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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Caligatio »

izzydata wrote: post #53
solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

I'm really enjoying Scavengers Reign, but I can't help but feel like the local biology is a bit too absurdist. Or the amount of consistently lucky moves some of the characters would had to make to discover some weird quirk of that alien life. They had been there for maybe weeks or months, but somehow discovered that if you climb inside of the belly of this particular creature and twist some of his internal organs tha…

I've been wondering the same thing! My explanation is that the planet was already known/cataloged and that the crew has access to that knowledge somehow.

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Post by smileysteve »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #472
philip1209 wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glass correlates with higher levels of carbon emissions, but doesn't cause it. At Silo, wine causes a lot of headaches. Their solution is to use wind-powered transport ships. Then, they turn the waste glass into tiles. So, the carbon footprint is low. If you can tolerate slow shipping, then the carbon footprint can be reduced. So, well-preserved food in glass (as opposed to, say, flowers in plastic) can have a lower…

they turn the waste glass into tiles This is delusional. Think about how much heat energy it takes to melt glass to make tiles. There is no way this has a low carbon footprint. I applaud the PR team at Silo for convincing their customer base of this fantasy. The lifetime carbon footprint (from manufacturing to "recycling" / disposal) is much lower for plastic compared to glass. And, I write this post as someone who t…

Probably about ⅓ as much heat as virgin glass

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Post by smileysteve »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #475
philip1209 wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do similar things. Just replacing plastic sandwich bags with reusable silicon ones has been a big win. Even at the farmer's market, I eliminated the last little plastic by bringing cotton vegetable bags. To be clear, I'm not puritanical about this. I still do takeout sometimes. And, I'm about to hop on some flights that will burn a ton of oil. (Ironically, one of those carbon-belching flights is to a dinner at Silo…

My god, this section is full of self-congratulatory, delusional posts. Hop on a flight to go to dinner at Silo? That single flight it probably worth more than a decade of reducing plastic sandwich bags. My cotton jeans, leather bag, and metal water bottle are all more expensive - but they are higher quality, have lasted for years, and can often be repaired. You can probably buy jeans at Walmart for 10 USD. They will…

Walmart jeans are about $20, men's wranglers have stretch with spandex plastic, but will definitely approach 10 years.

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Post by pacomerh »

Currently, I'm excited about making music again. Before, I wasn't completely happy with my compositions. My creative process seemed to be driven by the sounds from software and hardware instruments. Now, I started dividing my work into two distinct sessions. One is exclusively for sound crafting and tool preparation, which clears away any technical distractions for the other type of session, where I can dive into composing music with more concentration.

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Post by scraggo »

Orlan wrote: post #156
scraggo wrote: post #73

Memorization techniques, basically what's in _Moonwalking with Einstein_ by Josh Foer. Here's a podcast on the topic https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_how_to_re...

How’s your progress going? I read The Memory Book (Harry Lorayne) 20 years ago, and have always been interested, but assumed it would take years to be proficient. Wasn’t until I read Moonwalking With Einstein that I realized that with consistent practice it doesn’t need to take that long. Life has gotten in the way, so I haven’t been consistent with practice. Have also been procrastinated by jumping between books (Do…

Progress is going ok - I have a good understanding of the techniques and have started to apply them. A goal is to commit main points from books and concept-schemas I make to memory. Something that's more of a "side project" is using PAO (with a variation on the Dominic system) to memorize numbers. The overhead in making PAOs for 100 numbers is going very slowly. https://artofmemory.com/blog/pao-system/ I'll check out some of those other resources - thanks for sharing!

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Post by beingfit »

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

I’m feeling some envy right now. I’ve tried running…or rather, walks and runs interspersed, at least once a week or more often. But my heart rate shoots up even at a moderate pace of 5mi/h (7.5km/h) to around 140bpm or higher (I’m 50 years old). I just can’t run (actually jog) continuously for more than one minute before breaking into a walk. Otherwise, I workout everyday, mostly cardio and some strength for at least 45 minutes a day, every single day. My weight is in the normal BMI range. I don’t know if this is how it is to be.

