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heigh commented on Is being bilingual good for your brain? economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Anon84

dehrmann · 6 months ago

With time being limited, I wonder if using a second language, playing an instrument, solving puzzles, physical activity, or some other activity is "better" brain stimulus.

heigh · 6 months ago

My father was 76 and started to forget things, basic things like what he did yesterday, who we met the week before (family from overseas who we haven’t seen in years)…

This is when I realised it was getting serious. But he’s a Norwegian born in the 40s, so talking about his mental health and opening up to him is near impossible.

I did call him out on these massive lapses in memory, but jokingly though.

However, without formally addressing anything, he started out of no where and never, ever before doing it my entire life: sudoku.

1-2 hours a day, then more, all the time.

He’s now in his mid 80s and as sharp as ever.

I know he went and saw a GP, and they prescribed sodoku.

But the effectiveness of it, taken seriously, is absolutely incredible.

heigh commented on Ask HN: YAML or Markdown for Personal Notes? · Posted by u/heigh

begemotz · 6 months ago

I am not sure what the question here actually is -- the title compares apples to oranges (e.g. Obsidian uses YAML for meta-data but markdown is the markup language). Then in the post itself, it sounds like you ask a question about how to organize your note storage. Separate questions with some potential overlap.

A couple of questions -- what didn't you like about Obsidian? Have you considered Emacs and Org-mode?

heigh · 6 months ago

I think you answered my question, although indirectly. I thought there was competing standards (if that's even the right word, I don't know) for note-taking.

YAML is more for configuration and meta-data, so my original question didn't make a lot of sense.

You've helped clear my confusions so for that, thanks so much!

As for Obsidian, I just wasn't super keen having a whole extra app just for my note-taking. I like simple Notepad++ (or Geany, now that I'm moved to nix), as it can work on any files, not just text/MD/note docs.

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

lazide · 9 months ago

Trump has consistently avoided consequences from breaking the rules.

You can’t fight someone like that within the rules, and right now the left will throw anyone who starts breaking the rules in jail while consistently being unable to hold the opposition accountable.

It’s enforced self destruction.

heigh · 9 months ago

Not sure what your position is here. “The left is trying to hold people to account, but that makes them less popular.”?

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

senorrib · 9 months ago

Real estate, bonds, foreign stocks, oil. There's a billion options out there. Or they can just sit and wait. Losing for a bit of inflation is better than losing 20-30% in a recession.

heigh · 9 months ago

Gold is going off the charts

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

heigh · 9 months ago

Has anyone checked out Fox News recently? There is zero, and I mean zero coverage of the implications of the tariffs. W.T.F. At what point do you go “okay, we’re actually on par with North Korea”?

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

acdha · 9 months ago

The other side of it is the lost trust in American tech. That’s most prominent in the military debates around whether other countries can rely on their expensive hardware working if they run afoul of American policy, or if the president is looking for leverage to extort a mineral deal, but it’s also highly relevant for the civilian side. For pretty much as long as we’ve had computers, most other countries have trusted hardware made by American companies running operating systems and applications made by American companies. Now everyone has to wonder what kind of espionage or sabotage would be possible if those companies were pressured – or whether the guys standing on stage would even need to be pressured. Suddenly, giving Google the ability to push code onto most of the devices in the world looks less like a security win and more like a risk - and it’s famously hard to establish trust without the rule of law as the foundation. Snowden started it but most allied governments were confident that there were limits in a way which is a lot harder to believe now.

I am expecting that 2024 will be seen as the peak for American tech companies: the longer this goes on, the more competition they’ll have with advantages they can’t match in foreign markets – especially if many of the immigrants who worked at those companies decide to start companies after leaving.

heigh · 9 months ago

So in short, the trust with tech is already way gone. And should be. For everything else? Well trump just blew that up

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

acdha · 9 months ago

The other side of it is the lost trust in American tech. That’s most prominent in the military debates around whether other countries can rely on their expensive hardware working if they run afoul of American policy, or if the president is looking for leverage to extort a mineral deal, but it’s also highly relevant for the civilian side. For pretty much as long as we’ve had computers, most other countries have trusted hardware made by American companies running operating systems and applications made by American companies. Now everyone has to wonder what kind of espionage or sabotage would be possible if those companies were pressured – or whether the guys standing on stage would even need to be pressured. Suddenly, giving Google the ability to push code onto most of the devices in the world looks less like a security win and more like a risk - and it’s famously hard to establish trust without the rule of law as the foundation. Snowden started it but most allied governments were confident that there were limits in a way which is a lot harder to believe now.

I am expecting that 2024 will be seen as the peak for American tech companies: the longer this goes on, the more competition they’ll have with advantages they can’t match in foreign markets – especially if many of the immigrants who worked at those companies decide to start companies after leaving.

heigh · 9 months ago

I think since the Snowden revelations it’s pretty clear there is no holds barred in terms of intelligence overreach from practically every angle and state.

What’s happening now, with the tariffs, is really wild (but ultra dumb imho) territory…

heigh commented on Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout wsj.com/finance/stocks/u-... · Posted by u/perihelions

larrywright · 9 months ago

He bankrupted a casino. I’m not sure how you even manage to do that.

heigh · 9 months ago

He bankrupted casinos 6 times. Six. Managed to lose money on a money printing machine.

heigh commented on · Posted by u/heigh

EGreg · 9 months ago

What's toxic is the system, for both men and women. A lot of the modern feminists and redpillers are anti-marriage, and advocate for men and women to never get married, for various reasons. Usually both gender warriors claim it's an oppressive institution. Meanwhile people have less children, and neglect their children, while corporations have them climbing the corporate ladder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

I was there at Sheryl Sandberg's event when released her book "Lean In", about how women can do better climbing the corporate ladder. The culture now teaches kids to find life's meaning in something that will soon be automated by AI anyway. We'll have to figure out other ways of connecting again, spend time with our kids instead of sending them to government schools, take care of our parents instead of sticking them in nursing homes, etc.

The problems are upstream (social networks, microplastics, factory farms, sugar, etc.) causing record teenage sadness, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, etc. The current solutions in USA are mostly medication downstream: amphetamines for kids with ADHD, SSRI inhibitors for depression, ozempic for diabetes, vaccines for a coronavirus that mostly affected people with diabetes / obesity (a real persistent epidemic that is hardly addressed at its root cause).

This is what you should be worried about, in my opinion: https://magarshak.com/blog/?paged=2

And the reason that boys end up looking to redpillers, blackpillers, MRAs, and guys the Tates etc. is because the system failed them. Dating sucks for both sexes. It used to be you competed with people in your local village. Now you compete with the whole world, and no one wants to settle. And teenage girls have record levels of sadness too, and everyone will soon be competing with AIs.

heigh · 9 months ago

I do think that’s a massive factor. I hate to generalise as is a massively complex issue but I do feel most young men online are angry that they aren’t getting more interactions with women. Technology hasn’t helped that at all. I’m wondering if there’s a way to try reverse that. Education is obviously key but it popular and accepted is super hard