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by jm__87 8y ago
Thanks. I stopped reading the article here: > Research, however, suggests that warnings about sitting at work are overblown, and that standing desks are overrated as a way to improve health. Who cares what research says. If someone says
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by jm__87 8y ago
Exercise is very important. I wouldn't recommend looking at it as something that is optional. It's funny you mention willpower, as there is a book called "The Willpower Instinct" and the author claims that willpower is i
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by jm__87 8y ago
Why can't we take supplements AND have a healthy diet and exercise.
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by jm__87 8y ago
I think our society tends to offer respect and status to others for some specific (mostly superficial) reasons, and developers usually don't meet the criteria. I can think of a few different cases of this: 1. I feel society respects pe
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by jm__87 8y ago
How do you get economic growth? People need to buy more things. An individual only eat so much food, drives so many cars, buys so much clothing, has so many dentists, lawyers and accountants, consumes so many advertisements, pays for so man
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by jm__87 8y ago
I mean, it seems a bit obvious to me that human values and morality are going to be reflections of fundamental human drives (i.e. to survive and procreate). The cultural, legal and economic environment can change a lot of variables as to ho
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by jm__87 8y ago
They aren't hidden, they are just at the end of the article. To me this seems like fairly honest reporting, as opposed to ommitting this info entirely.
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by jm__87 8y ago
> The top of most any field is comprised of very competitive people. Being competitive is good, if it helps you succeed. The degree to which you can be successful if you just "focus on your own shit" vs. paying close attention
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by jm__87 8y ago
My intake of refined sugar is very low (usually 0 most days), but I still crave caffeine quite a bit. I find the only way I can cut coffee is to taper it back and suffer for a few days, and even then I can't get down to zero caffeine
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by jm__87 8y ago
Okay, so again how is the site to blame if your family or friends leak your info. I agree that these sites should be defaulting most options to non public until people explicitly choose for something to be public - but beyond that, the only
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by jm__87 8y ago
How else would you avoid people identifying who you are online, other than not posting any identifiable information? If you post your home address and phone number on Facebook and people start prank calling you in the middle of the night an
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by jm__87 8y ago
With depression, the measure is always subjective since you're trying to resolve a problem with someone's subjective experience. You can say this isn't useful since N=1, but I think it is safe to say we can take her word for
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by jm__87 8y ago
The article is clearly aimed at people who mean well but haven't thought through what to do or say in these situations.
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by jm__87 8y ago
So anyone can just claim anything now and it is up to the person being accused to prove their accuser wrong? We're just going to assume guilty until the accused can prove themselves innocent? That is not a world I want to live in.
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by jm__87 8y ago
As someone who has smoked pot in the past and has spent a lot of time around people who have done a ton of different drugs, it would make no sense to me to substitute this drug for pot. The effects are totally different. The reason most peo
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by jm__87 8y ago
Based one the effects of the drug described in the article, cannabis hardly sounds like a relevant comparison. Cannabis users don't end up in the hospital with psychosis and run around naked for 3 hours...
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by jm__87 8y ago
> Because there are some incredibly easy, low cost things you can do to increase your odds of surviving a collapse. Seriously? Even if you had extra food and water to last years, you're totally screwed as soon as people around you w
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by jm__87 8y ago
Most people don't have the time, energy or will to do most of these things. Many others who do would simply be very unhappy doing those things. My whole point was that people should just try to enjoy their lives, not have it revolve ar
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by jm__87 8y ago
On the flipside, worrying that the world could collapse at any moment is not a way to live. If things are going to collapse, there is likely nothing you can do as an individual to stop it from happening, so why worry about it. As far as I c
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by jm__87 8y ago
There are always people out there ready to point out that you have done something different. For some, being different is a badge of pride. For others, it is just uncomfortable.
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by jm__87 8y ago
Yeah, looks like I replied to the wrong one. Sorry about that.
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by jm__87 8y ago
Personally I always assumed it is not about fear at all. Ask any bigoted moron and they won't say they are afraid of gay people and I believe them. I think it could be a few things. One possibility is that the person believes in a cert
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by jm__87 8y ago
> If this were the case, we'd have 'bred out' the gay, surely? This assumes that there is a gene that determines whether someone is gay or not. I was under the impression that gay and trans are an epigenetic phenomenon th
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by jm__87 8y ago
I moved to a very noisy part of the city and found that practicing a different reaction to noise actually helped me. I just decided to treat it as not such a big deal and I'm able to sleep quite well now. White noise helps too.
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by jm__87 8y ago
You realize that as most people age, they tend to sleep earlier and wake up earlier. Maybe one day you too will be an old lark :).
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by jm__87 8y ago
My natural wake time is 5:30 - 6:30 am and I am definitely a morning person. I can assure you that my being a morning person has more to do with me being too tired to stay awake beyond 10:30 pm than anything else.
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by jm__87 8y ago
I didn't criticize the format. I was criticizing the fact you're taking a side on the issue, when clearly the issue is more complicated and we need to address both sides if the city is going to come to a solution that is viable. I
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by jm__87 8y ago
I don't really see why the format is unreasonable (when either you or I used it) and I don't disagree with your points on aggressive drivers killing people. That is obviously part of what is happening. I feel we should be implemen
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by jm__87 8y ago
And this sort of response is why we can never have a real conversation about this topic in Toronto. Not once did I ever say that there aren't terrible drivers in Toronto putting cyclists in danger. I thought this was a pretty clear con
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by jm__87 8y ago
As someone who lives in Toronto, there are some very aggressive cyclists here who do not follow the rules. They run through red lights and stop signs without stopping, weave in and out of traffic, try to bike by cars on the shoulder and fre

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