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speedRS | 5 years ago | on: Japanese people stay fit for life without visiting a gym

Anecdotal, but this mirrors my experience as well; without fail I lose weight on every trip. I’m not necessarily doing that much touristy stuff either but I walk significantly more than I do back home (I also work from home which probably doesn’t help). Part of it might be that I have more time as I’m in Japan for a holiday but I also find most of Japan more interesting to walk around and the cities are more densely packed with fewer stretches of empty land. I also don’t have a car which probably forces more walking but I often actively chose not to catch a train as well, even if it makes the trip a little longer.

speedRS | 5 years ago | on: Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters

Usually my first and only questions when looking at trying a new note-taking app - have you implemented client-side encryption? How are my notes secured?

speedRS | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

Out of curiosity, what do you do in VR that helps break things up for you?

speedRS | 9 years ago | on: Lengthy Instapaper outage

I use a combination of Instapaper and Pinboard. You do need to pay for the offline mode, same as with Pocket by the sound of it but maybe Pinboard would be a suitable alternative for you?

speedRS | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage your "TO READ" list?

That sounds like a very different approach. Any chance you'd be willing to share some simple examples of how you go about it? I'm intruiged.

speedRS | 13 years ago | on: Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

I put my money on it being a Back To The Future 3-style letter from the past

speedRS | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does Dark Knight Rises represents Plato's allegory of cave?

I can see similarities between the allegory and film in terms of the populace being blind to the so-called "truth" of the world until Bane forces it upon them; even that though is like an inversion of the cave situation, I would suggest. Apart from that though, I'm not sure that I see the correlation, unless you're suggesting that Batman himself is the guy in the cave (not literally the Batcave). Was there anything specific that made you think that's what Nolan was going for?

speedRS | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo, religion and the web

I couldn't agree more. I remember talking to a senior exec (acquired as part of a startup buyout) at a previous job and he stressed that there's always room under the big contenders (in areas they can't or don't care about) in any market until you begin to chip away at their market share and become one yourself. In an ideal world, I guess. Good post.

I really do want to be a Yahoo! fanboy too. Wish they would improve Flickr before I migrate to 500px.

speedRS | 13 years ago | on: How to add or remove a byte order mark

The only reason I can think of is it might be used to identify the encoding as UTF-8. Could be useful for parsers when the encoding type is not specified, say in the XML declaration, or when there is a mismatch between the BOM and the declaration? Other than that, it's unecessary.