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by jm__87 5y ago
My assumption with anyone who wants to succeed at something but is repeatedly failing is that whatever changes they need to make to succeed are not easy or obvious for them - otherwise they would have made the changes already.
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by jm__87 5y ago
I agree with your theory and personally I feel that social media is a major contributor. When I was a teenager, the only place people were getting information about world politics and the economy was from the news, which I rarely watched or
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by jm__87 5y ago
I guess I didn't ask the right question here. My issue is with the statement "the vast majority of accidents are due to bad policy". I would disagree with this statement. Some people occasionally make bad decisions when they
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by jm__87 5y ago
This is the only response I have seen to my question that could maybe change things - specifically having automatic sensors in every vehicle that automatically alert police when you do something dangerous. I think this would be unrealistic
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by jm__87 5y ago
What policy change could possibly be made to make people better drivers?
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by jm__87 6y ago
Sorry to hear all that. It wasn't my intent to imply that those with families aren't struggling - I know plenty who are.
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by jm__87 6y ago
I think it may be tough to imagine what being alone and isolated for a year does to a person if you are someone who is stuck inside with the same people all day. I would imagine the situation for those with family is very difficult and exha
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by jm__87 6y ago
So the article states that Carl Hart makes a claim that 70% of drug users don't meet the criteria for being a drug addict. I'm wondering how you could even get a reliable number for this for a drug like heroin, given the stigma at
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by jm__87 6y ago
One thing I am curious about with this research is how they would get reliable numbers for high functioning opiate addicts. Addiction is really a spectrum from "no dependence on the drug and no negative life consequences" to &quot
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by jm__87 6y ago
Or.. there is no such thing as a gayness gene. Genetics are generally not a strong predictor for human behavior. Gestational environment, what sort of environment you grew up in, whether or not you've suffered any head injuries or have
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by jm__87 6y ago
I think there are a number of intelligent, successful people who don't want to believe that they are successful due to luck of birth, more than anything else. Especially because they usually worked really hard and made a bunch of good
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by jm__87 6y ago
Perhaps not every SV company is convinced they hire the top 1% developers but just say they do for marketing or recruiting efforts?
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by jm__87 6y ago
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Agree to disagree :) Edit: actually I went back and read your comment again and I misread the second part of your comment to indicate that I didn't understand something. I get wha
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by jm__87 6y ago
I work in capital markets. I both design and build systems that automatically quote prices to the market and automatically make trading decisions. The financial consequences of getting either of these things wrong can be quite high, but man
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by jm__87 6y ago
I interpreted the bullet point about "tail-end consequences" as tail risk, i.e. a worst case scenario event with low likelihood of occurring. In the author's story, he mentions they only considered the likely consequences of
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by jm__87 7y ago
I think you need to balance the risks of addiction and negative health consequences against the cost of having gangs/cartels profiting off of the fact that the substance is controlled. With marijuana, it is neither very addictive nor a
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by jm__87 7y ago
Exercise doesn't really work for everyone. I found when I used to have trouble sleeping, heavy lifting made my sleep 10x worse (and still messes with my sleep now when I try it every now and then). Light to moderate exercise tended to
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by jm__87 7y ago
I had trouble sleeping most of the time from about age 13 to 29. I more or less went through the same process as the author and discovered CBT for sleep is incredibly useful - this is what worked for me more than anything else. Since then I
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by jm__87 7y ago
Not OP, but the general logic behind "calories in = calories out" is obviously fine. However, just knowing this doesn't really tell you anything about the best way to go about decreasing "calories in" or increasing
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by jm__87 7y ago
By your logic, why do we bother with a guard on a tablesaw? The only people who chop their fingers off are inexperienced or bad at sawing things, they shouldn't be using it in the first place. Experienced carpenters never have a lapse
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by jm__87 7y ago
I've worked on a team before where we every dev said "we need to upgrade X, we're Y versions behind" and management always responded with "no budget, this is not a priority". This continued until our hand was f
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by jm__87 7y ago
> the actual work of being a developer/programmer in a professional setting is a really shitty job and sad life for the majority of people on those jobs. Oh man, I cannot relate to this at all. I feel very lucky to be a software dev
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by jm__87 7y ago
> But even languages this site hates, such as C, C++, C#, and Java What makes you think this? I have been on here for years and have never really got this impression.
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by jm__87 7y ago
> They get annoyed when they're asked to think about the bigger picture and just want to focus on the code, the architecture, and whatever is new and shiny. Maybe I'm the exception here, but this does not really describe most d
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by jm__87 7y ago
Companies stick to a narrative of a tech shortage, lobby government and universities to help import/train more talent, supply of talent increases, wages drop. I disagree that this is what is happening, given my own experience. But I&#x
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by jm__87 7y ago
Yeah, so this is kind of my point, actually. I like my hobbies, so they don't really require much effort and self discipline to engage in daily. If I don't have time to study one day, I don't beat myself up over it. It is jus
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by jm__87 7y ago
Usually most people set goals that require some level of effort and/or self discipline over a longer period of time. I suppose you don't have to do this, but this is usually the standard reason for setting goals - so you can accom
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by jm__87 7y ago
Not really, though. I build software for a living. If I told my boss "we should make X better" they would probably want to know in what way will X be better, how much better do I want it to be, what will we gain from these improve
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by jm__87 7y ago
All this blog post highlights is that you should have a strong and clear learning goal, because if you’re learning Mandarin because it might seem useful on vacation to China, you might be spending your time inefficiently. I'm not sur
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by jm__87 7y ago
Visual Studio is absolutely amazing and I won't code without it. On top of that, you can always install VsVim if you want some vim functionality while retaining everything that is great about VS (this is what I use).

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