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1. Stop eating junk food and drinking soda.

2. Stop consuming ultra processed carbs, limit processed carbs.

3. Start working out every day.

> VO2 max are trackable using hand-held

VO2 max is not trackable via hand-held. VO2 max tracking at this point requires going to the lab, putting on a mask that collects expelled gasses and getting on a treadmill. Neither resting heart rate nor peak heart rate track VO2 max.

That's just another out of context study jumped on by people who absolutely positively want to find a way to justify sitting on their ass, eating excessive amount of ultra processed carbohydrates and moving as little as possible

Huberman currently is doing a series on fitness with Galpin. I highly recommend listening/watching it to get the context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEYE-vcVKy8

TL;DR: there are different kinds of fitness and to be in a reasonable health over the long term one needs to have all of them.

> I don’t know why you think working the hours you’ve been hired to do is being a “Prima Donna”. And I don’t see how getting paid a large salary, having better work-life balance and being hirable are negative things.

You want to do an average work working average hours, you get paid an average salary. That would be about $70k/year.

I'm super happy that FAANG started to cut the fat. The sanity is returning to the market.

> Problem is that this is not how this is unravelling. Large lay-offs like that cull entire departments, not the lower performers.

Companies like Google are overstaffed by the lazy, entitled Prima Donnas. You can see it all over HN in its advice:

"Don't go to a startup! You would need to work. Rather get a job at FAANG, get paid a very large salary, leave on the dot, don't ever be on call. Also, best part, you will get at least a few hours a day to play around on the internet. Also, remember, you have a power of pocket veto! If you do not like something, just don't do it. What are they going to do? Fire you? You will get another job in a jiffy!"

With the zero interest rate environment gone the culling is inevitable.

> Do you have any thoughts on how to work with them in a productive and friendly way?

Write them up and put them on PIP. If they do not improve, part the ways.

> I mean, would you prefer they blamed someone else? The C suite and the Board are ultimately responsible for over-hiring and layoffs.

Board should automatically reduce CEO pay to $1.00 for the current and the next year every time a CEO "takes responsibility".

> Of course you do. That's like saying that you don't end up $100 in debt by having a deficit of $1 a day.

You do not. 100lbs is excess of 350000 calories "stored" and for every extra lb one's BMR increases. By the time someone is 100lbs overweight just to maintain that weight they would need to consume another gallon of ice cream every day.

You are playing with margins when you are 1-5lbs overweight.

One does not become 100lb overweight because of "margins". One becomes 100lb overweight because they are doing 100mph in a 35mph zone so "slow the hell down" is a great advice.

> I think there is a huge market for trustworthy curation.

There's not. In order for it to be a market, a customer needs to pay for it.

> It's not as impossible as you make it sound IMO, I would guess it's more a matter of pricing.

This sounds like people at a startup with no product/market fit telling the market that it is wrong.

Looks like no one tried doing Venn diagram of people who think "I do not want to eat meat" and "I do not want to eat processed food".

News at 11: people who waste 90% of their work time on HN while collecting a-la FAANG salaries because they are used to bullshitting their management and getting away with it are terrified of the management that can look at the code.

> Yes? Everyone knew that volume in crypto was too high and likely irrationa

No, everyone knows that the exchange volume in crypto is high and fraudulent. Irrational behavior is not acknowledging it.

> Lots of CEOs seem to do things like this; again that's not a strong signal. Also doesn't have anything to do with algebra.

They do not. There's 24 hours in a day. Excluding 5 hours the CEO "slept", two hours that CEO spent eating and waking up that leaves 17 hours total. Every single activity one engages in subtracts available time for running the company.

> FTX had several hundred employees

FTX "leadership" lived in a single Penthouse in Bahamas, having sex with each other. Fish rots from the head. In this case anyone who did not want to ignore it saw that the head of the fish was rotten.

Yes, compare the earnings of NASDAQ with the "earnings" of FTX. Google the "founder". Watch the shit he talks about. Ask yourself - if he has that much time to be a clown what are the odds of him actually running a company that is worth that much money without a team?

As I said, algebra is difficult for journalists looking to cheerlead in hopes of getting spoils:

https://ir.nasdaq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nas...

> Not sure what you're saying here? The amount of money the FTX Foundation was plausible given FTX's fees and volume.

Only if FTX and its founder found a way to create print money out of the thin air.

> That ignores new investors buying in, who I don't think had those incentives?

New investors are definitely not major investors and even those investors simply want to find an even greater fool.

Two weeks ago I overheard a bartender in a dive bar where beer and a shot goes for $6 telling the regular drunk about all the mad money he is making at FTX. Here's a thing: there's not a single non-scam that would allow a bartender in a dive bar that sells $6 beer and a shot to make gobs of money "investing" or "trading"

They collapsed because the outflows became higher than the inflow. Every Ponzi collapses this exact way.

> ? It was public that FTX money came from running a crypto exchange, but that FTX's CEO (SBF) secretly diverted customer funds to his hedge fund (Alameda) doesn't seem like something people would have discovered in due diligence.

I'm guessing algebra is difficult for journalists.

> Major investors, with lots of money on the line, also didn't catch this.

Major investors had all the incentives to keep the scam going as they stood to make big money from the scam.

Journalists should have the incentives to expose the scams, except they were not in this ( and probably some other ) case because they were either getting money from the scam or were trying to be the best cheerleaders possible in hope of getting money from the scam.

No, you are not buying houses for bitcoins. You are using bitcoins that are converted to the currency the house is quoted at and if the amount is greater than the contract price you get the house.

It is no different from saying "In some places I can buy houses with cocaine". Sure, if the buyer thinks they can immediately offload cocaine for cash, the buyer might take it. That does not mean that the house is sold for cocaine.

There's exactly one drop everything and get it fixed ASAP bug at Google - something broke the ad platform.

> Engineers aren't really fungible resources, to the extent that these projects require. Ask any manager how easy it is to swap "allocated resources", and they'll probably sigh heavily.

I'm hearing Meta, Stripe, Google, Netflix, Lyft and Uber are hiring like crazy for amazing salaries. Not only that but one basically just needs to sort of show up half the time and surf the net 99% of the time there.

That was obviously sarcasm.

In reality there are three classes of systems:

* pets

* cattle

* betsy[0][1]

The problem is that configuration management systems think everything is either cattle or pets.

[0] Betsy is a special cow. She will also be slaughtered, so she is not a pet, but she needs to be taken care of in a special way, so she is not a cattle.

[1] When the herd becomes large, you get joahna. joahna is like betsy, but not exactly like betsy so she needs a care and feeding slightly different than the betsys.

> How do you self-regulate?

You are not hungry. You are bored. Purge snacks from your house. Purge sodas from your house. Purge sugary anything from your house. Never buy treats in sized over one serving. Only buy one treat at a time.

They do extremely well utilizing this strategy.

If she does not need to deal with someone might have a burner number, she is not going to deal with someone who might have a burner number. The end.

> Talk to people like human beings and you should be able to more reliably pick out the cheating bastards.

She does not need to talk to people who put themselves into a pile of "might have a burner number" because her deck would be more than full without those.

> Seems like premature analysis which would be better and easier done after more conversation rather than prejudging half the population.

If she does not need to deal with people who might have a burner number, she would be stupid to deal with people who might have a burner number

No, #1 is "this is his burner number"

> Neither are true nor false but definitely exaggerations.

Google does not kill services. That does not happen. Google definitely does not deplatform people killing all their accounts and all their access. That also does not happen.

> I do not trust one company anymore.

Especially when that company is Google.