The average age of those who responded to this post is 38.6 (as of about 6:07pm UTC July 29)
Where’s the std deviation? :)
Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
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Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#14239. Class struggle and racism in America from its founding up to the present through a series of books a history post-doc friend assembled for me. “Going deep” on a topic as Tyler Cowen suggests.
I’d suggest you to take a look at what other “right” leaning people have to say about the subject. Especially Dinesh D Souza, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Yaron Brook.
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#143Why does age matter ? What is the point of asking about age ?
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#14424, how my daily habits (sitting, walking, ...) were the root cause of all my aches and how to adjust them to get rid of most aches. Still learning, but so far the results are incredible.
Interesting. How did you discover this?
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#14541 - learning to trade options on the stock market.
"learning to trade" says almost nothing, as there are many different strategies that you could be learning. So what did you learn exactly? :-)
I'm not employing a specific strategy. A better wording would be discovering covered calls. I already own the shares so the downside risk is inherent. Betting against upside is great in these volatile markets, and given enough capital for the stock, I can buy 100 more if I get close to break-even price on the upside. For the last two weeks I sold calls for TQQQ.
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#146I play this game airsoft (like paintball) and I like to go especially on beautiful days like today. It's so much cardio and you don't even notice it. Anyways, this Canadian company makes these really innovative reusable bang grenades and I finally learned how to toss them just right to clear out rooms. In movies the badass hero makes perfect throws without even thinking. But turns out in real life having your gun in…
The correct way is to have your team cover you and throw with your dominant hand.
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#14729
Recently moved to a new place (rented my own house and moved to a rented apartment), learned that nothing is permanent in life and less the expectations more the happiness
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#14841, learned how useful Anki can be. Started using it recently. Also preparing for whiteboard interviews.
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#14929; the last thing I learned was the importance of sleep, which I've heard about before but never really internalised until now. One of the coolest parts of this that I learned is how in certain stages of sleep you get this stuff called "sleep spindles", the activity of which is associated with memories from your short term memory buffer in the hippocampus being relocated to your long term memory in the cortex. This sleep spindle activity can be measured in pulses in your brain during this stage of sleep, pulsing between the hippocampus and the coretex at a rate of 100-200ms. Upon waking you are left with longer term recall of what you had learned pre-sleep, plus your short term memory buffer in the hippocampus is now free to learn new stuff. Our brain is so exciting!
Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
#15029, few seo books (but I think seo for google its like a russian roulette), and some books about trading on forex, but this is roulette too(