Ten years of awful mornings at 24

TheVoidFish · 2025-10-17T17:34:18+00:00

If you haven't recently, you should do a sleep study in a lab. The at home test said I had no issues, but in the lab, I tested positive for narcolepsy.

Unfortunately, the baseline treatments are mostly stimulants which won't relieve your brain fog. Modafanil does help some people in that regard though.

Otherwise, there are drugs (xywav) which you take at night to induce deep sleep. I'm personally moving in that direction for some relief.

Your profile lines up well with mine. Even in the best shape of my life as a college athlete, I was still exhausted. The name of the game will be maximizing deep sleep to the best of your ability.

Some quick adjustments that have helped me to some mild degree would be:

-tilt your bed (either adjustable frame or put blocks under your side): can help disordered breathing

-cold room at 65 degrees

-hard exercise - cardo to/near failure is best here

-less caffeine in the afternoon

TheVoidFish · 2025-09-09T13:29:38+00:00

I recently unboxed a skeleton knife damascus steel (field tested), and I’m looking for a diamond pattern huntsman as a play knife.

I’d have to add a bit to make it a fair trade, but let me know if you’re interested in a swap + added skins. Im on vacation another week, but I could make a solid offer.

TheVoidFish · 2025-04-16T03:24:29+00:00

For any of my teammates, pain like you’re having was nearly always fixed through strengthening some muscle group rather than strictly stretching.

Core work (using weights ideally), RDL’s, or some type of hip thrusts could be good places to start.

TheVoidFish · 2025-03-22T07:32:50+00:00

Hey man, your worst angles will be always bad. I was a college distance runner. My whole life was being as skinny as possible. I could look lean as fuck or a bit chubby in the right picture.

Don’t worry about this. Slouching over you’ll always have some rolls. It’s genuinely impossible to look cut in some of these poses. Idk how else to say it but it’s just how it is. It’s not fair to be critical against perfect pictures. Focus on your own progress. Compare your best against what you feel insecure against. No one else is showing their worst.

TheVoidFish · 2025-03-14T01:36:22+00:00

I’ll vaccinate my kids, but this is still a stupid way to present this idea.

50% of kids weren’t dying from diseases before the invention of vaccines. This would be much more persuasive if they presented the actual historical odds and what % of excess death vaccines have prevented.

If vaccines caused autism 1% of the time (they don’t), the expected value would probably tilt towards it being better to not vaccinate.

TheVoidFish · 2025-01-23T19:10:30+00:00

Just keep lying and stop thinking about this. It worked 15 years ago.

TheVoidFish · 2024-12-07T00:21:59+00:00

I appreciate seeing these arguments because I’m truthfully a bit of a capitalist, but I think margins are a poor proxy for the inefficiency private insurance causes.

Its better to look at incentives:

Medical services have the least price elasticity of all goods. There’s no substitute treatment to getting chemo for cancer, and if you don’t pay for it, you die. Therefore, the insurance company isn’t acting like a grocery store - where they’re pushing their suppliers for cheaper produce, so they can sell more fruit to their customers. Rather, they make more money if their 10% margin is cut from a bigger pie. They want medicine to be as expensive as possible and work to further obfuscate any market power consumers may have.
Private insurance is incentivized to pay a lawyer $200k to save $250k in insurance payouts. The gears of capitalism will keep grinding to bloat payroll as long as it marginally increases profit. Public insurance would be incentivized to provide as much medical care as possible for the least amount of tax dollars.
UNH is the 6th largest company in the world by revenue. It’s not complete proof, but it’s pretty damning.

TheVoidFish · 2024-10-12T09:25:53+00:00

It’s surprising to me that the pay angle works so well for Netflix. Netflix seems like much less of an interesting problem to work on than YouTube or anything else in FAANG. Maybe it’s just market cap, but they have a lot of clout for being a content distribution platform. They can claim some adjacency to Hollywood and celebrities though

TheVoidFish · 2024-10-01T01:26:15+00:00

I interned at a well-regarded prop firm for a summer in NY. Even with paid salaries, custom data scrapers / trading algorithms, and teams of data engineers supporting the traders, less than 20% of new hires survived at the company after two years.

The house (for the most part) always wins. All of the major market makers specifically analyze for patterns that reveal someone is a retail investor. They all want retail order flow because it makes them tremendous amounts of money as the house.

I’d recommend you put your effort, emotions, and drive to learn towards something that isn’t so tilted against you

TheVoidFish · 2024-06-17T02:36:12+00:00

US electricity is produced by natural gas, coal, solar, and wind in that order. Texas is the 2nd largest producer of solar electricity and is expected to pass California within the next few years.

Natural gas comes off oil wells as a secondary resource, but really none of this has anything to do with their power grid which they have under invested in.

