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I went ahead and torrented the episode the next day to rewatch it in all of its intended glory. Then a few days later, I got a letter from my ISP telling me that HBO was very upset with me and threatening to cut off my service. I felt compelled to send them a reply, explaining the situation and telling them to eat it.

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack Schwager, considered a classic, focuses on the psychology of trading. At the end of the book, the author reflects on the one thing that all of his subjects had in common. Every one of them experienced a massive loss, sometimes several, early in their careers. And every one of them came back with the discipline to cut future losses at predetermined thresholds.

From personal experience, it's also crucial to lock in profits. You need to set a reasonable sell-down schedule that won't leave you with the urge to claw your face apart if you miss the chance to sell. I recall reading that missed opportunities tend to haunt traders much more than losses. This was certainly true for me and part of the reason why I decided to get out of trading altogether. I ended up with a tidy profit but it still hurts to think about the life-changing amount that I missed out on. If I had followed a system and banked half or two thirds of the life-changing amount, I am pretty sure I would have had no regrets. That's because I never got hung up on taking an acceptable loss on a position that would have eventually turned a profit. Just like in poker, it's easy to absolve yourself of blame, when you are following a good strategy.

But at the end of the day, one has to understand that trading is gambling. And you don't gamble with more than you can stand to lose. I've learned that gambling is not for me and so I no longer trade.

So I went ahead and started buying 8x concentrated tart cherry juice at Whole Foods... and it did jack shit. My tart cherry binge was in Eastern Europe, and I was eating them right off the trees. The Montmorency tart cherries grown in the US have a lower anthocyanin content than their European counterparts. But I was consuming a significantly larger amount of juice than the whole berry equivalent of the European variety. So it probably wasn't just the anthocyanins. Dried Montmorency cherries didn't work either. Same for tart cherry extract.

I did want to run another N=1 experiment with a different berry. Aronia [0], known as chokeberries, have some of the highest anthocyanin content among the food sources listed on Wikipedia [1]. I was hoping to find them in the wild but never made this a serious pursuit. Maybe I'll pull the trigger on ordering some dried Aronia berries on Amazon. I am fairly convinced

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin#In_food [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aronia

This is a sampling of some of the statements issued by colleges and universities in response to the Rittenhouse verdict. Lot of prominent names on the list including Columbia, NYU and Stanford.

At a glance, infection rates and vaccination rates seem to be uncorrelated at best.

But how about this one? What if you're one of the many kids who want to but can't get laid in high school? Seeing teenage sex normalized by the school itself could lead to all kinds of additional insecurities.

So it's likely that over time more and more not so rich people entered the market and coke lost its cachet. But I'm sure the rich remained quite fond of it.

Yea, that's what you read online. But after going 2.5 months without sleep (I would doze off for half an hour once a twice per night), 4 months of acute depression, and umm like a year of PAWS, I beg to differ. If you're going off of personal experience, congrats, you didn't abuse it.

Someone already linked the quitting kratom subreddit where you can hear all kinds of horror stories.

Finally, comparing Kratom to traditional opiods isn't all that useful. Kratom has a shitload of other active alkaloids and very little research on their effects. Saying it's less addictive than other opiodis is like saying you'd rather get hit by a car going 60 vs 100.

Personally, I would have been much much better off if Kratom had been illegal, and I am amazed it still is.

These type of studies aren’t very useful anyway because nutrition is super complex and full of interacting variables. It’s much more likely that the causality is actually between a number of other underlying factors that are correlated with higher saturated fat intake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

Obviously, these methods don’t account for the emotional value to loved ones. Maybe they should. Attempts to quantify that could include factors like mental health, and future wages (e.g. losing a parent earlier in life).

I am of the opinion that most every educated person with enough interest in nutrition is best off doing their own research and forming their own opinions that are backed up by scientific research. This is a great place to start: https://examine.com/

Radical gender theory does in fact make the bold claim that biological sex isn’t real. That’s right, sex, not gender. The postmodernist underpinnings used to support these types of ideas are rooted in concepts like “objective truth does not exist” and “everything is a social construct”.

With the aforementioned supplement stack I’ve been able to go off doses as high as 60 mg of adderall per day without any significant withdrawal symptoms. It’s been a complete game changer in terms of making this medication a sustainable option for me. I will say as a caveat that things which reduce drug tolerance formation also typically attenuate some of the effects. In my case, ALCAR + ALA basically erase the potential for euphoria but don’t seem to diminish the mental benefits.

Care to share your feelings on the far left push to suppress science and mathematics?

> And working in more conservative environment, I was careful not to say things that could be constructed as near-feminist, because that would lower my "trustworthiness" in other arenas too.

The opposite is certainly true today in corporate America and higher education. Making an argument for the existence of a biological basis for sex or denying that all whites are automatically racist is a no-go.

The ideas that the far left is trying to suppress are very much not conservative. It’s an assault on objectivity and rational thought.

Citation needed. This is quite an inflammatory statement to throw out there without a backing source.

On a deeper level, I think people who are obsessed with note taking are doing it wrong. I only do it to jot down things to follow up on from a meeting or a conversation. Anything more than that disrupts active listening and keeps you from actually participating in the discussion.

In an academic setting, I would focus on listening and understanding the lecture and referred to the text when it came time to study. I’d maybe take notes for the occasional class where lectures didn’t follow the text, but usually would just get them from classmates who were more dedicated transcribers.

The other thing is that notes tend to be ephemeral in my use case. Things to research or follow-ups from a meetings are basically a task list with a limited shelf life. I do jot down creative ideas in a few notebooks that I’ve kept over the years but that starts to approach journaling, which is a different beast. I guess software could make sense for that but writing by hand would have to become the rate limiting factor for me to cross the threshold.