sometimeshuman

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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
If it exists in the US and gains any momentum it will be taken over by people with dark triad personality traits and quickly degenerate into something unexpected. But by then you may have associated your reputation with who knows what. If y
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If making a 1%er's income and having status at a Silicon Valley FAANG company is a key part of your identity, then leaving will likely cause psychological damage. If you are able to dissolve that part of your ego first and then either
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
I accidentally won a radio contest many years ago in this way. I heard "you are caller 2" and then the DJ hung up. I stayed on because I was confused and then a few seconds later he picked up again and said you are "caller 4&
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
A constant focal point is not good for eye health either. I had considered converting my two monitor setup to one traditional monitor and one project that is > 10ft away. But projectors have too many disadvantages atm (e.g., high power c
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
Slight skepticism should be applied to any productivity claim. There was research to determine if changing X in the office boosted productivity. But in the end it was found that X didn't matter, within reason. Changing any X boos
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"sounds absurd, by the way".. that perhaps explains all the downvotes. One of the surprises about getting older is that stories from your youth sound more and more absurd with time. I didn't grow up with the Internet and the
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As an ancedote, I was told by my low income peer group that you get 600 points just for filling out your name on the SAT and that 800 points could get you into a great school like MIT. So I assumed it was a pass/fail exam in a sense a
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Related, a few months ago Dr. Brickell provided a fascinating discussion about this topic.[1] A minor note, when I was in Japan I heard the term obachan as mildly derogatory slang for old people (e.g., the old lady who throws elbows if yo
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Not arguing, but there are also many people who do not rent their vacant property because they are too rich to be bothered and are content with the capital gain appreciation. Perhaps there needs to be a higher tax rate for vacant property t
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"David Roberts would like to you to use a dull knife because you can’t handle a sharp knife." Given I am a poorly coordinated and easily distracted, I only own dull knives. It takes twice as long to saw through meats which equates
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
It is possible to take this even one step further. The last U.S. president for example exclaimed, "China is raping us" and other angry nonsense to which I wondered how will that translate to a thin skinned authoritarian. Well they
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From personal experience, someone who orchestrates this sort of crime sets up a fall guy. The person who mis-declared the contents is probably just a pawn. It is surprisingly easy to manipulate young ambitious people, ideally from poor imm
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At what point do moderate citizens of Russia, who don't support the war, become so poor, beat down, Nihilistic, that they delude themselves into believing the propaganda that all their misery is because of evil Western/U.S. hegemo
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
"who can easily eat 4000 calories of real food in a single meal" "4000 calories" ? With "real food" ? In one meal -- how ? I eat 3 full meals and a weight gain smoothie and barely pass 2700 calories for the day
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
The question is if these vectors of addiction are compounding or if it always affects people who were prone towards addiction anyway. My hope is the latter. Not that having a population of 10%(?) addictions isn't tragic, but it's
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"social/peer pressure in the moment" It can be more subconscious and insidious. Anger, hate, and violent action is incredibly contagious. Mob mentality hijacks brains, and spreads like wildfire among peers. It's likely p
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Winning also helps. There were times when my side business was killing it. Emails from customers telling us how much they love the product and growing sales. I had endless energy. Evolutionarily you are programmed to not expend energy unles
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
In a past NFT discussion an HN'er commented that "NFTs are the world's most convoluted and expensive way to store a bookmark."[0] But it is plausible to store low-resoltion low-color-depth bitmap "art" like a c
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
That's what poor and backwards cultures do and we are far from that point. Would anyone sincerely trust the government with the authority to chop off a hand. From personal experience, it is really easy to frame someone for theft. There
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If you don't have many of these outlier biases then you're probably ok turning down the work because of poor cultural fit. But if you have a few more like this, then yes it could come across as petty. Also it is no fun to work wit
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
It could be he feels passionate about his ventures and just wants them to be as successful as possible. The money is just a consequence. Personally it is harder to understand that upper middle manager who works on something they aren't
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The ad was written in my early childhood. "Can you pinch an inch ?", was the tag-line in a Kellogg's commercial decades ago. In part thanks to that advert, my entire life whenever I can pinch an inch I simply stop drinking my
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by sometimeshuman 5y ago
While the initial subscription rate is high, the annual renewal, including this year, has been $19.95. However, given I receive this offer over e-mail it is unclear if this other accounts get the same offer.
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This is a concern. In exploring any space we risk getting stuck at a local maximum. But this may occur when one holds on to their current ideas too strongly and immediately rejects ideas that go downhill so to speak. Flagging does seem over
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I truly wonder how many people sleep poorly because they ruminate about dysfunctional relationships at night. After many decades of miserable sleep I finally set boundaries with certain family members and long time co-workers. I can practic
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same. I wish Amazon would allow rental of a movie for 2 weeks so I could watch a film in small segments. I no longer rent movies at all because often the running time is too much to complete in just 2 days.
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Humans can learn to have an exceptional judge of character, see the big picture, and quietly subvert bad policy by feigned incompetence. These benevolent bosses/bureaucrats are history's unsung heroes and we need to be very carefu
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The description of your college days implies that you are not incompetent socially. That's encouraging! Tell yourself this social drought will pass and just bare it a little longer until the Covid situation stabilizes. In another comme
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Berberine is commonly promoted as a vitamin alternative to Metformin. Even if Berberine also has no impact on all-cause mortality (idk), I can anecdotally share that 500mg 30minutes before lunch considerably lessens my post lunch fatigue. A
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I'd rather not say my age because I rather not influence any young men to follow my path. The general data is there, a life without a family is not healthy long term. Follow my path at your peril since a lot of other things have to go

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