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by vjk800 4y ago
Is it a bad sign if I found it completely comprehensible? OP saw fossils everywhere. I can sort of see how someone who has "lost their marbles" might see rocks in such a way. Overall it sounds very Lovecraftan with ancient giant m
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by vjk800 4y ago
> Most people with high blood pressure have it because of metabolic disease/chronic stress/lifestyle, and it can be managed with changes to diet exercise and meds. Do we know this though? If, as the article claims, the lesions
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by vjk800 4y ago
Can someone who knows more about the field to comment on whether this is as revolutionary as it sounds?
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I've somehow weirdly gone from being good with names to being bad with them, and I think this is probably right. I grew up in a small community where everyone knew each other and, of course, knew everyone's names. When I moved out
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by vjk800 4y ago
Is the drug a long-term solution either, though? Won't the users regain the weight after stopping the drug, exactly like people who stop dieting do? The trick with all lifestyle changes is to start as small as possible. Don't try
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by vjk800 4y ago
I can't understand how the banks in the US are so crappy. Here in Finland we've had instantaneous and free bank transfers for like 20-30 years. I used to wonder why the hell is Paypal so big, but then I learned that it's main
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> Also, one thing I'm thinking about now, I think a lot of people in the US are on stimulants (e.g. adderall) whereas I doubt this is really a thing in France. I've also read about many students in elite (mostly US) universitie
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by vjk800 4y ago
To be fair, the reaction is similar towards most of the other potentially addictive things also. People talk a lot about sugar addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, etc. but few are willing to do anything about it other than tell
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by vjk800 4y ago
There is no mechanism in existence to collectively decide anything. It's why things suck in general.
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Another surprise to some people might be cooking fats. The olive oil you use to fry your vegetables might easily be hundreds of calories.
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by vjk800 4y ago
Real world is messy. Sharp definitions and unambiguous statements about anything are not possible. Everything is, in the end, politics. Our collective way of dealing with this is packaging all the complicated questions inside an abstraction
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by vjk800 4y ago
You just have to empty the tarp often enough. I guess it depends on where you live, but here in Finland it certainly snows often enough in the winter that you don't have to think about it, you just keep it in place all winter.
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by vjk800 4y ago
And this is the time they at least pretend to be working. The amount of hours they actually do something productive is going to be much less.
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by vjk800 4y ago
I already work (remotely) much less than my contract says. I simply can't stay engaged to cognitively demanding tasks for a full day. The rest of the time I just feel kinda bad for slacking, which increases my stress levels for no good
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by vjk800 4y ago
Thank you.
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This is so close to my thinking about these things that it's almost scary considering it came from a person who presumably lives halfway across the planet from me. Since we are in HN, I feel obliged to ask: how do we fix this?
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by vjk800 4y ago
Certainly chemistry also has abstractions that make it easier to handle. For instance, acids and bases are such; if you know something is an acid, you can trust it to behave in certain ways in certain situations regardless of the microscopi
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by vjk800 4y ago
This is also how I remember my childhood and even early teenage years. My friends would just pop over unannounced and ask me out to play or play sports or something. Also relatives and grandparents would do this occasionally since basically
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by vjk800 4y ago
In essence: yes, you can build a chest fridge out of the parts you scavenge from your vertical door fridge.
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by vjk800 4y ago
As a very low self-esteem person, I envy the self-confidence of the author. In high school he seems more of a man than I will ever be.
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Do this and now you also have an incentive to first spend money frivolously so that "savings" can later be easily found.
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by vjk800 4y ago
> If knowledge is on a single person alone, then your ex-company has bigger issues than framework or no framework. You are both right and also describing every single company I've seen. I haven't worked in a straight up softwa
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I always bring this up in discussions with social scientists and economists who maintain 99% or 95% significance level as the standard above which results from their studies get accepted. It's ridiculous; we can expect 1 or 5 in a hund
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by vjk800 4y ago
It's still more unique than anything before as long as the number of buckets is larger than the number of available TV channels was a few decades ago or the number of available newspapers was a century ago. Also, one point is that thos
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The point is, there's not need for everything to be 100% reliable in this context. If a fire destroys everything and their computational resources is unavailable for a few days, that's somewhat okay. Not ideal, but not a catastrop
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by vjk800 4y ago
This makes more sense than "you have to eat protein within one hour from exercising". Why? Because wouldn't it take a lot longer for the protein to get digested in your body? Possibly many hours, depending on the source of pr
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by vjk800 4y ago
This is an excellent idea. I need to be a bit wealthier to do it though.
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Spot on. I don't want independence and I have no use for power. I just want to focus on having fun and spending time with good people without managing every single minor aspect of my life and having responsibility over stuff I don&#x27
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When I was a graduate student, I often participated in summer schools and conferences where there was a strict schedule that included two or three meals a day. I absolutely loved it. I would like to live all of my life so that someone else
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by vjk800 4y ago
> The world needs multiple parties providing unbiased in-depth reviews, but there's very little will to pay for even one group to do something like this. Ironically, paying for information in the information age seems almost comical

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