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I'm on the other side I guess, but with the same conclusion.

I can tell from the design that I will never wear those ear buds. There is no way to create a decent seal in the ear using just hard plastic, so the sound will suffer for music, and that's the main reason I buy earbuds.

I'm not a snob about music stuff, but for around 100 USD I get a decent pair of earbuds that create a proper seal and gives me good music quality. I'd love the features, but I'm not going to sacrifice the main reason I use in-ear headphones in the first place - the ability to relatively cheaply have good quality sound.

It sure would be in Jib Inc, the company that will launch about 5 minutes after no corporate taxes and will handle all of my personal finances. :)

I'd pay myself a very basic salary, and if I needed emergency cash I could always borrow against my holdings in Jib Inc until I could adjust my salary appropriately.

That would let me defer paying tax indefinitely on anything that I don't need for day to day living, and I would be able to play the margins on a number of major expenses as well, with very little overhead work, since I dont need to worry about taxes for corporate income anymore.

Sorry :(. 1977 here, just told them I couldn't sleep from home and had no interest in it at all and that was that.

Swedish conscription (before it was cancelled) was very close to voluntary anyways.

When I did the tests for it, about 20 years ago, only about one in five or so were picked from the tests, and it was trivial to avoid being picked if you didn't want to do it.

You motivate people the same way you motivate anyone I guess - you're here, you can make the best of it and learn some useful skills, or you can be spending the next year miserable.

We're doing useful important things here, and you can play a role in that, while learning (medical care/mechanical work/computer skills/languages/leadership skills... whatever).

If you really dont want to be there, you have ways out (both civil service, and flunking tests badly, or in an extreme case, go to jail).

I'd suggest that isn't the case. I don't need a parent figure for me to fear or appease in order to act kindly to others, nor do I expect them to need one to act kindly to me.

Right, but you can control two of the parts of the equation fairly well - weight delta (scales, over time) and calories in (nutritional information).

Newtonian level of insight into fitness is super easy. (With Newtonian I mean enough true to get the work done, even if there is a higher level of truth underneath, i.e Einsteinian physics, quantum physics)

Weight delta = calories in - calories out

Health preservation requires adequate levels of protein (muscles) and fat (hormones)

Muscle growth requires caloric surplus, adequate protein availability and muscle breaks

Muscle breaking requires progressive overloading of muscles (i.e. do more/harder of the thing you want to get better at over time)

Micronutrients is a thing, so eat a balanced diet or take supplements.

With those five things, 99% of people can do anything they need around fitness.

Wearable fitness does very little for those five things.

Gathering data to further the development of Einsteinian level of insights is interesting - fitness certainly lags behind there, but I dont think any big breakthroughs in fitness will come from that, in the same way that Einsteinian physics didnt change how we build bridges or pipes.

The less sexy but much more interesting point is on changing behaviours around those five things. How do you design technology to change habits?

It is possible to change habits with technology. The obvious example is how mobile phones changed habits, for instance in how we make appointments, navigate and a multitude of other ways. Cracking how wearable fitness can change those is a much more valuable challenge in my view. Can we design wearable fitness that lets you exercise wherever you are?

Tap your fitness device and you're sent to the nearest gym, with a change of clothes and towels etc ready in a locker for you, and the device reading off your exercise plan? Tap it to get your personalized meal prepared for you at your nearest participating restaurant, or a shopping bag sent home to you.

That's where I see the future being for fitness technology - we know the right things to do, they are just awkward to do, so lower the barrier to doing the right things.

Casinos have an edge on blackjack. It's not a symmetrical game. They choose to not use the edge to its fullest extent sometimes, up to a point where it can be locally profitable to play if you count cards. That doesn't change the fact that they can at any given time choose to shuffle the deck after each hand, which will return the edge.

