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

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Post by pipes »

emchammer wrote: post #766
pipes wrote: post #601

Not drinking. I only drank at weekends. But pretty much every weekend for 25 + years, this is totally normal from where I'm from. I read the book alcohol explained https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alcohol-Explained-William-Porter-eb... Listened to the Huberman podcast about alcohol. And realised I don't want to drink anymore. It's really strange, I used to struggle having a single weekend with no booze. Now I actively just d…

Keep it up! Two months is when you start to feel the amazing effects of abstinence. It only gets better over the next year.

Thanks :) I actually feel like I've found the secret to being ok with my life. Like a sort of calmness.

I didn't realise that weekend drinking was leaving me mildly hungover for days. Its like a filter was applied to my thinking where I could mostly only see nagatives in life. Though it's more subtle than this.

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Post by adamhp »

dustincoates wrote: post #398
bing_dai wrote: post #225

Learning about Christianity, after being an atheist my whole life thus far.

I'd be surprised if you hadn't already read it, but just in case, this audio version of Mere Christianity is my absolute favorite: https://www.audible.com/pd/Mere-Christianity-Audiobook/B00JP... I also really enjoyed One Year Bible with Bill Creasy. It doesn't get too academic, which may be a downside if that's what you're looking for, but I found him to be very engaging: https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Year-Bible-Aud…

Mere Christianity is trash. Couldn't even get through the first chapter because he calls out atheism almost immediately and basically says it's not even worth discussing because it's stupid and not an actual philosophy, which just strikes me as pure intellectual laziness, especially in a book about religion. Avoid, especially if you're an atheist trying to approach religion.

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Post by Cerpicio »

plutoh28 wrote: post #749

Im currently passionate in improving the life of my young nephew. His father left him devoid of a father figure while his mother is a mess who takes her frustrations out on him. Ive only just turned 19 but I’m trying my best to work on myself so I could be a good male role model for him. Myself and my mom (his grandma) are the only ones who care about him, his education, and his growth. I really just want to make sur…

Keep up the good work! My wife and I have fostered kids and ended up adopting a young boy (we got him when he was 4 months old, adopted him when he turned 2, and he is 4 now). He is very different than our two biological kids and it's been a challenge for us. But it's worth it in the long run. You are doing a good thing. If you need support, there should be a lot of resources in your community, if not online. Don't hesitate to ask for help. But finally, try not to alienate him from his mother. Don't bad-mouth her in front of him. If possible, it would be good for him to a relationship with her.

God's blessings!

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Post by franl »

uncharted9 wrote: post #66

Learning about my own mind and how to tame it. I've started realizing that I don't have much control over the external world, people or events, and only my perception of it can keep me sane or fix my mental issues. This has effectively forced me to see my relationship with my devices with more scrutiny. I've repeatedly found that digital consumption, whether it is infotainment, knowledge, or mindless Reels or Shorts,…

Check out the book Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke to see why this might be happening. I think she also has a YouTube video with Andrew Huberman going over the same material.

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Post by Cerpicio »

nevster wrote: post #364

I created a booktube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NevsBookChannel I'd been writing reviews on Goodreads for years so it was kind of a logical next step. Also have found it interesting to learn how to edit videos and improve my confidence in speaking. PS there is a review of Gerald Weinberg's "Are Your Lights On?" in there, so it's tangentially related to coding. Currently reading Code Complete.

Subscribed! I have a stack of books I've been meaning to read. I just need to make time for it.

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Post by sanderjd »

monero-xmr wrote: post #771
sanderjd wrote: post #705

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should take to heart that most people here are not just "shitting on stuff without ever learning", but have seen this story play out many times now. Everything you described about LPs, TVL, and token value; you are just describing the mechanics of the ponzi scheme, not describing the way in which it isn't a ponzi scheme. If you are getting "interest" over 20%, what you are doing is extracting that money (which is…

Wow you must know more than me, oh wise one /s I’ve been in crypto for 13 years now, I’m sure any day now Bitcoin will hit 0 and you’ll be proven right, and all the yield farms and defi will collapse, sure sure.

You seem to act like you're the only one here who has been following this for a long time... But that's far from the case on this particular forum.

I didn't say anything about Bitcoin. But yes, all those yield farming schemes that are paying double digit "risk-free interest" will eventually crash out and leave some set of people in the red. It has happened over and over again, it's just that new tokens get set up and re-start the cycle.

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Post by bostonwalker »

nabusman wrote: post #384
bostonwalker wrote: post #370

Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there aren’t better tools available (e.g. smartphone designs) that put their developmental needs ahead of the need to exploit them for immediate profit.

I'm starting down this path soon as well. Any books/resources that you recommend?

Congrats on that!

My kid is too young for tech so far so I haven't fully dived into the issue yet, but one thing I've already done for him to start him off on the right foot is set up with a Proton email account on the family domain name.

It's great because family members have been sending notes for him to read when he grows up and we have been cc'ing him on baby pictures, medical records, and vital stats. And when you think about it, our email accounts are the foundations of our online identities, so it's kind of messed up that we normalize surveillance of our children's online activity from Day 1 by setting them up with inboxes from Google, etc. and you owe it to your kids to give them privacy and, eventually, agency.

I'll turn over the keys when he's old enough (of course I'll probably make a backup of things first)!

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Post by bostonwalker »

sanderjd wrote: post #692
bostonwalker wrote: post #370

Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there aren’t better tools available (e.g. smartphone designs) that put their developmental needs ahead of the need to exploit them for immediate profit.

How old are your kids? My eldest is 5, and this is starting to be more and more top of mind. I felt like earlier on that it wasn't worth thinking much about it because it was too hard to predict what the issues would be as they became relevant to her. I think this turned out to be right, because if I'd thought about this a bunch a few years ago, I wouldn't have included generative AI in my thinking at all.

Less than a year old, but I have been thinking about the issue proactively and there are things you can do for them even at this age. For instance, I set my son up with a Proton email account on the family domain name before we left the hospital (see my reply to sibling comment for reasons why).

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Post by monero-xmr »

sanderjd wrote: post #796
monero-xmr wrote: post #771

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow you must know more than me, oh wise one /s I’ve been in crypto for 13 years now, I’m sure any day now Bitcoin will hit 0 and you’ll be proven right, and all the yield farms and defi will collapse, sure sure.

You seem to act like you're the only one here who has been following this for a long time... But that's far from the case on this particular forum. I didn't say anything about Bitcoin. But yes, all those yield farming schemes that are paying double digit "risk-free interest" will eventually crash out and leave some set of people in the red. It has happened over and over again, it's just that new tokens get set up and…

It's impossible for smart contracts that are properly coded to enable anyone to pull the funds out. Nothing is 100% guaranteed but protocols like Uniswap have been around for years, their contracts have had many professional audits, and the reward for breaking them is billions of dollars, so the odds of a bug in an Uniswap pool is very low. Other protocols pay incentives to LP the Uniswap pools. Where you expect the failure to come is perplexing, but yes you know more than me.

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

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Post by frankish »

Mushroom cultivation. Aside from the medicinal motivations, it is an extremely testing endeavor that requires patience and skill, so there is much to learn and get better at. Sterile technique is one skill to refine. It is also fascinating to observe and better understand the life of mycelium.

Has been over two months since I started to germinate spores on agar plates and am about ready to move to a fruiting chamber.

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