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do you consume any caffeine after 12:00 noon? Caffeine's half life is 6 hours. So if you consume at 3pm, you still have 1/2 that caffeine in your body at 9 pm. 1/4 of it at 3am.
I have similar sleeping habits, and I generally have caffeine only at breakfast.
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There are only a certain amount of hours in a day that you can be actively chasing something. Your energy depletes, places close, sun goes down. So it doesn't matter if you get up at 4AM or at 10AM, what matters is the active hours you give yourself. The 4AM person is probably going to sleep earlier than the 10AM, so it equals out. The only real catch about this all is the simple fact society is based around the sun,…
// So it doesn't matter if you get up at 4AM or at 10AM, what matters is the active hours you give yourself. The 4AM person is probably going to sleep earlier than the 10AM, so it equals out What I am observing is that it doesn't actually seem to equal out for whatever reason.
There are some major super early risers of course, like Tim Cook. However he goes to bed much earlier at around ~8PM. So you can see how he's trading ~3 hours in the evening for ~3 hours in the morning (contrasting against Satya Nadella's 7AM-11PM schedule [16hrs equal]).
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Sorry if it's an ignorant question since my kid hasn't reached sports age yet. But athleticism doesn't seem like it should be an optional choice that detracts from other educational resources. Why not make it mandatory, 1h a day for everyone? Saves on travel, saves on transition time, saves on economy of scale and it's more equitable since everyone pays through taxes and everyone benefits in the short term (more pare…
That’s PE (physical education). Worse class ever, but required.
As an adult, people are so varied. The concept of forcing kids, who absolutely are as or more varied than their adults, into so much structure is cruel. I get that some people are lazy and without something telling them what to do they will happily fail. But school today is more about grinding then down than building them up. And they bully and harass each other as consequence.
Leaving my soapbox there…
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I generally agree with your criticism of the education system as an instrument of filtering/segregation but I would argue school has some practical value. > Three - grade people into quality batches, based off their punctuality and ability to perform meaningless tasks to arbitrary and meaningless quality standards For example, doing math is a useful skill, not a meaningless task. > Four - because the management has g…
> For example, doing math is a useful skill, not a meaningless task. I can't define trig relations, I sort of remember how to do multiple unknowns/linear algebra, can't even remember the definition of a quadratic equation and I couldn't do derivations if my life depended on it. Funny thing is I used to know this stuff and actually used some of it when I was in to game dev. 10 years later anything that's above element…
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I think the US has a food problem more than an activity/exercise problem. Over the long term one cannot outrun a poor diet. Attempts to fix this problem are met with derision and quickly toppled due to politics over reason, see: https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/healthy-school...
Fair point about diet contributing more to obesity than exercise. And I am 100% on board with making school lunches healtier, and teaching kids about the importance of nutrition. But exercise is also important for managing weight [1], and preventing/managing chronic disease [2]. And only about a quarter of adults in the US meet the HHS' activity guidelines [3]. [1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-sour…
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Weird. My guidance councillor did the same. Well, I wasn’t accepted to a school at the point in which they encouraged me to settle for less, but it was a very heartfelt “don’t even try”. I left the room very confused and upset. Went in with ambition and excitement about my future and left feeling like I must be a complete idiot. I remember her saying “Let’s focus on being realistic. You aren’t actually going to do th…
A bit of an aside but it’s so strange to me seeing ‘trades’ referred to as a lowly thing. Here in Australia, tradies are admired, often earn really good money and get a lot of good attention. They can work hard and put in the hours to get ahead whereas us IT guys on salary have a much more ‘fixed’ earning potential.
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I think there are 2 different things being discussed here: 1. Commuting via school bus vs. parents' cars 2. Commuting via public bus In the US, at least for the first 25 years of my life, most people I knew got to school by school bus unless they lived within walking distance or were old enough to drive themselves. Some kids parents would drive them, but it usually was either due to it being too cold to walk (or wait…
I lived in a not-too-rural city in the Midwest of about 40,000 at the time, and we still didn’t have school busing for anyone in the city. It was only for rural folks. I was forced to get my drivers’ license at 16 to drive 10 min to school because the alternative was walking 1.2 hours every morning one way ti get to school… meaning leaving the house at around 6:00am. The city had no city bus, so there was zero public…
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Generally everyone has to take gym class. Sports are additional. Teams are competitive to get into and different kids will specialize in different ones depending on their strengths and interests. Some schools do require every student to choose at least one sport. There are other extracurriculars such as drama, speech & debate, and special choirs or chamber orchestras that may or may not be compatible with different s…
What did you do in gym class? In England, we had a short "physical education" class once a week. That varied between gymnastics, swimming, badminton, indoor cricket, athletics, and occasionally other indoor-ish things. We also had an afternoon ice a week of "games", which was football, rugby, hockey, cricket, softball or similar. Longer, always outdoor sports. (This will probably vary within England, I don't think I'…
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That's another difference between Europe and the US. When I grew up in Germany there was a huge amount of sports available that were taught by volunteers. Soccer, judo, karate all for free even in the rural area I grew up in. I wonder if it's possible because everyone isn't constantly threatened by looming bankruptcy if they don't save big piles of cash.
Thank you to share about your childhood experience. This part: I wonder if it's possible because everyone isn't constantly threatened by looming bankruptcy if they don't save big piles of cash. I'm confused. What does it mean?