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I'm otherwise a lefty but I use computer mice right handed, because when I first started using a computer in elementary school all of the computer labs were set up right handed.

It's based on the sleep tracking data my fitness watch gives me, but also just based on how I rested I feel the next day, since I know there's limitations to the data quality a watch can give you.

I have noticed the early waking thing with alcohol, but for me that's never really an issue after a drink or two - only at higher consumption levels do I really have that problem (along with the bad dreams/nightmares that many have after drinking).

One other thing I've realized while experimenting with this is that I tend to be sleep better when I'm cooler - so anything that would raise my body temperature has a huge negative impact on sleep quality. This could be large amounts of alcohol, or it could be lots of sugar in the evenings, or a salty/starchy meal late in the day, etc. This seems to be a more important variable than anything else I've observed.

Interesting, over the last 18 months or so I've dabbled with both quitting/aggressively cutting back on drinking as well as aggressively cutting back on sweets (some periods where I've been super dedicated and others where I'm not).

Counter to OP's experience, I've actually found sweets to be more impactful than alcohol. That is to say eating dessert after dinner will impact my sleep more than a drink or two, and the periods where I lost weight have been more closely correlated with the periods where I was eating very few sweets.

Of course with both, the delta between low/moderate consumption and a baseline of zero consumption is low - it's the excessive consumption that causes trouble.

Like OP I found the daily ritual to be pretty easy after a couple weeks, but like OP I also missed the social aspect (and this is why I've sort of settled on the opinion that giving up drinking completely is not worth it, at least for me). If I felt like I was experiencing a step function improvement in life quality I'd keep it up... but for me it just hasn't been the silver bullet it's made out to be.

I'm not really one to label one food ingredient as the cause of all health problems, but if I had to choose one I would choose refined sugar long before alcohol.

One of the shipyards discussed in the article, Marinship, is on Patrick's list.

You can absolutely design trusses to have an attic. They're called "room in attic trusses".

I would guess the decline in livable attics in new construction is mostly attributable to changing consumer preference.

I believe the post you're replying to is referring to roof trusses (and perhaps floor trusses) which are generally built off-site at a truss plant, but then attached onsite (usually with nails, but sometimes lag bolts or screws are needed).

Speed kills.

A road where traffic moves at 30mph can be poorly designed and lead to lots of accidents, but so long as those accidents are not a vehicle hitting a pedestrian they're unlikely to be fatal.

A road where traffic moves at 70mph is another story.

I'm all for having the vans snitch on drivers. Delivery drivers are trying to get deliveries done so fast that they're by far the most wreckless drivers on residential streets in my suburban neighborhood.

Yup. I popped into the Jeep/Ram dealer in Longmont, CO the other day and they had rows upon rows upon rows of 4xe Wranglers parked on their lot. Based on their websites, every other Jeep dealer in the area is in the same boat.

Stellantis dealers are flush with inventory right now and it's a buyers market if you're interested in any of their products.

The premium isn't really absurd the way it used to be.

Across a number of segments, a 3 yr old used car with 30-50k miles will still bring close to 90% of its original MSRP on the used market.

Gone are the days where a car lost a third of its value when you drove it off the lot (for most segments).

I have used Garmin's more consumer focused watches for years (currently have a Venu), and get great battery life too. Not two weeks, but a week is not out of the question.

Of course, I've found that after a couple of years the battery life starts to fade fast. Eventually I'm charging it every other day, at which point I usually start shopping for a new one.

Lumber is not that big of an input to total construction cost.

I didn't see any reference to Colorado in the article besides the title, did I miss something?

(I _also_ only clicked because I'm from Colorado...)

This has been Microsoft's MO for decades. Just barely good enough engineering/technology paired with a great sales team.

This is true of all restaurants. In fact, I would expect McDonald's to be a beneficiary of this as consumers replace more expensive options with McDonald's.

Emphasis on "high level".

An org of a few hundred people at a big tech company many only have a couple of Individual Contributors making this much money.

I knew they were in trouble when I was catching up on Planet Money recently and they were giving multiple ad slots to a company selling dog treats to help dogs that get anxious during thunderstorms.

Hard to imagine that the US is not massively over-supplied with office space right now, given that some double digit percentage of workers will never go back to an office.

Every office space construction project right now is either paused or being driven forward by the sunk cost fallacy.

Don't forget to bring your 20% off coupon when buying ec2 instances.

A weight set.

I browsed Facebook Marketplace for a bit and was able to piece together a set consisting of a power rack, bench, and a couple hundred pounds of free weights for probably $600. We're in a post-pandemic glut of home fitness equipment, so with some patience you can find gently used equipment for a fraction of the new cost.

I run pretty regularly, and used to swim pretty regularly, but since having kids the latter has fallen by the wayside because it's just too difficult to coordinate between the pool's schedule, my work schedule, and my kid's daycare schedule.

While I've done a good job avoiding any parental and pandemic weight gain, I definitely noticed my body composition changing without regularly swimming anymore. It's been great to start reversing that, and I forgot how much I enjoyed the post-weight lifting endorphin rush.

It's been a bit humbling, though - I used to weight lift pretty regularly when I was in high school/college and I'm a lot weaker now than I was then!

1. The 10-2 and 10-3 yield curves will generate a false signal, and while growth will be slow, there will be no official recession in 2023.

2. Political prediction markets will give Donald Trump a less than 15% chance of being the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.

3. Biden will decide to run for reelection in 2024, and will have no serious primary opposition.

4. Twitter will be sold to another large tech company for less than half of Musk's acquisition price. (2023 feels a little aggressive for this one, I'd feel better about this as a 2024 prediction)

In the US journalists will often use the term 'unresponsive' in similar situations.

This was required reading in my high school english class in South Dakota, 15 or so years ago.

One major problem I see with comparing housing prices to income is that most homebuyers in the US are using leverage (a mortgage) to buy their home, and the last 15 years or so have seen comparatively low mortgage rates compared to the several decades beforehand.

Housing prices have been able to balloon because debt has been very, very cheap. Whether or not that will continue remains to be seen.

Not at all!

I'm just sharing what I've seen - middle management treats MDs drastically different than NPs and PAs, even in states where the latter have almost the same scope of practice.

This is not to say that MDs don't have their own reasons to be mad at the system - insurance, changes in patient attitudes, etc.

I have no doubt that MDs are leaving as well - but, at least from my perspective, in any large healthcare system, there is a drastic difference between the way middle management treats MDs and the way they treat everyone else. The latter is completely expendable, whereas the MDs do have a fair amount of negotiating leverage around their working conditions.

In some states, RNs working in hospitals are unionized. And that does help with some of the things I mentioned.

Outside of hospitals, and outside of RNs, unionization is much less common. E.g. in a clinic setting very few employees are unionized.

My partner is an NP, not only is there an astounding amount of paperwork, usually it's done outside of working hours because management took the chunks of the work day that were previously blocked off for doing paperwork and turned them into more patient visits so they could make more money.

Not surprising. My partner is a DNP and has pretty strongly considered leaving the entire profession.

From my perspective, the entire healthcare industry is set up to treat any frontline worker without an MD after their name as completely expendable, nothing more than a row in a spreadsheet that can be optimized for middle management to hit next quarter's bonus targets.

You can meet all metrics management sets out for you, have amazing patient satisfaction scores, etc, and every 6 months some spreadsheet wielding online MBA graduate is going to show up to turn the screws and tell you you need to work harder for the same pay, and to just be happy you aren't getting laid off.

At some point in time, the workers realize the joke is on them and find another profession.

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I own a few of them, and I have found every single one to be a worthwhile purchase.