I probably should have clarified that I meant yearly gains, I can see how that can be confusing to read for someone that doesn't spend time on these topics.
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Off topic, but any interesting destinations that had reasonable AirBNB's that you want to share? :)
I plan to do something similar this year, hopefully.. wondering where to go, though.
Just the fact that anybody can think that you can get 15% "risk free" over long periods of time means that they are out of touch with reality.
Not to mention people thinking they will get 10x on their investments, without ludicrous amount of risk.
If you keep doing this, you'll build up a whole library of examples and counter-examples for various statements and you'll get a feeling of how you can approach any problem (of similar difficulty).
Start with any Real analysis I and Algebra I book, and try to understand every part of it - don't skim chapters, just work at your own pace. Your pace will improve over time, that's guaranteed.
And keep doing the same thing - work out the proofs, exercises, examples and counter-examples. Re-read old ones, etc.
A lot of math knowledge is really perfect or near-perfect understanding of the basic principles.
You don't need to read other articles on this subject, it's that simple.
Intermittent fasting works. Talk to people that can show you results. Enough with the "theory".
I've heard many theories from obese people and it's always bullshit. Everyone can find far fetched theories for anything on this planet. That's why results talk. You know how they say "money talks"? Same here: results talk.
I, on the other hand, can tell you what works 100%, based on results (like 8% bodyfat, in very good shape):
Eat clean food, exercise daily, eat in 6-8 hours per day. Don't eat too many calories in total.
Do this for some time and I guarantee you will see effects. It only takes will and it's not rocket science.
Most bodybuilders that I see are people that are just, you know, dumb. And they can do it. So I promise you it's not complicated or anything. So I don't know what's stopping people from doing it.
This is not true. In fact, I doubt dietary cholesterol has any affects on blood cholesterol.
Source: eating >= 6 full eggs daily for years; have 8 pack; blood work always on point.
And also I've done the same exact thing you mention and it didn't affect my blood levels at all.
Maybe focus on the actual thing and not policing speech?
I wonder if people have noticed similar behavioral things in the past. Something like an exaggeration of Emperor's clothes, where we collectively disregard what is absolutely evident, and then we reason about what the reality should be like, and we believe that just by reasoning/talking/thinking about it, reality will somehow magically change to our liking.
That's my best attempt to not offend anyone while discussing this. Being blunt, I would simply say it's delusional behavior if you haven't noticed the same exact thing. And it's not just in rich countries, either; people in third world countries do the same thing (with phones, digital life, obsession with social media, etc.)
In my opinion, boredom and being alone is not that big of a problem, really. Everyone is alone in this world. There are very few true friendships. Most people just hang out together in the same vicinity, but they are not really friends. There's a lot of envy, hatred, jealousy, you name it. Even Blaise Pascal noticed the same thing: If everybody knew what everyone else says about them, there would be hardly any friends left.
I think only time can create friendship bonds. My friends are people that I know like 1-2 decades. But sharing the same moral values is a prerequisite. Otherwise, it's all fake and a mask and usually it's because one of the "friends" needs something from the other.
It might be a moral decadence/degeneration problem, rather than tech-specific problem. I find it absolutely puzzling how more people aren't aware of this, since it's so simple to witness and there's ample evidence, just go out once in a while..
If anything, money buys more than simple recognition.
Also about 3): which moral values are you referring to, regarding to wealth?
For example, if a rich person does activity X and a poor person does the same, equivalent activity X, it can happen (and it does happen) that they say that the poor person is an idiot while the rich person is a genius. For the same exact thing.
Rich people know this. They know they are buying everything around them, including people. None of the rich people I know are naive in the sense that they think are that funny, interesting, intelligent or attractive, especially to females. The things that I've seen rich people get away with, I guarantee, 99% of HN will not believe. Probably me too, if I didn't witness it. Not talking about crimes here (although that happens, too). Just social things.
It's all a game and everyone involved knows exactly how everything is setup, but for some reason, we look the other way and if we say anything like this in real life, we would be thought of as "bitter" or jealous or something.
Money is indisputably important, but the best marker of intelligence that I have consistently seen is the right attitude and appreciation of money.
And I am saying this as someone well off, who will most probably never have any financial issues in life. So this is not "bitterness" or envy of the rich or something.
Can you be a good person even after enduring pure evil?
I find that particularly puzzling and I hold people that are capable of good (after being betrayed etc. by the world) in high esteem.
And she (the professor) said "hope that teaches you a lesson". Also there were 4 different professors present. They all "took her side". It's just what they would do in all cases.
It doesn't matter if it's maths (something that is absolutely objective) or philosophy.
Anyway, some people are just small and with fragile egos, regardless of whether they are in academia or CEO's or anything.
Maybe if you are aware of it, you can control it?
"Nobody is a prophet in their own land", is another thing that comes to mind.
Why did we evolve this way? I can't think of obvious reasons. I understand the phenomenon and I've seen it in close families (people that are capable of respecting others, are not respectful to their own blood family members).
This was really interesting to me:
"But surprisingly, when we removed the adrenal gland from the mice so that they couldn't produce cortisol-like hormones, their hair still turned gray under stress."
It's also permanent.
When discussing these things, coffee should not even be mentioned in the same group as the heavy hitters, and just the fact that a lot of people posting here mentioned it makes me super suspicious about the whole thing. Just based on that alone. Regardless of whether it fits the actual, technical, dry definition of "mind altering" because it's adenosine-receptor antagonist.
I completely agree about alcohol. All alcoholics are trying to numb or drown the pain. And of those I've seen a lot. There are no exceptions, just like heavy drug users. Everything else is a lie - regardless of how deep the lie goes, or how organized it is, or how eloquent it sounds, or how popular it is at any given time. It's still a lie.
