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Comment · 8 years ago
Where is the rest of the movement, then? Why not pick a big bag of sand and place it on your back, walk around with it, and set it back down again?

Wouldn't our ancestors carry far less, maybe max 90kg, then people do today? It doesnt make sense to brutally punish your joints with much more than that for part of that action and completely ignore the other part of it.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
As the article states:

> At best, we might undertake [squatting] during Crossfit, pilates or while lifting at the gym, but only partially and often with weights (a repetitive maneuver that’s hard to imagine being useful 2.5 million years ago)

I kind of go along with that. Squatting with a bar on your back is a weird maneuver.

Comment · 8 years ago
Also, I'd recommend picking up a kettlebell. Plenty of videos on YouTube with workouts you can follow.
Comment · 8 years ago
Check out https://firecalc.com for a great utility to estimate what you need to retire on.
Comment · 8 years ago
> Reality is nobody cares about you in the (semi-)public. Unless you of cause go really crazy.

A few people have been saying that. But, how can you possibly know? It sounds like a platitude one tells themselves in order to not feel self-conscious, rather than an actual discernable fact.

Comment · 8 years ago
Why not kill yourself when you get too old to wash/feed yourself? I'm being serious. I've asked myself that many times and can't find a good reason why not.
Comment · 8 years ago
What racist slurs?
Comment · 8 years ago
How is he openly racist? Because he wants to secure our borders?
Comment · 8 years ago
Freeze any address they like. Freeze the entire network, preventing any transaction from going through, by mining empty blocks.
Comment · 8 years ago
All you did was wave your hands here. What trade off? What subtle disadvantages? What in PoS is weaker than PoW?

You assert these things exist without going into any of them. PoS is very new and complex and there are many differences between implementations, much more than in PoW.

Any dismissal you might have read would most likely been based on a previous version because the latest versions of PoS are quite new.

There doesn't always have to be a meaningful trade-off between different technologies that do the same thing. Is there a meaningful trade-off between a zipped wav file and one compressed with flac?

Jeez, just stop spreading FUD.

Comment · 8 years ago
It doesn't matter if you own crypto or not. The mere existence of it creates a threat for every relatively rich person out there. They can simply coerce your family to buy bitcoin and give them some, on threat that they kill you.
Comment · 8 years ago
And then what? The criminals will simply tell Coca cola to send it again and be more quiet about it this time.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't think it would help much.

If someone is considering whether to drive to an event or get a ride, a coupon isn't going to sway them. They may want to show off their new car, or have the ability to take someone home with them, etc.

For people who drove to the event and drank too much there, they'll worry about their car. Also they'll take offense at being offered a ride. Alcoholics often have a lot of arrogance and would rather risk it than use a coupon to take a ride because they're "out of control", and take that hit to their pride.

This would only work if the law would allow for free transportation to the event, as controversial as that may be.

Comment · 9 years ago
Yea, but after watching a TV show for 5 hours, you begin to miss all the details and are just satisfying a craving at that point. You are ruining the art by overexposure.

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