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johndoez | 8 years ago | on: My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths

I like drinking from time to time, but the hangovers put me off, which is nature's way of saying, leave off. If I have more than four drinks I have to spend the next day in bed. I simply can't function. I know a couple of alcoholics and neither suffer from hangovers (or ever have done). When I read "functional alcoholic" I think of someone who doesn't suffer from hangovers.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

You could also ask, what if time is the primary thing that exists? That is, it has authority over everything else that exists. This would mean that the laws of physics, for example, could change over time.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

Similar introvert here. Open plan offices destroy me. It's a balancing act, not being too isolated so you get depressed, but having your own space really matters

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

In Brazil, architects often build a social space into their apartments. It's a good idea and works really well, but the people have to want to socialise together in the first place.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: How Social Isolation Is Killing Us

Anecdotally, and with the risk of the greatest generalisation, in my experience Protestant countries tend to be far more atomised than Catholic ones.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: Savers are slowly choking off the life of the world economy

This article is overblown, but the demographic changes in the West are heavily impacting economic growth. It isn't so much to do with saving as to do with the Boomers getting older. The Baby Boomers are retiring and their spending patterns are changing. No new cars, downsizing in property, and less expense on child rearing. At the same time there is a fertility crisis among the young, meaning we will not see another Baby Boom anytime soon. These changes are as big a reason for low growth as the rise of automation, debt levels, and deleveraging.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: How basic income could fail in America

Another demographic to consider is retired people with pensions. Some of them waste it down the pub, others lead meaningful lives and describe these years as their happiest.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

Influencer marketing will boom with the launch of social commerce. But startups need to be careful about advertising regulation. If someone has paid for a promotion, then it will have to be tagged as such, like Sponsored Ad.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: Why 30 is the decade friends disappear

It's a case of energy depletion. Now I'm in my 30s I've decided to exchange deep friendships for acquaintances/drinking buddies. This is because deep friendships involve time, effort and sacrifice. This is fine for when you are a student or retired, but full-time work and family demands all your time, all your effort, and all your sacrifice. I'm sure I will re-establish deep friendships when I retire.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: The smug style in American liberalism

Indeed. Here is the great truth - for most people, race matters, and always will. They want to live with people of the same ethnicity, with the same history, in the same territory. The breakup of Yugoslavia suggested ethno-nationalism was on the rise, but the elites continued to push (if not intensified) mass immigration in the West. This has created the seedbed for the new "anti-politics". It is in its first phase, and I expect it to last for around 30 years.

johndoez | 9 years ago | on: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

It's not a return to the 1920s. Globalisation proceeded too quickly, and many people got left out.

It is a revolt against a system which simply doesn't work for the majority of European descended whites.

Paul Buchheit once linked to an article from the American Conservative, which shows at least he had an open mind to hearing about these anti-establishment views.

Paul Graham and Sam A have instead just continued the political correctness anti-Trump agenda which in the long-turn actually plays into his hands, as there is a growing dislike of PC, especially from multi-millionaires who don't understand what its like to be out of work with no education behind you.

I think all this talk will come back to bite Silicon Valley and YC on the ass, as Trump will look to take revenge on the Tech Crowd. I expect the Tech Bubble to burst over the nxt year.

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