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by borroka 4y ago
It is useful to try to quantify processes, even when quantification is challenging. Or even when it is impossible with a reasonable degree of accuracy. We know that longevity, assuming a "regular" life (no 2 packs of cigarettes a
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by borroka 4y ago
I do not read any "frivolous anti-intellectualism" in this context. Caffarelli is, for all intents and purposes, unknown to the public (unknown even to me, who has a PhD in a field adjacent to applied mathematics). Messi is well k
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by borroka 4y ago
It is a defeatist attitude; you are surrendering to the current culture. Let me ask a question. If you happened to win $10-20-50 million tomorrow, would you show up to work (assuming you have a "regular" job, where you have to sho
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by borroka 4y ago
Let me add another data point. My grandfather is 93 years old and retired from work between 35 and 40 years ago. He never worked after retirement and enjoys good health for his 93 years. His purpose is to read the newspaper, play cards and
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by borroka 4y ago
How can it be a rude awakening when I write: "One drawback of this whole situation is that it will be difficult to return to a normal job once this honeymoon ends". In an earlier comment, I made an adventurous analogy with love st
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by borroka 4y ago
But the role you are describing is different. What I referring to is a team of 50 people, say, with 10 of them that are "on rotation" sitting on the bench and wait for new assignments. What happens is that 2 of them get used to th
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by borroka 4y ago
For a new team that was set up in my company, there was this idea that we should have had some slack in the system, that is, a certain number of people should be rotating on a sort of "bench", ready to get into action when new wor
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by borroka 4y ago
It is a situation that psychologically does not suit everyone. Many people fear being "found out" or think they are stealing from their employer. I must say that for a short time I harbored such thoughts, but now I think I have no
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by borroka 4y ago
This is what happened and would happen again. It is much better to say that you are busy with some vague project or initiative and actually taking a nap.
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by borroka 4y ago
I wfh almost all the time. I could find another remote job, but I don't feel like it. My life is full of interests: I love reading, writing, exercising, making long phone calls, foreign languages (I am currently learning Japanese). And
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by borroka 4y ago
I do. But it is one of the situations that converge in a kind of mutually beneficial indifference. It is no different in spirit from that of a husband and wife who live under the same roof but seek intimacy elsewhere, or who have repressed
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by borroka 4y ago
I find myself in a situation similar to the one described by "Meta staffer" in the article. I was hired a few years ago in a biotech company and, after some months of mostly uneventful work -- but I was doing something -- for the
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by borroka 4y ago
In the words of a great writer, Philipp Kerr, who unfortunately died way too young: "“In a war staying alive is a bit like playing tennis. It looks a lot easier when you’ve never had to play yourself." From Greek Bearing Gifts, pa
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by borroka 4y ago
It is quite easy to understand why they are the problem. Of course, they are part of the problem, but this is the comment section of a forum and not an official statement from a public figure. The reason for the absurd rise in housing price
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by borroka 4y ago
These are costs associated with owning a property (taxes, insurance) that come out of the portfolio + others that do not appear in the excel file, such as the risk associated with owning a property that is not covered by insurance, opportun
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by borroka 4y ago
> People aren't paid by how hard they work, they're paid by how much money they generate and how hard they are to replace. On average, this may be true, although "how hard they are to replace" is difficult to quantify
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by borroka 4y ago
Because this assumes that the value of the property increases more than inflation. And this assumption means that you see and treat the place where you live as an investment.
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by borroka 4y ago
I don't think that's a good way to put it. Some people will hate writing and love to have written because they hated the act of writing. For me, writing is laborious, challenging, but the process is fun. I look forward to writing.
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by borroka 4y ago
I had planned a 3-day trip with a person (a date, let's say) whom I had met for the first time a few weeks earlier for a couple of days. I was not familiar with either the place or my date. A few days before the trip, I saw a friend of
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by borroka 4y ago
I don't like the appeals to mortality (at all), the "things just fall away in the face of death" argument. It is like "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying" all over again. The "regrets" sound good, are honey
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by borroka 4y ago
There are a lot of people who go on training jiu jitsu (or other combat sports) for many years and they remain as uncompetitive as they were in the beginning. Some because of athletic limitations, some because they are unable to put into ac
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by borroka 4y ago
Side note, but most people who say they don't like lifting weights have never lifted weights "properly" (most personal trainers are not good teachers of either technique or intensity; it is a profession with a low barrier to
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by borroka 4y ago
BJJ black belt who has been training for 12 years and previously trained in wrestling. "After one year, all but the newest people still make you feel like you don't know anything, they can submit you pretty easily": this is n
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by borroka 4y ago
What about "strong opinion when there is strong evidence"? Otherwise, you have absurdities like that of the author of the article, who told everyone and their cousins that, for example, 4 hours of sleep was enough and then realiz
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by borroka 4y ago
This is the course of action that goes back to the, in my opinion, ill-inspired motto, "strong opinions, loosely held." For some, this is an admirable position. To me, a scientist, it is a cautionary tale: don't trust strong
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by borroka 4y ago
The sentence is about fitting regression models, not what regression models are, which implies a choice was made. Therefore, the active voice should be preferred, even if the sentence is unambiguous in either case. I prefer the active voice
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by borroka 4y ago
If we refer to scientific writing as journal articles or conferences, it is just a matter of tradition and a certain gusto for science as an "objective" enterprise. Years ago, during my PhD, one of the professors working in my dep
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by borroka 4y ago
Apparently for recovery, sleep quality, and soreness. I also take Zinc and Potassium and Boron.
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by borroka 4y ago
"I'd read threads like this and see somebody talk about how moving to lower rep ranges suddenly packed on way more muscle, so I'd change up my workout to do the same" - Certain things need to be experienced with proper g
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It is difficult to say with certainty. I would say it is more about the intensity and longer rest periods than the lower volume. I had in the past periods of high P consumption, but I did not see this noticeable increase in strength and siz

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