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emptyfile··on Can the knees go over the toes? (2016)

    >Maybe KneesOverToesGuy is a scientologist and knows a lot about knees!
He seems to have good advice, my point is more that I don't want to give ad revenue to people like him.

    >It's not like being a scientologist makes you completely incompetent. 
No, but the thing I've always disliked about him is the "cult-ish" (ha) tone of his videos, like he's showing us the secret sauce only he knows and not a series of exercises that people have been doing for decades but fell out of fashion.

I'm not impressed by his boasting at all and I've seen similar advice to his on many channels.

emptyfile··on A personal trainer is the best investment I've made

    >> If you try to get better endurance most of your training should be aerobic (instead of anaerobic)

    >It's actually the opposite and interval training (mixed aerobic and anaerobic) seems to be more effective.
Wrong and easy to prove that its wrong, just look at a training regiment of any elite runner in any distance. Most coaches agree that 80% percent of your volume should be easy aerobic for any goal. Doing high intensity without a well developed aerobic base means you will hit a plateau with your performance sooner or later.

    >Running without shoes (or barefoot-shoes) is probably even better once you have adapted to it.
The Born to Run fad has been over for years now. Consensus is incorporating barefoot running into your training makes little difference to performance except you'll probably injure yourself if you're not careful.

I've been walking in barefoot shoes for 2 years now and I've gotten tremendous benefits, but running serious mileage in them is a completely different story. Unless you want to get better at barefoot running, it's not useful.

Again, if it was useful at all you would be seeing professional athletes doing it. The most they do is some barefoot strides on the grass by the track.

emptyfile··on Can the knees go over the toes? (2016)
I've always found something a bit off about this guy, so since finding out I feel I have to mention in regularly when he comes up: he's a Scientologist.
emptyfile··on Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as director general of Roscosmos
>The Nazi salute is called the “Bellamy salute”

No its not

emptyfile··on Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II
If I was on a more sophisticated forum I would assume this is satire.

Alas, just classic HN tech bro nonsense.

emptyfile··on James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live
Great stuff!
emptyfile··on ISO name change for Türkiye
When your annual inflation is 75% (in reality more like 150%), start inventing nonsense to distract the population.
emptyfile··on Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives
Quite disgusting.
emptyfile··on Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Yeah it also uses less energy per year then the sun... what a comparison...
emptyfile··on Music for Programming
Having some ASCII nonsense instead of standard controls is a bad idea.
emptyfile··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
Considering how awful the Hobbit movies were I can't see how this could be worse.

In any case, after the horror that was Wheel of Time, I'm not watching any Amazon fantasy shows unless they get glowing reviews (from real critics, not tech news commentators).

emptyfile··on Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
Love their clothes but their american style boxy fit is horrible. And no tall options.
emptyfile··on A common trap for people entering programming jobs
> I take pride in parts of my work with the same emotional response as I take pride in my family.

Well, that's just plain wrong.

emptyfile··on Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight: study
Exercise, earplugs, blackout curtains and going to bed 8-9 hours before I have to wake up even if I'm not sleepy.

Also not drinking caffeine later then 10 hours before sleep.

emptyfile··on Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings
Must've slipped his mind as he decided to go from "investing" 250 pounds to his life savings.
emptyfile··on We will never have enough software developers (2020)
Oh yeah, every dev in the world makes $100 000 minimum per year, sure. And it's boring and easy with reasonable deadlines and appropriate vacations and time off work.
emptyfile··on Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings
> "Home-wise, it has destroyed home life because I was dealing with all this by myself, my wife didn't know what was happening."

Six figures "invested" in cryptocurrency speculation without even informing his partner?

I have real trouble relating to these kinds of people.

emptyfile··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
Really, what makes you say that?

English is not my first language, but I personally thought the Irish border would've also been important in the Brexit referendum, considering you had a 30 year pseudo-civil war over that same border.

But the British people straight up ignored that little issue and here we are today at the precipice of a trade war and breaking up the Good Friday Agreement.

Compared to terrorism and civil war I would think the inconvenience of a Scottish border is an inconsequential problem.

emptyfile··on Scotland starts renewed case for independence
>I'm still not clear why that means "once in a generation" becomes "as soon as I can get what I want".

Because Brexit, duh?

emptyfile··on Major crypto lender Celsius freezes withdrawals as markets tumble
I wonder if even 1 in 100 current Bitcoin owners would articulate an opinion such as this.
emptyfile··on Is social audio already dead?
Fascinating.

I read the entire article without learning what social audio or Clubhouse are.

emptyfile··on Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs
LOL he literally works for a company that makes expensive electric cars and markets that as the future.
emptyfile··on Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?
>Counter culture stopped existing a decade ago.

Maybe in America

emptyfile··on Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux
The cheapest MacBook Pro I could find in my country is like 3500 USD and the cheapest Air is like 2000.

I maybe saw like 5 macbooks in 30 years of living here (in a poor EU country, so much richer then the average citizen of the world).

emptyfile··on Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years?
Nonsense.
emptyfile··on I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea
Ohh, that hit a nerve apparently.
emptyfile··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I enjoyed this game quite a lot, I never figured out why it didn't take off even when it was free.
emptyfile··on New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
Um what? What do you and the other posters think anti-social means? Is this something native english speakers are confused about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour

>Anti-social behaviours are actions that harm or lack consideration for the well-being of others.

emptyfile··on New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
The first time I ever saw any number of skateboarders was in Barcelona and I COULD NOT BELIEVE how loud a bunch skateboards rolling through the street was.

Even in the middle of the day it was deafening with closed windows. Every single person on the street turned to see WTF was happening. They immensely enjoyed doing it and the attention, and made sure they migrated in groups of 20+. The apartment was nearby the local art gallery where apparently they hang out and it was beyond awful.

Absolutely shocking, obnoxious behaviour and I'm so glad skateboards aren't a thing in my country.

emptyfile··on Everything with a battery should have an off switch
Actually the moment I see that a link leads to Twitter or Instagram I don't click it.
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