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- 1-1 friendships usually end up with imbalanced power. Triad friendships (3 people) have been proven to be more successful: https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-use-triads-to-improve-your-personal-relationships-a83dd2f3578c.
- Did the fizzbuzz test. Could have done it in 10 seconds in python, but had to remind myself of some js syntax. The ternary operator (condition?outputiftrue:outputiffalse) can make it way shorter (pass to print for fizz and buzz with cond being modulus then or with the number), but I did it with a simple bitmap and switch statement for printing.
- Hex goes 0-9 then a-f. This counter demonstrates it well: https://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimals.html. Regular numbers are 10^0+10^1+10^2 etc, hex are just base 16, and binary is just base 2.
- Never forget: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZvJl8qNSAyZ_0q8Wdzq77hMMPy5ZJ2f1. Man vs Beast. The best show.
- Dogma = things people say as true without budging. Pontification, incontrovertible beliefs, etc.
- Sam Harris is a pretty sharp guy. He’s like an atheist Jordan Peterson. Watched a lot of debates in the background today.
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- Switched the home UI on my phone back to Nova Launcher (prime). I had paid for it a long time ago and forgot about it.
- Egalitarian = equal opportunity.
- There’s a significant statistical difference (1std) in preference: men toward things, women toward people. Source: data from personality surveys, meaning that the difference is biological, not that it’s cultural or societal (which it might be if the data were taken from career surveys, for example).
- Interesting study on the gender pay gap at Uber: https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2018/09/23/gender-paygap-uber-case-study/#227052a3b555.
- Feeling good to go back to work/grind/gym/focus. I get the most purpose in those routines (vs socialization/drinking/hanging/etc).
- Bought a muscle stim kit off amazon. $30, with amazing reviews. I’m hoping to relieve some of the stiffness in my neck, but also melt away a bit of the epicondilitis and sciatica.
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- Past week was a blur of vacations, had bmanning and richard and derek and james in town, + the fourth of July. Went to see Bring It On at Hollywood Forever cemetary last night. Huge UFC fights as well, jones, melendez, rockhold, nunes, holm, askren, more.
- Soccer all day today, with 3 tournament finals coinciding.
- AAPL sell executed. Transferred to BOA.
- Caught up on all Medium/HN/PW.
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- The largest private company in the world is Vitol (Europe), then Cargill (USA). Over a hundred billion/yr in revenue and over a hundred thousand employees each.
- Finished the change to enumerate the week dropdown: https://github.com/brianmahlstedt/supercontest/pull/51. Deployed. So easy, just `make deploy`. It looks pretty horrible on mobile, but that’s certainly not my focus right now.
- Fixed the “register new user” behavior of flask-user. It wasn’t the library at all (as expected). It was simply that the mail password was wrong.
- Reset it (in gmail), then copied it to both the flask-user conf and the postgres conf (flask has to use it to talk to the database).
- Had to reset the password in the actual database too, since it persists and the db was created with the old pw. It’s now up to date with the one that starts with D (for the supercontest user in the supercontest db). This was a simple ALTER TABLE in psql.
- A warning indicator on the BMW turned on. It’s for the front/side headlights. I checked all of them, and all bulbs are fine. Could just need a diagnostics reset? I don’t have the machine, so I’m just gonna leave it for now.
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- Postcard stamps (35 cents) are different than regular stamps (49 cents). You can put two on a regular letter to send it, you’re just overpaying by 21 cents. You simply have to pay the minimum.
- Bmanning got here last night and is gonna stay till wednesday. Had some great talks about business, his LEO gps startup, law, space, pharmacy app, and much more.
- Most pre-seed money is won due to team, not due to product. If you can namedrop Spa SpaceX, Stanford, and truly believe in your idea, it’s pretty easy to acquire funding.
- A lot of competition bbq uses weird stuff like sodium phosphate for tenderizing, msg (accent), and other umami flavors. I prefer the classics. Salt, pepper, garlic, onion, chiles, spices.
- UX design. Ideal animation time should be ~250ms. Ease in and out, just like realworld acceleration.
- Brined and rubbed the other beef rib racks for tomorrow.
- USA beat England in the women’s world cup semi. Watched at Rock n Brews. Mexico beat Haiti in the gold cup semi. Watched at Aleworks.
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- Looks like: KD/Kyrie to Nets, DLo to warriors, Iggy to Memphis, Klay/Curry/Dray/Boogie stay.
- Amazon fresh is so awesome. Placed another full order in the morning, arrived about 10hrs later.
- Watched some Gordon Ramsey for the first time lol he’s hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_KMYulI_s. The comments are gold too.
- BFR = blood flow restriction. It’s a physical therapy technique that’s gaining popularity.
- Blender busted. The buttons caved in and it would no longer turn on. Bought another $75 ninja.
- Received a notice for changes to my 2017 tax return.
- The penalty is ~20%. It also accrues compounding interest, starting with 5% in the year you filed incorrectly, and 6% the year after that.
- If you do not respond, you get a statutory notice of deficiency and interest/penalties increase.
- The changes are correct, and I paid them. There are first time abatement waivers for the penalties/interest, but you have a much likely higher chance of getting them if you have never gotten them before. If you receive a waiver, you are not eligible for the same one for the same rationale for 3 years, so I’m going to save it for next year just in case there were any mistakes in 2018’s return. I moved a lot more money around that year.
- So many frustrating aspects of the current system:
- SpaceX not allowing us 83i, even though the liquidity offered during these irregular buybacks is capped at a max that will never pay the tax burden incurred by AMT on a regular exercise schedule.
- Not having a foolproof automated process.
- Not have a well designed tax code in the first place.
- Knowing so many colleagues who cheat their way out of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in real tax, while the IRS spends effort targeting stuff like mine (this 2017 case was $5K) and they’re all scot-free.
- Not having tax education in middle/high school.
- Having a complicated enough system that needs education in the first place.
- Rich people taking advantage of these loopholes, directly creating quagmires like the AMT trap for middleclass people like me.
- My good, AMT as an entire concept. The tech world and regular equity have obsoleted the original foundation of this.
- It’s a wonderful practice in letting go of things I can’t control 🙁 Sure, it’s complete chaos, and it affects all citizens’ piggy banks intimately, but outside of my vote, I can’t change it. Money will never drive my satisfaction and peace of mind.
- Set a stop limit order for gtc sell on all my aapl shares – slowly clearing out my ally account so I only have securities in robinhood and solium. I need the little boost of liquid cash right now to handle the IRS bs.
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- Always organize elements of information in categories no larger than 9, but preferably ~5 chunks.
- These are great! https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950. Terrible volume control designs.
- Beets have nitrates which are good for athletics. Lower heart rate, longer workouts, etc.
- Remember, diversity is a proven benefit. It applies to decisionmaking, nutrition, genetics, workplace creativity, health, relationships, and much more. But remember, diversity’s variable is not race. It’s not gender, it’s not sex. It’s not sexuality. It’s not age, weight, or height. Diversity’s variables are deeper than that. Diversity’s variables are born from our choices as we navigate these lives, born from things we as individuals have control of. Diversity’s variables are not born from characteristics that we are born with. If you want multiple flavors of soda for a party, buy multiple flavors of soda – don’t pick sodas bottles with differently colored wrappers.
- Julio Jones’ actual first name is Quintorris lol.
- Organized a lot of my personal stances. I had them written in various documents over the years but I combined them all into one. Each topic (politics, religion, etc) has a few bullets of rationale.
- USA beat Curacao to advance to semis in the gold cup.
- KD and Kyrie Irving are going to the nets lol.
- Changed the Robert/Arlen wedding RSVP.
