Habits are hard to break but I've also found it surprisingly easy to manipulate yourself by putting an annoying obstacle in the way. For getting work on time I can't snooze-beat the combination of a wake up light and a distantly located mobile alarm.
On internet use restriction the best solution so far has been to use a simple electronic plug timer connected to a laptop without a battery. Zap - no internet for you.
There ought to be a solution that installs itself into the computer's firmware though. Most of us on HN install new operating systems at a much higher rate than the typical user so having a persistent solution would be huge.
@bachbach: As you guessed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18191949) your account does appear to be banned as of today, your comments are autodead, and vouching for them does not vivify them. As none of your comments seem offensive, and since you don't seem to have been flooding the submissions, it doesn't make sense to me. You should write to 'hn@ycombinator.com' and ask what's up.
It's a fad. That said, the texture/sweetness of the pearls can vary a lot. (They're pretty finicky to cook correctly), so you are going to get a pretty big range of quality.
That said, I prefer egg custard if I get milk tea.
Well, the powdery stuff is quite similar to non-dairy creamer and thus is extremely delicious but also very very bad for your health, as they contain hydrogenated or even partially hydrogenated oils: thus may well contain trans fats!
personally, I always ask them to make it without any powders "no non-dairy creamers". in this case they'll use condensed milk or whole milk which is still bad for you but not as bad as trans fats.
Even elite University education in STEM is a terrible investment. All the people boostering it are recipients of multiple selection filters or from different age cohorts and really have no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
When you do the math - it's terrible compared to almost any other alternative - even minimum wage jobs.
This doesn't apply if you have a wealthy family and can be assured of a job with dad's company or other connections - but for a blue collar kid university is not a good route to fortune in the UK.
The level of effort required and the wages are simply not commensurate and everybody who thinks so is delusional because they're not comparing and contrasting the effort with other options. The stats are all skewed by confounding factors like half your class will be going to work for Goldman Sachs.
Modern universities are a way of manufacturing poor people with stunted ambitions, not upward social mobility.
Book V of the Wealth of Nations has a long passage about the ill effects of the division of labor (or more specifically, of the constant repetition of simple tasks) on the workers.
Cheers, that was a good read. I'd still attribute the argument to Marx, because Smith doesn't seem to link this effect with the inherent values of capitalism.
Turns out there's also a wikipedia page outlining the history of this line of reasoning:
Your supporting link says it has no substance - it's a simple meme that is wrong.
This subject annoys me because I am convinced that not only does the Horseshoe Theory have no predictive power - but also that it denies something which really is true - that political violence can come out of the Center aka from Liberalism.
This is a huge blindspot in modern political culture. Conflict coming out of the Center would be a true Black Swan event.
It is true and no argument is required - just observation of history.
If you examine the history of political philosophy of Liberalism you shall see immediately that Republicans and Democrats are both part of the Liberal Party.
I know some people come to this conclusion by viewing it as a conspiracy but it's really not.
That modern day Democrats are called Liberals causes confusion because from the historical context they are just a subset of Liberals. The older definition includes most Conservatives and Libertarians.
Political philosophy is a family tree. If you go back into the history you find that apparent enemies are more accurately described as competitors.
This is demonstrated in the present each time there is an external threat too.
Communism and Monarchy are both Western political philosophies that reject Liberalism. If you say far right or far left and this group still supports the goals of political Liberalism then you've made a category error.
I use the keep warm feature on my instant pot as an alternative to a microwave. I'm not paranoid about microwaves - I just don't like constantly cleaning them.
So instead install a weight sensor and estimate based on that how long to zap stuff. There has been 0 progress in microwaves for a long time now, while many many easy improvements seem rather obvious to most people.
Personally I'd love for my microwave to have bluetooth so it'd make my phone beep when it's done.
People are definitely reluctant to retract that bit of gospel and it's not a good look. IIRC Flynn himself was circumspect and the memory is uncertain but I thought he pointed to the recent reversal too.
This sort of collective amnesia happens often if you look out for it and this makes me suspicious of other conventional wisdom I see peddled here and on Reddit. Is it probably true because a lot of people think so or is it true because it chimed with a story. The mind warping powers of politics are well known but maybe the conceit every person shares is that we feel there ought to be a nice coherent story like a box to put things into - meanwhile Reality/Nature/God gives zero fucks about all that.
On internet use restriction the best solution so far has been to use a simple electronic plug timer connected to a laptop without a battery. Zap - no internet for you.
There ought to be a solution that installs itself into the computer's firmware though. Most of us on HN install new operating systems at a much higher rate than the typical user so having a persistent solution would be huge.