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Comment #9357041
starting strength involves perhaps 30 minutes of active exercise in a week with most time in the gym sent recovering between sets. that is simply not enough to develop any sort of …
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Comment #9356541
strength training 3x a week will with no other exercise will leave the average person with extremely poor cardiovascular fitness. if you lack the strength to carry out household ta…
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Comment #9356487
heavy lifting is inherently risky. there is little evidence that "correct" form will protect you from potential injury. there is also no real reason to do a strength focused routin…
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Comment #9336342
is there any evidence for this theory or did you just make it up?
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Comment #9336271
one very old question does not prove anything about the actual cultural bias of the SAT now or then! research on this topic mostly shows that cultural bias is not a serious problem…
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Comment #9285249
how will this make any difference? if you're a non urm who doesn't already know that top colleges provide very generous financial aid, it's highly unlikely that you will have devel…
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Comment #9284372
seems a little silly to support low income students like this yet continue with class biased "holistic" admissions
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Comment #9202361
what new technological advances in back end web development have occurred in the last five years? why should senior developers spend their spare time learning new ways of doing exa…
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Comment #9170166
it isn't bad for us at normal levels of modern consumption
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Comment #9170136
why the obsession with cutting out a harmless and tasty part of a normal diet?
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Comment #9144255
could you link to some of this literature? competency based interviews are standard for junior positions with large companies in the UK. however, this approach often turns intervie…
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Comment #9143828
are competency based interviews really a well established method of finding the best people?
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Comment #9065694
what were you not able to accomplish with vba? you can use c# with excel as well. http://exceldna.codeplex.com
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Comment #9065668
was vba too hard for you to learn?
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Comment #9035169
why would the bmj take such a strong stance when they simply don't have the evidence to back it up? the linked study does not show that moderate consumption is harmful or demonstra…
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Comment #9035135
"In summary, the study is grossly underpowered to convincingly prove a plausible protection, and they have committed the cardinal sin of saying that non-significance is the same as…
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Comment #9035112
where does it show that moderate alcohol consumption is bad for health promotion??
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Comment #9023015
30k is at the top of the range once you exclude finance jobs...
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Comment #8974183
i didn't say anything about screening kids out at that age -- i'm not sure where that came from?! i was simply pointing out that there is another very important factor in explainin…
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Comment #8948878
practice, experience AND intelligence
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Comment #8948873
most people are not smart enough to be even mediocre coders
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Comment #8806953
what is "correct form"? and where is all the research demonstrating its success at preventing injury?
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Comment #8799840
what about the countries that are then deprived of this talent?
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Comment #8748873
interviews for graduate legal jobs in biglaw are mostly focused on "fit".
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Comment #8748848
most of the work GPs do is far easier than bog standard web or mobile development