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by vjk800 3y ago
I took piano classes for several years as a child and they made me learn all the scales somewhere around the age of 12 or something. It was standard practice and I can't imagine anyone who took classes in the same music education syste
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by vjk800 3y ago
The lack of information (or information asymmetries ) are such a huge deal and not often appreciated. I would pay a lot more for many small electronic gadgets if I knew that they would 1) work better and 2) last longer than the cheap ones.
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by vjk800 3y ago
> But ok, at least with a therapist, another human being cares enough to want to help, and that can make a difference. That's sort of my point. They don't actually care, they help you because you pay them. I don't know if
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by vjk800 3y ago
To be fair, regular therapy is also slightly dehumanising and dystopian. Not too long ago we had cultural constructions to prevent the issues we are now solving with therapy. Do you lack social context, close relationships and meaningful in
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by vjk800 3y ago
I also have relatively bad GERD and I've also noticed it getting better when I have flu or some other minor illness. I think this is just because I eat less and move less. Moving less helps because sometimes random movements in a wrong
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by vjk800 3y ago
What I don't get about CEO compensations is, do they even work? Like I get that you're a high impact person and you should have the proper incentives to lead the company in the right direction, but do the crazy compensations actua
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by vjk800 4y ago
Everything you do on a computer is recorded, at least ephemerally, in the computer memory. Does deleting stuff from the memory count as destroying evidence? If not, how is it different from deleting stuff from somewhere else? I mean, deleti
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by vjk800 4y ago
What is the chat happens in a software that didn't have chat history feature in the first place? I mean it's Google, surely they could cook up a separate internal chat tool just for this purpose. And if the chat history didn'
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by vjk800 4y ago
I've been thinking of buying a wireless gaming headset too. How good is the Linux support on the dongles?
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by vjk800 4y ago
The same for me. I went into physics thinking I would be working with state of the art quantum mechanics powered magic technology (watching Stargate and other scifi shows as a teenager heavily influenced this). Instead I ended up in finance
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by vjk800 4y ago
I've had very similar thoughts about pessimism. I certainly am one. The fact that I don't expect a very good outcome doesn't mean I shouldn't try, because what the hell else can I do? At worst, I get useful information o
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by vjk800 4y ago
How did you get it treated? I've heard of the machines for this, but its not a very appealing option. I've also heard of exercises for neck/throat/jaw region, but do they work?
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by vjk800 4y ago
Exercising. More specifically aerobic exercising. High and low intensity both work, but you have to do enough to properly exhaust yourself, just 15 minutes of walking is not enough. And not doing anything too exciting or demanding 2-3 hours
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by vjk800 4y ago
The article quoted in the link ( https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00053... ) contains a list of plausible hypotheses and mechanisms for why some amount of fat might actually be good for you. I
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by vjk800 4y ago
You can, it's called veganism and lots of people do it. However, you don't have to be that "extreme". Just eating mostly vegetables and cutting out all the obvious crap will do. The fact that this is somehow unimaginab
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by vjk800 4y ago
Who the hell has train friends?
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by vjk800 4y ago
I've had enough lifestyle variation to say with quite good confidence that it's the aerobic exercising that helps me. Before I learned to manage my anxiety I tried to calm down by just, you know, lying down and trying to relax, bu
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by vjk800 4y ago
I don't have the source at hand, but I read somewhere that in many hunter-gatherer societies, pretty much all people walk 15-20 kilometers every day. Coincidentally, this is approximately equivalent to the the amount of exercising I ne
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by vjk800 4y ago
Alcohol works so well for me that I'm sort of scared of it. Often even after just one or two drinks I become the happiest and most sociable person on the planet.
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by vjk800 4y ago
Heavy exercising, especially aerobic exercising. Something light like half an hour walk isn't enough, I have to properly exhaust myself calm the fuck down. Some different workouts that are usually enough are: one hour of heavy barbell
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by vjk800 4y ago
A point that used to be made a lot in copyright wars discussions a decade ago was that most "old fashioned" professions (like plumber, carpenter, architect, etc.) only get paid once, not every time someone uses their product, wher
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by vjk800 4y ago
I have absolutely no knowledge of how well chefs in Seattle are paid, but I've heard from elsewhere that operating a high-end restaurant is far from a money machine. Head chef, unlike senior software developer or something, is a job th
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by vjk800 4y ago
Indeed. If your complaint is that you need to be a millionaire to get basic housing, it's because you live with other rich people. Since the overwhelming majority of humanity lives in houses with value far below 1M$, we can conclude th
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by vjk800 4y ago
I do grow a bit of food in my tiny yard (it's like 10, square meters) during the summer. It's only small amount of work, though, to plant the vegetables once and then harvest them a couple of months later.
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Ask HN: What useful physical hobbies there are?
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I'm one of those PhDs with zero domain knowledge analyzing data and I share the sentiment. Most of my analyses provide very little value because they are sort of common sense to people with domain knowledge. When I ask people what coul
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by vjk800 4y ago
I count banks as part of the world of finance. Why do bank transactions need to stop during bank holidays? They are done by computers nowadays.
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by vjk800 4y ago
Bots wouldn't be required to provide liquidity during night hours. People living on the other side of the world will do just fine. We live in a global world now and people can buy stocks wherever using the internet, not just in the phy
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by vjk800 4y ago
The world of finance is full of anachronisms like this. Exchanges are also closed on various bank holidays which are different in every country.
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by vjk800 4y ago
In David Graeber's book "Bullshit jobs", there's a quote from Barack Obama saying that strongest argument against overhauling the US health system is the millions of lost jobs from the insurance and adjacent industries.

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