airhead969

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by airhead969 5y ago
I would posit increased population, shift to cities, fewer close friends, less family relationships, less community, declining interdependency, lower standards of living, and less hope for the future all contribute to depression and so cogn
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by airhead969 5y ago
What do you have to add of value? You take and make things too personally. Look in the mirror.
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by airhead969 5y ago
False equivalency. You should read more books.
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by airhead969 5y ago
I prefer tea leaves and coffee grounds. :) HN has been gradually colonized by Trump truthers, anti-science, antivaxx, conspiracy theorist, uneducated individuals, trolls, and people outside startups who can't out down irrationality or
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by airhead969 5y ago
I don't see how this article is noteworthy or relevant for HN. We don't need mainstream news, politics, geopolitics, or conspiracy theories here.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Some people believe almost nothing is under their control. These people have external locus-of-control. They don't change the world because they kickback and let life happen to them. Mostly, it's religious types who think like thi
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by airhead969 5y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read on HN. https://www.active.com/health/articles/why-too-much-running-... You should see the anorexic-looking treadmill runners at my gym who have no muscle type IIB. I b
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by airhead969 5y ago
Running is high-impact awful Elliptical (HIIT - don't overdo it) balanced with weightlifting, music, and nutrition for oxidative stress. Make it a habit.
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by airhead969 5y ago
For the cost of one less helicopter, $30M, buy 1500 $10k drones (deployed to cover the most territory fastest) and spend the rest on drone swarm operators OpEx.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Schlepping.. embrace the suck for $$. Really nasty, lots of headaches, complexity, risks, and/or people think it's magic.
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by airhead969 5y ago
We need some FreeBSD ones too for fairness' sake. ;)
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by airhead969 5y ago
Walling-up an open garden
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by airhead969 5y ago
Damnatio memoriae if you don't agree to apologize 10x, cut off a pinky finger, and agree with the "correct" agenda. This is how inverse totalitarianism "executes" people.. disables their access, shuts them out, and
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by airhead969 5y ago
Interesting. So I'm over a std dev smarter than either parent and 6" taller than expected. Why can't embryos be screened for "Einsteins"? Anti-intellectuals gonna hate? Most ethical concerns apart from sabotaging an
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by airhead969 5y ago
You have the choice of which random areas to gamble on buried in small printing of lengthy contracts. Medicare isn't public universal healthcare. The prescription plans, Medicare Advantage plans, and medigap plans are run by for-profit
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by airhead969 5y ago
That's absolutely insane fraud. Checkups are bullshit anyhow, but online only is beyond the pale. Don't do regular checkups, they're cash cows.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Where is he on the axis of evil? Are we talking Lawrence Wilkerson, Rand Paul, Trump, Peter Hitchens, George Will, or Bill O'Reilly?
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by airhead969 5y ago
Which "some places?" Secret how? Is this a conspiracy theory?
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by airhead969 5y ago
The feckless GWB destroyed American education with the disaster that was NCLBA. Too much teaching to testing, and too many worthless teacher KPIs. It makes me want to move to Finland or Singapore.
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by airhead969 5y ago
GATE in California served no material purpose except to spend money and, most likely, inventory civilian human capital (the G part) for future national security recruitment. At the time, I didn't understand why I was pulled out of clas
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by airhead969 5y ago
Sucking, pinching, and/or adhesive.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Free returns. The sellers eat that. It's dumb and lazy buyers buying junk and not holding them accountable for the
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by airhead969 5y ago
GTFO now. It will become a miserable second-stringers sausage factory if it isn't already.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Diverticulitis, gout, hyperlipidemia, halitosis, ...
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by airhead969 5y ago
Climate change isn't the weather. Climate is the average. We are in a global warming emergency and no one is doing enough about it.
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by airhead969 5y ago
Let's consider that cultured meats are okay as future historically-correct delicacies. We are religiously-attached to meat agriculture now, but we must kick the habit because it's killing us and going to kill us: resource utilizat
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by airhead969 5y ago
There is always a space for tinkering. I took apart clocks and small appliances when I was 5. Eventually, my dad had me rebuilding carburetors using the kits because I wasn't strong enough to rebuild alternators yet. Last month, I made
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by airhead969 5y ago
CE's play with mud. They can go to the beach, get some LEGO, or build a bridge of stones across a brook. ;-)) There are plenty of ways for CE's to "tinker" using civil and mechanical engineering statics and dynamics simu
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by airhead969 5y ago
I know of a civil engineer PE who is an expert in code interpretations of the ASME (not ASCE) boilers and pressure vessels (BPVC) codes. He acts as an expert witness and also makes interpretations for clients who are unsure about the code&#
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by airhead969 5y ago
That's asinine when there is no associated professional licensure requirement for cobbling together HTML for a mom&pop liquor store. In the US, any type of (non-locomotive) engineer involved in critical engineering design, decision

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