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by vonseel 7y ago
Go-pills certainly increase tolerance to alcohol, won’t change your BAC but you’ll be less impaired after drinking, although it still isn’t safe and shouldn’t be an excuse for flying after drinking. This article is more about the opposite,
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Ask HN: Any fun books about working in tech / SV?
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by vonseel 7y ago
It’s how I do it too, but it’s probably less “clean” for people who care about such things.
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by vonseel 7y ago
I’m not sure if I know what you mean, I don’t usually smell new electronics?
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by vonseel 7y ago
Yeah, I’m slightly familiar with that. Flying is a bit unusual since training is so much more expensive than other professions, and requires a lot of hours, so I guess you can consider the first few years like a medical residency. A low-pai
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by vonseel 7y ago
I thought a lot of the pay changes with lawyers was due to tort reform and caps on punitive damages, but I am basing that purely on vague memory. To be fair, first year lawyers at top firms do earn comparable pay to programmers at good co
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by vonseel 7y ago
The funny thing I noticed when living in Switzerland and traveling other European countries is due to the way lower obesity rate, most people are generally attractive. The American obesity rate is something absurd like 40% among adults. A
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by vonseel 7y ago
You know step-parents do exist that actually have a good relationship with their step-children and treat them as their own biological kids?
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by vonseel 7y ago
Isn't that like vicks vaporub? That stuff is a strong scent too... just different.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Did anyone read the comment by user randomsong [1]? I hate to be a gatekeeper, but do people not realize that teaching a bunch of people to code and being a constant advocate for the "everyone should learn to code" thing will ev
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by vonseel 7y ago
Of course, high salaries will attract more supply over time, which will put pressure back down on salaries. The current dynamic is SO out of whack though- there is a ton of slack in the system. I understand all of this. Are there any exam
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by vonseel 7y ago
Because he was a Harvard student from a likely well-off family?
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by vonseel 7y ago
I would have said the same thing. I think the main value add - looking back on how I perceived FB when it came out and why a lot of us started using it - was branding and a cleaner, fresh design. And the newsfeed was a new concept...
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by vonseel 7y ago
No, I understand perfectly fine and I’ve been in both situations. I’m just saying, it sucks to be a contractor with overhead and make a decent amount without accounting for the additional expense, but it REALLY sucks to be at the bottom of
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by vonseel 7y ago
I wonder how microplastic emissions are measured. Probably just some random sampling and estimation, but it would be interesting to know how they account for things like irregular pollution patterns (think about that huge garbage pile in th
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by vonseel 7y ago
I was an average tennis player in high school and later took a class in college. The only scent as powerful and nostalgic as tennis balls that I can think of is that of a new car. It must be some weird chemicals or adhesives used in the man
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by vonseel 7y ago
Suddenly makes you feel very bad for all the people out there making $15-20ish an hour.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Zuckerberg and Gates would have been elite if they’d never worked a day in their lives. Perhaps it's just me, but in the Zuckerberg case specifically, I'd think quite a bit of luck and timing had to do with it. If Zuckerberg had
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by vonseel 7y ago
In a way, calm and focus are the same thing as tweaked, but I guess you'd have to be on it to understand what I mean by that.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Yep. I wonder if there’s been a bunch of research on the topic and it really boils down to us just being written versus visual learners, or if it has to do with something like age-bias - maybe because YouTube wasn’t really a thing yet when
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by vonseel 7y ago
I’m on Adderall for ~12 years but I disagree. Although I agree with the previous commenter, I don’t think it extends my “normal” productive max. Sure, occasionally I can feel productive for an extended stretch, but usually I feel wiped out
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by vonseel 7y ago
I do sometimes look up details about a show I’m watching, but I’m with the author on this, I can’t fully keep track of what’s going on if I’m not watching. Moreover, I prefer to watch with subtitles because I feel like I absorb information
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by vonseel 7y ago
I will have to take a look at that link. Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. I don’t think the game is limited to the tech industry. What scares me is it seems pretty much all office jobs eventually turn into corporate politics /
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by vonseel 7y ago
Those are equally terrifying statements to what the user above said.
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by vonseel 7y ago
I like that explanation especially the first paragraph. I don’t understand pharmacology well enough to really know exactly what’s going on, but I’ve always thought today’s ADHD drugs are extremely broad, perhaps even crude solutions to a po
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by vonseel 7y ago
> While these drugs will make healthy people high and overexcited, it will help ADHD patients calm down and focus. And beyond that, this simply is a misconception and myth perpetuated by uneducated people. ADHD patients calm down when th
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by vonseel 7y ago
Have you ever actually taken LSD? I’m pretty sure many people have lost complete control of their judgement and rational mind drinking alcohol in their college days... or any age, really. I would never suggest driving or anything dangerou
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by vonseel 7y ago
I'd like to know why business guys are writing React (or even JS). I can imagine why they might write Python and use Jupyter Notebooks, but React seems a little further out there, maybe they are prototyping some in-house applications
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by vonseel 7y ago
Drive can be a nightmare.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Apple has added so much functionality to Logic in the past few years that I would be surprised if they stopped supporting it anytime soon.

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