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The way I solved my procrastination problems is that I do at least one thing per day towards my goal. More often than not, this puts me in a mental state that leads me to doing many things. I find that simply starting a task is the most difficult step.

Well, there's some situations where it is so obvious to use debt that you don't need a cost/benefit analysis.

For example, let's say you discover a large deposit of gold on land you own. You could use debt to buy the mining equipment to mine the gold.

Another example is if terrorists demolished all the bridges between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The government doesn't need a cost/benefit analysis to decide to use debt to rebuild some bridges.

As anyone who's released an app knows, the real problem is Apple's excessively bureaucratic certificate and provisioning processes.

That's true if the capital is misallocated. Spending and debt can greatly increase a country's well-being if used effectively.

Misleading title. He didn't actually break up with his girlfiend, he just wanted to test the service.

Thanks, just did this! Great solution.

Maybe progress is anything that increases your revenue.

I wish I could have someone with a remote control fly me to work every day with one of these.

There is not a moral obligation to maintain side projects. If the users want the maintenance so badly, they can pay you large amounts of money for it.

So your position is that 18th century intellectuals didn't have an accurate perspective of 18th century Africa?

And what do you think the adult literacy rate was in Africa before the Europeans arrived? It most likely started with 0.00....%

Really? "The literacy rate in England in the 1640s was around 30 percent for males, rising to 60 percent in the mid-18th century." - Wikipedia

And who would teach them? If a society lives in extreme poverty for all of history, with zero economic and technological growth, what would make them become more developed and educated without external influences?

“That one can survey the length and breadth of sub-Sahara Africa and find not even one work of visual or written art worthy of the name” - David Hume, 18th century historian

Yes, much closer to one. Somewhere on a scale between what it currently is and a prehistoric society. Why do you think it wouldn't be? Africans wouldn't just magically absorb Western culture without exposure. I'm not sure if 1% were even aware of Western civilization, trade, and such until colonization happened. Do you think Africans would learn how to read and write if the Europeans didn't alter things?

So you're saying Africa would've been better off without colonization? I bet life would be much worse in Africa if it was never colonized. Did you know the homicide rate was 10-20% in prehistoric societies, and the life expectancy was only 30-40 years or so?

Well one important financial reason is that the more hours you work, the less money you make per hour, unless you have a huge equity stake. So your effective wage actually decreases if you spend more time at work.

Other reasons are work/life balance, enjoying time to relax, spending time with friends or family, mental health reasons, and things like that.

Why would he want to work 286 hours per month? I hope he's making a million dollars a year.

That's inaccurate. It's actually caused by an increase in median wages and number of people employed. Wage growth is affected by money supply growth.

Actually you'd have to adjust the numbers by money supply increase, which grows faster than inflation.

Morality aside, I think widespread drug legalization will greatly increase usage rates. It could lead to a more dystopic future where a very large portion of people are using various drugs.

The Bitcoin dream of it being accepted by banks and replacing fiat currency will never come true, especially since financial institutions are focusing on blockchain technology as opposed to Bitcoin.

This recent price increase will possibly be viewed as a dead cat bounce.

So why would people want to invest in Apple if the long term goal is not profit?

Are you opposed to alcohol use as well? Because the danger is relatively the same.

Code reviews add a layer of bureaucracy and greatly slow down software development speed. Because you have to worry about what others think about your code, in addition to whether it actually works or not. Most comments are nit-picking and minor flaws at best. I think code reviews are beneficial for junior engineers, but should be avoided by everyone else.

Well perhaps the reason they can't afford them is because they aren't educated enough to get high-paying jobs, and they waste money on drugs.

A stressful job to one person is a relaxed job to another person. It all depends on the individual's psychology. Perhaps other factors come into play such as how much savings they have, and if they really need the job financially.

The biggest optimization would be to change their programming language.

You have a choice of not living near a large population center which draws more potential terrorist attacks.

Well there is a chance terrorists will kill millions of people here and it just hasn't happened yet. So the total chance of being killed by a terrorist, if you had more information, might be higher than being killed by an officer.

But it's far, far higher chance that terrorists would kill 10 million tomorrow than police. All it takes is for a terrorist group to get their hands on nukes.