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by rofo1 4y ago
I probably should have clarified that I meant yearly gains, I can see how that can be confusing to read for someone that doesn't spend time on these topics.
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by rofo1 4y ago
> (I've been traveling around Europe for 5 months so far purely staying at AirBNBs). Off topic, but any interesting destinations that had reasonable AirBNB's that you want to share? :) I plan to do something similar this year,
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by rofo1 4y ago
People are not sufficiently educated about the value of things, vs. pricing, appreciation and so on. Just the fact that anybody can think that you can get 15% "risk free" over long periods of time means that they are out of touch
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by rofo1 4y ago
Spend time on the mechanics (understanding and writing out full proofs) and spend some time on the intuition (why is this important, examples and counter-examples). If you keep doing this, you'll build up a whole library of examples an
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by rofo1 7y ago
Use const always, unless you must use let. That's it. You don't need to read other articles on this subject, it's that simple.
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by rofo1 7y ago
What the hell did I just read. Intermittent fasting works. Talk to people that can show you results. Enough with the "theory". I've heard many theories from obese people and it's always bullshit. Everyone can find far fe
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by rofo1 7y ago
> Dietary cholesterol is very directly correlated with blood cholesterol levels. You can feed someone cholesterol and directly watch their levels spike. This is not true. In fact, I doubt dietary cholesterol has any affects on blood chol
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by rofo1 7y ago
> This is a term that can make people struggling with eating disorders kinda lose their minds. Maybe focus on the actual thing and not policing speech?
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by rofo1 7y ago
Well, it seems like it's not popular to actually say what you can witness with your eyes and near you. I've noticed the same exact thing myself, and I have been observing it for years already. I wonder if people have noticed simil
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by rofo1 7y ago
Why is it preferably to seen recognition from your peers? If anything, money buys more than simple recognition. Also about 3): which moral values are you referring to, regarding to wealth?
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by rofo1 7y ago
That has nothing to do with America or HN. Everywhere I've went I've seen the same thing: vast majority of people see no other value than financial, in general. It shapes how they think, who they hang out with and what their &quot
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by rofo1 7y ago
To be clear, "associated" means absolutely nothing at all here. Zero proof or anything close.
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by rofo1 7y ago
I can recommend https://www.railstutorial.org/book for Ruby on Rails. It's practical and concise and there's not a lot of unnecessary fluff.
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by rofo1 7y ago
Academia is full of politics, but in the same time, only a handful of people can continuously keep publishing groundbreaking work. Most of the work published is average or even worse - useless. Groundbreaking discoveries don't happen o
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by rofo1 7y ago
It's true, but it's also a test of your inner strength. Can you be a good person even after enduring pure evil? I find that particularly puzzling and I hold people that are capable of good (after being betrayed etc. by the world)
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by rofo1 7y ago
I've done something like this (don't want to go in details), and although I deserved an A with 100% accuracy etc. I got B. And she (the professor) said "hope that teaches you a lesson". Also there were 4 different profes
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by rofo1 7y ago
"Familiarity breeds contempt." Maybe if you are aware of it, you can control it? "Nobody is a prophet in their own land", is another thing that comes to mind. Why did we evolve this way? I can't think of obvious rea
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by rofo1 7y ago
This was long suspected. I've seen countless examples of this in real life. But it was never "proven" like this. This was really interesting to me: "But surprisingly, when we removed the adrenal gland from the mice so th
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by rofo1 7y ago
I mean, I get what you are saying, but just somehow comparing a deep reason for drinking coffee (alertness/greater focus that apparently needs fixing) vs. heavily tripping on an acid trip (when you are experiencing hallucinations) is i
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by rofo1 7y ago
Our views differ so much, that I really think you are living in another reality. So this would be my last reply as there's simply no point discussing further. At least you talk from experience as a heavy acid user, I guess that's
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by rofo1 7y ago
I am perhaps misusing the terms, it's not on purpose. I just think that based on common sense and things I see every single day around me, mixing coffee and heavy drugs in one group just makes no sense. Regardless of their clinical def
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by rofo1 7y ago
I disagree with that "life is suffering, so lets do whatever we want". Also I have no pain (luckily) in my life. I've never had other than when family members died. And I enjoy every day without doing drugs, alcohol or someth
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by rofo1 7y ago
I just mentioned that it's something I've noticed, so unless you want me to cite myself, I don't know what to cite here. My sample is around 50 people, I think. Maybe little less.
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by rofo1 7y ago
Funny how you characterize hallucinations as "open minded". It's par for the course for 2020 anyway. We seem to invent better sounding words for things that we already had words, which contained (generally) truer meaning. As
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by rofo1 7y ago
Why coffee? I've both drank coffee and not drank coffee for years. The only difference is you are more alert (blocking adenosine). How do you go compare it to drugs? If it's a joke or sarcasm, it's not clear (to me at least).
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by rofo1 7y ago
I know a lot of drug users and they all do it to kill their pain. No exceptions. And they all progress towards harder drugs. They either progress or stop doing drugs. Nobody started doing drugs directly shooting heroin. Comparing psychedeli
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by rofo1 7y ago
It's mind-boggling to me how things are changing. In my surroundings, I am a tiny minority that never does drugs, smokes or drinks alcohol. Nearly 100% of people do that and if you don't do that, you are the weird one. Same thing
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by rofo1 7y ago
> I think it's sometimes hard to fathom just how bad the human condition has been for most of our history. It really is not. All it takes is non-zero curiosity and picking up a book or two. Every single person of sound mind that has
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by rofo1 7y ago
The last two times that I've cried were both at a funeral of close family members. That was 2 years and ~10 years ago, I believe. I don't remember any other instances (maybe when I was a little kid, but I don't remember). Whe
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by rofo1 7y ago
I drank 3+ espresso's a day for years. Read some books regarding circadian rhythms vs. sleep vs. caffeine vs. adenosine. Decided to quit coffee. Quit the next day for a year or so. I had zero symptoms like the articles mentions or anyt

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