katovatzschyn

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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Do people with net worths of $10m+ have similarly frugal lifestyles? Or is this mainly a feature of people with net worths in the $1m-3m range? My parents are with combined income of 7 figures now, 8 figure net worth and they liv
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
the high number makes people think that it "has to be good;" I will claim guilty to this. Whenever a thing is esteemed by many, especially people respected, I will always contemplate its worth far longer than if I passed by s
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Could this be why incorrect facts may be recollected as true after proved false? Pathway for "false" not "rewritten / erased" but "pre-empted" by possibly "less robust" "true," to say this colloquially?
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I was raised on essentially this. My (Russian) family and I all (when possible) take ~1 hour nap around afternoon and sleep (all incredibly lightly) for ~3-5 hours at night. If I do not take this nap I feels very tired for the ~2.5 hour win
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I like DFW, Infinite Jest, and The New Yorker, but I question the increasingly regularity of this kind of content on HN and would like to gently recommend metafilter.com. Here is this article posted there: http://www.metafilter.com/79589/D
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I thought this ad was excellent. I chuckled at first, but 10 minutes of entranced viewing later I felt vividly confronted by the absurd and actually had to go lie down. Taken in a very broad context it actually feels like a modern internet
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
It seems many simply wish they had gotten a different degree in general. It may just be a "grass is greener" scenario. Or like somebody who learns a lot of math knows: when you finally understand something and look back it seems trivial. Fo
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I would wager learning nothing is a trait of individuals and not settings.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Please, again forgive my utter ignorance, do go on.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Forgive my ignorance please; but- what exactly (in your own words though of course) was the purpose of the invasion of Iraq?
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Phishing is cross-platform.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Wanted to give dododo credit for bringing up this angle immediately upon the announcement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617216
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d3d8r/just_a_normal_d...
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
SLEEP WHEN THE BABY SLEEPS DURING THE FIRST 4 MONTHS Having known a few to have done just this; is this a possible evolutionary explanation for the short term ability of poly-phasic sleep? Does anybody know any information on the re
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How Will You Measure Your Life?(hbr.org)
19 points by katovatzschyn 16y ago|1 comments
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Ideas Having Sex(reason.com)
57 points by katovatzschyn 16y ago|35 comments
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Political correctness and emphasis on public image may have created some measure of accountability over the last few years, but more than too often it means that what is actually going on is simply never said aloud. Instead it must be infer
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
No contempt directed at Carl because this sort of thing is exactly what the internet needs more of- but I would like to remind everybody of the excellent opencourseware offered by most major universities. http://www.academicearth.org/sub
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I have seen this as well maybe ~15 years ago at a hotel. Only it was SNES. It allowed you to select games from a menu (no cartridge). The controllers were hooked up into a box with a line dissipating into a wall. The controllers were differ
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
The default options is also the least desirable... That is an interesting and also likely necessary condition for a service.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Appears to be a clever case of the first incompleteness theorum.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I think that this sort of material would be best kept on reddit.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Good things here but for that troublesome first bullet... I think better advice would be something along the lines of: "Ignore everybody who is directly competes with you, has any stake in your failure (especially through the sin envy), doe
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I am personally obsessed with lists, rankings and statistics in general so I do not know how universal my desires are... but: Try making a weighted list of your dearest possessions. In as much depth as possible to its dearest extent. Not th
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
Even so; if this is embraced and people are very excited enough over such announcements, Valve could do a Gorbachev and perhaps announce something like this for Linux based on expected receptions.
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
It is the programmer still remains in him reminding people to "RTFM."
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
"Contentment defines your peak."
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098336 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensi...
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
I took anti-depressants (and similar) after a suicide attempt and put into ward. The emotion they took me to is not what I would say "anti-depressed." I was still depressed. There was still anxiety. There was still the hunger for suicide. W
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by katovatzschyn 16y ago
What is good collection of these Indian myths? Is there one akin to One Thousand and One Arabian Nights; with more focus on India?

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