If we're being technical, shuffling actually lowers the house edge a bit if you are not counting cards, but completely restores the edge if you are trying to count cards. This happens because for each hand of blackjack it is more likely that the last card played is a high card (you are more likely to draw again on a low card), so the remaining deck is slightly lower on high cards on average if you don't shuffle compared to shuffle, and high cards are good for the player, so not shuffling is better against non-counters, but a lot worse against counters.

They most definitely have an edge on slot machines. The fact that there are at times local maxima that favours the gambler doesn't impact the overall edge. This is the same as lotteries with a carry-over jackpot etc. The jackpot is paid for by other gamblers who played against really bad edges, not the casino.

It still is in most countries that aren't the US.

My wife went back to complete a graphic design degree as a career change / work break. The opportunity cost of 4 years of not working is obviously huge, but the absolute cost was about 10k euro in Ireland, and that is on the high side for Europe as a whole I think.

Work out in the morning every day (strength stuff with dumbbells as the gym in the office doesnt have barbells).

I get up and walk around every couple of hours at least.

Slouch in the chair the rest of the time. Any time I've tried to sit according to "recommendations" (i.e. more straight up), my back hurts. Slouching at a 135 degree angle means no back pain for me.

I think that writing books about why people don't read books quite possibly is a bit of a self-congratulatory exercise.

It's a bit like holding seminars on why people don't exercise at a gym, or about how bad it is that people don't learn to code at a developer convention, right?

“I have a second book out this year that says to young people ‘for god’s sake, you are educated, why don’t you read!’”

Swedish is an official language in Finland and the native language of about 5% or so of all Finnish people (think like French in Canada). Especially Åland Islands is heavily Swedish speaking.

Yeah it is a straw man from what I can see.

"Math can be used to model just about everything, and so can make a meaningful contribution to almost every endeavour" is a completely different statement from "Everyone has access to learning math to do anything math-related they want".

The second argument is not one I have heard people making, and if they make it I doubt they would express it as "Math is Everywhere". I have heard people make the first argument as "Math is Everywhere".

Some do.

I have a colleague who gets really annoyed with bad cover letters when we're interviewing and considers not taking the effort to make it good enough of a reason to reject someone (or at least count is severely against them).

Personally I don't care much about your ability to write something that sounds good. So write them and make them good, because you don't know who of us you're interviewing with I guess (metaphorically).

I dunno, it seems weird to me to treat reddit as one community. I use reddit a lot, but really 99% of my interactions is on /r/cfb, which is a space far from the descriptions painted here.

It is a community (and I do believe it is a community of its own) imo not far away from Hacker News in terms of creating and curating interesting content, and discussing it, for a focused group of interest, except rather than tech the interest happens to be college football.

I imagine there are plenty of other spaces like that on reddit for people. I dabble a bit (mostly lurking) in /r/kettlebell too which seems to be similar except smaller.

3 years of anything is not worth a reference. Doesn't matter what.

You should figure out what is best for you, and do that. Without being you, I think it will be hard for people to give any advice other than don't worry about recommendations/perceptions. This isn't about that guy, it's about what you want to do.

Whether that is asking for a transfer, work on your relationship with the guy, stopping altogether or not, that's something you'll have to figure out, but it is about you, not about your adviser.

People are freaking expensive. I think that is something that you miss easily.

200k sounds expensive for a printer, yet that is the cost of 1 guy for three years (assuming western country).

The 200k machine just has to be a small bit better than the 2500 machine for it to pay off so fast it is ridiculous. A commodity approach to printing sounds like it would involve a lot of quality checks and other really pricy manual things that would eat up that 200k in under a year.

If you can remove all human costs, then yes, commodity gear is likely better, because you are paying for gear that knows that humans are expensive, so even small savings in humans translate to a ton of cost, and so the professional gear is priced accordingly.

I don't want an office. I explicitly say no to one each year. Not to say that many people don't want one, but for me it would be detrimental. Being in an open area lets me overhear things that are useful and removes one barrier to socialising. If I was in an office I would do neither - I'm not the type to hang around the water cooler so being in an open ara combats that some.

