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I find there's a sweet spot for Anki when the daily review of already-existing cards takes 20 minutes. If the daily review takes more than 25 minutes, I try not to add any cards th…

see also endmyopia.org I haven't looked into this deeply because I don't have severe myopia, but seems plausible to me that this really works for a lot of people.

The legislation that made Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador does not legislate the use of Strike. Businesses can use whatever system they want, as long as they can accept payment…

not sha256

He claimed that they would "show where he lived," not necessarily publish his address. I don't believe the Times would publish his address, but I do believe they might put enough i…

The world reserve currency can collapse without all of society collapsing to the extent you are suggesting.

If you wallet is using the BIP39 standard you just memorize the 12-word phrase. The words come from the key, not vice versa. Also, you can get by with just memorizing one phrase, b…

"freedom" and "democracy" are two of the twelve "core socialist values" that are plastered almost anywhere you look in China.

I learned Chinese characters using this method and found it very helpful. It's not very popular among Chinese learners or teachers because it's unintuitive. In many cases the keywo…

Yes, but this is considered by many to be scandalous and I doubt it will continue to be so high-priced long-term.

I meant the GameFAQs message boards

- old GameFAQs (before the GameSpot merger) - Homestar Runner - YTMND - Newgrounds - ieatcrayons.com (a webcomic that 11-year-old me found very amusing) finally, not a website, but…

He has a presentation from 6-7 years ago called "Clojure Is New C" I never watched it because the title annoyed me too much

Sierra adventure games were my favorite single-player games from my childhood. I understand why a lot of people don't like them, e.g. many of the puzzles have nonsensical solutions…

That isn't a contradiction - the advantages of a REPL are greater for Clojure than for Lisp.

They're both good. Sean Carroll is 'better' according to a few metrics I can think of, but for some reason I like Lex Fridman's podcast more.

It's not that difficult to get to the 95th percentile in Overwatch or Bridge because no one at the 95th percentile receives much compensation, monetary or otherwise. When significa…

It depends. Spaced repetition can be used to mindlessly memorize formulas, which I agree is not useful. Or it can be used in the way described in this article ( http://cognitivemed…

Do you think people should stop working on LN? I think it's a good way to scale right now, regardless of whether or not it can theoretically handle the transactions of hundreds of …

Lightning Network is primarily off-chain transactions, but parties don't have to trust each other. If you open a payment channel with a malicious party, there's no way for them to …

Bitcoin is continuing to scale, but it's doing so with the Lightning Network instead of by increasing block size. I'm not super familiar with Bitcoin's tech, but that seems sensibl…

Is there a big disconnect between buy and rent prices? My brother was living in a nice area for a few hundred dollars per month just a few years ago.

I can tell you from experience that an average doctor in a backwater county of Arkansas is better than an average doctor in the capital city of Laos.

Looks like you get charged if you go over the transfer allowance. Is there a way to automatically shut everything down to prevent that from happening? I like to go months without t…

The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies (would recommend)