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by caeril 4y ago
Many of us definitely desire strong social bonds, but we have no idea how to even converse with people, so we don't try. For some of us, we can read all the Dale Carnegie or Leil Lowndes available, and still go absolutely nowhere with
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by caeril 4y ago
Same experience with regard to losing friends of my youth, with the bonus of having virtually no social skills with which to make new friends. For some of us, hitting one's forties marks a somewhat lonely life. Wife, children, coworker
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by caeril 4y ago
Legitimately not trolling here, trying to understand. How is it that the high-IQ HN zeitgeist centers on the contradictory positions of "climate change is an existential threat" and "we must expend more resources and build mo
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by caeril 4y ago
This is generally a healthy way of eating, but one word of caution: Without any carbohydrates at all, your SHBG levels will generally get very high, and you may end up with long-term hormonal issues. It's also questionable whether very
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by caeril 4y ago
Yes. Additionally, it's crazy that we're singling out this specific type of debt for forgiveness. What exactly is the criteria that makes this debt different from others? Is it because it's taken on when you're young and
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by caeril 4y ago
To amplify your anecdote with my own: I am 6'3", 215lbs, 12% bodyfat per DEXA scan, with a 21.5 inch bideltoid and a 465lb deadlift. To this day, my wife is the only woman on Earth who has ever noticed my existence (and even there
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by caeril 5y ago
> if you look how poorly his troops are doing in Ukraine s/are doing/have done/ History is replete with completely incompetent offenses that were highly useful and motivating learning experiences. I'm not sure that Ru
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by caeril 5y ago
> the vast majority of progress civilization has made You know for such a scientifically-minded group as HN, we sure seem to embrace Whig History as if it's axiomatic that the progress we've made thus far is some sort of glob
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by caeril 5y ago
> Yet there was not this inflation during the Fed balance sheet runup in 2008-2018...... Asset prices are prices, they're just not part of the CPI. The early part of the inflation fed almost entirely into financial assets. Take a lo
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by caeril 5y ago
Huh? Inflation has been ramping up FAR in advance of the Ukraine invasion. Producer costs were already spiraling so badly that Powell had to concede that the entire FRB was bullshitting us about inflation being "transitory" in th
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by caeril 5y ago
Get blood work. Check your testosterone, fasting glucose, insulin, estradiol, cortisol, and CRP. If any of these are out of reference range, or close to the boundaries thereof, fix them. If you're fat, lose weight. Chronic lethargy usu
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by caeril 5y ago
> It likely takes the agency away from people Everything we do around the topic of obesity is about palliative care for people's feelings. Health At Every Size, societal disdain for fat-shaming, etc. Medicating people with statins a
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by caeril 5y ago
> A lot of nutrition science has changed recently, but eating a bunch of saturated fat is still generally believed cause cardiovascular disease. The specifically interesting part of nutrition science changes is that we've discovered
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by caeril 5y ago
> time is a basic feature of existence, while on some most basic level it's not I've come to two conclusions, only one of which is correct: 1. We are in a continuous universe, and time is a human construct. The only thing that
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by caeril 5y ago
> but everyone seems to just ignore everyone not working 9-5 They also seem to ignore Arizona. 7.5 million people all happily living their lives without dropping like flies from seasonal-affective disorder.
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by caeril 5y ago
They said wake up an hour early , not late, which has absolutely no impact on externally-imposed schedules. You have an extra hour to do X, whether that be exercise, getting baked out of your mind, scrolling instagram, etc. You can't
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by caeril 5y ago
Oh, it will definitely be extraordinarily painful. But the thing is, it's inevitable. And the longer we put off the day of reckoning, the more painful it will be. The rest of the world should have de-dollarized and moved to floating
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by caeril 5y ago
> disastrous outcomes to the US financial system So, where's the bad part, here? Oh no, a huge parasitic industry that comprises 9% of GDP but produces precisely nothing of value will be hurt? Dollar demand will have to be predicate
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by caeril 5y ago
> having a bunch of cash on hand Not the best choice if denominated in a currency that loses its purchasing power by 8% annually and whose supply is managed by the people who called the 2007 housing market as "a little frothy",
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by caeril 5y ago
> I am not concern-trolling. Don't take it personally. Most HN readers take their marching orders from NPR, CNN, BBC, r/poltics, etc. Engineers are notorious for their Gel-Mann amnesia and assume that the same Western propagand
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by caeril 5y ago
> Under apartheid, rights were infringed based on race. This is a good point. Israel totally doesn't deny entry, immigration, work visa status, citizenship, and even recognition as Jewish to black Jews: https://en.wikiped
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by caeril 5y ago
This is only true if you consider financial savings the only type of savings. Preppers, for example, are very low-time-preference people who have chosen food storage, energy capture and storage, machines, tools, land, structures, raw materi
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by caeril 5y ago
> and soon will be standing in line for bread No. Sure, they won't have access to Western technological miracle products like Netflix, Facebook, and PornHub, but they have plenty of grain production, processing, transportation, and
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by caeril 5y ago
I know you're being snarky here, but you're not entirely wrong. I am a former fatty who has kept the weight off for over a decade by developing an intense hatred and disgust for being fat. It's really the only thing that work
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by caeril 5y ago
> customers actually want Almost. The hardware looks fantastic all-around. But the hostility to running an actually-usable OS like Linux is a huge stumbling block. Their users having to rely on the herculean efforts of the Asahi project,
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by caeril 5y ago
We only produce enough oil to meet our needs via fracked shale wells, enhanced recovery methods, etc, all of which comes at great cost, both financial and environmental. I wouldn't expect an economist or an American Jingoist cheerlea
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by caeril 5y ago
This would be nice, but I fear we can go too far down this road, particularly with children. Hormesis is important for our health: exposure to periods of starvation to induce autophagy of senescent cells, exposure to allergens and less-than
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by caeril 5y ago
The FedEx/UPS/Amazon/Doordash vehicles still require fuel. The trucks bringing food and supplies to your local grocery store use fuel. The fertilizer used to grow your food required fuel. The construction and maintenance mate
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> fascist invaders Given Putin's ties with Israel and the enormous Nazi problem in Ukraine, it seems that describing the invasion as "fascist" is really skirting the line of absurdity.
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by caeril 5y ago
> Either way, why on earth are invaders within the fence line of a nuclear facility. In WW2, on Okinawa and various other islands, the Japanese had set up nursing stations and other logistics inside natural cave structures, staffed large

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