Homework can be a good bridge to university studies imo. I would certainly have benefited from learning self-disciplined study earlier on rather than coasting through the Swedish equivalent of high school and then swapping straight into university.

For under 12s or so I dont see a reason for homework. For 12-18 year olds I think gradually moving to a more self-driven study environment would be a good thing given that most people will end up going to university by now where that is the norm.

WatchESPN (at least their college app). Requires a personal email to cancel, can do everything else on their site. So tired of those guys. They got an extra 20 euro from me by using this too, so I guess it works? (If they want no money from me ever again).

There is no general test. A home for the elderly in Gothenburg with about 70 employees is trailing shortening working hours. It's done as a test to see how it affects productivity, working environment etc, and meant to serve as basis for future political decisions.

In Swedish: http://arbetet.se/2015/08/03/112559/

There's also a few other tests around Swedn but overall I guess way less than 1k people.

The moderate party is the most Conservative party in Sweden. Think privatisation, reducing employee rights, lower taxes. It isn't exactly surprising they are opposed to this.

Gothenburg is traditionally a social democrat city (the biggest left wing party).

I did this when I first moved abroad. First weekend out of Sweden I went to the local IKEA and got stuff.

I read a lot. My problem is discovery, not price. Do you really think there are enough people out there for whom the price is a barrier?

If you could solve the problem of discovering interesting and high quality content for me I am much more interested than in the difference between a few dollars and free.

I also really don't like small pieces. Your premium content idea would remove value for me, not add it.

This is not to be negative - it is a problem space worth exploring. If you do it right you can certainly solve a problem for me. I am much more looking for say Pandoras recommendation engine rather than the freemium model though. And I think that might be a general thing.

Derived is not a simple proposition for multinationals. The IPad I'm writing this on was assembled in China, sold in Ireland, using code developed in the US, where the rights to that code are held in Ireland (I believe).

Each of those countries (and many more I am sure) contributed to the sale. Where was that income derived? Add to that different tax laws in terms of accountability and you have our mess.

I don't think I would enjoy not working. Sure there is 20% crap or so, but 80% of the time I am doing moderately enjoyable things, or at least neutral things.

I think that it is certainly true for some people that they would be happier retired early, and doing volunteer work or so, or working with random things (I think MMM does carpenting or something? On top of running a blog). I also think there are plenty of people for whom that is not true.

I like knowing that I COULD quit. Actually quitting work wouldn't make me happier though, I think. Someone is actually giving me pretty good money for doing things that I enjoy. That seems better than not getting money for doing things that I enjoy, or getting low amounts of money from it. Sure, it does come with those crappy days when I truly dont enjoy what I do, but they are certainly less common than the days when things are nice.

My routine is leaving for work at 7.00, getting home 19.15 or so, have a soup for dinner to avoid food time (pre made) and then about 2.5h of relaxing/hobbies, being in bed 22.00-6.35. I get showering and exercise in at work, apart from hobby exercise like sea swimming/walking that fits into those 2.5h.

Mostly I stick to this routine because I get a lot more stuff done with a full nights sleep, I am a lot less good even on 7h so by now I know not to even try to compromise on that.

I also don't drink, so that's not an option (and I think a lot unhealthier anyway).

No kids make this a lot easier than for people with families though.

Most people don't have a problem with getting out of bed, they have a problem of getting into it.

There is certainly some who have genuine medical problems and so who struggle. An order of magnitude just don't sleep enough though. Go to bed at 10 and it's easy to get up at 6, or whatever your actual sleep need is (it varies by individual and over time, right now mine is a hair under 8h I think).

Survivorship bias may hint at you not being able to.

Whether stock picking is luck based or not, there are (almost) no fund managers currently working who performed 20% under the market over the last 5 years.

I think the point of calling people VP, executive etc is explicitly to not do that. It's meant to sound impressive. :)