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GameOfFrowns··on [dead]
I did this on paper until all slots were "blocked" with tasks that became critically important but which (due to shame and feelings of embarassment associated with them) I would never start or finish, then I abandoned the system.

Although this might clash with the idea of keeping the app simple perhaps you could add a prioritizing mode by assigning "urgent", "important" (or both) labels to tasks and ranking them that way[0]

Best of luck for your app! Have you planned to release an Android version at a later point or is your focus solely on iOS?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
Isn't "appeal to authority" a common fallacy?

No surprise Godwin disparages the use of 'woke', when he is most likely a 'woke-ist' himself.

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?
This is not to be underestimated. It can have quite a detrimental negative psychological effect to realize that the last hope, the only thing that could potentially help you to have the semblance of a normal life makes you extremely nauseous and dull.

I went through a 1.5 year long process to ADHD diagnosis and being prescribed first methylphenidate and later LDX (Elvanse) in the lowest available doses. It did what it was supposed to do and helped me focus better but the side-effects were to unpleasant for me, so much that I preferred to not take the medication at all. Seeing how my life spirals toward rock-bottom, every once in a while I give it another try but it always ends up in me regretting that I've taken the meds, as it ruins that day and worsens my insomnia. The doctor has no advice on what to do about it except for toughing it out.

GameOfFrowns··on Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)
What's your regimen and how do you measure the effectiveness in an objective manner? I tried microdosing LSD for a few weeks and even at the smallest dose 10µg I felt like every dosing day was a lost day productivity-wise as I became even more unfocused than usual.
GameOfFrowns··on Psychedelics: A Personal Take (2021)
While your advice sounds totally reasonable, it's at the same time incredibly dismissive. In my opinion, it's not much different from "Have you tried being confident/not being depressive, bro?"

If you need courage to face your demons but only facing those demons will give you the courage to do the thing in the first place, then how to solve that circular dependency?

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
>These may be genuinely important issues that they are using their audience and reach to magnify and promote.

This is still Twitter you're talking about. Blue checkmarks are overwhelmingly associated with 'woke' narcissists stoking the flames of the culture war

GameOfFrowns··on Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
>If there is one thing the US election of 2020 showed us is that there is zero relationship between crowd/rally attendance and voter turnout for the candidate.

I'm not sure if this is the strongest argument in favor of your hypothesis. In most instances it would rather be an indicator of election fraud.

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How to break my habit of folding legs on chair and hunchback?
>In case of a dire need for intervention, strap your feet into a snowboard while working.

Or just use some double-sided duct-tape and tape a pair of old slippers to the floor as an economical alternative.

GameOfFrowns··on Rishi Sunak will be next UK prime minister
MVPMs = minimum viable prime ministers
GameOfFrowns··on NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American
Now there's a dilemma for reporting on NY, as the New York Times on the other hand usually throws their lot in with the woke camp.
GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?
The question would be: Which one would be the cause and which one is the effect?

I am diagnosed with ADHD and I consume unhealthy amounts of sugar in form of chocolate, gummy bears and ice cream. I wonder if...

A) all that sugar creates a gut microbiome that facilitate ADHD symptoms or if

B) the general impulsiveness and higher-than-usual glucose demand from the brain create the sugar cravings, or if

C) it's some kind of feedback loop and bad habits get reinforced to the point of addiction

GameOfFrowns··on On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days
I think we're already halfway there with the "MrBeast Squid Game".
GameOfFrowns··on What to Do If a Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent
>was without contamination sticking to everything like and STI

What does 'STI' stand for in this context?

GameOfFrowns··on How Underground Groups Use Stolen Identities and Deepfakes
Always thought that Blackhatworld was just a forum about unethical SEO.

There used to be raidforums as a big one before being seized by LE but it's not hard to imagine that another forum sprung up to fill the void that RF left behind.

Krebsonsecurity blogs about transactions on some of these (often in Russian language) forums although I don't know if he mentions them by name.

GameOfFrowns··on Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)
"Silicon Valley" most likely.
GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?
Just ask yourself how much 'inner beauty' one can develop after a lifetime of rejection.

>But compared to my untrained self, I'm an order to two order of magnitudes better, and it has definitely helped me to make my inner world more relatable to other people. Knowing how you present yourself in a: 1 on 1 conversation, group conversation and presentation... It's important and has little to do with personality and looks

Do you think people would care as much about your inner world if you weren't tall?

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?
Perhaps you mean 'voice projection'?

Unfortunately voice is just another factor that comes to genetics. I've been training to lower my rather high-pitched voice and voice projection for years now, albeit without much to show. Guess I hit the limit of my genetic potential.

