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They're gay and lame and plain ugly. What's the dubious benefit they offer on a selected number of people? Make you look bad-ass? My standard for bad-ass is this guy, you won't see tattoos on him: Lemme disambiguate it to you: 1) Tattooed guys are "cartoon villains". 2) True evil is...

On the other hand as a kid I'd be wandering the forests with no concern whatsoever. Turns out the communist government was doing a good job of keeping the beasts in control and away from human populations (they were fed regularly in the deep woods and shot if approaching human habitat). Not...

Ahh, the gadfly. I grew up in the countryside btw. So these gadflies will gather around cattle herds but humans are not on their usual menu so it was pretty safe to be around horses, cows etc, they'd go for them and not for me. On the rare occasion they'd target me while alone, I'd usually feel...

This where I live (Romania, Eastern Europe): This is where I go in vacation: Crete, Greece. Essentially the same latitude as Florida. I was looking at Baron's photos and thinking to myself "why I can tell this is not Greece?". Nice. But not Greece :)

If you Google for "procrastination" you'll get almost exclusively results telling you motivational stories that make 1930s Soviet era Stakhanovism pale in comparison ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement ). Content ranges from "How I overcame my shameful procrastination...

Never fastened in my life. I'm trying to figure out how to add more mileage to a refill. I know approximately how much eating various stuff will last me, it's in the 2h - 8h range. 8h is not bad at all but I rarely get that, seems to be cumulative, built on previous lower numbers. Like...

Sorry, don't know what "fleating" is and I can't seem to find a definition for it. On the other hand I know a guy that claims to adhere to the OMAD (one meal a day diet). I don't know how that is even possible except for a brief period of time and essentially undergo a period of self-imposed...

Ok, this is the weird$ place on ET, might as well discuss my unusual quirk. I hate eating. Tried Googling for the term but I get completely orthogonal results. Anorexics who really, viscerally, hate eating. I don't hate it for some physical reason, I hate eating because it's so disrupting to...

I contracted for 6 months for a hedge fund where I essentially proved that technical analysis is hogwash. The owner had some significant of money (think $100 MM) in this game, paid some $2MM for developers to develop a platform to test his trader's ideas. When I arrived at the scene it was...

All the work that is HARD is by definition, hard work :) On a sidenote, some two weeks ago I started learning two new hardcore knowledge domains: Android development Web development Now don't get me wrong, I still know some Android and Web, but it's like knowing "German" and "French" compared...

About 10 years ago I got my first Xiaomi and since then I stuck to them. Occasionally they have the weird bug like battery drains 70% in sleep mode overnight and when I check the power usage it says "screen activity", but then mysteriously the bug clears on it's own without requiring a system...

You know the drill :D And I do have a Nigerian account, that's true as well :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_wafer First introduced by the Austrian company "Manner" as "Napolitaner wafers", kit-kats are to this day named "Napolitane" in Romanian. Like all sports shoes are called "Adidas-es". And chainsaw machines (of the Texas massacre kind) are called...

Anyone up to making money the old-fashioned way? Establishing a business rather than speculating on scraps (shares) of a business? After 15 years of putting my intellectual capacity into financial markets, it wasn't all in vain. 1) I acquired enough experience to conclude that further pursue...

I read an article on Hacker News about some US kid (apparently common situation) who was bullied for owning an Android phone (Samsung top of the line) instead of an iPhone. This is so incomprehensible to me (eastern European). Owning a Samsung is dreamed upon, iPhone doesn't even enter the...

I don't think he says that. Bravery exists but the vast majority of brave men did not survive to tell the story. Sadly it's both in the interest of the powers be AND our own psychology which emphasises the extraordinary stories of the heroes that survived and swipe under the rug the vast cohorts...

Yeah, I meant to discuss this sometime, now it's a good opportunity. That thread with 1500 pages starting from 2007 makes me very uncomfortable. I'm more for Hacker News style of threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/ A thread is active one or two days then gets definitively closed. You can...

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Wonder if anyone gets this, relies on a rather obscure cultural reference. I'll explain it later if you don't know what this is about.

So what do you do when like me, you find yourself a Natural Intelligence cursed with the gift of self-consciousness and the certitude of death? Maybe it depends on IQ level I dunno but in my 130+ bracket it's not "pray till death with a smile" but rather "smile till death makes you pray" :D...