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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   Yes, that sounds very similar. One thing I didn't mention was that when my daughter finally started swimming, she would swim underwater until she ran out of air and then stand up. The traditional school would never have allowed this, a
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   My parents have five siblings each, but I only have a sister. I know it sounds bad, but I wonder if having less kids makes you worry more about keeping them safe. Perhaps my parents just sort of continued with how they grew up, but limited
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   We vacationed in Berlin last summer with two kids, and that place is famous for its fantastic playgrounds. It was rare to see the same designs repeated over and over as you do in other cities, and each playground was more or less unique. As
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   Both my kids have been sure that they know how to swim when too young to have even tried. We signed them up for swimming lessons to make them respect water a bit more, and of course learn how to swim. They don't need to figure out that
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   > I've never understood the second type, to be honest. If you have a deadline, why not just do it quickly, so you're done with it? I listened to this podcast recently, which was very good: https://www.artofmanliness.
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   I've read that predictions on the future made by pessimists end up closer to reality than by optimists. It might make sense to plan for the worst from a practical perspective, to limit unnecessary risks. But on the other hand, people w
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   by scandinavegan 8y ago

   Thank you for this perspective. I think it's very important to seek outside help. I've recently started therapy (four sessions so far), and I really struggle with self-criticism and self-worth in that I question if I should take u
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   by scandinavegan 9y ago

   Also nothing to do with the European Speedrunner Assembly, which coincidentally is streaming a week of video game speedrunning right now. Link for the interested: https://esamarathon.com/
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   by scandinavegan 9y ago

   At least a few years ago in Sweden, all cases where someone had payed a fine for downloading pirated material due to such letters was because the person admitted guilt. The anti-piracy organizations had no way of forcing someone to pay, bec
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    I read a great article years ago where a Disney executive argued that they had to view pirating as a competing business model, and provide a better experience instead of just trying to shut it down. Disney and pirates compete on price, qual
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    That's the good stuff! I recommend Satantango, and all of Bergman.
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    I have an uncle who waters all his plants every Saturday. Those who survive stay, those who die are tossed. Survival of the fittest in action.
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    I'm happy that Race Track is there (in Other)! It's like a super minimalistic version of Car Wars, but still very fun. You get the same realization of "Oh shit, I'm going too faaast!" when you're about to lose
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    > (commute, chores, eating, exercise etc.) I agree with you completely, but you didn't even mention kids. The other stuff, chores, eating, exercise, and so on, can be moved around in time, but kids require constant attention in the
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    I'm pretty sure I read here on Hacker News that one idea to advertise the exact same product that you just bought (I had that with a basketball I got for my daughter) is that they want you to feel good about the purchase. If you see it
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    Sketches are further removed from reality than photographs, so the viewer would know that this is the artist's interpretation of the event. If you bring a camera and take 100 or 1000 shots of someone, you can pick any one of them to ac
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    Oh, messed up formatting and too late to edit. Here it is: - Average consumption for U.S. is 100 grams/day - Protein requirements: -- 40 grams/day for females -- 55-70 grams/day or 0.8 grams/kg body weight for males - Re
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    I read a scientific book on sports health a couple of years ago, but I can't remember the title. I've tried to remember the title before and have searched my library history, because it said that even if you do heavy strength trai
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    Thanks for the summary. I haven't read the book yet, but I'll have to sometime. It's interesting that on one side you have Carnegie's "make them feel important to make them interested in you" and on the other s
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    Even if it's presumptuous, what's the worst that could happen? I think you should email and see what happens. As a consultant and employee, I would be a bit surprised by such an email because I'm not in a position to hire peo
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    > Then try again. This is very important, as well as, as you say, just doing it. You (the general you) have a better chance of going on a date if you ask ten people than if you ask only one. You need to be able to handle that not every i
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    > So that would point to Feynman's calculus book being "Calculus for the Practical Man" by J.E.Thompson rather than Silvanus P Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy", whose second edition came out in 1914. I would
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    For what it's worth, I got your point through the examples and I think that posing the right questions to get to more fruitful territory is an excellent observation. The question is how to identify which questions lead to good conversa
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    by scandinavegan 9y ago

    There's a quote under "Skill theory" on that page from Feynman: > "Right. I don't believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math, and the rest of the world is normal. Math
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    I've never seen this description before, saying that introverts are tense and extroverts peaceful. If you put them in an empty room, you could instead easily picture the introvert being calm and the extrovert tense due to a lack of hum
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    I was mainly thinking about soybeans, not humans eating grass. 75% of soy bean production goes to animal feed, and more than 50% of US, and 40% of worldwide, grain production goes to animals instead of directly to humans, where it's in
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao-tse (Laozi). This is my favorite translation: http://www.wright-house.com/religions/taoism/tao-te-ching.ht... The text gives advice on both how to behave on a personal level and how
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    I don't know if I ever started reading the book, or if I never gave it a chance, because I was so put off by Singer's utilitarianism. I turned vegetarian in the mid-nineties because my first girlfriend was vegetarian. It coincided
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    Even if we kept those animals around for human consumption, we could cut the rest 99.9% out to save resources. As a pragmatical vegan, I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. Lambs are usually slaughtered after 6 months. In Sweden, to use a
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    by scandinavegan 10y ago

    Do you get these high-altitude grazing New Zeeland lamb at Costco? Most lambs are raised in the lamb factory.