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I found this out by chance, because my mom had 0.1mg pills and I laughingly took a few thinking they were a placebo amount.

Just curious: wouldn't this then show overwhelming health benefits or decreased mortality in people who regularly skip breakfast, and simply eat lunch and dinner?

Interesting idea. I'm currently learning German, which is rather similar to my native Dutch. Yet I'm learning most of it through English, because that's simply the language people tend to use for instruction material.

Every now and then when I'm doing English to German translation, I find myself puzzled and then have to remind myself "think about the Dutch word" only to then immediately understand/recall the German cognate. I'm sure someone talking to me in Dutch could have the same effect, and more broadly speaking, another 'attractor basin' may be activated by random chance, like the tired cliche of someone in a movie figuring out the 'case' as a result of their spouse or child mentioning something unrelated yet apparently analogous.

I share your experience. But, I've recently read a book, The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater, a psychologist, wherein he argues that your brain does not crunch anything in the background, and only does what it focuses on.

However, the situation you outlined still occurs because you can get stuck in a certain paradigm (e.g. "this name that I can't remember definitely starts with 's'"), which you effectively reset, in addition to simply returning re-energised. Still a good argument for breaks and less strenuous working hours.

This is called the moral credential efffect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

I can't find the quote, but Buffett himself addresses this somewhere by saying that while you can get very lucky in finance, if the lucky ones all come from a particular city (Omaha) with a particular philosophy, something might be up.

I use a pomodoro-method timer addon that blocks a certain list of websites when it's ticking.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

You can monetise it the same way as facebook. I'd be more than happy for my data to be sold and analysed, as long as they were used according to strict ethical guidelines.

Perhaps worth giving DuckDuckGo a look, at how they're making money.

I quite liked facebook. I don't have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).

I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn't respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I'd be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.

I also stopped sending it back in because every touchpad seemed to have the same scrolling issues. Then I tried installing Linux to see if the issues would be the same, and since then the trackpad has been working great. It's the reason I use Linux these days.

Taken literally, I've learned that a bit of wine helps in writing, if and only if I was already writing before I started drinking the wine. And not too much wine.

I thought I was getting too fat in 2015. I went on an "eat half" diet. Literally lost weight eating pizza and drinking beer, just less than I needed. Lost 12 kilos.

After this, I just ate as I felt like, with intermittent periods of damage control, where I'd revert to the diet for a few days here and there to either budget an upcoming event (e.g. Christmas), or pay for a recent one.

Works for me. Only note is to watch out with sugar & alcohol, as both can turn on the 'fuck it I WANT THIS NOW' mode, at least for me.

Skimming the list in the article and then reading the reactions here on HN have been pretty helpful for me in identifying some of my own problems. E.g. annoyance with diplomacy.

Thank you for doing this. I'm currently working with deep learning but have never had Linear Algebra in school. Resources like this one, and the 3Blue1Brown video series on YouTube are a really nice way to get started.

I use the German Amazon for pretty much all my online shopping. Everything's on there, free shipping included.