Brigadirk

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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   I found this out by chance, because my mom had 0.1mg pills and I laughingly took a few thinking they were a placebo amount.
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   Just curious: wouldn't this then show overwhelming health benefits or decreased mortality in people who regularly skip breakfast, and simply eat lunch and dinner?
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   Interesting idea. I'm currently learning German, which is rather similar to my native Dutch. Yet I'm learning most of it through English, because that's simply the language people tend to use for instruction material. Every n
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   I share your experience. But, I've recently read a book, The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater, a psychologist, wherein he argues that your brain does not crunch anything in the background, and only does what it focuses on. However, the situ
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   This is called the moral credential efffect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   I can't find the quote, but Buffett himself addresses this somewhere by saying that while you can get very lucky in finance, if the lucky ones all come from a particular city (Omaha) with a particular philosophy, something might be up.
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   I use a pomodoro-method timer addon that blocks a certain list of websites when it's ticking.
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
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   by Brigadirk 8y ago

   You can monetise it the same way as facebook. I'd be more than happy for my data to be sold and analysed, as long as they were used according to strict ethical guidelines. Perhaps worth giving DuckDuckGo a look, at how they're mak
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    I quite liked facebook. I don't have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    I also stopped sending it back in because every touchpad seemed to have the same scrolling issues. Then I tried installing Linux to see if the issues would be the same, and since then the trackpad has been working great. It's the reaso
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    Taken literally, I've learned that a bit of wine helps in writing, if and only if I was already writing before I started drinking the wine. And not too much wine.
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    I thought I was getting too fat in 2015. I went on an "eat half" diet. Literally lost weight eating pizza and drinking beer, just less than I needed. Lost 12 kilos. After this, I just ate as I felt like, with intermittent periods
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    Skimming the list in the article and then reading the reactions here on HN have been pretty helpful for me in identifying some of my own problems. E.g. annoyance with diplomacy.
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    Thank you for doing this. I'm currently working with deep learning but have never had Linear Algebra in school. Resources like this one, and the 3Blue1Brown video series on YouTube are a really nice way to get started.
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    by Brigadirk 8y ago

    I use the German Amazon for pretty much all my online shopping. Everything's on there, free shipping included.