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What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by danoprey »

seiji wrote: post #29
whyenot wrote: post #17

I'm going to (actually already have) severely cut back on the amount of time I spend at HN, Reddit and other social sites. It's just not a productive use of my time, and life is too short to fritter away the hours doing nothing.

I've been Reddit-free for over two years. You can do it! How? Just stop. You can't peek. You can't view it for "just a minute." You can't "just browse." The only solution is to not visit at all. Give it a few days and it'll fall out of your daily routine altogether. Also: edit your history to remove all reddit history so your browser navbar doesn't auto-complete when you reflexively open a new tab and start typing "r…

I've quit eating red meat, smoking, and coffee so far this year and I think this one will be next for me and embarrassingly maybe the hardest! Thanks for the tip.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by danoprey »

jacalata wrote: post #41
ninjac0der wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in the US of A.... look around. #edit it's the only form of protest I can think of that might actually affect things, or at least my involvement.

Why not figure out how to become a valuable enough person that you can leave, if you think the USA sucks? Eg; with a degree and a few years experience in software and learning french, you should qualify for Canada. Start looking at jobs in Britain and see what you'd need to get hired by someone who'd get you a working visa, like Google.

British here, if I understand his reasons correctly then he'll likely think Britain is worse.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by qwerta »

whyenot wrote: post #17

I'm going to (actually already have) severely cut back on the amount of time I spend at HN, Reddit and other social sites. It's just not a productive use of my time, and life is too short to fritter away the hours doing nothing.

I use RSS and offline reading once a week.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by antirez »

rfnslyr wrote: post #25
antirez wrote: post #16

I actually stopped doing it for some time already, but will continue in 2014: I stopped to train to failure. If you are into strength training I strongly suggest to give this a try in 2014, I read a few books about it but I'm not able to give you a short TLDR that is accurate, but if you wanna try: - Make about half the reps you could do with a given weight, but make sure you still do a great total volume. - Train ev…

I'm a body builder and competitive powerlifter. Why did you decide to stop training to failure? Don't give us a loose tl;dr of the books you read, give us the books!

Unfortunately the main book is in italian language :-( But it is inspired to the Russian school of power lifters. That's the book btw: http://www.accademiaitalianaforza.it/metodo-distribuito-libr...

The main idea is to observe the world top powerlifters schedule and apply it to amateurs.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by ninjac0der »

Arnor wrote: post #46
ninjac0der wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it would be much more comfortable to continue riding inside the machine that tramples others than to be the others. Perhaps the divide is how you see of our current global actions. Truly sinister, or just the actions of a jumbled congress/governing system.

> or just the actions of a jumbled congress/governing system. Exactly.

Thank you for providing so much debt to the discussion.
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