michaelborromeo

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by michaelborromeo 4y ago
I think “for many people” is more like “for a minority of people.” For a few people losing weight is complex. For most people, it’s simple. Eat less. Move more. Saying otherwise is a cop out.
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
I think the world more or less understands that American politics oscillates between periods of conservative control and liberal control. I don’t think the world has forgotten about America’s massive military or its massive economy. To say
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
Mythical man hour describes it this way too right? But yeah I think the incentive structure helps determine outcomes like the one you describe. Maybe a good way to handle having a team FULL of high functioning individuals is to break it up
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
High functioning teams start with high functioning individuals. After that it’s up to the group to not waste effort, not go in the wrong direction too long, avoid toxic behavior, and otherwise stay healthy. But teams start with individual t
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
To get people to eat veggies, sure you can ban the production and sale of junk food. I prefer to live in a world where both are available and the preferred solution is education about the effects of junk food.
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
If you ask Dr Fauci he’ll say let’s save as many lives as we can. Taken alone no one can argue with that. His agenda is to save lives. Obvious. So he will make as strong a case as he can to support the measures to save lives. If you pay att
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
Facts by themselves aren’t political or have an agenda. The decision to present certain facts, the other facts you compare those to, and the manner in which they are presented, however, invokes agendas and politics. No matter how much peopl
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
Being allowed to return to work or a business you run, being able to pay rent, feed your family, etc. These are positive outcomes of lockdowns being lifted. The danger in looking at this as a binary “opening kills people” is that you miss t
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
The market reflects, rightly, that while the situation doesn’t look good for many certain fundamentals haven’t changed drastically YET. For example, infrastructure is still intact, demand is theoretically still there just suppressed, capaci
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
The pandemic is being used by both parties to push their agenda. Your pessimism is another persons optimistic outcome.
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by michaelborromeo 6y ago
You should be looking at one woman over those five years. For companies, you are probably looking at multiple developers and if you do only have one opening then even if more than one is good there is going to be a best.
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
Underneath it’s “what’s good for facebook” but on the surface they have to paint it as “what is good for you.” Or they could just say nothing. Which is better?
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
I disagree that it’s almost impossible to win with what is essentially UI and UX challenges. Part of it is subjective yes but a lot of the field can be measured and ranked in terms of quality and effectiveness.
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
I mean yeah they have an interest in selling more ear buds. But after having used Bluetooth headphones for a while, going back to wired headphones was pure hell.
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
When you have an immovable object (can’t fire an employee due to law) up against an unstoppable force (economic pressure to cut jobs) you get actions that try to bend either of the above constraints. In the end something had to break — eith
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
Ok but then if one country doesn’t do this then another will. It’s like nuclear weapons. You cannot reverse or stop technology from progressing and you can’t stop governments from using that technology to build weapons. How many wars did it
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
You really want to go through life thinking you’re competent at something? Honest feedback hurts but it’s how you grow. And if people cared at all about interviewees they’d give some semblance of honest feedback rather than “no thanks.”
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
Both. I haven’t done any actual tracking but others have. There are studies linked at the bottom of this article: https://www.bulletproof.com/sleep/sleep-hacks/inclined-bed-t... .
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by michaelborromeo 7y ago
Sleep on an incline - use bed risers that raise the head of the bed 4-6 inches. You’ll sleep better.
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by michaelborromeo 9y ago
There's an awesome book by Kamal Ravikant that relates to the idea of self-compassion: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends-ebook...
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by michaelborromeo 9y ago
I think there's economic theory that relates to this idea: discounted future utility. e.g. $10 is most useful right now, slightly less useful a day from now, and much less useful a year from now. This is for real reasons -- inflation -
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by michaelborromeo 10y ago
I'm not a big fan of drinking milk -- it causes digestive issues for me and a lot of other people and doesn't taste great by itself. It would be hard not to question the judgement of anyone who drinks that stuff.
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by michaelborromeo 10y ago
MBTI is a very misunderstood system. People tend to take it too far and in directions it shouldn't go. It's not surprising when it's labeled as meaningless. Here's one example: I'm an ISTP which is only one letter a
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by michaelborromeo 10y ago
The sites you list (and a lot of discussion on MBTI) take the judgments way too far. That's when a lot of people conclude MBTI is junk -- when they see these conclusions based on type. MBTI is basically this: You have a set of observe
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
Based on my experience interviewing a handful of developer candidates graduating from Howard, not being prepared is the best way I can describe the impression they left. It felt like they only had a smattering of CS courses, none of which p
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
Part of finding great problems to solve is cultivating a sense of taste for a process/product/service/thing, so you can say, "[x] is a hack and could be done a lot better." To develop that sense of taste you have to
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
The problem is we when live less and less in the way our bodies were designed. For example, we were built to receive all sorts of positive side effects from exercise. If you don't exercise at all you lose those benefits. It's doab
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
Thank you for this. I can't wrap my head around why Amazon would make names for some very useful services so inscrutable. It's like the developers were put in charge of naming everything.
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
If Twitter didn't exist, what would the world use instead?
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by michaelborromeo 11y ago
I agree with your assessment of the problem -- it's the environment. But, as long as millions/billions of dollars are on the line then there will always be those who put all their time/energy into their job. Maybe it's b

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