to not have to pay their portion of the employ
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Meaning donations, who gave them, etc? I'm a nonprofit fundraising professional, and I could probably talk about all the reasons why that is a horrible idea for 2-3 hours straight without repeating myself. I mean, at the very least, it
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by Declanomous 8y ago
BRT would actually be amazingly useful in Chicago because a massive number of people commute to central business district (The Loop). Chicago owned all of the land used for the Loop link and it still cost $41 million, and has little of the
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by Declanomous 8y ago
This is really cool, and I wish we had more traffic-segregated bus services in the US. I found this paper from the university of Washington which has a bit more information (DOC warning) https://faculty.washington.edu/jbs&#x
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by Declanomous 8y ago
Even coming from the Midwest SF feels like a midsize city. I've visited SF, I considered doing the SF software dev thing, but SF just feels like if Cincinnati developed a tech sector. Chicago's urban population is 8.66m, and the u
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by Declanomous 8y ago
My dad was an All-American swimmer competing mainly in the butterfly, and is the second-youngest person to earn a varsity letter at Notre Dame, and he accomplished this while smoking more than a pack of cigarettes a day. Of course he nearly
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by Declanomous 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the new system has some features billed as saving tens of thousand dollars a year. That's entirely possible. My tiny little college made winter break 2 weeks longer and saved 200k a year.

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