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Harder than last time


Not really ground breaking news here. Exercise helps but weight loss all starts in the kitchen and comes down to calories in vs calories out. Debate all you want about fad diets but to lose weight eat less calories. This website promotes intermittent fasting. Nothing wrong with it but shockingly the reason it works is when you skip a meal you eat less calories.


For me it’s slack. I don’t get why it’s so popular and why people love it. It’s just another chat app to me.


The other chat apps are worse. The gap isn't quite as big as Excel vs Google Sheets, but try sending documents via Discord it WhatsApp.


To clarify (since I can't edit), we use Slack as a replacement for email, and other apps for chat. It's great for sending quick code snippets. It's good for notifying the whole team when there's a new build for testing, as well as getting comments on that build. It's okay for bringing attention to a thing.

Notifications during office hours by default hurts it - instead of people not sending messages outside work hours, everyone just uses something else for notifications.


Same, but it's Discord. A wet teenage gamer dream. I know 0 communities of interest that uses it.


I use it daily and like using it but it will never leave my mind that it’s just shiny IRC.


Dont forget dropbox was just shiny FTP :)


Prioritize protein. It will fill you up and keep you full on less amount of food. I’ve never done this but some say to eat boring food and they will keep you from binging. A perfect food to meet both of this criteria are chicken breast.


The last time I’ve seen a cyclist stop at a red light was never


The last time I read the stats for the London, UK, the number of cyclists seen jumping red lights was in the single digits of all cyclists counted and motorists accounted for 95% of total red light infractions.


I guess motorists account for 99% of them

Now we should make a proportion with the total number of users

I suspect cyclists jump red lights a lot more per capita

But I can't say it for sure, not knowing the actual numbers


Then multiply both by the potential harm of each vehicle and we can fully quantify which are the more dangerous.


First of all, bikes are notoriously more dangerous than cars.

No matter how anyone puts it, bikes are inherently more dangerous, cars have safety features that are simply not present on bikes.

Here is the study

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

A picture is worth a thousand words

> Basing numbers on per billion miles travelled takes the raw numbers and adjusts them for exposure

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4a0f8be5f3583d076974c1...

What is immediately evident is that the less protections you have around you and the more you can go fast (if you can, you will), the more fatality rate is high.

The idea that if we could only move by bike there would be less accident is a false one

There would be less accidents for sure, because only a tiny fraction of the actual driver's population would go by bike.

But they would probably start falling from horses or have carriage accidents


Bikes are safe. Cars are unsafe because they often kill other road users. You have them confused.


> Bikes are safe. Cars are unsafe because they often kill other road users. You have them confused.

knifes kill people too

but I'm sure you use them

Guns kill people too, but they love them in the US, they love them so much that they put them in the hands of kids and let them go the school to shoot other kids

Cars are not unsafe, people driving them are.

It's the same people that ride bikes.

You have them confused.

As Conan's father said:

"No one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts."

BTW

If you like to live, don't ride a bike.

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"More cycling fatalities than deaths in cars"

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/more-cycling-f...

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Crash Statistics - who was at fault?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClubExpressClubFiles/86708/graphics...

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Fatality rate (UK)

https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/DfT_chart.png


Your parent's incorrect assumption is an enlightening one. You were correct to read my comment as one on the dangers presented to other road users.


Bikes are safe?

Let's see if it's true

> driver survived with only minor injuries

https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article...

> this guy was happily riding his bike, fell of it and died from the crash. Paramedics could do nothing to save him, upon arrival he was already dead.

https://caserta.occhionotizie.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

Which one of the two looks safer to you?


As someone who daily commuted by bicycle, the last time I didn't stop at a red light was never. I've definitely seen more cars fail to stop at red lights than bicycles, too.


They carry on when the light is red? I have seen plenty take off early and do it myself to avoid having the traffic pile up behind me, but going through a light that has just turned red would seem to invite catastrophe.


I'm neither a driver nor a cyclist - just a pedestrian - but my impression is that, at least in my part of London, cyclists carry on through red lights much more frequently than cars.

Obviously, purely anecdotal.


Same. Depending on the intersection and traffic there are places in zone 1 where the traffic signals seem to be considered completely optional for cyclists. I have also found myself needing to use a death stare to get some cyclists to stop at a zebra crossing as well; this happens far more frequently with cyclists than I ever needed to for cars or HGVs.


As they should. Not being an accredited investor is another way of saying your too stupid to know how to invest your money. But hey, I can yolo on penny stock.


And two weeks later .......


Although not directly related to critical thinking, product questions or brain teasers but what works for me is reading and reading whatever floats my boat. I consider it weight lifting for the brain.


And to think, 4 years ago the headline was “Economist forecasts Clinton likely to beat Trump in US 2016 presidential election”. But as they say all models are wrong but some are useful.


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