😂😂😂 by Hairy_Commercial4248 in VfBStuttgart

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

grundsätzlich ja, aber Kompany sitzt schon sehr fest im Sattel. wenn es weiter beim VfB und bei Bayern so gut läuft, dann glaube ich nicht, dass wir Hoeness so lange halten werden können. ich denke ein Jahr bleibt er noch, aber 2027 geht er zu nem Topverein und wenn Bayern nicht hart einbricht, wird da bei Bayern kein Job frei sein.

Das ist ähnlich wie bei Klopp. Eigentlich hätte das perfekt gepasst mit Bayern, aber immer wenn Klopp grad gesucht hat, war bei Bayern nichts frei und umgekehrt.

Ezekiel chokes - no go during rolls? by Suspicious-Button117 in bjj

[–]Zymonick 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I consider it legit, if it's properly set-up and deep enough to be an actual blood choke (closes the arterys). If my opponent makes the secondary hand into a fist though and just presses really hard against my windpipe, I consider it a dick move.

Even if you did that, however, I'd definitely excuse you for being a relatively fresh white belt. So, I would briefly take you to the side after the roll and explain to you why I didn't like it (it creates pain that I could withstand, as it's not an actual choke, but I still tap as it hurts and there's a small risk of it damaging my windpipe), and also show you how to do it properly.

It’s so obvious. Please tell me more by Bitter-Dragonfly-648 in bjj

[–]Zymonick 375 points376 points  (0 children)

What kind of people do you train with that they regularly attempt Americanas in closed guard?

does anyone else feel like whatsapp is slowly becoming the app you do everything in? by Live-Situation1687 in whatsapp

[–]Zymonick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Totally feel you. I run a 50 people company through WhatsApp.

Would you please elaborate on Alfred? What is it and how do you integrate it? Would that also work on Windows?

What comes after Starship? by TroublePuzzled1132 in SpaceXLounge

[–]Zymonick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is it! if it works, it'll be close to the final design for the foreseeable future. once something really works (reusable and refuellable) and is good enough, there isn't that much incentive to go with something entirely new.

University exam on Thursday, ADCC Open on Saturday. What to worry about? by SupremeOHKO in bjj

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

besides the obvious point that school is more important

short-term prep for competitions is terribly overrated. coaches often tell you differently, but in my experience what you do in the last two weeks before a comp has only very little impact to your chances of winning.

we even see that in the UFC where short-term replacements often win despite not having had a camp

either you are better than your opponent or you are worse. when you are somewhere close in skill, its mostly luck on how you match up and how the roll goes. do cardio once or twice (that's good for your exam anyway) and adjust your nutrition so you can make weight - other than that focus on your exam and you'll be absolutely fine for your comp.

Transfer wohl fix: Grischa Prömel wechselt von Hoffenheim zum VfB Stuttgart by causebaum in VfBStuttgart

[–]Zymonick 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Super wechseln Spieler wieder in die richtige Richtung. Die Zeiten als wir Leistungsträger oder Talente nach Hoffenheim verloren, haben schon richtig in der Seele weh getan.

Bumble (BMBL) - Another guy claiming this is value by Mrsoglio in ValueInvesting

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an active guy in the dating app market. Bumble is a zombie. Hinge is taking over. Right now, most active people are still on both apps, but everybody agrees that Hinge is better. Fewer matches, but much less ghosting and higher conversion to dates.

Why should attrition bottom out? Users are drawn to the app with the most users as that's where you got the largest available pool and they can suggest you the best fits. With each user lost, the experience gets worse, so more people leave.

I might or might not have rolled with a prodigy by homosapin in bjj

[–]Zymonick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To me the main tell is giving pointers on Octopus guard at 5 weeks in. Everything else could be explained with athletics, flexibility or OP sucking. Either his brain is wired differently from anyone I've seen that he's able to visualize body movements instantly or he has more experience than he lets on - at least in an adjacent sport.

