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choot··on 4 Chinese and 4 American Universities among world’s top 10 in math and computing
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choot··on I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
There is a simple way to solve this problem.

A special startup can he inacted to solve this frequent problem.

We'll not use any special card or ID. Showing ID for a burger seems invasive and special loyality card, we can forget to carry it.

Blue accounts are loyal customers.

Green ones are tourist/one timers.

1. Use colored money concept.

2. If a customer sends money from their mobile wallet more than X times, their account is colored for this particular merchant.

If merchant has set a rule, if payment is > X times / Y dollars, then apply 50% discount for A duration/B payments.

3. Anyone not confirming with app, doesn't qualify for any discount.

Cash + app will also be supported.

Now simply adjust the prices to reach the demand you can keep up with.

choot··on In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education
One major problem is that in poor countries, opportunities are few, so a lot of effort is spent in you competing against your peers.

Until i arrived in the West, i didn't realize what's possible with the collaborative approach instead of competing against each other.

In west, average people were teaming up and achieving better result as a group than couple of sharp kids in my country where they spent a lot of effort killing competition.

This is my experience, excuse if it's full of bias.

choot··on Germany plans €3B in AI investments
It's sooo weird here on HN, even for sharing incident, victim gets downvoted.
choot··on Germany plans €3B in AI investments
I worked for a German startup, whenever i asked for a raise they threatened to import labor from Romania or Poland to replace me.
choot··on Companies struggling to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says
I think once companies have got taste of cheap foreign labor, it becomes difficult to convince them to pay more.

They are always looking to do some complex maneuver to get foreign labor doing work cheaply for them. This is why they are complaining.

choot··on Ask HN: If I use GSuite does Google mine my data for their own purposes?
Does it stop them from finding generalities in the data and selling that info?
choot··on Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25
In my filter I've UV-C lamp which is turned on and off automatically after some duration.
choot··on The Sex Recession
It might be easier to get sex for a woman but while having sex you need security/trust which she might not get from everyone.

If all you want is sex as a man, there are also prostitutes and escort services. But yea, they might not be available everywhere.

Sex is easily available in market.

choot··on The Sex Recession
I think Porn will make you want more sex, not less.

See, if you saw SD quality porn, you want HD quality then UHD quality porn after that and maybe VR at some point, realistic sex doll and then finally something more real.

Do you see the progression? Real sex can't be replaced with porn. Both of them are not equal in sensation acheived.

choot··on The Sex Recession
The article also uses "this is a study".

So I decided to use "this is a psycologist".

Both of which are factually correct. If it makes, it appeal to authority in my case then it's equally applicable to the study defined in the article.

See, i am not presenting here any groundbreaking theory or refuting anything stated in the article but merely stating my experience.

How can it make me a crackpot?

choot··on How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works
I think dynamic patterns can be added to laser beams (similar to what cryptography), which randomly change that will make flooding difficult if not impossible.
choot··on The Sex Recession
How about asking them what they know?

If people aren't sharing these things with you on first date doesn't mean they are blank and have no life experience.

Every passing moment gives you experience. Some experiences might be more interesting to you while others might not be.

They didn't open up to you because they sensed something.

Awkward could be new normal. Can you share what you did to make them less awkward and more comfortable?

choot··on The Sex Recession
Sure, it's my experience.

I am a psychologist. Take a look at my comment history.

About the study, it just asks people. Do you expect people to be truthful?

You should consider asking people if they'll do something amoral if you offer them money, also tell them you are doing this for a study.

And you'll see majority of people will answer, NO.

But in realife, you can pay people to do ammoral things and lot many people will be willing to accept it.

In some cases, they'll need a long term connection with you before they take your offer.

Study isn't necessarily always more accurate. Specially, if it's about self reported data regarding humans on subjective matters.

You can ask someone, how many times they had sex.

You might get an accurate answer. But you can't expect accurate answer when you ask them, why aren't they having more sex. Most people don't have introspection ability to accurately identify their real reasons. This is why you need a pyscologist which is what I am.

choot··on The Sex Recession
I am writing from my experience, sorry i didn't have time to read the article.
choot··on The Sex Recession
I am a psychologist.

This is based on my high tech dating experience of dating many people.

1. Perfect looking people have insecurity because they've six pack abs but their penis size isn't as big as the pornstar they saw last night.

These people don't wanna show anyone their nude body.

It's all time high because of Instagram models.

Even the people who look 9/10 feel insecure because of Instagram.

A person looking 9/10 when coupled with makeup, professionals photography, Photoshop, look out of the world.

2. STD/STI awareness is all time high. People don't wanna live with HIV/AIDS

Remember the news stories where guys would secretly remove the condom and go bareback without their partners knowing? Yes, people are afraid now.

3. Cameras everywhere. No one wants to be recorded while having sex and next day leaked to web just because they decided to breakup and someome got mad.

Taking it upto to social network and threatening with your follower count is a real thing!

