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by borroka 4y ago
They do. Working from home and working from office can easily make 3-500 calories of difference. Walking, calling, standing up, more energy expended in general. But also calories from modern food add up quickly. Say two men weighing 200 pou
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"One thing they all have in common is that they survived a war which took 15% of the population of this country at the time" I think what you are hinting at here is that war was an artificial selection event that operated on and i
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by borroka 4y ago
The comparison between an artificial system (an economy) and a natural system (the growth of individuals) is as valid as that between the neurons in our brains and the "neurons" in the neural network, that is, it is wrong. Senesce
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by borroka 4y ago
I don't think that the command line (take Macs) is difficult to discover, since you have just to digit "terminal" in spotlight. I think it is within easy reach of anyone, then if the word "terminal" doesn't mea
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by borroka 4y ago
You are taking the irregularities of t-shirt sleeves in the same way that one interprets the imperfections that result from the hand-making of bespoke clothing, for example, the seams of tailored suits. The latter is craftsmanship; the form
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by borroka 4y ago
I have been writing on my personal website for a few years, and more consistently in the last year. I started by writing about more technical topics and then moved on to writing essays. My audience is small and participation nonexistent. Bu
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by borroka 4y ago
The "taste" changes when you change your diet for a long enough period, which means no more than a few weeks/months. It is like drinking coffee with sugar, as I used to do two decades ago. After getting used to the bitter, ho
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by borroka 4y ago
"the cost for most people". -- I disagree, it just takes some planning. A Big Mac menu goes for 10+ dollars where I live. Sirloin steak, which is reasonably lean (you can go leaner and cheaper with something like London Broil, eve
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by borroka 4y ago
One can and will lose weight (say, a 220 pound man) by eating two medium McDonald's Big Mac Menu a day (no sauce, diet soda option). It amounts to 1800 kcal per day. Being lean trumps quality of food and "healthy" whatever fo
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by borroka 4y ago
I have a similar background, I come from the natural sciences, did postdocs and then I moved into the tech work 1) Yes 2) Not that I know about and I know many (referring to biology/natural sciences, not CS/economics/business
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by borroka 4y ago
Commuting via public transportation from Santa Cruz to over the hill is simply not feasible. The 17 is a trap that used to cause way more deaths than any developed country would tolerate. It is difficult to believe how backwards some parts
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by borroka 4y ago
Another missing point, and this happens frequently also in rigorous treatment-control studies, is the heterogeneity of responses to treatment. Say, 10k hours might be the average deliberate practice time needed to reach "expert level&q
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by borroka 4y ago
One can eat 2 kilograms of boiled potatoes, refrigerated, cut into very thin slices and then air-fried at 400F for 15-20 minutes with a drizzle of avocado or extra-virgin olive oil. Some rosemary too. An overall increase of about 150 calori
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by borroka 4y ago
No one is ever satisfied, largely true, but there is dissatisfaction that leads to action (I see myself out of shape --> I exercise), and dissatisfaction that leads to sadness, depression, feelings of unworthiness (I see myself out of sh
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by borroka 4y ago
"Everyone forgets how you won, what matters is winning" (paraphrased) - Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
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by borroka 4y ago
I have been working for the same company for more than five years and I understand 1/20th of what is communicated in meetings with more than 10 people attending. The company (legacy tech) I work for appears to be quite bad at communica
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by borroka 4y ago
In the 1990s I attended a technical high school. We did technical drawing by hand (and by square) until the fourth year, and then we switched to CAD, mainly because the school had purchased a good number of computers with intel i386 and i48
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by borroka 4y ago
The relationship employee-employer is adversarial, the "we are a family" or "we take care of you" is a lie that unfortunately for the employee works more than expected. Just remember that the employer is not asking you w
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by borroka 4y ago
One of my bonuses went down 40%, but TC only down 5-7%. Not so much for the stock market downturn, though (maybe 20% of that 40%). I will survive, deeply irritated, but still breathing.
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Because people protest when they have leverage. 1/10th of expectation may make people leave and 10X expectation will make people stay. There is nothing either "just" or "noble" about getting as much as one can, it i
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by borroka 4y ago
Let's try with a metaphor. I am a man (it works better from this point of view) on a dating app, with a few blurry pictures making up my profile. It kinda looks like I look ok, but who knows. I reach out to a good-looking and engaging
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by borroka 4y ago
Milo was also the name, of course inspired by Milo of Croton, that the owner of the business and virtual shop "Ironmind", Randall J. Strossen, published for 25 years (1993-2018). The journal covered "physical strength" a
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by borroka 4y ago
I had very different experiences. I worked for an acronym company in which the majority of "leaders" were smart, driven, capable, and despite mistakes that anyone can make, it would have not been fair to call them incompetent. Som
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by borroka 4y ago
This is take I don't agree with on a real problem, which is the usefulness of data science in modern business, and for which processes in the business. I try to explain. Recommender systems add tremendous value, millions when not billi
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by borroka 4y ago
I was a smoker for many years. One day, I decided to stop. I did not read books or got any other support. I did not want to die of lung cancer (crossing fingers!). I now occasionally a smoke a cigarette (say, once every month or two), somet
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by borroka 4y ago
Data Science is a poor term (unfortunately, the right one, statistics or statistical modeling, was deemed to be "unsexy"), but the expertise is certainly very relevant in today's data-driven businesses. Think predictions, for
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by borroka 4y ago
It is not a "bad thing" per se. But say, you meet up with someone and they say they watch plenty of baseball games. And you ask them, "who is your favorite baseball player?". If they answer, "can I answer with my fa
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by borroka 4y ago
I found that as hilarious myself. A VC whose firm is the one who has been pushing the hardest for web3, cypto-fund, Chris Dixon etc., who when asked, seriously this time, not by people who are boot-licking on the basis of the billions made,
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by borroka 4y ago
The hardest part is having something to say. There is no structure, flow or organization that can make up for the lack of content. It is a bit like those "tutorials" on how to make small talk at dinners, conferences, with people y
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by borroka 4y ago
You express yourself with the tools you have at that moment, on the ideas you have at that moment. You work on it and work on it again until you are satisfied or want to move on. In general, I recommend showing what you have written to othe

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