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3. Don't store eggs in the fridge, and don't frikking wash them!
Why not wash them?
Eggs have a protective coat. Washing them makes them permeable and subject to taking in bacteria.
Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
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#462Read a few chapters in 'a mind for numbers' to understand how learning works in the brain. It will give you an idea about how much effort it takes for your brain to actually learn something, and so will help you plan anything you'll want to learn in the future. In my opinion, they should teach this knowledge in schools everywhere.
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This is a good example why one should understand compound interest. Through in a payment schedule and amortization as well. The bank is giving you $X to buy the house. You’re paying off a piece of it each month (your mortgage payment). Part of that goes to the interest on the loan, the rest goes to principal. The interest each month is based upon on the remaining principal. That means your payment starts off being mo…
Just seems like a massive scam thats become the norm. You're paying off interest on the first month, as if you've already had the money for 20 years. They take liberties from day one.
I don't understand this. You have negotiated to pay a fixed payment per month so why does it matter whether the money is paying off interest or the principal first? The bank didn't force you to get the loan.
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#464Learn how to sharpen a knife or chisel or axe or other tool. Suddenly every piece of hard steel turns into a tool when you know how to get it sharp.
All you need is some abrasive (e.g. sandpaper at 600 and 2000 grit) and a piece of leather to strop it (optionally some chromium oxide or something for honing compound).
Then you can level it up from there and learn how to heat treat steel (you'll need a blowtorch) and you can make sharp and pointy things in all shapes and sizes.
For example I once needed a very small chisel, so I made one out of a two inch nail. It wasn't great (not hard steel, didn't retain an edge for long), but it got the job done.
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#465That as you age an hour is extremely valuable. You only have so many. Don't waste them on bullshit.
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#466Salary Negotiation Basics.
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#467For the lame definition of valuable: if you are not in the practise of negotiating, try to negotiate in more situations and see what happens! Attempting to negotiate will not harm your situation when dealing with another party making you a genuine offer. Even if you are a very mediocre negotiator, you might be able to easily eg obtain a somewhat higher salary when starting a job versus just accepting a given offer if…
I think "Never split the difference" by Chris Voss is the better book if you can tolerate a bit of bragging.
Plus, it's also a book on active manipulation (in a wider sense) and an even better when read after "When I say no I feel guilty" which deals with defending against manipulations.
None of them can be read in an hour, nor can they be made a habit in a month.
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#468Basic social skills. How to make small talk, especially with non-technical people. It's easy to learn, but if you're a hacker then it probably doesn't come naturally and so it must be learned. But you will get enormous leverage out of learning it.
IMO if you're the kind of person who needs to improve on basic social skills, an hour of practice is probably not going to be enough. You also didn't describe how this could be practiced in an hour?
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#469How to properly wrap cables. A/V and cable techs are super anal about this and it takes just a few minutes to learn, it will change your life. Cables should never be coiled in the same direction. It creates kinks when unwound and make it extremely likely for knots to form (ever leave your headphones in your pocket?). If a cable isn't being installed permanently it should be "wrapped" using a technique called "over-un…
You might be interested in the over-under technique that I use, it does not require either hand let go of the cable, so is very fast.
The is the best video I was able to find that illustrates it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktI0mLAoSTc
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Similarly, Excusez-moi; parlez-vous Anglais? is how you get a French person to speak English.
The full handshake sequence is usually longer that this. They will first reply with "Non", often coupled with a wounded look. Then you have to start speaking in a very broken French, ideally with a monstrous accent (though this comes naturally). And only then they will suddenly re-discover their long forgotten English skills, which will turn out to be quite decent.
Parlez-vous [random broken Spanish] parlez-vous [more Spanish]. Merci.