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by Zanta 5y ago
An argument presented in this case is that increased pay to college athletes will incentivize them to spend more time on their athletics and less on their academics. How convincing do you find that argument, applied to athletes in a) Top T
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by Zanta 8y ago
I had the exact same reaction to it. Some enormous fraction of all non-fiction is an essay-length idea stretched out into a book length. It's disrespectful to the reader, but it's what they need to do to make a sale. No one wan
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by Zanta 8y ago
Safety is a big concern, and a place to safely store your bike (at home and at work) is another big one. I'd imagine lots of the walkers live in condos or apartments where storing a bike can be really tough.
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by Zanta 8y ago
I used these lectures as a method for learning algorithms as a phys/mech eng with no CS background. I found them incredibly challenging but the lectures were written exceptionally well. On an internet with thousands of resources on t
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by Zanta 8y ago
Agreed, but jeans are really unattractive at the distances the author is riding. His circumstances are unfortunate, since the set of advice applicable to <5 mile rides is very different to his ~20mile trip. Related, I'm very impres
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by Zanta 8y ago
Justice Thomas also broke a multi-year streak of silence to make fun of his alma mater, Yale. Playing the long game.
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by Zanta 8y ago
How do state broadcasters fit into this theory? The CBC and BBC produce content in a similar style to the for-profit broadcasters (better, but definitely similar in more ways than its not), but without the advertising mission.
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by Zanta 8y ago
This is a very dismissive comment. Many of my peers in grad school were developing finite element techniques - it's a huge area of active ongoing research. Getting realistic results is very tough in an application with non-linear mat
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by Zanta 8y ago
I recently read and enjoyed the essay version. Would you recommend the book? Specifically, did you feel that the amount of depth in the book necessitated that format as opposed to an essay? I'm frequently disappointed by really good
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by Zanta 8y ago
Neat! I built a little mobile robot that uses omni-wheels[1], a related style wheel. Build report here[2] (forgive the lousy website, I'm a mech guy just starting to learn software) The wheels allowed some neat driving tricks, but it
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by Zanta 9y ago
"makes me think that they are running the stepper motors in a closed-loop mode similar to how you'd use a servo. I am not 100% on that, " Do the steppers have encoders on them? If not, the machine can't do closed loop c
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by Zanta 9y ago
On the subject of birds, "Great tits also have age-related defects" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307130215.h...
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by Zanta 9y ago
I think you mean to refer to another track from that album, "The Irony of It All"
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by Zanta 9y ago
Your point absolutely has merit. I know some, but not many, badly overweight people who exercise regularly. I know some, but not many, skinny people who never lift a finger. I was mostly trying to address the direct cause-and-effect concl
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by Zanta 9y ago
From the paper "Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240
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by Zanta 9y ago
The open office from which I type this is usually quiet. Three of my neighboring co-workers have chronic coughs, throat clearing, and hacks. I wear earplugs inside can headphones that are on all day, and still, it's excruciatingly di
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by Zanta 9y ago
Probably a fair few. MechE here myself. Software is interesting, informed conversation with technical people is nice to read.
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by Zanta 9y ago
Streetcar tracks are definitely a challenge in the city. Probably the root cause of ~1/3 of my friends reported crashes (unabashed anecdata). I ride on fatter tires than I would like in order to avoid getting stuck in em. Certain in
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by Zanta 9y ago
I'm finishing the book Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, which directly addresses your questions (with a particular focus on addiction in middle america/appalachia) Q1: Medicaid co-pay for $1000 worth of OxyContin was (as of ~2014, migh
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by Zanta 9y ago
'> 2) Ban hitting. Everything should be a wrap around tackle. No more players running full speed and launching themselves into other players. Look at how few players actually try to tackle people. I get what you're going after
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by Zanta 9y ago
One of the barkley finishers (serendipitously featured in the documentary!) wrote a terrific and long race report [1]. Really good and unpolished insight into the training and race experience. I enjoyed reading it just as much as I enjoye
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by Zanta 9y ago
In my experience the chat on chess.com harbors a similar demographic to that of most video games. You'd think that chess would attract a more mature player base, but nope.
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by Zanta 9y ago
Agreed, the other replies to this question seem to understate the difficulty of the route. It's a lifetime achievement for almost any climber. I'd ballpark that it's been free climbed by 100-300 people?
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by Zanta 9y ago
I loved squash through undergrad for exactly those reasons - structured, high intensity, fun, low time commitment. But I couldn't call it low-impact; I don't play today because I found the game had too much stop-and-go and heavy
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by Zanta 10y ago
20% seems insanely high to me - do you have a source for this? First google hit for me returned this [1], which puts the number between 1% and 2% of GDP [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/a
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by Zanta 10y ago
His analogy to other professions building from premade blocks rings true for me (mech eng), but there are two distinct cases: a) The design of the block has been perfected through years other people's work and experience. If I need a
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by Zanta 10y ago
The infrastructure requirements are a lot lower in tech. It's possible to be a college dropout and already have many years and projects worth of experience under your belt. It's pretty damn hard to do bio and chem without a prop
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by Zanta 10y ago
Parts are and parts definitely aren't. I have a four year physics degree and found the treatment of certain sections very challenging. I would not recommend it as an introductory text
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by Zanta 10y ago
That's an interesting argument! What do you think Tyler's goal was in that movie? His fight club -> project mayhem plan seemed to go off the way he wanted it to. If you think he wanted to promote that free-your-mind, reset-th
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by Zanta 10y ago
Cool read. “We put a sign on over the front door of the iPhone building that said FIGHT CLUB,” Forstall testified. “Because the first rule of fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club.” I found this bit wonderfully ironic given the

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