lhorie

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by lhorie 5y ago
If you know exactly what you want, you're better off going directly to the company's website or a retailer specialized in that category. Pretty much every such company has e-commerce these days and the risk of getting scammed is b
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Walmart and Costco come to mind for a lot of the sort of shopping I do. Single category retailers often provide better experiences (think Zara, Home Depot). Aliexpress has way wider selection across the board and very cheap prices (though w
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It strikes me as weird to address an issue of unrealistic standards by implementing a bunch of productivity systems (pomodoro, etc) and data collection schemes, since these systems are fallible, which feeds right back to the anxiety loop. I
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I believe the objection is that "SDUI" amounts to re-implementing a poor man's "browser" except that it calls JSON.parse instead of HTML.parse, and it doesn't bother implementing a layout constraint engine. i.e
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The weird aspect about our perception of colors is how our brains interpret them relative to nearby colors (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#/media/File:C... )
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> I could correctly identify things like the chord sequence of a song I've seen this being described as relative pitch , which is apparently a different skill than perfect pitch and easier to acquire via practice.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Unfortunately I'm finding this sort of us-vs-them mentality starting to creep up even around HN, even though the guidelines suggest to assume good faith. It's particularly weird when you play devil's advocate on some topic (w
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by lhorie 5y ago
You're arguing from the ideology that arbitrary freedom is good, whereas China operates under a "do what's good for you" sort of ideology. If we think about those two ideologies, one could flip your "is it possible
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The social aspect is a bit iffy. Talk to any female gamer and you're going to hear harassment stories.
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I do know of many studies that suggest the existence of a correlation between music education and academic achievement, but the gist of the argument against those studies is that they aren't well designed: https://www.scienc
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Your description sounds pretty on point with what I've observed as well, and I want to clarify that I'm not defending China nor trying to belittle the very real differences between China and US ideology. To try to address the root
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> If children could vote here, that would strengthen Bogwog's argument. Just to add another layer to this, the somewhat cynical take is that - at least in the US - the system is actually a republican democracy, meaning that even p
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, I'm not trying to insinuate that every Chinese always agrees with the government, that's just silly. Even in the US, a good chunk of the population always disagrees with whatever is the political topic du jour... All I&#x2
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> I think you said is not the whole story Right, that's why I said "Many chinese". What I'm reacting to is the general tone that the CCP just forces draconian measures down everyone's throats as if no one could
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by lhorie 5y ago
We restrict both time and what they have access to, and the kids don't generally crave screen time (they're in elementary school). Aside from watching movies every once in a blue moon, they only have access to specific games (all
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by lhorie 5y ago
I don't want to start a us-vs-commies flame war but I'm finding it ironic that not a week ago someone was trying to tell me that american democracy is more of a plutocracy... Something that people don't seem to realize about
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There's no need for mental gymnastics, it's a lot easier to simply argue that educational games are educational. But this doesn't contradict what I said: that most games are not structured in terms of didactic value. I do,
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They cite myopia as a specific clinical reason and while there is some evidence correlating "near-work" activities (screen time, studying, etc) and nearsightedness, I personally think that's a weird way to slice a policy (e
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by lhorie 5y ago
China thinks that video games (specifically, the online variety) are harmful enough to children that it needs to be regulated at a federal level and children's exposure to games should be restricted. But here's the thing: We on th
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by lhorie 5y ago
Well, I think doing things way above your level "works" sometimes in the sense that there's a subset of things that a learner happens to be most receptive to at any given time, and immersing yourself at the deep end is a bit
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by lhorie 5y ago
> If a game is providing reading material and motivation to read, it will improve reading skills. Eh. No, that's not quite how that works. If you look at north american elementary school level reading, you may notice that books are
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People talking about the benefits of games reminds me of people talking about the benefits of, say, a glass of wine with every meal: it's worth looking into but at the same time it's the sort of thing that obviously doesn't s
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For those comparing to western standards, note that this is just an increase on existing regulation. According to wikipedia[0], China has had regulation limiting underage video game play time from as early as 2005, meaning that most childre
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by lhorie 5y ago
I try to avoid postulating about places I've not been to. I was born in Sao Paulo, under the reign of military dictatorship, at that (look up its relationship w/ the US if you feel like filling your daily dose of WTFs). The "
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> Drawing from your personal anecdotes gets tiring. Perhaps that says more about the impact of high crime stats on real people than my individual luck. The reality remains that various forms of crime are deeply intertwined with various f
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This specific thread was merely talking about the look and feel of the city. If you look at some of my other comments regarding crime, you'll see I very much agree with you.
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> I have never been mugged or robbed or had any physical violence occur, or be threatened. You're lucky (and not that I want to intentionally bring up this card, but I bet you're a burly caucasian male). I saw a guy jump over t
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, the human feces thing is a pretty tired argument for sure. It's not like there isn't also a dog feces problem. The fact that the latter doesn't get brought up at all speaks volumes about classism... With that said, I
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Why are y'all talking about Sunset and Parkside as if they're different things? Parkside is in the Sunset district, is it not? Also many of the highest ranking schools are in the Sunset, and house prices there are very much on the
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Eh, I agree that the problem is most visible to newcomers precisely due to the housing layout around Tenderloin/SOMA, but frankly even once you go past that, it's fairly obvious that north/west SF is where affluent neighborho

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