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recyclemeon To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics

Interesting. Anyone have a recommendation on a Math app for everyday use?

recyclemeon Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer?

> If someone were 100% satisfied with everything around them, there would be no reason for them to move or change anything.

It's not that simple. Not moving or doing anything is a decision in itself with consequences.

recyclemeon Gene Cernan has died

We _are_ making progress in space exploration but the moon isn't of much interest anymore. The technology that is being developed to reach Mars for example is "technology we don't currently posses."

recyclemeon ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time

> I still thought antimatter was a theory.

Your use of the word "theory" here seems to be a misnomer akin to the common statement "But X is just a theory."

recyclemeon The Great A.I. Awakening

> Yes, it may put you out of a job one day

This would be a massive issue in the US with the current setup.

recyclemeon Ships Buried Under San Francisco

One example is the 'click here' button at the very top of the page.

recyclemeon Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

It's true with the normal definition of happiness. Think about it. Whatever you're doing now is an attempt to get you to a happy state. If you're already happy, it'll fade and you will take more actions to be happy again. This seems to be part of our human condition.

recyclemeon Nice People Really Do Have More Fun

Everything we are doing right now is an attempt to find some happiness (now).

recyclemeon Paper Planes

Use devtools device toolbar and you'll get the option to fold and throw a plane.

recyclemeon NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

I thought the Ancient Aliens series was interesting. A group of friends showed it to me and some believed in it. However, we started following the logic they use and it basically boils down to this:

We don't know how this was done so therefore Aliens did it.

So the most honest thing they can actually say is they don't know.

recyclemeon 'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch

Basically, this is called the observer effect. The process of observing something can change the thing you are observing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

recyclemeon Caffeine at night does more than keep you up late

He's not wrong. He's correcting the improper use of the word. However, I would say evolution has results but is actually a process.

recyclemeon The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head

It's probably not the actual chicken for one.

recyclemeon How I optimised my life to make my job redundant

Yes, it is self-reported but the evidence is there to back it up.

recyclemeon How I optimised my life to make my job redundant

I can empathize with others in this thread saying that his lifestyle is unhealthy (which is probably based on the anti-workaholic ideals a lot of us hold). However, he is just describing what worked for him to get to where he is and he seems to have accomplished a lot. Not only that, he describes how he is keeping himself healthy.

One reason for his success is that he multitasks well, whereas humans typically do not. This enables him to work the way he did/does.

The top post at the moment states that he will cause the "detriment of his quality of life." Actually, it seems he has improved his quality of life significantly (he left his corporate job, has more time to spend with his family, etc.). The top post OP also mentions not finishing the article so he may have missed all that.

Someone else stated that he is just boasting about "how awesome" he is. I did not get this vibe, but from my perspective, he is someone who has the confidence to speak about his subject. Which is completely fine. You should have a level of confidence when it comes to your craft and there's nothing wrong with that.

As stated in this article, this might not work for everyone. This is true, people work differently. Some people, oddly enough, don't need breaks. I do. And so on..

recyclemeon Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?

This is a classic fight or flight situation [0] where you are choosing flight.

There is no use being quiet at work. Everyone knows you are a junior so it's ok to act like one. Ask questions. Say "I don't know how to do this. Can you show me?" You'll find that even the "rock stars" don't know everything. It may be hard to ask those questions without feeling discomfort, embarrassment or even anger. Leverage those feelings to ask the hard questions. This might help alleviate some of the suffering you experience after work.

If none of that works then it's time to look for another job.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response

recyclemeon Update on Sony Investigation

>Unless there is strong evidence, 1 seems the most likely.

IMO strong evidence is lacking to make 1 the current scenario.

recyclemeon Update on Sony Investigation

> It's very unlikely we know everything about this situation that they do.

They explicitly mention that they are not sharing all of the evidence.

recyclemeon ChangeTip must die

> It's critical to not conflate Bitcoin with ChangeTip. The two are, in effect, separate currencies.

I might be missing something here but ChangeTip is not a currency.

recyclemeon Global Slavery Index 2014

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/terminology/

Just in case people are wondering where you got that from.

recyclemeon Philae has landed

https://xkcd.com/about/

recyclemeon All Dressed Up for Mars and Nowhere to Go

I believe so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

recyclemeon Live attacks against the Norse honeypot infrastructure

"The Norse live attack map is a visualization of a tiny portion (<1%) of the data processed by the Norse DarkMatter™ platform every day."

http://www.norse-corp.com/

recyclemeon $35/Week – Eating well on $35 a week

There is a giant modal in the way of everything when I load this site. Regardless, I've heard of this before and it seems interesting.

Has anyone tried soylent?

recyclemeon Elon Musk Donates $1 Million to New Tesla Museum

Here's the comic: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s2

recyclemeon Newegg is now accepting Bitcoin

1) look up paper wallets.

bitcoin is at a stage where it's not trivial to secure if you are not a technical person. There are companies that are working at making this easier by providing the security and even insuring the bitcoins if something happens. When services like this are out we will see a huge turning point IMO.

recyclemeon Why productive people get up insanely early

I find that I get a similar result when I work from the home office even during business hours. Although distractions can be nice sometimes, during crunch time, I'd rather WFH to minimize them.

recyclemeon Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

Ok, now just combine that with t-shirts (g-shirts).

edit: awesome idea btw!

recyclemeon Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name

After you choose to "permanently" delete your account, you'll get a message that says, "Your personal account was recently disabled by Facebook" two weeks later.

recyclemeon How many people are in space right now?

He is referring to an HTTP 503 error which is shown when a service is unavailable.