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by rv-de 8y ago
> A lot of people here are playing semantics and ignoring the message of the article just to be "clever". Welcome to Hacker News!
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by rv-de 8y ago
that's more or less what I wrote. but in many cultures touching food with your bare hands for the purpose of eating is considered barbaric. that's why I suspect that the problem isn't the knife - it's having to use your
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by rv-de 8y ago
I was intending to refer to kitchen knives. In that area there is nothing chef knife sized below 100 Euro with carbon steel.
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by rv-de 8y ago
I was just wondering how having only a knife helps with eating. The knife will just make the food bite-sized - though, how do you fixate the meal while cutting? Then it struck me - you'll use your other hand for that and also for movin
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by rv-de 8y ago
Carbon steel just looks beautiful and ages so naturally. It's really hard to find knives with blades not made of stainless steel - at least in reasonable price ranges.
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by rv-de 8y ago
I noticed that in cultures where violence is a more accepted form of behavior it is much less likely that someone will bump into me on a busy street. In places like Split (Croatia) or Istanbul there is more natural inclination to grant some
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by rv-de 8y ago
The photo shows a beer bottle and he refers to the development as "brewing". Being a home brewing enthusiast - that sure caught my attention.
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by rv-de 8y ago
I totally understand your feelings. My main approach is that I try to embrace and accept doom. It's going to come anyway. I also don't believe there is any real value in a survival of the human race. The end was always going to co
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by rv-de 8y ago
Are you speaking from personal experience?
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by rv-de 8y ago
Well the good news is you can go ahead an push that button and still keep your electric toothbrush!
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by rv-de 8y ago
Well, I am not a Libertarian. I am for regulation in many cases. The difference between a safety rail and traffic lights are this. When I approach an intersection then my health depends more the prudence of the car's driver also approa
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by rv-de 8y ago
I think the prevalent assumption on HN is that every regulation can be traced back to some accident or mistake. It is impossible to put safety rails everywhere (both literally and metaphorically). Some people will try to make selfies on the
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by rv-de 8y ago
You totally make a valid point. But I would literally remove all those safety rails. People just have to keep a safe distance from the edge of the cliff.
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by rv-de 8y ago
@jimmaswell: "Relevant note here is that Elon actually smokes it himself" Also Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman etc. (of course that doesn't prove anything - but it helps keeping things in proportion)
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by rv-de 8y ago
That's such a proud and confident thing to say. No need for a throwaway account. I would argue that striving for success is often the best way to actually not reach one's fullest potential.
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by rv-de 8y ago
Or a matter of definition? For me banal means reading a novel or playing a game. Maybe that's because the term "banal" in German means just almost the same as in English. The German "banal" just means "nothing
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by rv-de 8y ago
I do - for me feeling bored means facing some kind of a vacuum. A lack of motivation and inspiration. When you deeply look into this it is for me often the only moment that makes me feel inspired. Of course it can cause weariness and if one
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by rv-de 8y ago
Good point - personally, I am skeptical whether weed increases creativity. I never experienced that. I just don't like the weed-bashing from the angle of the you-have-to-be-productive-dogma.
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by rv-de 8y ago
What's wrong with "banal" activities?
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by rv-de 8y ago
And how is that bad? Okay - so you normally would feel unpleasant. Now you don't because of weed. Of course you can argue weed is unhealthy - totally possible. But regarding the perceived state change. How is that causing harm? Because
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by rv-de 8y ago
I think it depends on your definition of boredom. What does feeling bored mean to you?
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by rv-de 8y ago
What does "true freedom" mean to you? Having to find something to eat every couple of days or being at the mercy of the weather is also restricting freedom. I think freedom is a state of mind which can be compared with "accep
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by rv-de 8y ago
I believe that we should expect responsible behavior from adults. Only this way a society can also develop responsibility. By prohibiting everything that is dangerous (or just considered as such) humans never actually get a chance to grow u
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by rv-de 8y ago
> pot makes you feel fine with being bored. How do you define "boredom"? According to Oxford Dictionary it means: "Feeling weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity.&quo
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by rv-de 8y ago
Then again though - those tools actually worked. While those podcasts don't.
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by rv-de 8y ago
Interesting article. There was a discussion of it recently on here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18269846 .
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by rv-de 8y ago
Maybe they just grew up with Windows 95 where switching off and on solved 99% of issues.
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by rv-de 8y ago
> and I suspect that the mental impact is not due to the caffeine per se but due to the culture around it I would assume that people who consume excessive amounts of a sweat fluid from neon colored cans with ridiculous names tagged on it
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by rv-de 8y ago
One could argue that to somebody with racist inclination a black person wearing a hi-viz might look even more credible.
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by rv-de 8y ago
When I am super-(dis)stressed then my mental constitution is best characterized by a constant high level of fear. Which is unsettling by itself and will give me a strong urge to leave this situation. From that angle I find it surprising tha

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