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> the genetic exposure risk is pretty directly about aboriginal and islander communities

Is it, though? Families and communities share much more than genes with each other, including big lifestyle choices. So we can't deduce that easily that genes are to blame.

I agree that poor lifestyle choices should be somehow disincentivized.

Leaving aside the fact that BMI isn't a great metric (as mentioned in another comment); we can probably come up with a better one.

80% of healthcare costs are driven by 15 conditions, which in turn are mostly affected by 8 behaviors [1]. I bet that the bulk of the cost is due to completely changeable lifestyle behaviors (diet, drinking, smoking, physical activity).

Alcohol and tobacco should be more heavily taxed (fast-food is trickier, as we need to make sure that there's healthy, equally-accessible food options out there). Education around healthy lifestyle choices should be more available, as well as gym memberships/fitness equipment/trainers. Sure they do cost money, but we're already paying so much through non-preventive healthcare.

Any other ideas how to disincentivized unhealthy lifestyle choices?

[1] http://www.aon.com/attachments/human-capital-consulting/2012...

I really enjoyed "Deep C Secrets" as an intermediate C book:

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131774298/

A little dated, still lots of relevant knowledge though.

The article even takes that a notch further: for things that really matter to you, once you find your true calling, you wouldn't even procrastinate in the first place. You get immersed in omnivorous curiosity around it, you get lost. There's no social media/tv/external factors that would distract you from it.

To provide a slightly different perspective: I recently came across a great blogpost/newsletter: http://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/how-to-ride-your-brain-bicycle

It argues that the main reason we don't achieve our goals is not external factors, or the lack of an effective productivity system; it's a commitment failure. We have subconscious second thoughts whether our goals are actually important to us, we lack a sense of purpose.

"There is no point being focused, with a finely tuned productivity system, and maniacal discipline against distractions, if you're not sure what you're doing is worth doing"

So sure, our attention span is decreasing and we're becoming more easily distracted, but is that all there is to blame for the alleged productivity loss?

Farnam Street Blog also has their comprehensive list of mental models: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

heck, they could even tell by sniffing wifi traffic

Wow. The article says that she was wearing daily disposables, which are supposed to be much safer. Did AK really settle within <24hrs time?

They messed up and overbooked the flight, sure. But why on earth would they forcefully drag people out of the plane, while they could just find volunteers?

They could offer cash/miles to whoever volunteered, increasing the offer until someone accepted. I've seen other airlines do this on several occasions. They couldn't have handled it worse than they did.

Except, it would be nice to keep a few of the (recent) older kernels, in case things go awry with the new update.

Relevant: "No, I have no side code projects to show you" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-side-code-projects-sho...

VimFX works pretty well on Firefox:

https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx

I'm curious, what tools/configs do you use to mimic i3 on OS X? I'm also an i3 user, but currently using OS X for work.

Not always. Sometimes renting might be a better deal than buying.

There are several factors which need to be taken into account, such as mortgage interest payments, opportunity cost of downpayment, property tax, tax deductions, property appreciation, etc. Khan Academy has an interesting video on this topic: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

PS: Sure, if your property appreciates by a lot you'll make a large return. But what if it deprecates? People being overly optimistic about property appreciations were part of the reason/most affected by the housing bubble.

Not really, because one can easily argue that cassettes have "substantial non-infringing use". It's a little harder to argue for that in the case of TPB.

It's different because this time it's VC money, not people's savings.

When a company is listed, the stock price better reflect the actual market value of the company (otherwise a dot-com bubble happens). However, if rich VCs like to bet on startups, that's expected to be a high-risk investment.