Hacker News: internetman55

New comment by internetman55 in "I’m a very slow thinker (2016)"

internetman55 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 23:38:16 +0000

I consider that normal???

New comment by internetman55 in "I’m a very slow thinker (2016)"

internetman55 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 03:28:41 +0000

What is it mean if your natural reaction is to just say "Yeah" with no thought and then continue

New comment by internetman55 in "Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs"

internetman55 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:43:55 +0000

But no good student who approaches the grad school process in a sane manner is going to work for a professor whose students stay there for 12 years and don't graduate. A common thing for deciding if you want to work with someone is seeing how long their students took to graduate, where they ended up, emailing them, etc.

New comment by internetman55 in "How Zildjian, a 390-year-old family business, avoids layoffs (2013)"

internetman55 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:18:10 +0000

I feel like most guitarists are so extra about equipment. Most good guitarists I know will sound fine playing mediocre guitars through cheap amps, while a bad guitarist is just not going to sound good on anything

New comment by internetman55 in "A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised"

internetman55 — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:34:15 +0000

My grandpa is into his 80s without many health issues while drinking occasionally but not everyday or anything. His brothers all loved drinking more and died earlier in much worse condition. Hence I will just drink smaller amounts of alcohol and not obsess over such issues

New comment by internetman55 in "Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting"

internetman55 — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:21:25 +0000

I think the way you learn advanced math is going to class, reading a textbook, reading a paper, going to a talk, talking to a friend, etc.

New comment by internetman55 in "Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]"

internetman55 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:23:09 +0000

Wow I was going to call this stupid before I realized I have most of those

New comment by internetman55 in "FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes"

internetman55 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:15:59 +0000

Haha, I feel like he is learning from Trump

New comment by internetman55 in "‘No Poach’ Deals for Fast-Food Workers Face Scrutiny"

internetman55 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:05:11 +0000

Hahaha

New comment by internetman55 in "The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context"

internetman55 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:34:04 +0000

Wouldn't it make sense to have higher taxes on old people? They have more significant money and wealth I believe.

New comment by internetman55 in "Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach"

internetman55 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:36:10 +0000

I don't love godel escher bach cause when i took my mathemat logic class the most annoying students were the ones who read that book!!!

New comment by internetman55 in "With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster"

internetman55 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 23:32:19 +0000

Sometimes you just have to admit that if you're a 4.0 student at a top school you might have bigger opportunities than learning extra material for enrichment. You might not, but you also might. Imo

New comment by internetman55 in "With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster"

internetman55 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 23:28:16 +0000

I'm not a hiring manager but id pick A RPI student for engineering work.

New comment by internetman55 in "A system to help you remember more of what you read"

internetman55 — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 03:01:53 +0000

My question: if great none of the essayists, thinkers, writers, etc. have used and endorsed such a method, why am I going to care enough about the method to even read such instructions? If they have, why isnt this explained in the introduction?

New comment by internetman55 in "I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA"

internetman55 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:03:01 +0000

Hi Scott, hope you are doing well. A friend of friend worked with you and said that you are nice and they enjoyed it a lot. Hope you have a wonderful day

New comment by internetman55 in "Uber Game – can you break even?"

internetman55 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:19:30 +0000

Very fun!

New comment by internetman55 in "Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse"

internetman55 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:01:37 +0000

Sigh, wish we could do better as humans

New comment by internetman55 in "Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'"

internetman55 — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:08:12 +0000

I use these!

New comment by internetman55 in "Secrets of Resilience: Lessons from adults who overcame difficult childhoods"

internetman55 — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:27:22 +0000

I consider most of that stuff to be trash. I think, according to common sense, bad things happening to you is actually bad (for a variety of reasons). Many people who make it out of difficult situations end up with minds and belief systems so twisted that they borderline can't function in human relationships (e.g. a relative who would borderline abuse his children by screaming at them until they were crying and cowering over minor infractions because he believes you choose how you react to external circumstances and his dad pulled a gun on him so this obviously isn't even a big deal and the kid needs to stop overreacting and just try harder)

New comment by internetman55 in "Mindfulness Meditation Impairs Task Motivation but Not Performance [pdf]"

internetman55 — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:46:32 +0000

Not really. I think I am an SBNR investigating Christianity mostly at this point. But, for example, someone told me I should recite the Jesus prayer at work to boost my productivity, I'd probably think there was something wrong with him (even if in some sense it might be beneficial)