jvln | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Does Duolingo Work?
I am always joking that duolingo sells a dream to speak foreign language fluently. My argument is I have not seen a person claiming learned a language on the platform.
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jvln | 2 years ago | on: Why South Korean women aren't having babies
Is not it just to expensive?
While having a child you must pay for daycare, school, evening baby sitting. Next to that if the family splits the woman is doing most of the child care alone. Sounds like to much risk.
jvln | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you learn to stretch effectively?
I created a playlist that tells the strech exercise name and then beeps every 20s. Efective stretch takes between 20-30s and the strength of it should be such that the intensity phases out at the end of the 20s. I did 3x20s for every exercise. My whole routine was approx 20minutes and took me daily for 3 months to achieve the angles that are checked by physio therapist.
jvln | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling that everyone around you is stupid?
Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?
jvln | 3 years ago | on: LinkedIn's software and customer service are seriously affecting my business
What positions are you hiring?
jvln | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to use AI/ML to cut all dead time from table tennis video matches
After you solve it, please share :)
jvln | 3 years ago | on: Support Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression
So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts.
On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.
jvln | 4 years ago | on: Columbia's Sachs Criticizes NATO's Handling of Ukraine
What might be the reason..?
jvln | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What would you do if you were president?
Call in all inteligence heads and ask the most important question: do aliens exist?
jvln | 5 years ago | on: Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
After reading the quote
“Most men give advices by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” W.R.Alger.
I stopped giving advices.
jvln | 5 years ago | on: How I stay motivated working on my long-term project
My two cents. I prefer analogy with sport. Say you choose running and pick 10k distance. What might be the goal? 50min, 40min, 30min? Say you pick 50min, if you are out of shape and did not do sport in your life - it will take you 6-9 months. You will have to train 3 times a week, probably you won't hire a couch, your body won't be ready, hence you will make many mistakes and will have quite high chances to injure your self and quit. What I want to emphasize - to succeed you have to start loving the process and blend the process into your lifestyle.
I see very clearly how the goal oriented approach fails for loosing weight while the only effective thing to do is eat less.
jvln | 5 years ago | on: SoftBank’s Vision Fund Loses $17.7B on WeWork, Uber
I just finished reading https://www.billiondollarwhale.com/ book. The book tells a story how 11Billion USD were stolen. After seeing $17B losses I hardly can believe that a big chunk of it or most of it were not funnelled to support a lavish lifestyle of connected people.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism
Searching for exercises having an efect and taking as less time as possible looks like panacea.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists
That is an interesting question. I would like to buy a nice painting or a sculpture but how can I distinguish a piece that is worth considering.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: 2020 goals and resolutions?
I improved my flexibility whithin 6 months by visiting a physiotherapist. I visited her once per month. She checked my angles and muscle strenght then gave me a custom routine of exercices and streches each time.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
The analogy about muscle streching is wrong.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
Not the same situation. Roads are used and paid for maintainance by business. Subways/undergrounds are not used by business.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Vital Wikipedia Articles
What I want to emphasize is that majority of articles represent western democratic, capitalistic, liberal culture. Reading these articles you won’t learn anything extra that you were tought in school. On one hand it is ammusig how english wikipedia became a western culture mirror. On the other hand it is sad that you can not get insights into other cultures without western culture filter.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Tiny flats taking over Latin America
As I see it - the land is owned by the city and city is lobbied by other landlords to keep all the crimes in a closed teritory. If you dismantle slums the people will spread all over the city and the crimes will follow.
jvln | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Data Science portfolio projects ideas
Nice post and sounds like a screenplay of Slumdog Millionaire.
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