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I always thought that way about genius level.
Re:Ask HN: Does Duolingo Work? on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:38PM (#42403656)
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.
Re:Why South Korean women aren't having babies on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:09AM (#39536853)
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.

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn to stretch effectively? on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:53PM (#35561229)
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 exercise. My whole routine was approx 20minutes and took me daily for 3 months to achieve the angles that are checked by physio therapist.
Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?
What positions are you hiring?
After you solve it, please share :)
Re:Support Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:43PM (#31390387)
So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts. On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.
Re:Columbia's Sachs Criticizes NATO's Handling of Ukraine on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:10AM (#30499429)
What might be the reason..?
Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you were president? on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:21AM (#29634580)
Call in all inteligence heads and ask the most important question: do aliens exist?
After reading the quote “Most men give advices by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” W.R.Alger. I stopped giving advices.
Re:How I stay motivated working on my long-term project on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:19AM (#24478378)
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 months. You will have to train 3 times a week, probably you won't hire a couch, your body won't be ready, hence you will make many mistakes and will have quite high chances to injure your self and quit. What I want to emphasize - to succeed you have to start loving the process and blend the process into your lifestyle.

I see very clearly how the goal oriented approach fails for loosing weight while the only effective thing to do is eat less.

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 to support a lavish lifestyle of connected people.
Searching for exercises having an efect and taking as less time as possible looks like panacea.
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.
Re:Ask HN: 2020 goals and resolutions? on Thursday December 26, 2019 @07:05PM (#21887953)
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.
Re:The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:06AM (#21345383)
The analogy about muscle streching is wrong.
Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018) on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:30AM (#21177820)
Not the same situation. Roads are used and paid for maintainance by business. Subways/undergrounds are not used by business.
Re:Vital Wikipedia Articles on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:35AM (#20534264)
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 wikipedia became a western culture mirror. On the other hand it is sad that you can not get insights into other cultures without western culture filter.
Re:Tiny flats taking over Latin America on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:43AM (#20361459)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Data Science portfolio projects ideas on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:15AM (#20080800)
Nice post and sounds like a screenplay of Slumdog Millionaire.
Re:Why isn't 1 a prime number? on Monday April 29, 2019 @05:23AM (#19776923)
will have to change my phone code.
Re:Thinking on Your Feet on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:29AM (#19737677)
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 yourself unconditionally.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a27225884/kipchoge-is-read...

Re:Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:24AM (#19569300)
My version of the saying is - what does not kill you cripples you.
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 leaders older than 30+ years old and these guys were not good at negotiation.

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.
Re:The Troika Laundromat on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:13AM (#19317452)
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 assume huge amounts can be or are stolen from ofshore companies.
Funny. If imported ppl were IQ=72 they would not hijack Norway wellfear system :D
Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:44PM (#18720011)
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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