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I quite fond of Winton and Ellis Marsalis album Joe Cool's Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0_gYNtTTgA&list=PL9KZ1X7EqS... which of course also includes the classic Peanuts t…

Ah, the non-problems of young people! What you say is true, but effective repair tooth pastes might be quite interesting for people that already have thin enamel, worn away enamel,…

> If this were effective, our bodies would probably be doing it already. Naaah, this is not how evolution works. Tooth decay was not as big of a problem for our ancestors than it i…

Nice video from the well known channel Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY => It's complicated. Yes, there was a cartel, but it was not all bad. The…

So maybe the German "Erfahrung" does not map 1:1 to the concept of "Experience". But maybe it is not so much a lack of concept in the language, but something that is related to par…

To paraphrase your comment: "Connecting the ritual of prayer to another task that you want to accomplish, helps in establishing consistency in doing that other task." Yes, that is …

I like your Chinese culture comparison and the Englisch language has such a word, too. It's "experience". True, you also can have "an experience", but generally it is used in the s…

No, this is not really a fantastic comment because the comment initially supports the thesis of the article, which is "change is slow progress, not a burst of activity" and it does…

> That said, there are indeed a lot more things that are in general better in Germany than in India, and this rant of mine was the result of a year of frustrated dealings with Germ…

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder'…

> look at listings of new apartments And even that is fraught with problems, because in my neck of the woods (Germany) we generally do not buy houses/appartments furnished (and ren…

How can you say that on the one hand information about self harm should be withheld because GPT is knwon to be wrong and on the other hand advocate that this is not necessary when …

For copyright there has to be a minimum amount of creativity involved before the law applies. Small snippets of PII would not overcome that hurdle but these small pieces of PII are…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns&t=1627s “A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance” by Brian David Gilbert

Typing fast is useful but not necessarily enhancing productivity all that much. Even writing documentation is more about thinking than typing fast. Documentation must be concise an…

The author is talking about hiring interviews like it’s some kind of multiple choice test. Interviews should be more like essays. Of course it is not that important that the interv…

I have only experience with one but the Ultrabreath works nicely.

The exercise is for breathing in. You probably could add resistance by pursing your lips but with a device results will be more reproducible. I have an Ultrabreath (made in UK) fro…

> they will let their patients and colleagues die first. No! They will definitively not let their patients and colleagues die firs! They will prevent you from killing them! You mig…

I like the quit romantic explanation best, that debt in Germany has a moral component. "Debt" and "guilt" are nearly the same word, so taking on debt is a topic of moral philosophy…

No I do not look down on Excel because it enables non-programmers to program. I look down on it, because Excel programs become an unmaintainable mess. They are hard to reason about…

I would call the Chinese people very "enterprising". The lack of regulations / lack of enforcement of regulations leads to cutting corners for raw profit. But is this kind of dereg…

This is a direct consequence of how food service employees are paid in the U.S. They have an income of next to nothing and depend on tips. Tips do not play such a large part in (mo…