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by sridca 8y ago
Have you ever stopped to think where this 'watching TV is wasting time' belief originates from?
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by sridca 8y ago
An useful mnemonic of GTD: https://gettingthingsdone.com/five-steps/
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by sridca 8y ago
And sarcasm is the lowest form of humor.
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by sridca 8y ago
This is not to say that his advice is useless. I think it can be useful from certain contexts in life. But for any ultimate achievement in what is humanly possible one needs to look beyond what he professes to be possible.
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by sridca 8y ago
It can[1] but most people including Peterson himself do not care. He alludes to this in his book's introduction. [1] http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/sundry/floggedmisconceptions...
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by sridca 8y ago
I would take anything Mr. Peterson produces with a pinch of salt, as his advice and theories stem from the assumption that one can't change human nature.
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by sridca 8y ago
Wow, this app is really cool. Been using it to map out ideas about different things in my life. Thanks for sharing.
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by sridca 8y ago
Very interesting idea. Basically like mind maps but you can have structured content (eg: lists) in the nodes?
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by sridca 8y ago
Yea, but watch how soon it becomes outdated as the file changes.
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by sridca 8y ago
I was into Vipassana meditation. I warn anyone getting into meditation. It leads to dissociation (an extreme form of everyday withdrawal from emotions) which creates the illusion that one is "happy" or "not bored". PM me
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by sridca 8y ago
Quite interesting to see (single) Westerners moving to Asia to find happiness, all the while here I'm born in India but had moved to the West to find independence and opportunities. Right now I'm looking towards achieving a balanc
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by sridca 8y ago
I prefer to be well-informed[1] than think about it for five minutes. And no wonder you can't cite any specific study I requested for. :P [1] https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU
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by sridca 8y ago
Why Chinese?
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by sridca 8y ago
Definitely find a new job. Take the courage to face the uncertainty. That's what I did, and I'm happier than before. Think of it is as the mental equivalent of all those physically risky activities people do (mountain climbing, et
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by sridca 8y ago
Where did this "8 hours" figure come from? I find it funny that people want to get this mysterious 8 hours of sleep while here I'm wanting to sleep less (I routinely get 9-10 hours or even more every night despite drinking
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by sridca 8y ago
> So far I think the trick is to live a poorer lifestyle than your income suggests you ought to, which drastically reduces all financial and employment pressure Yes. And then if you can find a high-paying job that allows you to work less
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by sridca 8y ago
> I also tried to use Haskell for personal projects, which I thought would a good fit for strong typing: a library for physical units/dimensions. I also failed on that, it quickly became a mess. In what specific way we could have im
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by sridca 8y ago
I'd like to hear of even one of those hundreds of studies that shows that a strict carnivore diet (not a hybrid diet) leads to those problems. I bet you can't because they don't exist. If so the words you write here are but r
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by sridca 8y ago
Fixing the gut is impossible in certain cases. And carnivore diet has be shown to cause no long-term problems in subjects before.
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by sridca 8y ago
Nutritionists are mostly useless ; you are better off doing self-experimentation.
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by sridca 8y ago
Have you tried the carnivore diet?
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by sridca 8y ago
Devil's Advocate (also personal experience): http://meatheals.com
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by sridca 8y ago
> The correct response to this used to be "wow, that's pretty cool that they can make this work in a browser". Yes, but that would way too non-cynical for the HN psyche.
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by sridca 8y ago
What about languages like Haskell, which are also growing nowadays?
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by sridca 8y ago
I'd love to have something like this but with texts available in varied areas, eg: programming (such as Haskell learning).
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by sridca 8y ago
Yup. It's one-line config in NixOS (`services.tlp.enable = true;`).
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by sridca 8y ago
Diets are superficial solutions to the problem of gluttony.
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by sridca 8y ago
For what it's worth, Lenovo is running a 40% discount on the X series this week (Canadian EPP).
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by sridca 8y ago
> what I like most is the ability to re-create my working environment on any hardware from USB key in 15 minutes Could you elaborate on this?
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by sridca 8y ago
I develop using GHCJS, so 32GB memory is recommended. But there is no Chromebook with that much RAM, is there?

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