John List is a top behavioral economist; the humble-bragging is backed by science, FWIW

Prague, if you live outside the tourist area. Very healthy arts/music scene. And you're a short train ride from Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest, which have great scenes of their own.

Brazil is becoming a parody of itself

Had a similar experience - started as a teenager and now it's automatic. Also dreams are becoming more abstract, more visceral, and more epic as I age.

Sometimes wish I could turn it off, though - it can be exhausting. I'd like sleep to be more restful by default but have a way to choose to have a lucid dream if desired.

Yeah nah this isn't gonna catch on. Synthetic or simulated meats will mature commercially first.

This is from the guy who posted recently about struggling to learn React.

Redux has been great, but after a few years, I've had enough of the action creator and reducer boilerplate, and now just use Proxy objects for external state (with a listener on the handler's setter). It's mutable but hasn't been a problem in practice.

If you take Air NZ, they are generous with the wine. I get amongst that while watching bad action movies.

I had a similar experience. The ID card in particular was the biggest hurdle. I gave up on it.

The names they give these things are so cool. Frothing spaceship, oblique glider waterbear, 10hd demonoid, weekender, loafer.