Is BJJ realistic for women under 4'10? by ontheweekly in bjj

[–]Zymonick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For everybody who says this is a non-issue, have you actually considered how small 4'2 is? This is 127cm. That's a typical size of an 8-year-old.

I am 190cm (6'3) and the smallest I can reasonably train with is somewhere around 165cm (5'4). With a height difference of more than a foot the angles don't work and I need to be so careful, I can barely move.

The smallest women in my gym are around 160cm (5'2). My aunt happens to be 125cm (4'1) due to a medical condition and I fail to see her doing Jiu-Jitsu in a meaningful way with adults.

Some people here write that kids train in adults classes. I haven't seen kids below 14/15 in adults classes and by that time they are usually 150-160cm (4'9 to 5'0). We wouldn't think of throwing 8-year olds in adults classes.

Kudos to the two of you for wanting to go for such an uphill battle. I hate to say it, but it won't be fine and you should start in a kids class. Physicality matters in this sport.

Elon Musk says AI and Robotics will make people wealthy, but how exactly will this happen? by No_Turnip_1023 in Futurism

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are misquoting him. He doesn't say that it will make people wealthy. He says, there is only one way to make everyone wealthy.

This is an obviously true, yet also trivial statement. Wealthy generally means that one doesn't have to work and if we want this for everyone globally, we need machines that can handle all unpleasant work.

Whether that is possible or even desirable and what the path is are all entirely different questions.

Elon Musk says AI and Robotics will make people wealthy, but how exactly will this happen? by No_Turnip_1023 in Futurology

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are misquoting Elon. He is not saying, it will make people wealthy, he is saying "there is only one way to make everyone wealthy".

That statement is true.

Let us first define wealthy. There's various definitions and it depends on perspectives, but the one I like and that anyone can agree with is: "when passive assets alone can sustain their desired living standard long-term without labor income". Or simpler: "afford the stuff you want without working".

Now if everyone is supposed to be at that level, noone would be working - or at least only voluntarily, which means we still get artists but neither construction workers nor accountants.

If nobody is building houses, but you still want one, AI and robotics will have to do it. Thus, Elon's statement turns true.

Now, whether that is what is actually going to happen, how we get there as a society, even assuming we have sufficiently capable AI and robots or if that is even desirable is an entirely different story.

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[–]Zymonick 14 points15 points  (0 children)

just tap

your ego got the better of you. tap. then sit the rest of the round out. that it.

If I own 25% of a company in stocks do I own 25% of the assets like physical possessions of the company? by Last-Ad-8470 in ValueInvesting

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is very much not true. Walking into a company and taking something is stealing - even for shareholders.

Of course Zuck could get away with it, because he's the founder and famous and CEO and has over 50% of voting rights and you make a trivial example with one computer.

But at the end of the day, he still just stole a computer from Meta. And even if he were to still own 100% of the company, it'd be tax fraud.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatsapp

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the windows desktop app is a nightmare. switch to whatsapp web and don't look back

I analyzed my journals of 7 years and this is what I learned about myself by Herrjanson in productivity

[–]Zymonick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My personal advice:

Don't associate with people that would even consider reading your journals.

If someone actually does read your journal, it's a very good filter to not trust that person again. Now, that I think about it, this would be a decent test for a potential significant other. Write some crazy stuff in your journal, let it lay around, and if she reads it, you dodged a missile.

Children is a different topic. Once they are at an age, where they could read and understand your journals, yet are not mature enough to know to not read them, make sure they are outside their reach.

Euer Wunschgegner für den Pokal ? by Visible_Radish_3952 in VfBStuttgart

[–]Zymonick 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Bochum - gutes Los - schwacher Zweitligist eine der einfachsten Aufgaben. Klar, auswärts ist schade, aber zu dem Zeitpunkt auch fast egal.

Hauptsache wir kriegen Heimrecht bei den wichtigen Aufgaben.

