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To contrast that, Linus Torvalds has said many times over the years that he gets at least 9 hours of sleep everyday (http://www.linuxscrew.com/2011/07/15/linus-torvalds-the-fact...).

Me personally, I do NOT feel well if I haven't had a solid uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep.

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I'm close to the same. I can function on 7, but any less than that and I'm a basketcase, and really do honestly need 8 a day. I feel like people think it's a virtue or something if they can get 4 hrs of sleep and not fall down from exhaustion, but in reality it's so unhealthy.

I feel like different people have different sleep requirements. Although veganism changing those requirements is likely a quack factoid. Veganism! The meth of diets!

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