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by vntx 6y ago
Really? I don’t really care much about winning or losing. I play them because they’re fun and because I can try novel approaches to solve novel problems. The reward for me has never been about winning. It’s about being able to trying new t
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by vntx 6y ago
Sorry, don’t have any specific papers for you, but if you google around you’ll find the general consensus is if you’re forced to focus on any mentally straining task for a prolonged period, it’ll generally help your mental abilities. If the
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by vntx 6y ago
Some things that have been extremely useful for me: Play video games that require intense focus for prolonged durations to perform well like Starcraft 2, CSGO, DOTA 2 helped me build mental endurance. Reduce social media. I’ve found that th
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by vntx 6y ago
This is optimal advice. I got a full ride to a decent state university but I wasted the first 3/4 trying to figure everything out myself because my high school college advisors were useless and because my parents had never been to coll
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by vntx 7y ago
I need to start reading Discworld.
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by vntx 7y ago
> HN doesn't seem to have the same issue (at least not to the point it dominates the character of the platform), despite it being essentially a clone of old-school Reddit. That is because PG sets clear rules and actively experiments
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by vntx 7y ago
I don’t see why you would get downvoted for this. Your statement sounds reasonable to me. I think you offended someone. HN really needs to show the flaggers username so there can be more checks and balances against this kind of emotional ce
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by vntx 7y ago
Right. Vietnam still is a communist country in that respect. The government still owns all the land and is legally leasing it to its citizens and foreigners. In reality, now that Vietnam is increasingly open to the world economy the governm
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by vntx 7y ago
So they put the type of guys who like to cut costs at the expense of everything else, including safety measures in charge? I feel safer too!
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by vntx 7y ago
I chose iOS because its UX is simple and responsive. Apple’s smartphones offer a much friendlier UX for people new to technology. It’s simplicity was what helped my parents transition to the digital age considering they grew up in dirt-poor
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by vntx 7y ago
> None of this helped if you didn’t know the material well enough to identify the legal issues in each question. My machine learning professor who was from CMU would allow us to put anything we wanted on both sides of one piece of printe
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by vntx 7y ago
> For example, it would be nice to have tests at university where I can google things, just like in the real world. One of the best professors I had at university for a Linux course always said: “If you don’t know something, google it!”
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by vntx 7y ago
Boy, how lucky I am. The probability of me stumbling upon this informative gem would have been pretty low if I hadn’t been lurking around HN.
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by vntx 7y ago
These are very salient questions. Context cannot be ignored. I’ve experienced these toxic environments where good sleep and healthy food was almost impossible to obtain and it can be crippling. I got a full-ride to university, but could not
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by vntx 7y ago
You are conflating money and wealth which are not always the same. Money is a medium of exchange and price is the subjective measure of how the market values wealth. As some comments stated, most of the money Jeff owns come in the form of s
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by vntx 7y ago
You’re an asshole. If I could downvote your post, I would. JavaScript and CSS can add a lot of bloat, unnecessary load times, and add massive security vulnerabilities. Sometimes you just want information, you know, without waiting forever a
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by vntx 7y ago
Agreed, this approach is misguided. Removing standardized tests removes a useful metric admissions can use to analyze applicants as part of a holistic process. Is it a perfect metric? No, but the scores are good predictors for diligence whi
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by vntx 7y ago
>> “The Brits have an illustrious history of treating Chinese people well.” Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but you might have forgotten about the Opium Wars where no sides treated each other well, the Brits included.
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by vntx 7y ago
That’s cool that it works well , but aren’t there trade-offs for everything? This method seems to help your brain work more because it increases its metabolism but that might also cause your brain to age faster right? The harder you work so
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by vntx 7y ago
I couldn’t care less about tango either. For my friends, video games are a great platform for socializing. I’ve always enjoyed games like Pokémon, Age of Empires, WoW so my friends and I schedule time to play together. We played AoE II toge
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by vntx 7y ago
That hypothesis is sensible. According to The Male Brain, by psychiatrist Louann Brizendine, males have 2.5x the space devoted to sexual drive in the hypothalamus compared to females. By the time males reach puberty, guy’s sexual occupation
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by vntx 7y ago
This is great, but I assume we now have to deal with Blizzard’s always-online DRM shenanigans. I would like to be able to play games on LAN and not be required to connect to the web all the time.
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by vntx 7y ago
A Battlefield-like Starcraft FPS pitting you as a Terran marine against a Zerg invasion? That would have been cool.
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by vntx 7y ago
A Warcraft 3 world editor clone would be really good for game innovation. If someone was willing to start up a project like that, I would definitely help fund development. Blizzard’s world editing tools helped players innovate new genres li
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by vntx 8y ago
You should take a look at Dr Fuhrman’s Eat to Live and Dr Michael Greger’s How Not to Die. You should take into account that some whole plant high sugar or high starch foods like fruits and beans come packaged with fiber and other nutrients
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by vntx 8y ago
Could you be more specific? Why do you think it’s not inherently unhealthy. I’ll argue the contrary here. Humans are primates; we evolved to eat an unrefined plant-based diet. Consuming refined sugar is inherently unhealthy because it’s con