When I was around that age I also had my PC taken away from me. My recommendation would be to see if you can kickstart some hobby by spending a few hundred dollars on something as a substitute for the PC. Something of his choice than is more constructive than video games. When my PC was taken away and not replaced with anything, I just got bored and didn't know what to do with my time.
Funny idea: a long form journalism site could intentionally and openly embed such a script, allowing readers to make "micropayments" of lent CPU time to the site while they read articles.
I've been using org-mode with Deft for a few months now and love it. I'm slowly building a personal Wiki filled with knowledge that is rapidly searchable and has no risk of becoming obsolete (unlike say Evernote where you are at the mercy of the service).
I have listened to rainymood.com over 1000 hours and am 100% sure I perform better while listening to it vs. not listening to anything. However, pop music would be much more distracting than silence for me.
I reached the same conclusion for myself - that a ~40 minute cardio workout actually results in less productivity rather than more.
However, I switched to a 10 minute cycling workout with high intensity intervals (4-5 intervals 30 seconds in length). I have only done this for a few weeks, but I find that it boosts daily energy rather than depleting it.
Number of deaths caused by Islamic extremist terror attacks is a fat-tailed distribution, while deaths caused by lawn mowers is not. There is no organized movement among lawnmowers to rise up and kill people - the deaths happen by accident, and the odds of deaths increasing 1000% one year are very, very low. The same logic does not hold for terrorist attacks. There is no reason to assume an attack on the scale of 9/11 or greater will never occur again. These low-probability but highly significant events are not being factored in by Kim Kardashian West, and a lot of people are not thoughtful enough to consider them on their own.
He does a breakdown of his household spending each year and it's around $30,000. His house had been paid for in full and he had ~$800,000 invested at the time of retirement. The math works out without income from blogging and handiwork.
I have not read the book "Nonviolent Communication," but anecdotally, the several people I know who have mentioned reading this book tend to speak in an abnormally passive aggressive, condescending, and overbearing way. I am curious if this is just a fluke or if others have had the same experience.
A few months ago as a newcomer to Ethereum, I looked into Solidity and concluded that due to the poor design of the language, large-scale problems like this would be inevitable. I decided not to invest in ETH. In my opinion, smart contracts are a good idea, but smart contracts written in Solidity are a bad idea.
http://javascript.info/ is an excellent, up-to-date, comprehensive resource for learning JS.
I also really liked getify's course on Frontend Masters, "Deep JavaScript Fundamentals," as well as his book series You Don't Know JS (though it's a bit much for a beginner).
I agree. I've heard people say, "I don't understand why you use Reddit. I visited the front page and it is total garbage." But I've never heard anyone say the same thing about YouTube, even though its front page is just as bad.
People do care about these things if you are a well-known public figure. I think the constant scrutinizing over the conduct of public figures misleads people into believing that their own actions are being scrutinized in the same way.
I remember telling my parents this was my favorite book when I was 10. I'm currently reading the Chinese translation since it matches my current Chinese reading level, and it's been quite enjoyable, even though a lot of English-specific word play is lost in translation.
Thanks for this! I'm looking forward to part 2 also.
A bit off-topic, but does anyone have Chinese TV show suggestions? I watched a few episodes of this show (他来了) already, but I didn't like it very much.
Be sure to work through problems and not just watch lectures, because otherwise you'll forget the content. For example, the linear algebra course has a companion site with problems, and the professor of the probability course wrote an excellent book with problems.
I am sticking with Digital Ocean over Lightsail because I don't like potential financial liability. I like being able to not think about my vps for months and knowing there is a maximum amount I will be charged.
Interesting to see a reference to Culadasa on HN. I discovered his site in 2013 and listened to almost his entire podcast archive. For more than a year I meditated 1+ hours every day, but ultimately I didn't make much progress according to the 10 stages model he has laid out. I ended up getting skeptical/discouraged and stopped meditating regularly. How about you?
Any of them from the past few decades. Obama's administration has made secret courts and laws more common than ever before while prosecuting a record number of whistleblowers.
I had the same result after switching to a keto diet 10 months ago. Do you know if there are any research papers on this? I was really surprised how effective the change in diet was because I did it on a whim without receiving medical advice.