maneesh

Fascinating. What brought you to this conclusion?

From the second paragraph of the introduction:

"The ongoing debate about the use of affirmative action in college admissions has also drawn attention to the impact that other admissions preferences have on the racial composition of college students"

The Mind Illuminated as a tactical guide, and Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha as a map of the overall path

HIGHLY recommended. This summary got me started on a long journey - after 3 years of off and on meditation with apps, reading this article, and then MCTB made meditation one of the most exciting and important parts of my daily routine.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-...

Also highly recommended: The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa

In Buddhist teachings, both samadhi and panna (related to vipassana) are forms of meditation.

Samadhi is concentration meditation, to get single-pointed focus on the meditation-object. (often the breath)

Panna/Vipassana is insight meditation. You focus on all of the different sensations coming in rapid-fire, like noting 'thought, breath, sound, sound, thought, sound, pressure' as they arise -- like frames of a movie or video game.

The Buddha and teachers today often recommend concentration meditation, in order to reach a state of focus, followed by insight meditation, as the natural progression towards stream entry / nirvana.

Did you mean the US is?

Did you ever test exercise? Just yesterday, before my workout (squats and bench press, no cardio), I weighed 202. Just after my workout, I weighed 200.

I've seen myself lose up to 5lbs before and after a workout.

It's $75, right? Don't leave us in suspense !

Here's a directed graph showing all of the language's versions of the idiom.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/graph2.png

from https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024

Eat meat, veggies (no carrots), eggs, and coconut oil. Simple.

know of any apps specifically?

According to this article it's going well!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2014/09/10/magical-makeov...

The Kitty Genovese story is a myth? I've never heard that -- I'd love to see an article or something about this!

Hey! I'm the founder of Pavlok. That's odd -- I don't think we have a beacon of any sort doing that. You might have opted in on our discount offer, or if you added it to cart and began checkout it would know your email.

Very curious about your experience! Thanks.

I can't seem to find -- is there a testable website to play around with this? Or do we need to compile from source?

You are allowed to make new friends, even as an adult. As someone who has lived in a dozen cities in my adult life, it does take effort. But it seems like, as the author is willing to take the effort to track and adjust their life, they are likely willing to put in time to make new friends.

I've found meetup.com to be an excellent way to make friends, as well as hobbies. (for me, standup comedy and DJing were excellent).

Do you think induced demand might be a problem? It's been shown that by increasing the size of highways, for example, you increase traffic:

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

Much higher than 90%. The most recent poll showed the numbers hit their highest -- 4.5% of males.

to be fair, that still sounds insane to me

someone didn't read the article, or notice the quotes around the word "Impossible"

I didn't know there were only two branches of the government

Wow, I literally cannot tell if this comment is trying to sarcastic or serious.

Wow!! Do you know what Vr game that was? I’ve always wanted to integrate Pavlok with vr

Founder of Pavlok here! Thanks for using it :) Have you tried any of our habit formation apps, like Gratitude or Morning routine?

You can use redeem code “TEST_MORNING” to unlock the morning routines if you haven’t yet :)

Ahh, the dreaded Cash Conversion Cycle (or "Succeeding yourself to death") I'm a wearable device founder, and it's AMAZING watching how often this happens to my hardware friends. Especially once they begin raising serious amounts of capital.

I had a friend who got into Walmart -- he was ECSTATIC. His product was a smart electronics product, and quickly shot up to being a heavy seller.

It sold so well---that he was bankrupt within six months.

Why? Because he paid his supplier upfront. Walmart didn't pay him until 60 or 90 days after sell-through. After the first run, Walmart wanted more, his P&L (accrual) showed profit, so he took a loan. Then another. Then suddenly he couldn't get any more loans. And he couldn't get a hold of product. And because of his fixed costs, there was no way to future payables could save him.

So common, and no one seems to know about it.

RemoteYear is the competitor company that does exactly what WeRoam did. I'm in a coworking space in Medellin Colombia right now, and RemoteYear has rented out about half the space here.

https://remoteyear.com/

because people like me want to read the article, and we are happy it was posted.

It's also extremely easy to get around the paywall.

I never understand why people see these actions all happening simultaneously -- a invention of infinite money will of course go to the top, and create inequality between the rich and poor -- because that's how compound interest works.

But for some reason, that doesn't seem to even register on people's radar.

I posted my take on this recently on Facebook. (And I recently gave a TedX talk on the same concept entitled "Money: The Greatest Story Ever Told" [1])

Here is an image of the entire world's Money supply [2].

In my eyes, the majority shift occurred due to two things:

1) Ending the gold standard peg

2) Creation of the derivative market

1 --- Ending the Gold Standard Peg

In 1971, Nixon severed the connection between Gold and the US-Dollar. The USD now became purely fiat --- no actual resource backed the USD anymore.

This allowed the dollar to change. Banks could create money -- really. Credit could be expanded and offered to customers. Debt could become an asset, and banks could trade.

But the most interesting part is that it led to #2 --- the Derivate market

2 -- Creation of the Derivative Market

By removing the gold standard tether, money became anything that people believe in

In 1973, the first derivative began to trade.

And banks utilized this to create futures, contracts, warrants, swaps --- bets against bets against bets against bets. The money isn't really there. It's just a financial instrument traded to hedge against fluctuations.

It's a betting system. And it's turtles the whole way down.

Here's the crazy part. The global derivatives market is 1.4 QUADRILLION dollars. That is, 20 times larger than the GDP of the entire WORLD.

In the picture attached --- see that giganticly long section at the bottom? That is derivates. It outweighs the rest of the world's money by FAR.

1.4 Quadrillion USD are in derivatives. Guess how much money world-wide is in coins and banknotes? $5 trillion.

That is --- derivatives are 280x the amount of coins and bank notes in THE ENTIRE WORLD.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0F-VUPTa4 [2] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-v...

I love that you didn't have time to read the article but enough time to write a 550 word 9-point list post.