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For anyone who would like to quit smoking, "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" read in one sitting is what did it for me. I went from a pack every three days or so for a few years to nothing in four hours. No patches. No smokes. No vaporizing.

Sounds like magic but it's just a damn good book.

Great piece of investigative journalism.

I wonder how many of the people on that think of the children side were either affected as kids, had children who had some awful experience, or are of close relation to someone who was or had kids who did. Because I could easily see something like an awful event happening to a child really warping a persons world view in a strong way.

On the other hand, I wonder how many privacy advocates have never experienced anything awful in that sense.

I'm on the privacy side myself and it's true child touchers are just hearsay for me. I know they exist, I know it happens, but it's not generally at the forefront of my mind when thinking about much of anything really. And I really wonder what I'd think if everytime I thought about policy I also had poor Timmy's story echoing away for all eternity in my head.

And then I wonder for the motivations of the people for whom child touchers are hearsay but are really opposed to privacy. Their motives must include things like drug dealers, terrorists, a belief in their own clean slate, money. It's pretty interesting to think about what goes on behind the scenes of any argument that gains popular traction.

Even if it is I think the relevant question here is more: does an elderly person on social security, pension, and medicaide have a greater aggregate cost to federal, state, and local governments in Berlin or in Stravadova (I'm not sure if I got that right)?

It'd be interesting to see if perhaps it's better for the feds if they're in rural towns but not the states.

In Albany, NY where I'm from I used to live right near a major hospital and college Albany Medical Center. And there were helicopters flying to it three or four times a day. I'm sure some of those helicopter rides out to taxi those requiring medical assistance are being borne by tax payers. It's a pretty complex question to wrap your head around when there are so many variables. Does an elderly person living in NYC produce a small drag on the economy because they're not contributing as much as the average young professional and increase the cost of rent for those people?

I think a lot of the exchanges are primarily hard wire since shaving yactoseconds is of actual importance to most of the users, no?

Totally agree. It's easy to understand the implications but as a New Yorker it's hard not to be proud of your city in some ways. The UES being worth more than six states, it just boggles the mind to try to do the comparisons in your head.

How many nontechnical users use github? Although there are plenty of developers with a minimal understanding of security as well

As an analogy, due to cell replication and replacement I'm probably 0% my original "self" but I'm obviously the original me. If you cloned me, and gave my clone my arm, that'd obviously be the replica anyways. So it seems to make sense to me.

I think it's Domain Validation.

Hmm, that actually may not be true. Recent research has shown positive correlations between succesful businesses and diversity of staff. (Of which a few quick ddg searches have not found me the paper for, although I think my wording was poor.)

The GP talked about how it would affect the rest of the world and P responded to that. It wasn't any sort of discount on the suffering many Chinese persons might feel if significant financial loss is incurred through a dramatic correction of the market.

Hmm, I didn't take the op to mean a competitive win. It's a win for you.

Everytime you exercise you feel great, you're happy you took the time to get sweaty, you look better each day than the day before. And everyday, as you think back to when you could only do X amount of Y (5 minutes of running, 10 pushups), and now you can do Z of Y, you can feel good about that and feel success.

It could be breakdancing holds for all anyone cares, or jumprope, but it feels good, and if you move safely and comfortably and repeat in an intelligent manner (practice intelligently to maximize gains, or at least ensure them) you're pretty close to guaranteed gains over time. And those feel great!

I'm not sold on her libertarian perspective >>people can only pay for the packages they'll use i just can't think of government as a timewarner package. Well, everyone I know is doing well, so I guess I won't fund programs for the poor. And everyone I know has a degree so no need for me to contribute towards education. It's a viewpoint that seemingly does not take into account the less priviledged at all.

I do wonder if, in an entirely libertarian world, would things work out for the better? I somehow doubt it but you can see that the ideal is that employers will need educated laborers so they'll end up footing for the education bills, etc etc. I think I'll stick to my idealism of a policy based on rational perspectives and compassion in order to ensure the greatest good for the greatest numbers and promote a strong nation and world from the base up.

