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Are the Americans Awake?

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Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by bayindirh »

tiborsaas wrote: post #47
bayindirh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

8+ might be too much for you. My sweet spot is around ~7 hours. Less than 6.5 and more than 8 makes me feel the same, but if I manage to sleep around 7, it's completely a different story.

I drink 3-4 cups of coffee daily, maybe that smooths things out :)

No, it won't, honestly.

I was drinking 2L/day at my peak, while I was sleeping 6 hours a day (Ph.D. corrections). It gives you awakeness, but the not the concentration of a well rested mind.

Nothing replaces sleep, since your brain flushes its toxins through your spine to be expelled from your body.

Sleep is underrated and deprivation of it kills you slowly.

I work way better with half a mug of coffee (a Starbucks tall) and proper sleep than two Ventis and not enough sleep.

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by mcphage »

pluijzer wrote: post #10

This site takes into account that Americans get there 8 hours of sleep though some quick googling revealed that the average American only gets 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep. Just want to preach to those not getting there 8 hours, getting enough sleep really gives an enormous boost to mood, creativity, productivity and health. Give it a try :-)

Yes, but if I stay up late I can mindlessly doomscroll through the dregs of reddit, so who can say which is better, really?

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by 0xDEF »

nonethewiser wrote: post #25

The website claims Reddit is banned in some European countries. Which countries?

Not reddit. Threads has chosen not to expand to Europe until they have found out how the "import all your data from Instagram" stuff holds up in court.

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by RegnisGnaw »

delecti wrote: post #43

I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country. It's cheating a bit with Alaska in the picture, but the US spans about twice the degrees of longitude as Europe, and it would still be solidly "wider" even if you limit to the lower 48 states.

It is "decided" which is correct. With 24 hours a day and 360 degrees of longitude, it should be simply 15 degrees per hour.

The number of time zone that a country has is a political choice, perhaps based on geography somewhat. The size of each time zone is also variable depending on the choice the government makes.

* Look at China for example, one time zone.

* India is the same with one time zone.

* Mountain Time Zone in Canada actually stretches across 4 time zones (-9, -8, -7, -6)

* The Pacific Time Zone in Canada actually stretches across 2 time zones (-8, -9)

* Newfoundland in Canada should be geographically in the -4 time zone, but it choose to do -3.5 instead. If that's the proper value, then I'd argue Maine should be in -4.5 instead of -5.

* France should be in the UTC time zone with a tiny slice in the +1 time zone. In reality it is in the +1 time zone.

* Heck, why does time zones go from UTC-12 to UTC+14? What's with the values above UTC+12?

See: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0eb6e2b279845c866f903...

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by throw1234651234 »

nntwozz wrote: post #49

My doctor said I should sleep until I feel rested, there is no arbitrary number.

Doctors say a lot of stupid stuff like "cartilage can't be repaired, it doesn't matter how much sugar you eat for tooth health, lifting weights is bad", etc. The number is 7-9 hours. The funny thing is that if you get 5 regularly, you won't feel tired, you will just be slow, sick a lot, and unable to put on muscle mass.

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by zokier »

delecti wrote: post #43

I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country. It's cheating a bit with Alaska in the picture, but the US spans about twice the degrees of longitude as Europe, and it would still be solidly "wider" even if you limit to the lower 48 states.

> I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country.

Timezones are still a social construct, and decision made. Mainland China is wider than contiguous US, and yet it runs on single TZ.

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by [deleted] »

delecti wrote: post #43

I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country. It's cheating a bit with Alaska in the picture, but the US spans about twice the degrees of longitude as Europe, and it would still be solidly "wider" even if you limit to the lower 48 states.

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Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by 13of40 »

mrweasel wrote: post #29
hospitalJail wrote: post #3

Meanwhile Americans have no equivalent website for 'Are Europeans asleep yet?" Because they don't care.

Scheduling meetings with Americans tend to get a little worse than expected, because they apparently think 9 - 17:00 is when you should be working, and not 8 - 16:00. So rather than having an afternoon meeting, you get to have a late afternoon meeting. I think I can find more people in Denmark working 7 - 15:00 compared to 9 - 17:00.

West Coast American here. Since I have to work with so many people from Europe, Israel, India, etc., my calendar looks like an impacted colon from about 8:00 AM PST to 11:00 AM PST, then I have all this free time after that to do "work". The problem is that erases things like "I'm going to hit the gym in the morning" and "I'm going to get this document polished up before the first meeting of the day". And when 11:00 finally rolls around, I already have decision fatigue and have burned up the most useful of my braincells for the day, so everything else suffers.

This is absolutely not to say "Europe Bad", it's just a lament that as a diurnal species, time zone issues suck.

Re: Are the Americans Awake?

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Post by cvoss »

RegnisGnaw wrote: post #54
delecti wrote: post #43

I'm perplexed at the implication that we "decided" to have the number of time zones that we do, rather than just acknowledging the reality that the US is a fairly big country. It's cheating a bit with Alaska in the picture, but the US spans about twice the degrees of longitude as Europe, and it would still be solidly "wider" even if you limit to the lower 48 states.

It is "decided" which is correct. With 24 hours a day and 360 degrees of longitude, it should be simply 15 degrees per hour. The number of time zone that a country has is a political choice, perhaps based on geography somewhat. The size of each time zone is also variable depending on the choice the government makes. * Look at China for example, one time zone. * India is the same with one time zone. * Mountain Time Zo…

And there's also the decision to use hour-aligned timezones. Why not half hours? Why not two hours? It's very much a conscious decision.
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