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SebKba | 5 months ago | on: German government comes out against Chat Control

It's the classical playbook. Capture the media, declare the opposition illegal, bye bye democracy.

The public was sold this Nazi story about the AfD by the established powers to keep them down. Looking at what has been going on it's wild to me to call the AfD authoritarian compared the the Altparteien...

SebKba | 2 years ago | on: Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

Paid users only would probably push it in the right direction. It is unfortunate that the internet has moved into everything is advertising as a business model. I get the appeal but cognitively paying so I can keep my attention seems like a way better model.

SebKba | 2 years ago | on: Clinical Trial Shows Tony Robbins Is Not Hot Air

My assumption had always been Tony Robbins is a maniac snake oil salesman. Turns out I might be way off. The podcast with Theo Von is worth a watch and the Standford paper is surprising to me. What's your experience?

SebKba | 2 years ago | on: If you can use open source, you can build hardware

If you just want it to work you can use ESPHome which means you barely have to code at all. There are software modules for a lot of the standard hardware components. It's arduino plug and play.

I've built a device that times my espresso machine and controls the grinder. I build a 4x wifi socket just because it was fun. Getting high quality temperature and humidity values or co2 is unbelievably easy, cheap and fun.

Coupled with Homeassistant you can spend a lot of time and have a lot of fun. I did at least.

SebKba | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?

I think genetics are completely misunderstood. I also have serious Narcissism in my family and to me it very much looks like that's the world view you learn if that's how it's demonstrated to you as a small child. Small children have no filter on inputs also. If dad isn't around because mother is unbearable and she lives a narcissistic reality it becomes the water that you swim in. I don't think there is genetic code that determines that you think other people are to blame for everything!

Random theory: Children of narcissists like IT because it's a world that is very predictable with rational explanations.

SebKba | 7 years ago | on: Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

There is an export option for HipChat so if you could write an importer for that the migration would probably be straight forward. We also have customers who insist on having control over their data so we are looking into mattermost as well.

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health

Regarding #1... I'm pretty sure that to digest 100kcal worth of chicken breast requires more energy for the body to do, compared to digesting 100kcal worth of Coke/sugar. It also has a different impact on your insulin levels.

Living on a 3000kcal McDonalds diet will give you a different body shape compared to living on a 3000kcal diet of home cooked, organic meals.

No?

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: Strong Legs Associated with Healthy Brains in Twin Study

You can build aerobic power (at least to some extent) using anaerobic exercise like sprints / intervals. I would assume a combination of aerobic & anaerobic exercise is probably the healthiest because that way all energy pathways and muscle fibres get activated.

I always think it's crazy to expect humans to function properly without exercise. We see the problems in all other animals when they become sedentary below the level that they would historically be expected to do. Yet somehow some people seem to think we are an exception to this rule.

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: Recognising gym excerises in real-time using a neural network

That's awesome! I didn't think this would work but it does. It would be amazing to combine this with a training tracking app. So far the data entry has always been really annoying so only machine exercises could really be captured properly. Really exciting stuff. I think this has a lot of potential for a startup!

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous (Draft)

I really like the format and styling! It's broken up nicely with the images you added and the commands are kept to the really important ones. The summaries at the end of each chapter is great as takeaway. Maybe you could create a cheat sheet of the combination of summaries?

I'm looking forward to the Git edition of this series.

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: How I became a drug cheat athlete to test the system

I rowed just below international level and several of my former team mates have world and olympic medals. Also, I know that my pure power output was better than some of the international rowers and I didn't even take Creatine. My house mate is in a national team squad right now and he gets surprise tested every few months. He actually has to keep a calendar of where he sleeps every single night so they can find you in the morning... I doubt there is much cheating going on in rowing, like you said, it's just not worth it financially.

SebKba | 10 years ago | on: How I became a drug cheat athlete to test the system

Wow! I've competed in rowing at fairly high level and reading this is article is shocking. I did not expect such a huge performance boost and THEN to turn up clean is insane.

So far I've always given people the benefit of the doubt but this really makes me wonder...

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