Felt even a little bit of injustice? No worries, let the world decide who is wrong and post all photos, videos, communications and the smear campaign starts.

4. They are preparing for professional life and yes it's getting tougher. People have little money left after all neccessaties in life and no time.

5. Romantic interests don't stay around for long if they don't get sex from you by 2nd or 3rd date. So lots of people who wait for some special connection before they jump in bed, don't really find anyone.

Back in time people spent months to years courting a romantic interest before getting in bed. But now, people show interest for few days and if they don't get what they want, they are off to Tinder to look for someone who is more willing to have sex fast.

6. You need to be genetically gifted.

Used studio quality photos on Tinder with makeup on and Photoshop. Got bunch of folks interested? They ask you to snap your photo or they'll block you. You quickly comply but guess what, you aren't genetically gifted so you aren't handsome/pretty as they thought. You got ghosted.

After a while you get pissed off by being treated like this and stop looking for anything related to love/sex.

Who wants to go through this humiliation again?

No one sees anything outside your face and body. People are comparing numbers against numbers. Personality will get a chance after you pass their aesthetic and number filters.

7. Sleeping with executives/managers is more rewarding so why sleep with same kind of people?

There is lots of sexual harrasment at companies. People either shutoff their sexual desires or sleep with executives to get ahead in their professional life. Now, this executives isn't in same age group so less young people get to have sex as a result.

8. Internet expanded the dating pool. Now, the people who want to have lots of sex can easily find another person with similar libido. This effectively decreases the number of people who will get to have sex with this person possessing high libido

9. People aren't perfect. But now, if you make a mistake in real life, someone who ask about your mistake on reddit and someone's else will label you as asshole or something then you are ghosted.

Edit: Not sure why my personal experience is being downvoted.

choot··on The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym
Comment was edited but the numbers weren't changed.

I simply edited my comment to clarify how many of my friend actually go to gym.

And I added, "out of them" to clarify that further distribution is sub distribution of the distribution above it.

choot··on Show HN: FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks
Do you offer Branded Pizza? for example, we want to add our logo on the pizza or piza box.
choot··on States should ban contracts barring employees from seeking higher pay at a rival
1. Make salaries public.

2. Have an exchange where we can bid on an individual just like stock market

3. Remove taxes

4. Add exchange fee

No salaries exist. No employee is tied to a particular employer. We can get access to a person if we bid the right amount.

choot··on The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym
Before that i lived in LA, even there usage was same if not more.
choot··on The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym
But it has also to do with genetics.

If we've only 1-2 hours to train daily, then some of might not be able to achieve the results we are seeking due to lack of gene expression. We aren't fulltime bodybuilders and have demanding job at a tech company

In that case, if you still want the results, you'll have to resort to rHGH, testosterone and anabolic steroid.

choot··on The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym
I only take whey and creatine.

My 23andme report says that I've disproportionately high amount of fast twitch muscle fiber.

And I am gaining muscle faster than my friends, sometimes even faster than the ones who take steroids.

I am not cacassian. 20% North European, 30% South East Asian, 20% Siberian, 30% Arab.

You might find this useful: https://www.t-nation.com/training/truth-about-bodybuilding-g...

choot··on The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym
40% of my friends go to gym.

Out of them:

90% of my male friends go to gym to build aesthetic bodies, it helps them attract females.

Out of them:

97% of them take whey protein, fish oil, vitamin D, creatine, withania smonifera

70% of them take anabolic steroids.

30% still end up with escorts and hookers.

That said these are my Dutch friends in Amsterdam.

So i would say very few actually go to gym for longetivity.

Particular my male friends, smoke and do drugs, they all say they wanna live a short but exciting life where they get everything they want, let it be money or girls.

choot··on H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally
So you assume all such frauds are committed by Indians.

Do you also assume all bank and atm robberies are done by Romanians?

And all credit card skeaming by Russians.

All money laundering by Brits and all brothels by Dutch.

I don't see any point of making such broad generalisation about a particular ethinicity.

choot··on Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements
Quite a large population in the the world lives at place where fishes aren't available.

So is it possible some people don't really need fish oil for well-being? Evolution might have rendered eating fish useless for these people.

choot··on Google Plans Large New York City Expansion
One of the reason is that, people who are incharge of these decisions are invested in these cities. They've real estate in these cities.

So, using public money of the company to invest in these cities increase the value of their personal investments :)

It won't be changing anytime sooner.

Shareholders aren't bothered. I wouldn't be surprized if majority of shareholders by value live in these cities too.

choot··on Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
Anyone who can tell what kind of tech stack can be used to make smth like this possible? I am assuming same stack which VSCode uses?
choot··on Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people
It can sue tho.
choot··on Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research
They are also called Turkish or Roman toilets.
choot··on How I became friends with an octopus
I've heard that sharks have a very highly developed sense of smell and they can detect a drop of blood from miles away in the deel ocean.

So how do they desperately fail at differentiating us humans from seals?

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