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Comment #26053925
I was about 27 when I realised what = means. I'd always just kinda taken it to indicate something more like "and then". So 2 + 3 and then you have 5. It blew my mind to understand …
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Comment #21385531
Have you checked with your dentist to see whether your jaw joints (where your jaw meets your skull under your ear lobe) are equally strong? My dentist found that one side wasn't wo…
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Comment #21369536
Some context on this essay - I've been making my way through Bret Victor's collection of links [0] and started reading diSesssa's Knowledge in Pieces, which opens with this quote: …
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Comment #18236436
I've had a pretty similar experience. Get exercise, sleep, food and hydration under control, then (in my case) medication helps me make the most of that structure. I actually just …
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Comment #18235893
I'm also a big fan of this book, for the same reasons (ADHD management). Understanding the value of setting aside big chunks of time to work deeply and prioritising that time has h…
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I brain-dumped the major features of my life with ADHD and how I manage it
I've had to take a bit of time off work due to being ill, which gave me a great opportunity to sleep a lot and write the longest thing I've ever written about having ADHD. The TL;D…
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Comment #18126447
In 2015, I went to the International Union for Quaternary Research conference in Nagoya. The Emperor and Empress of Japan attended the opening ceremony. There was security screenin…
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Comment #3528306
I would like something similar as well. Perhaps some way for friends to only view my history back to the date where I added them as a friend, that way my oldest and closest friends…
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Comment #3482678
"The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence." An interesting statement overall, but sentences like the one…
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Show HN: Our first game for Facebook, a math based puzzler
Our first Facebook game, Mexem, went live a few weeks ago. The idea of it is to find simple equations in a hexagon grid of numbers. The game matches chains of numbers (you can sele…
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Comment #2134035
Wait until the self-hate level is high enough to make me feel unbearably bad about not doing what I want to be doing. Not a very healthy approach. I've also been trialling the habi…
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Comment #2095661
It's nice to see that HN is thinking of us :) My housemates and I had to evacuate our apartment building this morning. Our place is on the fourth story so our things should be ok, …
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Comment #2069836
Well, I'm not an expert or anything so don't take my comments toooo seriously; but the first thing I noticed was that it doesn't look like there's anyway to use your app without si…
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Comment #2069306
Oh, thanks! Steak, fried 'chicken style'. Hah.
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Comment #2069216
Fascinating, first the concept of deep fried steak and then chicken steak? ... American food never ceases to surprise me (a pescetarian from New Zealand). So different :)
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Comment #2068982
The lack of textural variety is the main thing that puts me off frozen foods as well. Choosing a frozen meal over a restaurant meal is like choosing to eat at an old folks home ins…
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Comment #2066045
My recurring one works, but not the one-off alarm (in Australia).
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Comment #2051760
Gmail is normally so reliable for me that, up until a couple of weeks ago, I only checked my spam folder every month or so. For some reason, Gmail decided an email (forwarded from …
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Comment #2047107
Did anyone else find it disagreeable that Q.24 asks whether you'd rather go to the theater than the museum? I really like both - if I had to choose in a real life situation, I'd ha…
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Comment #2040157
This submission has the lowest comment to vote ratio I think I've ever seen on HN.
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Comment #2033848
Thank you kindly!
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Comment #2033820
Could you tell me the name of the site? I've been out of New Zealand for awhile, but it would be interesting to see what's available.
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Comment #2022828
I wonder why Markus made a blog post out of this? If he just wanted to make the point that POF deletes inactive profiles, why use Assange's as an example considering that it is an …
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Comment #1961619
I'll actually be an Australian resident (although not a citizen) returning from a visit to my home country, so maybe that changes the situation somewhat. Following your advice thou…