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by throw18374 7y ago
I took similarly extreme measures to end my video game addiction many years ago. I played MMOs compulsively. They basically hijacked the reward center of my brain to the point where what happened outside of the game seemed completely irrele
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by throw18374 7y ago
I plan on following in Warren Buffett’s footsteps. Without his influence, I would be working the graveyard shift at a gas station right now. End goal career-wise is to amass as much wealth as possible by giving smart and capable people a pa
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by throw18374 7y ago
I hate to admit this but I wrote 3 of these woe—and-misery letters in the late ‘90s, when I was a teenager. One to Bill Gates, one to Bill Roper, and another to Chris Metzen. I didn’t send them expecting a response, and didn’t even really c
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by throw18374 7y ago
Isn’t it possible to become a billionaire without anyone knowing? What if you just get there quietly through private investment? Not a billion, but I’ve built up a decent chunk myself and nobody seems to know or even suspect that about me.
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by throw18374 7y ago
This is tangential to the article, but James being “a frequent commenter on his blog and a huge help to other readers” was my first sign that he was not mentally well. Immediately knew things would not go well for him in this story. People
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by throw18374 7y ago
That’s a very good point, in that case even 50% would probably be optimistic. We can probably attribute this article’s novelty to the slow adoption of Python 3. In that way it’s probably a good thing that it’s such a popular topic, even if
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by throw18374 7y ago
Came to say the same.. insertion order of dict has been here for years for 90+% of Python users (CPython implementation) and a part of the language spec also for almost as many years. I guess it’s good to spread awareness to HN readers who