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Re: Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?

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Post by e10jc »

jimt1234 wrote: post #798

Managing my money. For much of my career, or just my adult life, I never did anything related to money management. I just worked and saved. That's it. A little context: Growing up, no one ever talked about managing their money. No one had any money to manage. Everyone in my circle lived paycheck-to-paycheck. Any talk about money management was for rich folk, and that wasn't us. So basically, I never learned any of th…

I feel you on this! As a follow up: what are some of the top tips you would recommend?

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Post by LouisSayers »

vlunkr wrote: post #594
xyzelement wrote: post #19

I used to assume the religious people were missing something and missing out on the latest and greatest. Now I am seeing that often it's us the non-religious that have lost something of value and are trying to replace it with things that don't work as well.

As a religious person who has deeply considered leaving it, I've never understood the arrogance of some atheists. For me it was disturbing to try to internalize the ideas that the universe is uncaring, that good and evil are made up, that your consciousness is basically like the contents of a stick of RAM that will vanish when it loses its power source. Even the original "God is dead" quotes from Nietzsche sound mour…

> For me it was disturbing to try to internalize the ideas that the universe is uncaring, that good and evil are made up, that your consciousness is basically like the contents of a stick of RAM that will vanish when it loses its power source.

Everyone of us wants to feel significant, loved, and giving up on an idea that we live forever, that there's always someone external looking out for us etc is an emotionally difficult process to go through.

But that's what personal growth is. It doesn't mean that you go nuts and do crazy shit - consequences exist. What it means is that your perspective changes and you become OK with just being you, and taking a journey on a speeding rock through space.

People think that you lose when you give up religion, which is in part true - but there is also a lot to be gained - in personal development, seeing life from a different perspective and appreciating the limited time we have before donating our atoms back to the universe.

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

rjmill wrote: post #152

When my then-gf/now-wife and I first moved in together, I got really mad at her because she kept "hiding" my stuff when I left it out for more than a day. I couldn't find anything! At some point, I yelled, "It's like you don't even want to see any of my things when I'm not using them!" Then I stopped for a second. For the first time in my life, it made sense. The whole point of putting things away is to hide them! No…

> The whole point of putting things away is to hide them!

I think that it is rather to have them all in one place, and that they do not take the place of other things or are in your way.

The fact that they are hidden is because they are behind a door, probably to avoid that catching dust.

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Post by solarmist »

racl101 wrote: post #585

That barring any real medical issue ... intermittent fasting is hard. We just think it is. Every time I tried it, I'd sabotage my efforts not knowing by chewing gum, eating tic tacs, using flavored tea, etc this would just trigger my insulin response and I'd get hungry throughout the day. All I had to do, is just simplify my intake to any of these: water, black coffee, black tea or any tea with a bitter profile. And…

If I understand you correctly.

To do fasting drink more non-calorie liquids. Which is absolutely correct. I drink like 2x as much liquid when I'm fasting.

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Post by solarmist »

bigwavedave wrote: post #463

Not using a bidet. I honestly feel like the single biggest quality of life improvement I've had in my adult life was realizing how much of a difference a bidet makes. That, and using flushable wipes when at home instead of just 100% toilet paper.

No flushable wipes in the toilet! Those destroy plumbing! If you want to use them, then throw them in the trash, not the toilet.

Flushable wipes are NOT actually flushable.

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Post by adrianmonk »

solarmist wrote: post #719
jws wrote: post #422

If when you coil a long cable or hose you find yourself fighting a twist as you coil… then you should learn to coil in an alternating overhand/underhand style. Google a video. Basically when grabbing the next hunk of cable you alternate between your thumb pointing away from you down the cable and your thumb point back up the cable to you and things just sort of happen right. When you uncoil the cable it will be layin…

Yup, this! I learned it from a musician for patch cables. A quarter twist per loop is all it takes for nicely rolled cords your whole life! Rereading your comment, yours is a more complicated one. I'll have to look it up. I've never needed more than a quarter twist per loop.

The wrist only needs to twist a small amount, just enough to make the next loop of cable fall the right direction. The amount of twist on the cable itself will be greater.

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Post by vegardx »

abetusk wrote: post #20
jethkl wrote: post #8

I thought colorblindness tests were designed to be tricky and subtle, so I always passed them through very close inspection. I'm just colorblind.

Have you tried using those colorblind glasses? Maybe something like Enchroma [0] or dichroic filters? [0] https://enchroma.com/

This company has so shady marketing. They don't work as advertised.

The way they hire actors to play out wholesome videos and upload them to YouTube as if it's organic content, with massive fake users to comment and push up false claims and down vote brigade all negative comments should tell you all you need about this shady company.

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Post by adrianmonk »

jws wrote: post #422

If when you coil a long cable or hose you find yourself fighting a twist as you coil… then you should learn to coil in an alternating overhand/underhand style. Google a video. Basically when grabbing the next hunk of cable you alternate between your thumb pointing away from you down the cable and your thumb point back up the cable to you and things just sort of happen right. When you uncoil the cable it will be layin…

> new cable that is rolled up (any Apple cable), unroll it instead of pulling the ends apart

An alternative method is gravity. Hold the cable up by one end and let it untwist. Obviously, don't do this for 10 foot (3m) cables unless you're very tall.

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