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I am a dual citizen of the United States and Croatia (European Union citizen). I am culturally American, and I have spent the vast majority of my life in the US. I left the US about a month before the lockdowns started. I have been living i
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Croatia is part of the European Union, and allows US citizens and other third-country nationals (non-EU/EEA/Swiss citizens) in, very easily. This includes during the coronavirus pandemic. They also have a digital nomad visa, and t
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> I also try to do a phone fast every Sunday, where I give my phone to my wife and just live without it for a day. It's amazingly rewarding. You should give it a try :) Amazing :-)! You know this is exactly the correct way, to reset
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> Maybe it's because I use ad blockers and clear cookies frequently, so they don't have anything to really work with. But it seems that even the first guesses they take are pretty devoid of context. Yeah, I use uBlock Origin, a
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You're very welcome :-) This suggestion may be much more practical to implement: I highly recommend RescueTime. This implementation is likely one of the best ways to go: ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking https://medium.com
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> This seems a rather arbitrary limiter of the content you're willing to expose yourself to. What makes you think a high negative sentiment percentage in comments indicates a video that will make you unhappy? That is the point: clea
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Not the OP, but I did a search for Firefox extensions and I found this: Hide Comments Everywhere-An anti-social social extension to hide commenting systems like Disqus, Livefyre, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, etc. https:/
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I hope this helps, with respect to ideas. While I can technically create my own scripts using AI, I tend to utilize others' scripts, as programming this stuff is not the best use of my time. This sort of stuff is almost always exclusiv
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The European Union has strong regulation, and you pay for the stability in your taxes. As a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen, who is culturally American, the EU can be quite a good deal. They have dealt with populism before, unlike the US, and
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This sort of stuff is why I refuse to participate in "traditional" social media, which is clearly unhealthy. I refuse to take my mind to bad places, where it could become unhappy. I simply cannot afford to be unhappy. If I want to
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> Do a search for the new devices promising blood pressure (Samsung I think) or blood glucose monitoring (Apple). One of those might fit your needs when they become available. Beyond that have a look at medical web sites to see what hos
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Any of these: * Garmin (required to adhere to GDPR) * Empatica E4 (required to adhere to GDPR) (for more advanced use) * Microsoft Band 2 (open source API on Github) * Suunto (required to adhere to GDPR) Personally, the Garmin Fenix 6 or Ga
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There already is something that does what you are imagining, but in an even more discrete way: Spire Health Tags. You iron them on to your undergarment. Unfortunately, they are no longer selling them to people interested in biohacking or fo
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The messages from the comics still very much apply to places like Croatia (ex-Yugoslavia) today. > In a society that mixed internationalist idealism with bureaucratic dysfunction, Alan Ford was an ideal form of social satire It is Croati
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Yeah, I personally like using an Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier. There are some cool packages out there, that detect your emotions and attentiveness while driving. Aside from the Jetson, I have an 2080 Super on my laptop.
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Thanks for the info. I stopped using Spyder over the annoying and distracting promotions. This confirms my feelings about it. It is also time consuming to properly install from source, via GitHub, versus Anaconda. It does have a learning cu
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This engineer inventor changed my great uncle’s life. My great uncle got scarlet fever at age 8 in the 1930s and had a fever of 108 F and nearly died. Because of nerve damage to his ear from the fever, he became completely Deaf at age 11. H
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You are so welcome! You have to read this article, which was written by somebody who is visually impaired. He explains why the experience of VR is so much better for people with visual impairments, in so many ways, compared to any other ass
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Agreed. I am actually working on making an app that effectively does all of this natively, that is extremely customizable, for both Oculus and SteamVR systems. You may want to check out SeeingVRToolkit, which was made by Microsoft to make V
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> While a game like Elite Dangerous feels great, I had a lot of trouble reading text on it. Probably the same reason why I can't get along with binoculars, I just can't seem to focus on things with both eyes? This is basically
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I think this can be solved. This may surprise many, but I use virtual reality for all of my heavy reading, without any issue whatsoever. It basically feels like I am reading on a movie screen. While my use case is different than most, I per
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I agree about it not being the next big thing. But, for some people who are extremely introverted, it can be the best thing ever. I think it has a lot of therapeutic use, although underdeveloped. I find it to be disorienting, relaxing, and
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Sorry that you got downvoted. But, I did not downvote you.
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> One of my favorite signs you might have ADHD. Caffeine doesn't do anything for you and/or makes you sleepy. Caffeine is an adenosine A2A antagonist, which has therapeutic potential in ADHD, except the half-like makes it an im
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> Lastly, caffeine does help from my testing, especially caffeine combined with L-Theanine. I used to take 100mg of HVMN "Sprint" pills as a test whether I had ADHD; it helped quite a bit. It didn't make me jittery and it
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Can you please not mention Nomad Capitalist? The person running that business is a known scam artist. Here is a discussion about his schemes: https://www.sitejabber.com/faq/nomadcapitalist.com/has-anyon... Here is
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Well, I am a dual US|EU citizen, currently living in Croatia. So, I do travel abroad a lot. When I lived in the US, I had an individual plan through Costco (Delta Dental) that was quite a good deal. It was a Dental HMO plan, though. Really,
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It’s static (blood glucose testing) sampling versus dynamic (continuous glucose monitoring via interstitial fluid) sampling. The best comparison is that it is like a picture (static sampling) versus a movie (dynamic sampling). It makes a hu
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This. If you are in the US, you want a Freestyle Libre 2, which costs what you state, with coupons: $35/week In the European Union, the Freestyle Libre 3 is available and is far better technology than the Freestyle Libre 2, for a varie
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You could end up with a brain infection, very easily. If you cannot afford US dental care, and you are not super poor, get a 1 way ticket via Kiwi.com to a more “eastern” European Union country like Croatia or Poland. If you use scripts fro
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