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?
What is your height?
GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?
A lot of what makes attractive men's bodies look "attractive" is in the bone structure. They look fit without actually having to be fit: height, rugged face, wide shoulders, barrel chest, narrow hips.
GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: How influential can physical appearance be in professional environments?
>but after that all that is left is your experience and talent

This is wishful thinking.

GameOfFrowns··on Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims
>You can also plagiarize someone else's work and submit it as your own, and they won't notice.

Or just take an image that is already in public domain and just slap a gettyimages® watermark on it...

GameOfFrowns··on Putin orders partial Russian mobilisation, warns West over nuclear blackmail
It's understandable that the Baltic countries don't want to add to the Fifth column of fervent Putin supporters they already have under the minority Russian population inside their countries. The writing's been on the wall for months now and those Russians who only now realize that their support for the war could mean having to put money where their mouth is and cost personal sacrifice (instead of just sending those Buryats and Tuvans from impoverished far-away places to die) aren't the ones you want to have inside your borders. You can see it on telegram and VKontakte, those people are okay with the war and other people dying as long as they're not inconvenienced personally.
GameOfFrowns··on Don't compare yourself to other entrepreneurs
>But if you compare to past yourself, you can potentially get head and shoulders above the crowd and become the best.

That only helps when you're on an upward (career) trajectory and optimistic. My younger self was healthier, had more energy, more mental acuity, was better-looking, better-liked, less cynical, had more opportunities and more time on earth left to fulfill their dreams as well as enough naivety to believe he could be become the best at something for which other people had a natural aptitude and a twenty-year headstart.

GameOfFrowns··on What scientists have learnt from Covid lockdowns
>Or, the only thing that we have learned is that a small, radicalised minority will ignore best available public health guidance and requirements it conspiracy-minded politicians instruct them to.

But the article isn't about HIV or monkeypox.

GameOfFrowns··on [dead]
>If Putin starts sending unprepared and unwilling citizens to die for him, it won't be the tides returning, it will be a mutinous army returning to carry out a military coup.

Might happen or might not. Never underestimate the subservient mindset of Russians towards their despots and their crab-bucket mentality regarding Ukrainians.

Hypothetical scenario: Putin generously offering peace and immediate withdrawal under the condition of Ukraine ceding the territories of DNR, LPR and Crimea effectively forever. Ukraine, currently being on a roll with the offensive, rejects the "offer" and tries to re-capture the territory in the East. Russia then starts constant long-range attacks from Russian territory. Will Ukraine take the bait and go on the offense and incurse into Russia, giving Russia an actual casus belli for general mobilization?

I'm not saying that it's certain that Russia would win the war, even under general mobilization, looking at the current conduct and material state of the RuAF (Russian Armed Forces). But they could still generate a massive nationalistic sentiment of retaliation and create a gigantic slaughter and scorched earth, making an Ukrainian victory very costly and pyrrhic.

GameOfFrowns··on Ask HN: Who are the technically competent CEOs in tech world?
I'm not sure if I would consider the societal effects of Tinder and Bumble as positive and inspirational. If anything is has impaired gender relations, lead to the massive spread of STDs and arguably made the world a worse place.

And regarding Wolfe Herd herself, it's the eternal question, how "self-made" can one be as the child of a very wealthy and well-connected property developer of Jewish background? How many free attempts at entrepreneurship would she have had until eventually something panned out?

GameOfFrowns··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
>Fortunately, the Muslims went to great length to preserve the history and culture

Their own history you mean. In Muslim majority countries, pre-islamic history is commercially exploited at best (Egypt), neglected as usual (Turkey) or destroyed at worst (Iraq, Afghanistan).

GameOfFrowns··on Finland’s education system is failing. Should we look to Asia?
>The decline began in 2006, much before all those “stupid immigrants” could have ruined the system.

The Yugoslav Wars, the Kosovo War and the Second Chechen War were all in 1990s. Many ethnic Bosnians and Kosovarians relocated to Nordic countries during that time.

GameOfFrowns··on Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?
I'd like to know this as well. I think this is one of the biggest hurdles to a first time user: If you're anxious or depressed, you're by definition not in a good "set". And with psychedelic therapists being rare as unicorns where to find that trip-sitter who isn't just a "That's groovy, man" weirdo that will shape your trip (and your malleable brain) into the bog-standard one with everything experience.
GameOfFrowns··on IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
I hate to break it to you but Black Panther IS a fantasy story set in a fantasy world. The reason why black people would lose their minds if they would have Black Panther played by a white actor is that escapist superhero fiction has become cultural identity and the superheroes are role models. Therefore replacing a central element by their oppsite, is destroying said cultural identity. Now ask yourself why it appears to be so important to Hollywood to replace white roles with black and queer actors: Why does Arielle need to be black? Why Spiderman? Why James Bond? Why Captain America? Why Roland Deschain from Dark Tower?
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