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Here is my latest life hack that I have been using. Pick a major from MIT and see their degree program to form a basic knowledge graph of the major. Find them on https://ocw.mit.edu/ and study yourself. Usually, taking 1-2 classes gives you a great insight in to any topic so that you can at least collaborate better with the experts of those topics in a team environment.


This sounds a lot like Scott Young's stint of going through the MIT classwork for several degree paths; might give you some further inspiration!

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/


What are example majors you have done this with?


Can't believe how successfully they were in rebranding themselves as "royal family" given everything that was happening to other monarchies in europe during ww2


It might be that all the prior 43-min practices made the 45 min ride feel relaxed...


Yea, 43 -> 45 minutes is a 5% decrease in performance, which sounds small but actually is pretty significant for any trained athlete. That's 15 seconds if you're running a 5:00 mile.

In cycling particularly you have all sorts of day-of considerations like hydration incl. electrolyte balances, RBC counts, sleep debt, glycogen levels etc. Even just having some carb-heavy meals a few days in a row would potentially affect his RPE. But none of that takes away from his deloading principle.


However cryptocurrency != "an experimental bridge protocol that raised its seed round 3 months ago"


The main point still stands. The crypto world sees "the code is the law" and non-repudiable/non-reversible transactions as a feature. The rest of the world (correctly in my view) sees it as a bug.


That "main point" was never justified here. Commenters just assumed that a hack on an experimental bridge protocol reflected on crypto as a whole


This brings back memories. Megaman was the only game I had for my gameboy, and I remember playing it for months. Back then I barely knew english, I would spend days trying to figure out what it wanted me to do. By trial and error, I would make progress. So story is still a mystery to me. I should def pick it up again.


well normal money, but in a revolutionary form factor. metal coin usd -> paper usd -> crypto usd

Smaller jump then gold -> usd -> btc which actually means changing the global reserve currency.

If you think about it didn't the U.S. government did a similar thing by gold. USD was pegged to gold initially, then they changed it.


I think you missed a step:

metal coin usd -> paper usd -> digital usd (closed, permissioned system) -> crypto usd (transparant, permissionless system)

The jump is a lot less between digital and crypto should be small.


true, revolutionary (compared to even digital usd) as in It shouldn't require a third party (aka bank etc) for 2 individuals to transact.


No bank involved, but for every transaction you burn down an unspecified amount of the Amazon rainforest. But hey, you win some, you lose some.


You always need a 3rd party for two individuals to transact. It's banks for dollars, miners + the whole infrastructure for crypto.

In principle, miners or the infrastructure maintainers could be forced to never mine your transactions (well, transactions to/from particular wallet IDs), by the way. It would be of course harder, since your money is in a single bank, but all miners would have to agree to the ban for it to work.


average as in not very pretty? so you have a definition of pretty and you are okay with it being the standard however just want an average faced doll?

I wouldn't consider myself very knowledgable such as topics like these, so just curious about what the thinking is behind it.


I think the parent poster means Barbie dolls that look more like regular people. Classic Barbie looks like a model.


Yes. I was trying to criticize that Barbie dolls hold up an unrealistic beauty standard while trying to be inclusive about disabilities, color or gender.


I don't understand their comment. "Average" women are pretty imo. Do they mean below average?


it's going to get down to complaining about introducing generics way too late.


Only for those who want to make a stink about it.


I think It's the facial hair.. jokes aside, I enjoy his videos a lot.


Yeah, the dude looks exactly the archetypical way. I would imagine he codes Lisp, develops Emacs and has something to do with the FSF immediately after a single look at him :-)


I had such a terrible experience with Google Fi for 3 months, I never thought I would be this happy switching back to T-Mobile.


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