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Leaving this here for other men who might stumble on this: Oral finasteride drives your DHT way down. However, driving DHT down is essentially the binary goal of stopping hair loss.

And that's all fine and good, but having 'just enough' DHT is important for good health. (Psychology, sexual function, etc)

If you're on finasteride, do yourself a favor and consult with a TRT ('low T') doctor, have your DHT level tested, and consider modulating your finasteride dosage according to its effect on your DHT level.

A good balance is worth working towards. Don't blindly take finasteride without keeping an eye on its effects to your DHT.

Important ADHD medication note: Armodafinil is a narcolepsy medication being used off-label for OP here. It's only FDA approved for treating narcolepsy. Usage in ADHD treatment is both novel and highly individual.

The problem, like most in life, is not in the expression of the conservative viewpoints but in the definition and application of 'actively opposing civil or equal rights'.

Some people feel The Wall 'actively opposes civil or equal rights'. Or transgenders in the military. Or etc, etc etc...

Many conservatives feel that conservative viewpoints on hot topic issues are rational decisions. They're often not out to 'actively oppose civil or equal rights'.

As a foreign national, you're a visitor in the USA.

It's a private company based in the USA, contributing to the advancement of USA's technology (largely, NASA). I think it was warranted.

In your opinion, how well does their data apply to the tech startup scene?

There's, of course, many factors that make this type of employment quickly changing, quite dynamic, and different from standard corporate employment.

'After Uber discovered the unauthorized download, it examined the Internet Protocol addresses of every visitor to the page during the time between when the key was posted and when the breach occurred'

lolwutf.

Can someone please tell me how Uber got the IP of 'every visitor to the page [on GitHub]'?

And, to that end, what even constitutes 'the page'? If someone cloned the repo, how is that tally'd?

This reeks of weirdness.

Comparing a human being to a local burger franchisee is a pretty awful analogy.

Not that it isn't true...

...but you're obviously not from San Francisco, because you called it 'San Fran'.

Probably not, because it is still up.

Eventually, you realize life is just a fucked up series of events that, once in a while, have no meaning, are cruel, or don't happen in a logical or fair way!

For example, the people behind the Yo app spent a few hours on the weekend building it as a side project, reaped tons of press and attention, and eventually landed themselves a boatload of VC money.

Is that fair to the people out there like yourself and myself, who are slaving away to make Real Change happen in this world? No!

But, that's life. Life is cruel, it's weird, sometimes it doesn't make sense, and sometimes it just comes down to a little bit (or alot) of dumb luck. It's shitty and raw to think about, but it's reality.

My advice is to use your jealousy as a motivator, but don't allow it get to you. Seek your own happiness and your own success, according to your own benchmarks for both.

Keep pushing, keep hustling, and keep hoping that, one day, luck swings in your favor and you land that massive success and or payday, too. And, all the while, remember in the back of your head that you may die before that day ever comes.

No matter what though: retain your sanity and defend your own happiness... forget all else.

EDIT - Your perception of 'success' may also have little, or transient meaning. For example, lots of people think the current 'success' of the tech industry is a facade, and we're due for a bubble-like collapse (er, 'contraction'). If that happens, all of those successful acquaintances you currently look up to don't sound so successful now, do they?

I certainly hope you don't carry that attitude with you throughout life. Tip your bartenders and pizza delivery guys... they make nothing, anyway. (And, if you're in tech, chances are an extra $2 for a tip is NOT going to break your budget.)

I can't imagine why you'd ever maintain such a large and arbitrary set of documents.

The New Delhi rape case could have just as easily happened to Lyft.

No, not necessarily.

The key here is that each company is ultimately the responsible party for vetting the drivers that come to you.

Uber touts a rigorous background checking process but, as we've seen, time and time again, their background checking has been horrible/not actually existent.

My honest answer? I ended up dating someone who was constantly on my case about being forgetful, forgetting names, details, being scatter brained, blah blah blah.

Miraculously, that didn't drive them away and, now, just over a year of dating later, I've noticed I've developed new mental habits to train myself to remember details, in order to avoid the negative reinforcement of my S.O. nagging about my forgetfulness.

And, in practice, these days, I'm quite a bit more effective at identifying what details are relevant, reliably persisting them to memory if needed, and identifying/purging/ignoring irrelevant details, which actually end up getting in the way of storing the important ones (this, of itself, was a problem that, when solved, yielded lots of forward progress for this issue).

Sorry, I'm not sure if this is something you can very effectively optimize for (and maybe shouldn't!... 'seeking partner to help fight scatter brain'), but it's a true story, and one angle, at least. :)

...or, GPS enabled phones.

I suspect there is a pro-Uber force on HN that downvotes any anti-Uber sentiment on HN, based on my own past experiences posting anti-Uber commentary. Whether or not that pro-Uber force is controlled by Uber, themselves, is unclear.

One example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8328493

...notice 2 of 3 replies indicate surprise at how much I was being downvoted.

This is great, and I hope it becomes a regular thing.

'I wrote this for the FT, but it's behind a paywall. Since I wrote it, I feel like it's probably ok for me to post it here.'

If the FT paid you to write it, I feel like it's probably not ok to post it where you'd like.

My frustration with Product Hunt is that it gives underperforming biz folks a whole new shiny label to add to their resume: Product Nerd!

'Product Nerd' = professional opinion giver = get back to work!

Ok, then maybe indicate as such? And not present it, as if it were a quote from the article you're linking to?

I hope one day we can all stop doing the 'Post title that's the opposite of the popular opinion, but the content actually supports the popular opinion, it just couches it in an unpopular way, so as to gain clicks with a headline that makes it seem like the article was ACTUALLY going to support the unpopular opinion'.

This is, in essence, just another form of slimy clickbait (albeit, one that flies on HN).

The quote in the title is entirely fabricated.

What was actually said was: 'That is evil!'

Thank you! I've been watching the downvotes, too, and wondering the same thing! Cynical lolwutf wants to think it's tied to yet-another-overly-aggressive Uber suborg, but who knows.

Glad to provide the perspective! Thanks for the upvote.

Don't forget: Uber and Uber's drivers have been responsible for children's deaths, interfering with the normal course of competitor's business, stuffing blind persons' service dogs in the trunk, price gouging during states of emergencies. All on top of a proprietary, unpublished 'surge pricing' algorithm.

I know you think taxis are the devil, but Uber's behavior as a parent company has been downright heinous.

Personally, I avoid supporting them, whenever possible, and go with better-acting players in the market like Lyft and Sidecar.

More importantly... weev still uses LiveJournal?!

Well, I agree with you that he has some of the best analysis on Apple.

But the takeaway is that his quality content represents only a drop in the ocean of his worthless one-line microthroughts and general blabbery and whining.

Have you read Gruber's tweets on the matter? He's handling this situation like a baby.

His powers of getting people to read his one-line blog and other worthless content continue to amaze me.

Don't speak for me, because you are wrong.

This. I'm fleeing SF this year for LA. The socioeconomic struggle has finally become, to me, unbearable + the rents too damn high.