notyourday

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by notyourday 4y ago
> Long term (18 months) this zapped my energy and I lost a lot of muscle. Yes, weight loss was phenomenal, but I gained all of that back in the phase of exhaustion that followed. Muscle loss is an adaptation to loss of load on the muscl
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by notyourday 4y ago
1. Stop eating junk food and drinking soda. 2. Stop consuming ultra processed carbs, limit processed carbs. 3. Start working out every day.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> VO2 max are trackable using hand-held VO2 max is not trackable via hand-held. VO2 max tracking at this point requires going to the lab, putting on a mask that collects expelled gasses and getting on a treadmill. Neither resting heart r
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by notyourday 4y ago
That's just another out of context study jumped on by people who absolutely positively want to find a way to justify sitting on their ass, eating excessive amount of ultra processed carbohydrates and moving as little as possible Huberm
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by notyourday 4y ago
> I don’t know why you think working the hours you’ve been hired to do is being a “Prima Donna”. And I don’t see how getting paid a large salary, having better work-life balance and being hirable are negative things. You want to do an av
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Problem is that this is not how this is unravelling. Large lay-offs like that cull entire departments, not the lower performers. Companies like Google are overstaffed by the lazy, entitled Prima Donnas. You can see it all over HN in it
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Do you have any thoughts on how to work with them in a productive and friendly way? Write them up and put them on PIP. If they do not improve, part the ways.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> I mean, would you prefer they blamed someone else? The C suite and the Board are ultimately responsible for over-hiring and layoffs. Board should automatically reduce CEO pay to $1.00 for the current and the next year every time a CEO
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Of course you do. That's like saying that you don't end up $100 in debt by having a deficit of $1 a day. You do not. 100lbs is excess of 350000 calories "stored" and for every extra lb one's BMR increases. By t
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by notyourday 4y ago
One does not become 100lb overweight because of "margins". One becomes 100lb overweight because they are doing 100mph in a 35mph zone so "slow the hell down" is a great advice.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> I think there is a huge market for trustworthy curation. There's not. In order for it to be a market, a customer needs to pay for it.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> It's not as impossible as you make it sound IMO, I would guess it's more a matter of pricing. This sounds like people at a startup with no product/market fit telling the market that it is wrong.
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by notyourday 4y ago
Looks like no one tried doing Venn diagram of people who think "I do not want to eat meat" and "I do not want to eat processed food".
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by notyourday 4y ago
News at 11: people who waste 90% of their work time on HN while collecting a-la FAANG salaries because they are used to bullshitting their management and getting away with it are terrified of the management that can look at the code.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Yes? Everyone knew that volume in crypto was too high and likely irrationa No, everyone knows that the exchange volume in crypto is high and fraudulent. Irrational behavior is not acknowledging it. > Lots of CEOs seem to do things l
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by notyourday 4y ago
Yes, compare the earnings of NASDAQ with the "earnings" of FTX. Google the "founder". Watch the shit he talks about. Ask yourself - if he has that much time to be a clown what are the odds of him actually running a comp
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by notyourday 4y ago
As I said, algebra is difficult for journalists looking to cheerlead in hopes of getting spoils: https://ir.nasdaq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nas...
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Not sure what you're saying here? The amount of money the FTX Foundation was plausible given FTX's fees and volume. Only if FTX and its founder found a way to create print money out of the thin air. > That ignores new inve
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by notyourday 4y ago
They collapsed because the outflows became higher than the inflow. Every Ponzi collapses this exact way.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> ? It was public that FTX money came from running a crypto exchange, but that FTX's CEO (SBF) secretly diverted customer funds to his hedge fund (Alameda) doesn't seem like something people would have discovered in due diligen
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by notyourday 4y ago
No, you are not buying houses for bitcoins. You are using bitcoins that are converted to the currency the house is quoted at and if the amount is greater than the contract price you get the house. It is no different from saying "In som
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by notyourday 4y ago
There's exactly one drop everything and get it fixed ASAP bug at Google - something broke the ad platform.
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Engineers aren't really fungible resources, to the extent that these projects require. Ask any manager how easy it is to swap "allocated resources", and they'll probably sigh heavily. I'm hearing Meta, Stripe,
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by notyourday 4y ago
In reality there are three classes of systems: * pets * cattle * betsy[0][1] The problem is that configuration management systems think everything is either cattle or pets. [0] Betsy is a special cow. She will also be slaughtered, so she is
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by notyourday 4y ago
> How do you self-regulate? You are not hungry. You are bored. Purge snacks from your house. Purge sodas from your house. Purge sugary anything from your house. Never buy treats in sized over one serving. Only buy one treat at a time.
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by notyourday 4y ago
They do extremely well utilizing this strategy.
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by notyourday 4y ago
If she does not need to deal with someone might have a burner number, she is not going to deal with someone who might have a burner number. The end. > Talk to people like human beings and you should be able to more reliably pick out the
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Seems like premature analysis which would be better and easier done after more conversation rather than prejudging half the population. If she does not need to deal with people who might have a burner number, she would be stupid to dea
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by notyourday 4y ago
No, #1 is "this is his burner number"
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by notyourday 4y ago
> Neither are true nor false but definitely exaggerations. Google does not kill services. That does not happen. Google definitely does not deplatform people killing all their accounts and all their access. That also does not happen.

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