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by openknot 5y ago
Yes, small purchases through Amazon (enabled by Prime due to no price minimum for 'free' shipping). I picked up a tip on Hacker News to avoid small ~$20 USD purchases because it adds up, and this habit has saved me a lot of money.
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Similar experience here. I also found that Wal-Mart has a similar selection (lower prices for some items) to Amazon. It shares the same price threshold for free shipping, and also arrives sooner (reliably two to three days from Wal-Mart in
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Thank you for sharing, I see more of where you’re coming from. > burnout was the result of clocking in every day to do what felt like meaningless work This is a lesson I was grateful to have picked up from HN about a year ago. The thread
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They’re not completely absent, but design decisions by Hacker News make these three factors less visible. >maximize engagement It encourages engagement with upvotes and additional privileges when an account gets more points. However, the
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This is interesting. Perhaps if the breath reminds you to relax and stay on your chosen focus, though I would be doubtful that increased oxygen intake is directly a cause. I'm not sure about increased comprehension directly, because I&
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That has its limits. Corporate lawyers and investment banking analysts (from a Financial Times report [0]) receive absurd compensation, but still report high rates of burnout and mental health issues due to incredibly long hours (95 hour wo
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This is an interesting perspective, but it may not be necessarily true that: 'If you aren't the sort of person to feel any sort of "delight" about good tools, then the job probably isn't a good fit for you because t
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That also makes a lot of sense (my other hypothesis, which doesn't necessarily contradict, is that I wasn't introduced to much soda growing up). This could also explain a personal preference for salty food (taste and habit) that o
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Thanks for sharing. From your and noah_buddy's comments, it looks like it was a treat from childhood that stuck. My parents forbade me from soda growing up, but my cousin once snuck me some sugary orange pop once (I didn't like th
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Hacker News and other relatively smaller forums are different. They are free social media networks that aren't optimized to maximize engagement, promote outrage, or instill a fear of missing out.
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I'm genuinely curious: why are soda/pop/coke/soft drinks so popular? I've never liked them because they're too sugary, and they represent like empty calories (like I'll gain weight without feeling full) fr
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You can download scanned versions of respectable local newspapers for free (or at least, already paid for by taxes) in many US and Canadian cities if you have a public library card, by checking if you have a PressReader resource with the li
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I've interacted with local businesses that use a Facebook page as a replacement for maintaining a website that they own. The rationale I've read is that their time is best spent providing their quality service versus learning webs
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There is also comparatively more at stake when a newspaper gets facts wrong, versus misinformation on a Facebook post. When a newspaper mistakenly publishes false information at the time (which should not happen too often due to internal fa
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The idea was really interesting, though it's too bad the software didn't work for me. Still, I learned a lot from the comments (e.g. the problem of a server overload and fix of switching to a distributed server as a workaround; th
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Still no match yet. I was waiting for 10 minutes on the submitted link, but didn't get a match. I then waited 20 minutes on https://coffeehouse.deno.dev/hn recommended by the developer in the comments, but also haven&#
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Yes, I've been waiting (still on) for about 10 minutes so far on Chrome (adblock disabled) to ensure browser compatibility. I started a timer for a different task at around the same time the wait started, so this measurement is fairly
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This reminds me of a paper, which I can't find but can summarize (a less-in-depth version of the argument is advanced in quotes by a journalism professor here [0]). The argument, as I remember it, asserted that journalism is a semi-pro
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The point of an independently-written newspaper obituary isn't hagiography (or endorsement of everything the notable person did). There is a slant to avoid speaking too ill of the dead, but typically obituary writers do not shy away fr
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Even if you click, the text changes to say: "looking for a match ... keep this tab open and your headphones on for a while ..." There's no indicator for how long the queue is, so a match could happen at any time. The serif fo
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It looks like I may have parsed your comment in an unintended way. I read it as, roughly: 'To learn microbiology, a programmer must learn organic chemistry as a prerequisite [true for the university I attended]. However, the concepts t
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Thanks for the links that report on the story. I was curious to see more of the original Tweets too, but it’s too bad that Michael Burry deleted his Twitter account in April 2021 [0]. [0] https://www.marketwatch.com/amp&#x2F
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A major hurdle I found as a beginner in programming was the lack of immediate reward. I was studying Automate the Boring Stuff as my first text, and it took around six months of slow but steady studying to understand and retain the first of
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You absolutely can (an example includes programmers who decide to work in computational biology and learn more biology from textbooks to better understand the job). However, there is a substantial barrier for a programmer to switch careers
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> what they are learning is based on complete misunderstanding of organic chemistry (which has not been updated with the modern understanding of physics)... so it is bound to drive anyone who tries to make sense of it crazy This sounds l
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This is a good way put it, and it could be a useful goal for the individual to aim to speak as comfortably sober as under the influence of alcohol. However, it's very likely that most people don't act like this, or even know that
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>I also want to add this is a good example of why marketing should probably just be using tools like Insta, Twitter, FB etc to get their message out. Now if you actually have a good company blog w/ good resources than that's di
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Or staying late at a party and speaking with the last few people to leave, really opening up to them. The way life turned out though, I'm not in touch with any of those people anymore. The idea of >"You get tired, you say goodb
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I've had a similar experience with certain groups of people, but not all social groups are like that. Most recently, the groups of people I currently know overwhelmingly don't drink alcohol when I see them; sobriety when meeting u
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>[...] you like yourself less with your inhibitions removed but, in my experience, that is all alcohol does This is medically implausible; alcohol has been clearly shown to negatively affect sleep, be addictive, reduce your coordination,

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