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The main sources for this are inspirational/motivational texts. You might be out of luck trying to find actual scientific evidence.

That's why all my neighbors have 3 cars!

The asymptotic upside is for the population as a whole, not necessarily for the individual.

Right, just like Trump's strategy. Immigrants are bad for 'merica. Don't mind the details or ask for proof. It's the story that counts, and in the story they are all rapists taking…

Domestic mismanagement in India can hardly be called a sanction by the U.S. In other words, how would an independent financial system have helped India to put food on the table?

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> Error handling absolutely breaks the language for me. I think you missed my point. This is not about whether I personally like go (I don't) or its error handling (I don't). It's …

I doubt though that error handling makes or breaks a language. How the ecosystem works seems to be what counts, and as long as Google doesn't close it down any further, it can stay…

I'd rather claim that the main reason is that the author seemed drawn towards proprietary tech stacks that the companies behind them wanted to fully control and that contributed to…

This advice is gold. It's not just about writing. Anything you want to accomplish long term, you need a consistent "at least a little step every day" approach. No matter if it's a …

A bit of a shame that posting this kind of thing to HN effectively ddos'es it.

Directly in the beginning, without even scrolling, it says: > Raven has chronic back pain, spinal stenosis and vertigo. His feet hurt so much — from bone spurs and calluses — that …

That's quite different. It's not the same gym for 50 years, what they do in the gym changes over time etc. I'm personally in the gym 2-3 times a week. Very different from running t…

Of course it's choice. I'm not criticizing the choice. I'm criticizing that they complain that they don't have the time to do anything different. Refusing to own up to your choices…

> these stories of old healthy people Have you read the article? That gentlement is not actually healthy and some other activities could contribute to a better health.

It's incredible, no question about it. But it's also incredibly sad. I mean, you have one life. One. And you spend 2-3 hours every day on the very same f'ing route? Life has so muc…

And you didn't notice before handing in your assignment? Doing things last second that didn't give you any chance to fix issues before a deadline is a flaw in and of itself and sho…

vim myprogram.c gcc myprogram.c That brings you 90% of where you need to go, especially for a CS course. It's not obvious to students. The insight to simplify and simplify until th…

And now imagine what that means for their behavior in their first job. Will those not-anymore-students suddenly stop the cheating? Just copy some code from questionable sources on …

This. So many people tell me they don't have the time. And then they go on discussing the next Netflix series they wanna binge cause it's hard to find new ones cause they have alre…

> I move my body everyday. I consider this the most important item on his list. 1 hour of moderate intensity workout a day and you can mostly forget any diet optimizing that is flo…