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by dempedempe 6y ago
I moved to Veracruz, Mexico partly to save money, partly to learn Spanish. I pay $75/mo for a room in a fully furnished apartment.
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by dempedempe 6y ago
Thanks for the tips!
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by dempedempe 6y ago
> no sugar addict would walk a mile to get their fix I don't think you have experience with a sugar addiction. I've done this more times than I can count and hate myself for it every time.
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by dempedempe 6y ago
My old manager used to joke about firing someone seemingly every other day. Was really frustrating.
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How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002)(zompist.com)
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by dempedempe 6y ago
That sounds interesting! I'll check it out. For me, I think the most important thing is simply having a plan and focusing on a few tasks at a time and not worrying about _everything_ to do. It sounds like a prioritized tasklist would b
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by dempedempe 6y ago
Yes. But I don't see what this has to do with the topic at hand?
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by dempedempe 6y ago
I often feel this way. I think it helps _a lot_ to have an effective task management system. Why? There is this thing called the Zeigarnik effect. The Zeigarnik effect states that unoccupied tasks tend to overwhelm your conscious thought.
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by dempedempe 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is in fact true, but it seems to be. I think it's because when you grow up poor, you _have_ to hack. If not computers, then something. I'm living in Mexico right now, and it's incredible the ways p
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by dempedempe 6y ago
But poor people also have unequal access to educational resources for learning technical skills.
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by dempedempe 6y ago
Pachinko is basically Japanese slot machines. It's an addiction, so it's doing pretty well.
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What It Means to Name a Forgotten Murder Victim(theatlantic.com)
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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics(britneyspears.ac)
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Ask HN: How do you quickly find websites you've visited a year or more ago?
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by dempedempe 6y ago
I don't think this "time saving" argument is only applicable to productivity. It works when applied to happiness as well. You can't deny that there are many things we have to do in modern society that we would rather not
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by dempedempe 6y ago
The end of Mad Men implies that Don Draper is the creator of Coca-Cola's "Buy the World a Coke" ad[1]. Is he also responsible in later years for New Coke? [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtZpFl3pPM&fea
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by dempedempe 6y ago
Learn something new. Learning new things is the only way to be happy. This is true on a neurophysiological level - the hippocampi of depressed people are shrunk. Happiness, positive emotions and learning and memory all take place in your hi
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by dempedempe 7y ago
> Aren't there diseases where someone are caused not by the microbe directly but by the body's immune reaction to it? Yep. For example, that's what causes the "cytokine storm" in COVID-19.
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Link Between Melatonin and Type 2 Diabetes(blog.humanos.me)
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by dempedempe 7y ago
I also live in the Ozarks. Pretty sure that the ticks that bear Lyme disease bacteria are practically non-existent in the Ozarks. They're more relegated to the North East. Not to downplay the importance of tick checks and other preven
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We Don't Know How to Compute(infoq.com)
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Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests(scopeblog.stanford.edu)
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How to Tell If We're Beating Covid-19(youtube.com)
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How the Pandemic Will End(theatlantic.com)
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by dempedempe 7y ago
These types of apps are great in my experience... unless you use a white noise maker or a fan.
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by dempedempe 7y ago
Hmm. My Fitbit (Alta HR) considers masturbation exercise. Though, it has recorded that I was in deep sleep while I was awake.
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by dempedempe 7y ago
Mapping backspace to right command and swapping ';' and RET have been a complete game changer for me. Most people don't think about the cost the extra 300 ms it takes to hit the regular backspace key, but given the frequency
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Ohio Govenor's Response to Corona Virus a Model for the Nation(washingtonpost.com)
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Animated Story Purely in CSS(tinydesign.co.uk)
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by dempedempe 7y ago
Vancouver, BC - 60 Seattle, WA - 90 Vancouver is more expensive than Seattle... And Cuba is 41.1, while Mexico is 35??

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