That being said, the concept is super neat and I do like that.

Walking slowly is a metaphor for living a fulfilling life where you enjoy the things in front of you to the fullest.

After all, when you are walking slowly, you can enjoy the sounds of the birds, the feel of the grass and land beneath your feet, and the smell of the lilacs.

But when you rush, your mind is elsewhere, busy, concerned, away from the moment you are truly in.

Any one who wishes the former upon me is a good friend of mine.

Thankfully, while awful, the scale isn't too staggering.

Oh yea you're telling me haha. I'm with you on that all the way.

What's happening is that lenders are saying "we'll pay back your loan and offer you a lesser interest rate". So they pay the government the 200,000 you owe at 6.9% APR and then send you a bill for the 200,000 with a 4.4% APR. The USG loses all the interest since everything is paid back immediately and these lenders pocket your 4.4% APR. It seems like a win win win for everyone since the government gets paid back everything, the student has a lower interest rate, and the lender pockets the 4.4% annually but when there are so many lenders doing this it essentially cheats the USG out of all interest they'd earn on these loans.

Ha, I totally messed up a question for a front end interview today that could have easily been solved with timeouts. I didn't realize timeouts had resets as I haven't used them extensively and bam I'm trying to essentially design a reset for a generic counter. Boy I felt ridiculous. As soon as he said use timeout reset it's immediately obvious what I had to do. I'm not a bad programmer but between brain freeze and whiteboarding, and interviewing day after day for a few weeks, it just didn't occur. Killed me and I hope I don't miss out on an offer from a company I was actually really interested in because of some bullshit brainfart on something I'm not particularly well versed in.

Whatever! They asked me back but it sure is a frustrating feeling even if I tend not to appear flustered until I walk out, introspect, and realize what a doofus I was.

Man, I might be slightly depressed at the idea of going back to another job, but meds scare the fucking crap out of me.

I was trying to do a class a semester and work at the same time at a startup as a junior full stack engineer for something I truly couldn't care less about (advertising).

I think the key thing that's making me look forward to my next position is 1: I found a spot where I'll have an office thus eliminating much of the distractors that are present in these ridiculous open office layouts. Creative people are distracted very easily [0] and the open office layout was really destroying my love for being an engineer. It was very funny because when I'd come home I'd be exhausted, but if I sat and tried to do my homework I'd actually get more done when I was exhausted because there weren't 100 people walking around me.

2. The office has a window. I hated working in this cramped, open, shared space we had for a while. The closest window was probably 25 feet away in a small conference room. And there was nothing on the walls.

3. This new position that I haven't quite accepted yet gives me the opportunity to write one day a week to create entries for a technical blog and writing is something I'd like to do anyways so the opportunity to be able to contribute to the tech community in that manner is tremendous.

4. This is a recruiting firm so I'll actually hopefully get to see some people get hired because of the things I do! How neat to have a real world impact.

5. They do lots of charity events so I can always respect that. Lots of companies focus on the parties but parties are just a way to escape in a lot of ways, I think giving back will feel tremendous.

6. I'll be helping to work out what to do next with the CEO, this could potentially be stressful, but I really love the idea of having the opportunity to develop performance indicators, plan out entire systems, and build a team. This allows me to be more than just a cog in the machine or one man on a team, it allows me to feel like a real god damn fuckin engineer. A contributor. I have so many ideas all the time, why not be employed somewhere where I'm more than just feature X, maintenence Y, and feature Z ad nauseum?

That being said there are a few downsides such as not being able to have a close mentor. I am still relatively junior. This means I'll have to work a bit harder on my own in order to stay fresh and keep building my skills which means some homework time with Code Complete and other resources like that. I may ask for them to hire me a mentor every fortnight for half a day so that I may improve and to keep the quality of everything I do for them up to snuff.

