jvln

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by jvln 5mo ago
I always thought that way about genius level.
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by jvln 2y ago
I am always joking that duolingo sells a dream to speak foreign language fluently. My argument is I have not seen a person claiming learned a language on the platform.
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by jvln 3y ago
Is not it just to expensive? While having a child you must pay for daycare, school, evening baby sitting. Next to that if the family splits the woman is doing most of the child care alone. Sounds like to much risk.
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by jvln 3y ago
I created a playlist that tells the strech exercise name and then beeps every 20s. Efective stretch takes between 20-30s and the strength of it should be such that the intensity phases out at the end of the 20s. I did 3x20s for every exerci
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by jvln 4y ago
Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?
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by jvln 4y ago
What positions are you hiring?
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by jvln 4y ago
After you solve it, please share :)
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by jvln 4y ago
So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts. On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.
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by jvln 5y ago
What might be the reason..?
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by jvln 5y ago
Call in all inteligence heads and ask the most important question: do aliens exist?
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by jvln 6y ago
After reading the quote “Most men give advices by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” W.R.Alger. I stopped giving advices.
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by jvln 6y ago
My two cents. I prefer analogy with sport. Say you choose running and pick 10k distance. What might be the goal? 50min, 40min, 30min? Say you pick 50min, if you are out of shape and did not do sport in your life - it will take you 6-9 month
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by jvln 6y ago
I just finished reading https://www.billiondollarwhale.com/ book. The book tells a story how 11Billion USD were stolen. After seeing $17B losses I hardly can believe that a big chunk of it or most of it were not funnelled t
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by jvln 6y ago
Searching for exercises having an efect and taking as less time as possible looks like panacea.
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by jvln 6y ago
That is an interesting question. I would like to buy a nice painting or a sculpture but how can I distinguish a piece that is worth considering.
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by jvln 7y ago
I improved my flexibility whithin 6 months by visiting a physiotherapist. I visited her once per month. She checked my angles and muscle strenght then gave me a custom routine of exercices and streches each time.
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by jvln 7y ago
The analogy about muscle streching is wrong.
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by jvln 7y ago
Not the same situation. Roads are used and paid for maintainance by business. Subways/undergrounds are not used by business.
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Ask HN: How to improve product intuition skills?
8 points by jvln 7y ago|3 comments
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by jvln 7y ago
What I want to emphasize is that majority of articles represent western democratic, capitalistic, liberal culture. Reading these articles you won’t learn anything extra that you were tought in school. On one hand it is ammusig how english w
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by jvln 7y ago
As I see it - the land is owned by the city and city is lobbied by other landlords to keep all the crimes in a closed teritory. If you dismantle slums the people will spread all over the city and the crimes will follow.
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by jvln 7y ago
Nice post and sounds like a screenplay of Slumdog Millionaire.
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by jvln 7y ago
will have to change my phone code.
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by jvln 7y ago
Another runner - marathon world record holder - Eliud Kipchoge. “If you want to break through, your mind should be able to control your body,” he said. “Your mind should be a part of your fitness.” As I see it - you have to believe yoursel
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by jvln 7y ago
My version of the saying is - what does not kill you cripples you.
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by jvln 8y ago
There is a theory that some math problems are not solved because people who are solving them have to few time to think on them. Other theory states that 100 years war between France and England lasted so long because there were left 0 leade
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by jvln 8y ago
Good point. I was trying to vocalise this feeling but did not find the right explanation why I enjoyed so much the selection of random stuff.
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by jvln 8y ago
After panama papers I realized that money are moved using fax machines. It seems to start moving money you need to know company name and its representetive. Having this info sending a fax stating move money from A to B is sufficient. I assu
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by jvln 8y ago
Funny. If imported ppl were IQ=72 they would not hijack Norway wellfear system :D
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by jvln 8y ago
Last year my 1 year old baby had an accident in Germany. She fell off of a bed. I took her to an ER and after the examination I paid approx. 100€ = ~100usd. I assume in USA I would have paid 10kUSD or more..

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