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by jm__87 7y ago
From his Wikipedia page: After receiving a BA in political economics at Bocconi University, Milan and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University, he became an academic at Yale and a visiting researcher/advisor at the
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by jm__87 7y ago
Yeah, this doesn't really seem that groundbreaking to me. You just try your best and take new information in as it becomes available (assuming the information is trustworthy). Then again, I build software. Even when there are competing
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by jm__87 7y ago
I don't really follow your logic. Bad parents are usually bad parents because they don't care about parenting or they care about other things far more than parenting - parenting just isn't their top priority. Their children&#
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by jm__87 7y ago
This logic is ridiculous. No one should be punished, how about that?
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by jm__87 7y ago
Where did the mercury come from?
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by jm__87 7y ago
All I'm saying is, with something like love, for most people it matters if the other individual can actually feel something too. Suppose there are two guys, both in a relationship with someone. One is in love with their significant oth
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by jm__87 7y ago
I think it would depend on the person. For some people, if you know a machine is not capable of feeling anything in spite of it acting like it loves you, then it simply won't be the same as the reciprocal affection shared between two p
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by jm__87 7y ago
So I've read "Why We Sleep" and my understanding of Walker when he says "sleep loss is not a debt that can be repaid" simply meant that sleep does not work like an accounting system - if you slept for 3 hours less l
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by jm__87 8y ago
Have you ever tried keeping a journal? We all make decisions based on what we know and how we feel and both of those things change over time. With that in mind, does it really matter why you studied computer science? You're allowed to
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by jm__87 8y ago
I can only really see a few possibilities here: 1. Lack of knowlege in the team. 2. Being asked to do something too quickly (or the technical team not asking for enough time up front). 3. Being asked to do something dumb and giving in. The
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by jm__87 8y ago
Yeah, fair enough. I work in a position where the deadlines for what we are building are mostly self imposed (we of course want to be competitive with other businesses that do what we do, so there is some sense of urgency, but it is not goi
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by jm__87 8y ago
Not necessarily. At least in my experience, most people want to improve their coding skills and if you build a good relationship with your coworkers and have a track record of putting out good work, then you'll be in a position to offe
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by jm__87 8y ago
It really drives me nuts that we have all of these innovative and brilliant solutions for treating a number of supposedly preventable diseases, yet the field of nutrition can't even agree on how we can avoid delaying onset or preventin
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by jm__87 8y ago
Maybe I've worked with bad code for too long, but my opinion is, being the one person who understands some clusterfuck of poorly designed and hard to read code is job security and improving it can be satisfying. Reducing coupling, maki
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by jm__87 8y ago
Have you ever been depressed or burnt out? Cause I have suffered from both. I will agree that alcohol and most drugs are likely going to make your problems worse or at the very least, keep you at whatever level of happiness you're curr
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by jm__87 8y ago
If you haven't read it already, you should totally read "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan. The book more or less agrees with your point (though I don't think the science has necessarily come to a solid conclusi
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by jm__87 8y ago
Dairy was the main culprit and I've cut back my consumption of wheat products significantly.
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by jm__87 8y ago
Perhaps I have misunderstood what front running is, but I have always thought it is really only applicable when you have an obligation to your clients to give them good execution. You can't front run a market, just your clients. An HFT
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by jm__87 8y ago
I too suffered from insomnia regularly for most of my life (for at least 25+ years that I can remember) and just have managed to figure it out this past year. The major things for me have been light therapy in the morning, carefully watchin
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by jm__87 8y ago
Exchanges are more useful when many users use them. By necessity, this needs to be centralized. Can't buy when there are no sellers.
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by jm__87 8y ago
From my understanding on this topic, the problem has more to do with insulin sensitivity. It has been measured that insulin sensitivity is worse the day after a poor night's sleep and insulin resistance can help drive fat accumulation,
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by jm__87 8y ago
This statement is actually what stood out the most to me because I disagree with it. But, I actually disagree with you that people at the bottom of Maslow's pyramid don't need meaning. If anything, these people need meaning in the
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by jm__87 8y ago
Programmers make stupid assumptions all the time... usually because they are focused on some other more difficult problem and they assume some other problem like this is easy and they don't have to think much abt it, so they don't
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by jm__87 8y ago
Really? While I personally don't need to work with phone numbers for my job, I found this list to be incredibly interesting. For many, this type of knowledge is often attained by making incorrect assumptions in your code/system de
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by jm__87 8y ago
Haha yeah, absolutely. I've limited my social media use to HN only for a while now (mainly because I feel it is one of the few sites left where you can just have a civil discussion without things getting too political) and I feel I&#x2
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by jm__87 8y ago
Probably a lot of people just get lured in by social media, video games, Netflix, etc and then spend far more time on these things than they would actually like. I doubt many people are consciously prioritizing their web surfing or video ga
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by jm__87 8y ago
Personally, I've found my problem is more "feeling like I don't have time" rather than actually not having time. You can always find things to do to fill each moment, but at least for me, the majority of those things are
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by jm__87 8y ago
I don't disagree with you. I just wanted to give the first poster I responded to some credit. There needs to be a balance between quantity and quality of life. For some, they will enjoy drinking and smoking. Personally, I think meditat
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by jm__87 8y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. There is a guy by the name of Peter Attia who has spent a lot of time studying centenarians and his conclusion has basically been, these people won the genetic lottery for longevity. He of course thinks t
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by jm__87 8y ago
It has to do how we define the word "drugs" culturally, not the reality of whether or not a substance is both addictive and toxic. Alcohol and vaping are culturally accepted drugs that everyone likes to use, so people don't l

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