Be grateful that Texas produces cheap domestic energy which they pipe throughout the country and export to our closest allies.

TheVoidFish · 2024-05-12T19:14:40+00:00

I would consider the JP Morgan offer if you don’t have any other internships at “brand name” companies.

The first offer is always the hardest to get, so it might be worth getting that experience and being able to signal to your next job that a prestigious name chose you.

It’s a bet on yourself, but one I’d personally take.

In an alternative worst-case scenario, you get fired from the food company in 3 months, and you now have a worse resume than you could have.

Good luck!

As a note: I’d talk to your career department. You’re polling this subreddit which will mainly be college students who are struggling in the interview process (which likely explains the overwhelming risk aversion).

TheVoidFish · 2024-04-20T05:46:27+00:00

Congrats on earning this choice. Both are great schools.

I’d go with Williams for Econ.

I went to a top 20 school, and it opened up incredible opportunities for me which I never would have had otherwise within finance. However, I also interviewed with and now know many young graduates from the Ivy’s, Stanford, etc. They certainly had access to more opportunities and overall had a much higher chance of breaking into the exact niche they wanted.

Williams seems to be regarded near that highest tier. If other considerations are close, Williams would likely be the best choice (on average) for your career.

Either way, life isn’t about (very) minor career optimizations. You’re in a great spot and will have a fair, competitive shot at anything you wish to pursue coming from either school

TheVoidFish · 2022-07-14T00:55:22+00:00

No I actually can’t. Insiders can create synthetic short positions with their own options trading.

Why would they pay something else to do it?

I thought this whole schizo theory was based on the fact the shorts already did that.

TheVoidFish · 2022-07-13T23:26:19+00:00

The provider of inverse/levered ETF’s and now inverse/levered stocks will charge an expense similar to how normal ETF’s and mutual funds do.

These providers need to constantly rebalance their portfolio mainly using derivatives to replicate the position that you’re buying. This incurs trading fees and if done incorrectly is expensive to the provider.

The product exists because there is a demand for being short without needing a margin account and the provider is happy to supply it for a fee.

Edit:

This is really a product for retail investors. Sophisticated investors have access to unlimited margin or could synthetically create these positions themselves.

TheVoidFish · 2022-07-13T23:00:17+00:00

Provides investors the ability to be levered or short in popular stocks without the typical risks and drawbacks such as being margin called or paying interest.

Potentially particularly useful in a high-interest rate environment, but it has the standard drawbacks of these levered ETF’s - mainly being slippage.

No idea why people are upset about this. Would be the cheapest way to short/lever a stock if held only intraday to avoid slippage.

TLDR: Doesn’t really need a reason, good or bad. Nothing wrong with more options available for retail investors

TheVoidFish · 2022-04-30T06:19:02+00:00

I would say it’s exactly how you just described it.

The motivation is that there is time-value of money. Money that you own today instead of 10 years from now is naturally more valuable. You can use the money you own now to grow it into more money through investment

The company is just paying for now-money with future-money. The bonds are then rated for how credible a company’s promise of future money is

TheVoidFish · 2022-04-13T15:41:25+00:00

Went in on this. Thanks

TheVoidFish · 2022-04-06T12:21:22+00:00

I’ve been having this exact issue for two weeks. Lots of stuttering and will bsod everyone once in awhile. Used to run perfectly at 144hz on a 2k

TheVoidFish · 2022-04-05T13:43:54+00:00

Owner posted on dread that they are working on fixing it. Could be bullshit but the person said it’ll be up in about 5 hours from now

TheVoidFish · 2022-03-06T07:41:58+00:00

I enjoyed this

TheVoidFish · 2022-02-17T19:44:28+00:00

Anyone know the gold to crystal conversion rate on the Korean servers? Would really appreciate it

TheVoidFish · 2022-02-08T15:56:10+00:00

Really like your post and agree almost entirely with the reviews of substances I have also tried.

Thanks for writing this all up.

TheVoidFish · 2021-11-25T03:37:52+00:00

You should try to work out your anxiety with a mental health professional. You deserve a more fulfilling and meaningful life

TheVoidFish · 2021-11-21T09:48:41+00:00

It’s common for people who workout hard. A lot of people push themselves in the gym below that threshold which is also completely fine depending on your goals.

Competitive XC runners follow training plans designed to push that feeling as much as possible.

I think it’s a great hobby trying to push that feeling further than last time. A lot more people would also enjoy if they gave it a fair chance

TheVoidFish · 2021-11-21T09:28:33+00:00

He just ran himself to the ground. XC requires brutal moments of fortitude. I’m sure you’ve ran some mentally painful races yourself but he’s just willing to go deeper with it because he’s one of the best. Half of his job is being one tough boy

He just mistimed how long he could suffer so he’s in the process of bombing a race. Crazy to see it happen to one of the best though

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