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by Proziam 7y ago
I think there's a kind of 'loading' period where your body absorbs caffeine and normalizes into a caffeinated state. I don't know if the sleep cycle has much to do with it though. In my case, I sleep much better after
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This is the trick. Google got good at letting people search using 'natural' language. DDG is just a bit different. In some ways, I think it's better because my results are more specific in a lot of cases. I look up a lot of a
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by Proziam 7y ago
Another anecdote, but when prepping for any sort of competition I used to be a hard-core caffeine consumer (measurable in grams, instead of mg) and it sometimes led to some weird effects. After a day or two of that level of caffeine intake,
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by Proziam 7y ago
Pressure of any kind is my best motivator as well. A serious deadline to hit with significant consequences (the consequences don't even have to be mine necessarily) often gets the best work out of me.
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My role has always been to put out fires. Typical examples would be a client says "Oh no, our campaign that was supposed to start next Monday just fell through - we need a solution ASAP!" or "Our project is six months past de
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You're describing my dad perfectly. He worked as much as I do (plus he was doing hard physical labor...) until he died of cancer in 2009. He's the reason I dedicated myself to work as much as I could as early as I could, so I coul
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by Proziam 7y ago
I suppose everyone's situation is different. I was self-employed and had the opportunity to just work more and earn more at the time. The luck part of that equation is that I wasn't earning 35k, but I'm sure there are people
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If everyone who could afford to handle their own lives and responsibilities did , the role of government could actually be to prop up the bottom x% and keep things stable. If 90% of people make no preparations, there's no possible w
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If you could have worked twice as many hours and made twice as much money - would you? That was the position I found myself in, and that's how I got where I am. I never claimed to have a secret skill.
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4) People take preventative measures. It's not that hard to have some extra cleaning supplies, non-perishable food, and water around. I don't understand the desire to have the government spend a multiple in tax dollars for what I
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Anecdote incoming. I work double full time and have done so for approaching a decade. It's definitely proven to be a significant competitive advantage in my case. I don't know too many folks who could have comfortably retired in
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I can only speculate, that's just how I read that person's comment. That said, there does at least appear to be significantly more publicity surrounding women's issues, including labor, as well as the general value of women&#
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What I think the person you're responding to was really trying to say is closer to "why do people write articles about how much women's unpaid labor is worth, but not about men's?" Just a question though, are we
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"If", then he goes on to give a huge range, and then goes on to say that he can't give even an estimate of what percentage would be symptomatic. Then, he goes on to give an entirely different range on Twitter, including ano
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by Proziam 7y ago
I've seen very different estimates. I'm gonna go off on a limb and say that there's probably more misinformation out there than real information. People should remain calm, take [0]reasonable precautions, and make decisions
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So, in your opinion, the news coverage is totally justified and the lack of coverage for every other subject is okay? There's already 'effective interventions' being discussed openly from n95 masks to quarantines and travel
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I appreciate the source. I'm still hopeful that the long-term effects of Covid-19 will turn out to be less dramatic than SARS but only time will tell I suppose.
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EDIT - Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take precautions or that it's not worth protecting vulnerable groups. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps there is news coverage about other things (remember t
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Never underestimate the power of the human ego or the almighty dollar. It's just unfortunate that in many cases these motivators get used for corrupt purposes. EDIT - Since not everyone is familiar with the RIOT games example. In the c
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So many people don't understand how tax brackets actually work. They think if they make one more dollar they pay X% more tax on every single dollar they earned. It's actually terrifying to me how little understanding the average
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It's remarkable how true that is of almost all forums that have been around a while. There are dead serious experts on every subject to be found on 4chan for example. Reddit is no different, but each subreddit is basically a tiny lit
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by Proziam 7y ago
True, but the term pandemic comes with added emotional baggage. Most people associate the term with the black plague rather than the flu (which has also been a pandemic several times).
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With awareness as high as it is already, I think most infected people will seek treatment and for the most part they'll be ok. That's not to say it won't have an impact, and it may very well be worse than the flu, I just don&
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Calling it a pandemic is giving far more credit than is due at this point. It's essentially only lethal to elderly or immunocompromised people. It would need to kill [0]220x more people than it already has to even be [1]comparable to
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[0]There were 18.8 million veterans living in the US in 2017. I don't know a single person in the military today that is over 30, and I live right by Nellis(Not exactly hard data, of course). Most people go into the military right afte
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The US military also skews young but leans more towards the republican party. https://news.gallup.com/poll/118684/military-veterans-ages-t...
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Age is a component, but it doesn't adequately explain the difference in movements that occur in the real world as well as online. Universities have students organizing protests against right-wing figures quite frequently, and it was al
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The vast majority of large social movements have their origins in the left. Climate change, most social justice movements, the push for higher minimum wage, immigration reform, etc. In general, people leaning 'right' are less inte
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Scandals from one party or the other are rarely covered equally in the news of any country. The US is not alone in the divisiveness of our politics, nor in the lack of unbiased reporting.
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Almost all social platforms on the internet have a left-leaning tilt because, at least partially, the left (historically) organizes much better than the right does. This is one of those "well duh" statements once it's said ou

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