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Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by KaiserPro »

arthurcolle wrote: post #18
starpilot wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So there was a whole book about this, Power Elite by C.W. Mills. I suspect quite a few people know this.

I think capitalism can work but we don't have pure capitalism - corporatocratic bailouts have been normalized since the 1990s, and as a result, all systemically important losses are socialized, while the gains are always split across a handful of criminals that exploit a system they partially mold to their own liking in order to propagate the toxicity that enables them to further their own interests. I predict that t…

again, this isn't new, Just look at the collapse of the east india company.

basically a few people treated it as a way to live like a king, and it collapsed. The state stepped in and took it over, because it was too big to fail.

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by starpilot »

ojciecczas wrote: post #17

In any windows system this happens: - show your desktop - move your mouse over an icon - keep pressing 'home' on your keyboard (home key brings the focus to top left icon) and then left mouse button (changes the focus to the icon you're over) - do it faster and faster (home, lmb, home, lmb, ...), focus will jump between top icon and the icon under the mouse pointer - when you reach the double-click speed, the icon wi…

Ok, this is legit. Blew my mind.

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by taw3taw35344 »

Masturbation destroys the dopamine system. There's actually a lot of studies about this in animal models, but the topic is insanely taboo. Shills come out in minutes to downplay it. I can reliably trigger rls by doing so. And it's the major player in every dopamine-related illness like parkinson and adhd.

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by rafaele »

ranguna wrote: post #12

Is this quora now? I'd prefer if we don't have this kind of question here. How can anyone even know that they are the only people that know a piece of information, it's not like they're going around asking people if they know it or not.

> Is this quora now?

feels more like r/AskReddit to me

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by saagarjha »

My private key :) On a more serious note, and not revealing anything that I really shouldn’t be telling people: I’m sure many people know that there used to be a feature on macOS where you could hold down the shift key while minimizing windows (among other things) and it would slow down the animation comically. This feature seems like it was removed a couple of years ago, but it wasn’t: I was poking around the Dock binary one day and discovered that it’s still secretly there, hidden behind a preference key. You can reenable it with

  $ defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES && killall Dock
Enjoy.

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by silves89 »

Bicarbonate of soda works as a deodorant. I have a small pot by my bathroom sink. Dab in two damp fingers, under the arms, no smell. It's more effective than any deodorant I've tried, doesn't give me an allergic reaction, is better for the environment, and is very cheap.

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by ojciecczas »

starpilot wrote: post #22
ojciecczas wrote: post #17

In any windows system this happens: - show your desktop - move your mouse over an icon - keep pressing 'home' on your keyboard (home key brings the focus to top left icon) and then left mouse button (changes the focus to the icon you're over) - do it faster and faster (home, lmb, home, lmb, ...), focus will jump between top icon and the icon under the mouse pointer - when you reach the double-click speed, the icon wi…

Ok, this is legit. Blew my mind.

I've discovered it in like 1998, but I waited for a good moment to reveal it :)

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by bestouff »

silves89 wrote: post #26

Bicarbonate of soda works as a deodorant. I have a small pot by my bathroom sink. Dab in two damp fingers, under the arms, no smell. It's more effective than any deodorant I've tried, doesn't give me an allergic reaction, is better for the environment, and is very cheap.

Sodium bicarbonate is a magic substance which has so many uses, it almost looks like it's a cheat in the matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate#Uses

From the list:

- cooking (leavenant, baking powder, etc.)

- fungicide and pest control

- pH increase

- pyrotechnics

- disinfectant

- fire extinguisher

- medical (addon for laxatives, antidepressant, anesthetics, anti-tear gas)

- hygiene (addon for toothpaste, mouthwash)

- short-term doping

- cleaning agent

... and now deodorant !

Re: Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

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Post by thiht »

silves89 wrote: post #26

Bicarbonate of soda works as a deodorant. I have a small pot by my bathroom sink. Dab in two damp fingers, under the arms, no smell. It's more effective than any deodorant I've tried, doesn't give me an allergic reaction, is better for the environment, and is very cheap.

It can be irritating though. I tried it and stopped because of this. Also it doesn't last as long as an alcohol or aluminum salt based deodorant.

It's very worth trying though, if it works fine for you it's very advantageous!

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