LA_Banker

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by LA_Banker 10y ago
>The reason a lot of people (especially young people) have been flocking to walkable cities has a lot more to do with self-identity and lifestyle choices than with just merely commuting time. These are drivers to be sure, but the biggest
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I think if everyone just got to experience this dramatic difference, even briefly, there'd be no obesity epidemic.
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
Holy hell, that's quite a transformation. Congrats to you. Yes, that's the biggest thing that's under-stressed about exercise: the benefits are not just physical/health related. Like you, exercise has made me far less av
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
It's not that less is more; rather it's that more work has diminishing productivity returns. And, after a certain point, the returns dip negative due to fatigue-related risks (this is a unique example, but it's always major n
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
This is really great. I use the Pomodoro Method and only check distracting sites in between, but maybe I need to be even stricter and limit it to 2x/day (considering I'm wasting time right now).
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
If you pay $750k for a home and someone buys the highest parcel in the neighborhood (which used to be open park land), and puts up a shipping container that gets graffiti'd, your real estate value is going to take a hit. The neighborho
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
"Head off cancer" != "cure cancer." There's (growing) research to suggest it partially mitigates risk: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3608686/ .
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
Most occupations are settled on a 40-hour work week, sure, but that's because employers have done the math and determined paying overtime is worse than extending output. They don't cap it at 40 hours/week for optimal produc
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
Anyone who's worked 80+ hours/week can tell you that work is an efficiency function. At hour 75, one's capable of much less (cognitively and physically) and more prone to mistake than at hour 5 (as the article notes). The sta
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
The tech companies you've mentioned are not like Berkshire's model at all. Berkshire is a conglomerate that looks for proven, established, cash-flow-positive businesses. See's Candy, for instance, requires no debt and is a su
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
>Microsoft are so well placed to create and distribute what is bound to become a popular from factor. There already is a popular form factor that companies issue, and folks in developing countries purchase (in addition to us on HN): the
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
You say "is" as though they haven't changed CEO's, undergone a complete organization rehaul, and oriented toward cloud services in the ensuing six years.
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
The headline of the story itself literally reads "Don’t Blame Divorce on Money."
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
>and the fact that a lot of men tie their identity to their employment so strongly. That's a really interesting point, especially in light of the study pointing out that it's moreso job status that's a risk factor than mon
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
1. "Meditations" – Marcus Aurelius 2. "The Practicing Mind" – Thomas Sterner 3. "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" – Atul Gawande (I'm not a surgeon; the principles herein are universal) (hono
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
It's not. Reddit could easily sell targeted ads based on subreddits (e.g. inking a deal with Uniqlo to advertise on /r/malefashionadvice or /r/femalefashionadvice). It chooses to pursue other monetization means to p
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
Precisely. I get the appeal of Soylent (quick meal replacement when otherwise obtaining food would be too big a distraction), but I don't get the appeal over meal replacement protein powders – many of which already taste better, have m
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by LA_Banker 10y ago
What's interesting is that, given enough practice, one could convincingly mimic Satoshi's writing style as some ancillary (unimpeachable tech proof aside) evidence of validity. It seems Wright hasn't even gone that far.
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by LA_Banker 12y ago
> "all this stuff doesn't seem to result in enabling people to do their jobs better or more easily..." While I disagree with that notion, I also wonder why the focus on merely jobs. Smartphones and mobile devices have enab