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Post by Ethietter »

Volleyball. I played sports my whole life but picked up volleyball for the first time when I took a class my senior year of college with the main goal being to meet women. Fast forward seven years and now I play 5 times a week, travel 4-5 times per year to play in tournaments, and am married to a wonderful woman who loves playing as much as I do.

Although I've played sports my whole life, this is the first sport where I have really dedicated myself to training my skills and studying how to get better (as opposed to just playing pick up games all the time as I did with basketball). The volleyball community is exceptional. My wife and I moved to Arizona a few years ago, and we now have an extensive network of friends, all of whom we met through the sport.

About a year ago, my friend who played at a very high level in Iran decided to try out for the semi-pro team here in Phoenix. I was going to watch the tryout, but he encouraged me to try out as a libero (defensive specialist). I was originally a hitter, but it is exceptionally difficult to play in the front row at at the professional level when you are 5'7".

To my surprise, I made the team. The starting and backup liberos are significantly better than I am, but in the past year I have improved tremendously from being able to practice regularly at a high level.

Although it is growing fast in the US, there isn't nearly the same interest in volleyball as there is in mainstream sports like basketball or football. This means that very, very few people in the US make a living playing volleyball, but it also means that someone like me who never played in college has access to volleyball at a very competitive level.

I've also been able to help grow the sport by using my skills as a software developer. I threw together a little website for the team using a bootstrap template and it looks significantly better than our old website. Check us out at http://www.ascensionvolley.com and take a look at our YouTube channel!

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Post by beingfit »

theryan wrote: post #351
hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

Any tips for running pain free? I used to run pretty often (3-5 times per week) for 5+ miles. Longest was 11. However, my feet started hurting while running -- never while walking even long distances.

For me, my hips start hurting after a run. My shoes are relatively new and I’m running on paved pathways or surfaces that are not too uneven. After learning just a little bit, I don’t try to take long strides, I don’t try the “heel strike” approach, etc. But running is quite difficult for me, both during and after. I’d really appreciate tips on avoiding the hip pain (I do some yoga too for the hips, hip flexors, quads, etc.).

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Post by m463 »

vivekd wrote: post #354

This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…

It would be nice to have a legal wiki.

Maybe not to represent yourself ("anyone who represents himself has a fool for a client") but maybe useful stuff.

For example, in california, you have certain online privacy rights you can exercise, and it would be nice to have a form letter to enumerate and exercise those rights.

or how to fight a parking ticket, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by monero-xmr »

Johanx64 wrote: post #227
monero-xmr wrote: post #26

With the latest crypto rally, yield farm rates have skyrocketed. Getting 10 to 30% APY on stablecoins (i.e. no risk of loss in value as they are USD-matching coins). Making money hand over fist for clicking buttons.

How in the loving gods earth are you getting 10% to 30% interest rate without risk ? None of the stable coins have gone through a full thorough audit done by a reputable company, thus it's safe to assume they are not fully 1:1 backed and thus it's a ticking time bomb. 30% interest rate sounds like a pyramid scheme. If something sounds like a scam, then it probably is a scam, since it's crypto, then it's most certainl…

Not sure if you are someone who just wants to shit on stuff without ever learning, this is HN so 90% chance that's the case. But on the offchance you are actually curious:

Tokens should be viewed like stock. The team behind the token has a pool to fund their network / app. Different products in the decentralised finance space (DeFi) incentive usage by handing out their tokens (stock) to people who provide value to their product. In DeFi this is usually by becoming a liquidity provider (LP), providing your own assets to their protocol in return for a fee and incentives.

This makes logical sense for the team, because the most common metric for valuing an app is "total value locked" (TVL). The more TVL an app or network has, the more usage and value it has, which typically translates into increased value for their token.

There are way too many protocols to list. Checkout Velodrome as an example of a very high APY protocol https://app.velodrome.finance/liquidity?sort=apr&asc=false

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