So, while I'm a bit apprehensive about starting up again (thats a lot of weight on my shoulders!), I'm very excited to start at a place where I think I'll really be able to have an incredibly positive impact in the environment that I really feel will have the most positive impact on my performance and well being. If I'm easily distracted by people slurping sodas, why is it that most of the choices for offices for tech workers force me to accept that the only acceptable place for me to do incredibly complex engineering work is near people making jokes and slurping sodas?

I may have taken a small pay cut (although bonuses will hopefully make up and then some if I really shine) but for me to finally have the opportunity to do engineering work in an office, and to be a part of the decision making process, and to have duties beyond just feature A and feature B including nontechnical technical writing, that excites me.

So I guess my advice is, maybe instead of seeking meds (although therapy on its own I'm sure might be incredibly good (I've not been yet (although it wouldn't surprise me if I probably should have))), maybe do some introspection and figure out exactly what it is that is draining you day after day and then try to change those.

For me, I think, it was an inability to get into the zone at work, thus making me spend so much of my energy just on maintaining a decent level of focus. When I'm home, I don't need that and the time flies whenever I actually sit and do work. To get rid of that energy drain should be tremendous for me. Maybe you guys will see some tech articles by me in the future, I sure hope so ;-)

[0] - http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6831248

Hmm, I never had to read him for AP but I read a novel of his, can't remember the title, about these guys on Cuba, sittin in their town, and it just had me going. His sprawling style as you note just sort of fit the sprawling lives these characters lived. I've got another sitting on my bookshelf and one day after the other twenty or so odd books I ordered off Amazon but haven't quite read yet I'll get into that one too.

He is himself, also, as real life characters go, one of the greatest and most interesting I've ever had the chance to read about. What an eccentric and alcoholic lifestyle.

I could see not liking being forced to read his work though. Like the author of As I Lay Dieing which was itself a tough read, I really needed the time and mood to truly enjoy it.

Hmm not necessarily depending on the commerce it generates, the cost it'd take to let it crumble, and the cost the city would incur trying to build a new bridge. Luckily here where things are so population dense, opening a pedestrian bridge can have a really positive impact on the local communities. And to tear such an awe inspiring (at least to me literally every time I pass it) structure would be absolutely shitty.

Great post that really gets to the heart of the issue. New York City was a shithole for a very long time and it's only recently that things have been this pristine here. Talking to my parents is like entering a time machine into the mega grungy when it comes to the city. You couldn't walk around Union Square after 7PM! I can't even imagine as I walk around Bushwick at all times of day and night now and couldn't care less. I've always been a bit reckless but while I may be dumb, I'm certainly not stupid and even I think I would be hardpressed to walk around this city in the 70s.

I didn't particularly notice the background pattern but cycling through that story was really a great read. To put yourself in those shoes really had me going. Absolutely amazing what these young men did.

Yea that's nothing. Probably wouldn't even get you a pound of weed.

Yea I'm a nobody and I know about over 10,000 dollar transaction reports. Anyone with actual assets sure should

I think the difference lies in the planning. Sure, you can think "wow if I blew this place up it'd really mess things up here", but if you think that and then set out to buy fertilizer and an suv, that's obviously a lot more actionable than a "thought crime".

The law doesn't punish people who have drastic thoughts, it punishes people who have drastic thoughts and then bring them up to associates as something not so drastic.

I dunno, that's the difference to me

I was very surprised Albany's plaza was on the list. Having grown up there I have many memories of staring in awe at its monolithic towers as they soar up from the plaza. I always really liked it and the plaza's great. They put shows on there and small festivals I believe.

Awesome. I ride past this pretty often when I visit my family upstate. It'll be great to walk across it.

Swapping MM who sacrificed her night to save her lover and confessed honestly to him after with the abuser is the same in your book??

I just don't understand

The test tells you to abandon all preconceived notions, if you act as if RH is the great thief robbing the rich and giving to the poor, you're doing it wrong.