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Relax with intent. Relax with the sole purpose of relaxing. Meditation would be the extreme case, I think.

No scrolling, no consuming media. Do something that involves little mental or physical capacity, but provides some holisitic benefit. Things that make you feel good on the whole.

In summary, do something where the point is to do it in order to relax, and not for any other point at all. Remove all mental load of stress about outcomes and instead immerse yourself in the present moment of relaxation.

Some methods that seem to work for myself and others are a good walk or a journaling session. A physical notebook to write in can be a bit more holistic than typing an entry into a keyboard. It can be hard to start, I just start with "captains log", then a date, and then my stream of thoughts.

Playing with small manipulatives can be good fun as well. Lego, K'nex, etc. I hear some people like painting models. Playing an instrument is also fantastic. Guitar is absurdly simple to learn the basics of (a servicable one can be had at a pawn shop or amazon for reasonably cheap), and then it's just a matter of grabbing some sheet music and practicing. If you let go of how good you actually sound, and instead assign value to the act of practicing, it is a great way to refresh.

Another great way is to read. A good book and a cup of tea is a very relaxing experience. I'll note that this should be pleasure reading, and not technical reading.

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

oh look, a gig economy

But add significant amounts of litter.

At least in North America, people will just toss their trash on the ground if there isn't a garbage can available, but if there is a bin around they will make use of it. Might be able to chalk that up to cultural differences when discussing Japan, however.

At the risk of being put on even more watchlists than the average person-

I wonder if it would be quite as easy to wreck similar havoc on a commuter rail as on an airplane. It seems that it is easier to induce catastrophic failure to a plane than it is to a train.

Interestingly, there have been attempts[1], specifically in North America, with no major addition of security checks to train boarding. I suppose it would take a full scale, 9/11 style event to induce the same sort of worry about travel. I'd say that trains have a pretty good safeguard built in: they're stuck on tracks. That makes them significantly harder to ram into buildings, by my reckoning.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Via_Rail_Canada_terrorism...

Personally, I would respect high school students enough to have them write actual lines of code and not drag and drop blocks. The Arduino language and libraries are abstracted enough as to not provide major difficulty.

Those who really have an aptitude for it will be able to implement datastructures and algorithms in it, and those that don't will be able to muddle through copying and pasting enough code to get it running.

Agreed, the general goal of dating apps is to generate pairs. But in order to generate the desired pair, as many pairs must be "brute forced" as possible, as efficiently as possible, is my point.

At least in chrome, mousing over a hyperlink pulls up the destination address in the bottom left corner (for now).

Just advertise wedding services really hard in the app. If you're really good at creating a market, capitalize on it.

>"this suggests women are actually looking for the wrong things when they use online dating apps"

That is quite the claim!

I don't think that applies here, although maybe I'm only right about users who understand what they are doing/have the right mindset.

I've lost the attribution, but someone said that "dating is a numbers game. The goal is to go on as many first dates as possible, to get in front of as many people as possible. At this, tinder (and associates) absolutely excel. There is no other way to reliably find a lot of single people to go on dates with."

why do you say that?

what is the "ask the busiest person you know" thing?

I (and plenty of other people) love and make use of services up until the second they are killed by Apple/Google/etc. Just because a big tech firm doesn't like the product doesn't mean it isn't viable as a smaller business.

It certainly does seem to be anticompetitive to (1) own the market, (2) collect the data about the market, and (3) actively use that data to replace or compete with third parties on the market. As per a comment below[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597614

The trees will be planted by the Arbor day foundation, and "in a variety of forests on public and private lands in areas of great need"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Trees

I think we're in an advertising bubble right now. The internet business model is going to need to change soon.

I love the meta debate about HN. I frequently click out of a thread after reading the first half of the first comment, it's always the same thing over and over. HN is a great as an aggregator of interesting article, but the discussion is frequently lacking substance.

Not that an outright ban is a good solution either, as there is a large discussion to have about what is and isn't political. Some people see some topics as inherently political, while others would say that they have nothing to do with politics.

So deciding what is and isn't banned becomes an inherently political statement.

I believe the poster above you meant "rogue", as in malicious but not strictly associated with a specific party.

In any case, it is almost impossible for someone to be truly neutral, especially in US politics. Having a company decide that they are the arbiter of this is dangerous. Especially google, which tends to come off as leaning towards one side of the debate.

Well there's a fine line between employees having a job duty as "participate in online forum" and straight up astroturfing.

Especially on sites like HN and reddit which are relatively easy to manipulate.

I don't know how comfortable I am with any company posting and promoting their own product/content. Even employees voting on posts seems like a potential conflict of interest to me.

Could you please explain how that explains it to someone who needs more explanation?

"Engineering is a team sport" - me

You need to be able to work with others to produce things, unless you always work alone. Social skills are a very important part of that.

It is funny that we have the "techies" (programmers, engineers, etc) designing and managing these social media platforms when the techies are stereotyped as awkward and antisocial.

Who decided that software developers should have the final say over how people interact? I feel like there's probably a field or two of experts on that that should be being consulted.

There's also a [store/boutique/experience/outlet/place where you pay for a thing] in my town where they just have neat sets for you to take photos in. There's a room of ducks, a fake bridge through a magical forest, an upside down room, etc.

The entire business model is selling tickets so people can take photos and post to social media. And it's a great one.

Don't we normally strive to be above average?

Hey, at least americans can vote on that propoganda.

Sublime-merge (the Gui git client from the sublime text people) is available in a portable version, and so can be run as a .exe from the filesystem, or a mountable drive. Comes with its own git binary.

The GUI is stunningly beautiful and functional, and there are more than enough keyboard shortcuts to keep things snappy once you're in the flow. I used to live and die by the terminal, now I am in love with sublime merge.

I used the portable version for a job where I didn't have install rights to the corporate laptop, and it preserved my workflow and kept me sane during my dev work. The portable version can run a little slow, but it's a pretty good solution.

Whitepapers are ads.

Cool ads, interesting ads, but still ads.

So which planet is mostest closest to Mercury?

The next largest circle?