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My intuition tells me that that is an overstatement.

I’m probably just bad at it.

Is it the #2 most common passion project here though.

It seems disingenuous to you because you disagree with it? Seems like a misapplication of that particular word.

The irony is that this comment is less informative than the thing that it is criticizing. Basic summary: the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Which is as informative as claiming…

Then the intuition of random commenters is worth close to nothing.

“The only thing”—only half of all weekdays if one follows the in-bed-for-eight hours recommendation. And you of course have to eat and groom yourself outside of those hours. I’m no…

> Programming is the new literacy. People who can do it are on a different plane to people who can't. This is what I believe sometimes. Then I look at all the pitfalls of shell scr…

It could be. But this is Hacker News so it often means something hacker-related.

> “Proper education” is student, culture and even teacher dependent. There is no singular best practice. In my experience it is not productive to have this kind of conversation wit…

Productive is a meaningless word in this context. You can productively work for or against the best interests of society at large.

Why does there need to be passion project? He could study philosophy or do whatever that one can do in an office by oneself.

> This is to Danish parliament. I wonder if the research he is quoting applies to (a) a larger country (b) with a heterogeneous population that (c) communicates primarily in Englis…

> I intuitively believe that there's truth to all of these so called myths, but I'd love to be proven wrong. His opinions are based on claimed research while yours are based on int…

Mindfulness is an English translation of the Buddhist word “sati” which Buddhists use to describe one particular quality of meditation. To dismiss it because some people have coopt…

I have not been personally affected, no.

Fair enough.

Being one of the safest is not the same as being crime free.

A lot of what teachers do is exactly just that—basically talking at the pupils, as if they were vessels who are supposed to have their heads filled up with knowledge. Proper learni…

It seems that adolescents tend to like to sleep for longer than older adults. That just seems how people are wired at different stages of life; nothing wrong with either preference…

Conquerors and national movements of the past should have had more ecological awareness.