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Re:Having Kids (2019) on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:49PM (#47458095)
Talking to a psychotherapist or reading fiction might help you feel more at ease. It's a crazy, contradictory world. I wish you well.
Re:Having Kids (2019) on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:45PM (#47458036)
> Tired of doing this alone?

That's some pretty ironic copy xD

It's still debated whether Lenin died of syphilis. It's less wrong to say he died of strokes.
BMAA and domoic acid induce extremely similar symptoms and are certainly on the rise in the water there.

My theory is that this hypothesis is shut down by the fishing industry.

> Any psychotherapist ... tries to create a heavy dependence to their patents, not so chemical but behavioral and psychological, which they call patient bonding.

This world view is extreme, not true, and directly harmful to your mental health.

You should consider talking to a psychotherapist about why you feel that way :^)

In all seriousness, the world is a much more pleasant place when you discard extremist views and accept the good with the bad.

Re:Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:46PM (#46415694)
I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning.

By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it.

When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't.

It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.

Re:Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:04PM (#46412481)
> Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times.

It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year.

I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.

Re:Bhutan Debuts Gold-Backed Token on Solana on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:44AM (#46245854)
I was talking about gold ETFs.

The blockchain in this context has no bureaucracy, no ability to freeze your assets, and no delays.

Fiat brokerage and banking accounts suffer all those properties.

Re:Bhutan Debuts Gold-Backed Token on Solana on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:24PM (#46234243)
> What incentive does Bhutan have to cater to foreign investor interests?

Bhutan is actively encouraging foreign investment for obvious reasons. For example, see Gelephu Mindfulness City [1]. The King and his government have published their reasoning.

> Who/what determines the token values? Is it based on market demand for tokens or the market price of gold? If the price of gold increases 50%, are token values guaranteed to follow suit?

Yes. Presumably there is a redemption mechanism, providing arbitrageurs opportunities to close price discrepancies between the token and spot gold for a profit.

> I'm trying to understand the advantage here over ETFs

The vast majority of Earth's population doesn't have access to US-based ETFs. Second, if a significant amount of your assets are already on chain, it's painful to move them back to a fiat-based brokerage account to buy a gold ETF; you risk the whims of an arbitrary bureaucracy, frozen assets and delays over which you have no control.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelephu_Mindfulness_City

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:29AM (#46192610)
You can buy an ETF that wraps spot crypto and get all those guarantees you name in exchange for a small fee.
Re:Perpetual Futures on Saturday December 06, 2025 @03:11AM (#46171554)
That's just patently false.

> Importantly, HyperCore does not rely on the crutch of off-chain order books. A core design principle is full decentralization with one consistent order of transactions achieved through HyperBFT consensus.

Re:Perpetual Futures on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:16PM (#46169154)
> HyperCore includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently with one-block finality inherited from HyperBFT. HyperCore currently supports 200k orders / second, with throughput constantly improving as the node software is further optimized.

Key part:

> fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:24PM (#45871143)
1 diamond = 1 cent

Prices are about to drop dramatically. Many of the models dropped >80% in price since initial launch. Any time I have a reduction in cost, I pass the savings directly on to users.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @04:45PM (#45869492)
https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

Create video game sprites and animations via prompts.

Pretty excited because I've started to get high volume, repeat customers.

Yes, and this dichotomy has been analyzed by political and economic theorists for centuries and everyone except autocrats and slave owners has agreed that the conditions surrounding the "work_output : labor_cost" jobs you describe are a huge miscarriage of justice and ought to be discarded with the past. Whether that is predicted to occur via bloody revolution or capitalist accelerationism is a matter of your particular economic and philosophical taste. But every ethical human being says we shouldn't treat people like that.
Why do you care?

Basic human decency says your workplace environment should be chill enough to let you take breaks as you, yourself, dictate. If you're underperforming because of it, you're fired. Enforcing a rule as you claim strips the employee of what little respect they have left. To be honest, your suggestion is sickening to me.

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