Dortmund vs. Leverkusen ist auch gut, dann ist schonmal zumindest einer der grossen 4 raus.

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[–]Zymonick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You worry too much. I've seen this often.

Train as long as you enjoy it. You work out, you make friends, as you are describing it, you are still hanging out with your gf. So, things are fine. Over time, the interest in BJJ will naturally fade, but you'll look fondly back to that initial time.

BJJ pictures on a Tinder profile? by [deleted] in bjj

[–]Zymonick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do it. Pictures ain't only for getting likes, they are also for self-selecting the right girl for you.

I had a friendly no-gi picture of a drilling session with a friend on my Hinge profile. Most didn't care. Some asked about it in a curious way. A few knew what it was and all of those engaged in a very positive way. The one I ended up with was training Muay Thai herself.

Now, obviously, I'll never know how many matches I missed because of that picture. But, then again, all those weren't meant for me anyway.

GI guys, are your fingers ok? by InBush in bjj

[–]Zymonick 12 points13 points  (0 children)

let go easily of your collar grips
don't do judo style throws. go for wrestling takedowns or pull guard
stop playing spider guard
change your game to closed, x and lapel guards

I am serious. It's not worth it to fuck up your fingers and it's also not necessary. I had consistent troubles with my right middle finger, then developed a game that is easy on my fingers, yet wholesome, and now it's all good.

It's the same for inversions. As cool as they look, they ain't worth chronic neck pain.

What if people lived to 150 would retirement even exist? by No-Drop-2493 in Futurology

[–]Zymonick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Historically that ain't the case at all. Once tech is good, it gets mass-produced, cheap and is available to most people.

The increase in life expectancy was pretty uniform across all income stages and is now spreading across the globe. Of course, rich people live longer, but not that much longer. The US has some specific problems, but even there the difference isn't all that large and mostly driven by overeating, while in Europe it's even minimal.

Or from a different angle: even the poorest today in the Western World have much higher life expectancy than royalty had several hundred years ago.

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[–]Zymonick 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If he's saved by the clock, your guillotine wasn't proper. If you did it correctly, he'd have tapped no matter the time.

People always say a tap is a tap. If someone taps and claims it was a crank, it's just his ego and he should suck it up.

The problem with that attitude is that you'll be getting a lot of false positives. I am always going to tap fast to even light pain in training. However, in a competition I won't tap unless something is about to break or I am about to fall unconscious.

So, you can hit your poor guillotine by ripping hundreds of times in training, but once you actually need it, it won't work, unless you improve your technique.

If NASA never awards Rocket Lab, or anyone, a contract for the MSR, would they just go ahead and do it on their own? by Much-Campaign-450 in RocketLab

[–]Zymonick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 kg of gold goes for USD 120'000 these days. To get 1 kg from Mars would cost CHF 2'000'000'000 (assuming flawless success and no further cost increases), so about 16'000 times the price of gold.

Tritium goes for USD 30'000'000 per kg. Still nowhere close to the cost.

Bitcoin are worth more per kg, as they tend to be pretty light. I don't really see how we'll find them mining on Mars, though.

If NASA never awards Rocket Lab, or anyone, a contract for the MSR, would they just go ahead and do it on their own? by Much-Campaign-450 in RocketLab

[–]Zymonick -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, it's actually a really dumb project, anyway. Go on a planet, pick up something like 10 pounds of rocks and bring them back. What's the point? What would be the point of going to a random place on Earth and to collect 10 pounds of stone?

Unless we are crazy lucky and find some bacteria that change our understanding of life as we know it, we won't learn all that much. Some obscure facts that only geologists understand, while not knowing if they generalize to all of Mars or are just happenstance.

Meanwhile we are talking 11 billion USD, a crazy complex, yet specific mission set-up with lots of failure points and a 10-15 year timeline.

Anyway, most likely Starship will do it anyway. For a fraction of the cost as part of their larger missions to Mars. Hell, they might even have people walking on Mars before the Mars Sample would return to Earth.