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by lujim 10y ago
From the article... Nice "I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me". I'm skeptical... then this "Speaking of Clinton — did you target fake news at her supporters? Or Gary Johnson’s, for that matter? (Hor
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by lujim 10y ago
Something tells me the term Alt-Right is becoming one of those worn out labels thrown around with the same amount of precision as a sawed off 12 gauge.
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by lujim 10y ago
Ahh gotcha. Yes alcohol and opium are tough to keep people away from. Chantix worked the first time and within just a day or two made smoking a cigarette completely devoid of any pleasure. Zero problems with dreams. The biggest epiphany
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by lujim 10y ago
Sorry I'm not a mental health professional or a physician and had to google "reciditivism" which appears to be a reversion into criminal behavior which is maybe a fancy word for relapse I guess. You are saying that medicine
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by lujim 10y ago
Maybe, although I do believe that tons of good science has chimed in on the role of dopamine in the human brain. Give a smoker some chantix without alleviating their financial burdens or changing "the system" in any way and watch
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by lujim 10y ago
He probably would care to, but how much time would you care to spend listening to anecdotal bro science today?
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by lujim 10y ago
The article addresses this question. Roughly half way down. Also the current top comment in this thread also directly addresses that.
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by lujim 10y ago
I've read that the way gambling engages the dopaminergic system in gambling addicts is more akin to physical addictions like alcohol, tobacco, or opiates. So maybe a better analogy would be "in the same way freely available opiat
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by lujim 10y ago
Who knows the definition, but I can tell you who is included. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN.... Watching the anchors on these channels respond to Trumps performance on election night was jaw dropping. I was amazed that they weren't even going
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by lujim 10y ago
*some misinformation
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by lujim 10y ago
Well on a positive note, it's now clear that not even the Clinton's or all their political allies can rig a US general election. Like or hate the result, the Electoral College, or the "uneducated" US voter, it seems lik
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by lujim 10y ago
We all have much less control over our career paths than we realize. Do your best work everyday, try to be pleasant to the people you manage/work with/work for. Throw a few percent of every check into a decent index fund, put do
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by lujim 10y ago
The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Since it's 9:37am the morning after I'm guessing many people are at anger moving into bargaining right now. "I'm mad and if I move to Canada
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by lujim 10y ago
There are mountains of good and bad info on meditation. Here is a primer on mindfulness as I understand it from Ronald Siegel (Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, author etc) The human brain has two defaul
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by lujim 10y ago
I've noticed a lot of people that meditate struggle with aversion of thoughts and feelings vs "letting go" of thoughts and feelings. You certainly feel every bit of pain, anger, and sadness as a non meditator would. The dist
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by lujim 10y ago
Life doesn't relent. Even young, rich, beautiful people are susceptible to feelings of unsatisfactory-ness that leave them reaching for the booze and hard drugs or just feeling all around unfulfilled and miserable. Humans are built t
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by lujim 10y ago
It's been a while since I read it, but according to kindle search it deals with Smart Order Routers (SOR) at location 6941 (and a few other places)
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by lujim 10y ago
If you're looking for the nuts and bolts on how capital markets around the world work this book is hands down the best there is. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Quantitative-Professionals-M... Equities, Futures, Rate S
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by lujim 10y ago
I didn't see in his post where he wanted a startup. He didn't seem to say anything about anti-startup culture or lack of capital. He didn't seem to be worried about just wanting to make enough runway to start a company. He
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by lujim 10y ago
What if you used the 1000 gallons of gas to run a free carpool with the explicit goal of saving 6 people per day a drive to and from work and in the process saved 6000 gallons. You funded your project through a blog and social media campaig
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by lujim 10y ago
I get that. In the US, airline pilots have limited employers to choose from and lose years of seniority if they move to a new employer. Unions play an important part in conjunction with government regulators in keeping a safe workplace. I
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by lujim 10y ago
You need a union for this? Do you think the average IT worker everywhere else routinely works nights and weekends? Maybe in a startup or someone with an infrastructure support job, but those are the expectations when you sign up for those
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by lujim 10y ago
To be fair "attitude" wasn't his only argument. He cited what seem to be concrete arguments which included lower pay, higher taxes, and fewer benefits relative to the UK and US. You countered by questioning why he expects h
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by lujim 10y ago
> I’m a smug, bourgeois liberal who lives in North London – so the result felt like a powerful rejection of my entire worldview. This sentence said just about everything I needed to know about the author. Being smug isn't a badge o
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by lujim 10y ago
The one in the article is actually piloted. It's just not that hard to fly. Once it's completely automated CNN will run a story about "Unmanned MUAV's"
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by lujim 10y ago
It probably falls into the realm of safer than a piston powered R-22, but less safe that a multi engine turbine powered helicopter.
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by lujim 10y ago
even if that is the definition of manned it still doesn't make sense. because the "U" in UAV stands for Unmanned not Unpiloted. However "Manned space flight" would still apply even if the astronaut was just ballas
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by lujim 10y ago
The people I encounter on my commute will find a way to mess this up.
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by lujim 10y ago
I'm going to let the term "Passenger drone" slide, but I will feel a hint of aggravation when CNN reports on "Manned UAVs"
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by lujim 10y ago
Isn't Ebola very contagious, just not airborne? Also didn't a strain of it go airborne in a primate enclosure Virginia in the 1990s? Asking because I thought that was the case but can't remember. I read "In the Hot Zo

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