We should fix the reason they need those powerful drugs in the first place. And it seems like the best we can do is "lEgAlIzE" it, e.g. ignore the problem.
Why is nobody asking the question: why do you need alcohol/drugs/whatever in order to live another day and not jump off a building or something? How can we fix that? Is it fixable? How did it come to this? And so on..
What a society!
From "War on drugs", to "heh, fuck it, legalize everything and hope for the best" in less than a few decades. Jesus Christ, no wonder the propaganda is mixed up and lacking logic or consistency.
At least you talk from experience as a heavy acid user, I guess that's something.
I am not trying to offend you, but if you keep insisting that coffee is the same as acid/lsd or they can cause hallucinations or whatever, without fail everyone will consider there is something wrong with you behind your back. You can be 100% sure of that.
Stop thinking about definitions and start looking at reality and consequences.
> Your approach of twisting the definition of "drug" to privilege the drugs you like, avoid thinking about the ones you don't, _and then enforce this idiocy violently upon everyone else_ does immense harm.
Remarkable use of "violently". It's like an assembly line of PC terms 2020. Curious whether this is the new thing that's being served? "Plz do drugs otherwise you are violent/bigot/nazi/Not pr0GresSiVe". Sometimes it's OK being not progressive :) I am actually impressed by the level of propaganda being served, tbh. Must be a world record of some kind.
I don't like any drugs. Coffee might be technically grouped based on some arbitrary definition with some other "drugs", but it's far away from anything like the rest of them (lsd, shrooms, heroin, coke, alcohol whatever) in reality. Just because you've found a grouping of some things doesn't mean they are equal when used. It's just non sense to compare coffee and LSD. And "high enough doses" of bread can kill you, too. Just eat 40 pounds of it today and we'll see if you wake up tomorrow.
You didn't reply what are these profound effects that people like me cannot understand. Enlighten us, please. Because to me, people under the influence (be it heavily drunk or on lsd) are close to insane. That's a fact, in the strictest definition of the word insane.
If all you have to offer while under the influence is being insane, thank you - I'll pass and you can call me "not progressive enough", it's fine.
Just based on the effects they produce, makes no sense.
Curious, aren't all effects they produce a hallucination of some kind? E.g. not living in objective reality?
It seems like this topic hit a nerve with you, so I will guess you are a user of these. If I am wrong, just ignore the questions.
What are these profound effects that you got from using them? Why did you need it in the first place?
Also I have no pain (luckily) in my life. I've never had other than when family members died. And I enjoy every day without doing drugs, alcohol or something like that.
In my opinion (and I am aware this is harsh) most of the problems people claim they have are pure nonsense and incredibly trivial. They want to blow them out of proportion so they can add some meaning to their life. It's like trying to deal with boredom in the most destructive way imaginable.
In my mind, the only non-trivial problems are generally health issues (death of a loved one etc.)
What kind of pain do you have that you need mind-altering substances?
We are at the height of our civilizations, we have billions of things to do and billions of hobbies to choose from and research, and explore and.. I don't know what else. We live better than ever, and better than kings used to live.
I can't understand how someone that is healthy, has money to live life somewhat comfortably needs to do these drugs to survive.
My sample is around 50 people, I think. Maybe little less.
As I mentioned, I stopped drinking coffee one day out of sudden and I had zero, I repeat: zero symptoms of any kind. Nothing at all.
Doesn't seem right to me to put coffee in the same group with mind-altering substances.
I've both drank coffee and not drank coffee for years. The only difference is you are more alert (blocking adenosine).
How do you go compare it to drugs?
If it's a joke or sarcasm, it's not clear (to me at least).
And they all progress towards harder drugs. They either progress or stop doing drugs. Nobody started doing drugs directly shooting heroin.
Comparing psychedelics to sleep is just laughable.
I can't claim that I know the exact reasons why people insist on this, but to me it looks like deeply unhappy people trying to find quick happiness in drugs or alcohol. But I have yet to meet a single person that is truly happy (and isn't faking it on Instagram posting "life is good!111" pictures) that is fat/out of shape or does drugs. Not a single one. When I was younger, I just couldn't tell, until I started getting closer to people and see how unhappy they really are. You can't see that on the surface.
Something does not add up.
But I am certain that drugs is not the answer.
It really is not. All it takes is non-zero curiosity and picking up a book or two. Every single person of sound mind that has some history knowledge or evolutionary biology will confirm that life in 2020 is remarkably easy.
The things that we have at our disposal are remarkable!
Too many people take everything we have now for granted. I blame two institutions: school and parents. Sure, there are market forces that thrive on greed, but that's not an acceptable excuse!
Why cry, anyway? Unless someone dies or is extremely ill, everything else seems tolerable to me.
As someone that have extensively studied history and evolutionary biology, I know exactly how good life is for me (and for many people, really). There's absolutely no reason to cry or feel sad about anything, especially things beyond my control.
Right now, we are connected through an online forum from our homes. It's just amazing! We got transportation, we can visit other countries, we have freedom (of some sort), some of us are in great physical shape, financially free, etc., we got running water, we got all possible foods from each corner of the world, we got infinite entertainment, etc. etc.
I don't want to offend anyone, but when I see a person that's not satisfied based on these things alone (sanitary, water, food, not that many active wars), that's a person that has no idea about the history of our species. This is life on the easiest mode ever recorded. Cherish it.
Decided to quit coffee. Quit the next day for a year or so. I had zero symptoms like the articles mentions or anything like that. No substantial effect at all.
tl; dr highly suspicious of this article.