Stronico

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Jetbrains seems to be having a large sale(blog.jetbrains.com)
2 points by Stronico 8y ago|1 comments
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by Stronico 8y ago
1. You Can't Win by Jack Black - autobiography of a late 19th century safecracker and general criminal - long enough ago for everything to be different, but the differences are still recognizable 2. Stalin - the Kremlin Mountaineer -
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by Stronico 8y ago
Hey - same here - still a premier thinker though - he introduced me to Eric Hoffer too.
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by Stronico 9y ago
The analogy I like to use is "buying on credit" - you can choose the time and place of your enhanced productivity, but you pay for it later, with interest. You're not actually creating any new productivity, just shifting it
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by Stronico 9y ago
There is a great chrome extension waiting to be written based on this.
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The Fragile Generation(reason.com)
9 points by Stronico 9y ago|1 comments
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by Stronico 9y ago
There's a sign somewhere nearby that says so - I don't think it's any sort of official designation.
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by Stronico 9y ago
Nowhere in this article does in mention that it is city in a forest (we bill ourselves as "Tree City USA"), nor that we encourage people to plant trees right by the sidewalks for shade and decoration. You need a permit to cut dow
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by Stronico 9y ago
Not necessarily - specialization is awesome, and much, much less needs to be negotiated.
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by Stronico 9y ago
I have - it's actually less useful than Facebook for this purpose.
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by Stronico 9y ago
Clarifier - the software is to extend and amplify actual pressure, created mostly by people meeting in person to discuss the problems, not another place to vent (sorry, I should have been clearer in the original post)
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by Stronico 9y ago
Step 1 is being done as well as the various facebook and nextdoor - the software is to extend and amplify that.
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Ask HN: What is the best platform to coordinate people to fix a local problem?
3 points by Stronico 9y ago|5 comments
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by Stronico 10y ago
Maybe he knows something we don't - is there a habitable place farther away from America?
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Peter Thiel is actually a citizen of New Zealand(nytimes.com)
8 points by Stronico 10y ago|2 comments
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by Stronico 11y ago
Gave it up five years ago - feel much better and my sleep is markedly improved.
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The nine dollar computer(kickstarter.com)
40 points by Stronico 11y ago|7 comments
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by Stronico 12y ago
I think it is useful to separate out the concepts of substance abuse from substance addiction. If the article just dealt with who experience powerful cravings and withdrawals (the most common definition of addiction, and the most useful a
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by Stronico 12y ago
Oddly - I'm about to roll out my own prediction market next month. Does anyone know if they have tried something like this before?
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by Stronico 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning MailDiary!
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by Stronico 12y ago
Plenty of people with drinking problems don't drink every day - alcoholics, which I would define as people addicted to alcohol do. If a person is addicted to alcohol they will have pretty immediate adverse affects, i.e. the DTs, which
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by Stronico 12y ago
Well, daily drinking is a good predictor - 100% of practicing alcoholics drink every day after all.
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by Stronico 12y ago
I think the alternative to AA meetings is usually jail time - so it probably is to some degree voluntary.
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by Stronico 12y ago
One thing to consider is that alcohol use is progressive - and while you drink a significant amount now - what if you doubled it in five years (as often happens) - would you still have it under control and not negatively affecting others?
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by Stronico 13y ago
IIRC - Typescript compiles to Javascript - it's a bit like coffee script, but with strong typing.
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by Stronico 13y ago
Less Accounting - LessAccounting.com - My accounant can use it pretty much just works - they have an actual bookkeeper help you with the setup (it took many hours in my case) and they are extremely helpful.
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by Stronico 13y ago
After reading a lot of the comments I think it would be useful to create a distinction between a drinking problem (loosely defined as someone drinks to much, has negative consequences, etc) and addiction (loosely define as strong, life thre
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by Stronico 13y ago
Control groups are quite hard to come by...
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by Stronico 13y ago
You should check out the documentary "Pleasure Unwoven" for the psychiatric/brain aspects of addiction http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Unwoven-Explanation-Disease-A...
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by Stronico 13y ago
Such a shame there is no author listed for that - it would be interesting to hear what happened to him in life.

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