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I think the main thing you are paying for in such setup would be flexibility to not have to sign leases each month, also not needing to signup for utilities and internet or not have to spend time searching for place on AirBnB (assuming you do want to "drift" like that).

I don't think it's fluff, it describes the man (in fairly unflattering light imo).

Of course there is nothing applicable to you, you are (likely) not an extreme person like Musk. I don't think the point of the article is to teach you "How you too can be successful, just like Musk", but to shed a light on extreme personality from someone who knew him well.

edit: although Vox's slug is how-to-be-successful, I still don't read that piece as "you too can be successful if you imitate what Elon does"

But, are you more likely to answer you hunger cues by eating a salad or veggies, or eating crap? I bet it's the latter. If you can change this to genuinely prefer healthy food, even if you eat a lot of it, you shouldn't be fat. I am at healthy weight, but I can easily eat 2 pounds of veggies in one sitting (that's in addition to meat, and I am a woman). On the other hand, I can also eat 2000kcal of pizza in one sitting, and this is why I avoid eating pizza or cookies. I know in advance that if I start, I'm going to eat entirely too much. So I am what article declares as "consciousness of what I eat".

The main point for me is that it is never: Oh she has such good metabolism and can eat whatever she wants. And this is what you hear from overweight people.

The truth is that healthy weight people were either brought up with the good eating habits, or they acquired them on their own (with the former being more likely IMO).

So the real question is: Can you acquire good eating habits (by this I mean genuine preference for healthy food) after a lifetime of eating crap or are these habits set in the early childhood and largely unchangeable?

I really truly prefer veggies to pizza, but my parents were feeding them to me since I was 6 months old. And from what I read so far, preferences for food are established early (even in fetus stage, fetuses learn to like what their pregnant mothers ate).

This cannot be real. It must be some kind of avant-garde performance, I am not able to understand.

> The amount of sugar you were putting in your coffee is probably not close to comparable to that in these drinks.

Even if you put just 2 teaspoons, that is 10gr of sugar. If you drink 3 coffees a day, that's 30gr or your entire daily recommendation as per WHO.

Unsurprisingly, I too drink my coffee black. While I can stand coffee with milk in it, and sometimes order cappuccinos at fancy coffee shops, sugar just ruins it. If you can get off it, you'll be much better off in every way.

I use it like this as well. Catalogue aspect might be the most useful application of PH.

I have just started a similar experiment, but matching people one-on-one, precisely because of the social obligation you mentioned.

More here:

http://peermentors.xyz/

Here is the previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933155

What does it take to get into a gifted class in the US? Where I grew up, anyone can apply for these schools (not everyone gets in of course).

No, it was a different one, discussed actual people who were in the news as being child prodigies, entered universities years early etc...but from what I remember their conclusion was the something like this, that those kids didn't learn to risk or learn to be creative, they were really just jumping through hoops.

edit: or it could be, not sure any more...

> However, for some reason, this is not easily understood regarding people with 25 points over the average.

I'm not sure how accurate this is. All the exceptionally talented kids/young people I knew growing up were nice and well-liked, well-adjusted people. All the weird kids I knew were just weird, not really especially talented.

I'd like to see the numbers behind those anecdotes. There was recently an article here that discussed why extremely academically gifted children rarely become grown-up geniuses and people who move their fields forward. They stated that it's not because they are troubled, most of them are socially well-adjusted, but I can't find that article now for the lie of me.

What bothered me the most is that our agent was shit, and that we were paying them all that money for so little work, but we didn't have a reason to believe that one other firm would be any better, so we stayed with them.

Because no one is working on creating and nurturing a community around it. That is the main thing R. Hoover did with PH, and that is the hard part with a project like this.

It seems to me that suicide in tech is talked about a lot (more than in any other profession, except for maybe armed forces), but I have never seen data that it is any more common than in other professions. Can anyone point to some actual data on that?

Not then of course, now, after the documents from the era were declassified, and the agents in question are either dead or long retired.

But, if it happened, the CIA must have known about it, the same way the knew about Komarov. So, why are American keeping quiet about it as well? Do we need to extend this conspiracy to the American side as well?

I tried it once (back when Groupon was a thing), at a discount. It was ok, but nothing special. I mean not that different from lying in a bath or a bed in darkened quiet room, really not that much difference for me.

Also, if you go, I recommend you take some kind of floating neck support (or ask for one at the place where you are going) because towards the end, I could feel my neck starting to hurt (and I don't have a problem with my neck, it's just 1 hour is a long time).

You mean like this:

https://www.azendoo.com/calendar/

I've never used it, but it appears to be what you're describing.

If you don't want to contact me directly, you can leave your email here, and I'll get back to you.

https://gab11.typeform.com/to/KWbN9h

Hi,

Here are the forums I've found

https://creativeclass.io/join/ http://productpeople.club/

Slack group is https://sideprojectxyz.slack.com

Sure, but you normally have higher expectations from prodigies and geniuses.

Wow, you seem really angry. How is me using a mac hurting you so much?

Italy has more "Americaness" than Canada? I have my doubts...

You seem to think that they owned their house in Toronto outright, which is rare for a young family, especially in such expensive area. Also, median detached house price in Toronto is just over a million, so if they got a couple of million, they had above average house as well, so it's still not clear how are they affording all of that. But, I don't think that's the point of the article, maybe they are trust fund babies, who cares.

There are other comments, such as (in order of most recommended):

> Eagerly anticipating your gamification of waterboarding.

and quoting Rumsfeld's' opening "I’ve done business, politics, and war."

> Yes, we get it. You’ve killed people.

and the rest in the same style.

Maybe Rumsfeld's PR peeps didn't think this Medium appearance through.

Heh, I think it was ugly because of who the man was, not because he has an interest in development. Related, most upvoted comment on Medium:

> It’s amazing what people can do when they’re not being tortured to death!

Are you a guy?

As a girl, every girl I knew created imaginary worlds for her dolls, drew, and made things (for the dolls mostly).

Is there anything like that, that little boys create (before they get into computers and video games)?. I'm pregnant with a boy right now actually, would love to know what I can do to encourage creativity from the earliest age.

In the US, I shopped for (some) clothes and household items. They were much better than stuff at Walmart. This was 10 years ago, and at the time, Target was the first one to pioneer famous designers doing a low end (Target) line. So yeah, my perception was that they had better stuff.

The definition I found, and it works for me is:

MVP is a tool to test an assumption:

Ask:

* What are you trying to learn with this particular MVP?

* What data are you collecting about your experiment?

* What determines success or failure of the experiment?

I am not sure you can figure out in advance what is your riskiest assumption (like to OP suggests), it's more likely to be obvious in hindsight.