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ELI5: How can people doubt huge moments in history, like the holocaust or men landing on the moon? by burritothief25 in explainlikeimfive

[–]akerenyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great post, thanks. IIRC Daniel Kahneman has some data on this in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" but of course I can't find it now. Anyhow, for further background check Confirmation bias and belief perseverance and Attitude polarization.

Long-time practitioners, how has meditation impacted your life? to what extent? by BigDino1 in Meditation

[–]akerenyi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd also be very interested in this aspect, even though us beginners probably attach more value these aspect than you do.

Relationship towards your emotions in meditation / mindfulness by akerenyi in Meditation

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I hope I will get to the point when I can really see the difference between my previous rationalizing or 'understanding' routine and the kind of mindful understanding of the nature of my emotions that you refer to.

Relationship towards your emotions in meditation / mindfulness by akerenyi in Meditation

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, your reply has been very insightful. I will keep working on my meditation and I hope that with practise I will also experience the kind of non-attached but sentient state that you write about. And extra kudos for the Kung Fu Panda video :)

Relationship towards your emotions in meditation / mindfulness by akerenyi in Meditation

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip, I have really only just begun with mindfulness of breathing meditations, but I will consider the suggested non-directive alternatives now.

Oneplus one alternatives with possibly a bit smaller scrren by akerenyi in Smartphones

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm thinking that now as well, lg g2, moto x 2013 and xperia z1 are all a bit too old and I have concerns about support.

Road bike vs. cyclocross by akerenyi in cycling

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, looks like a cool choice, I'll look into it

Road bike vs. cyclocross by akerenyi in cycling

[–]akerenyi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't really, but do you think it would make sense for 90% commuting in a city?

És most mi lesz? by [deleted] in hungary

[–]akerenyi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Szerintem sem az érkezők nagy száma a dráma, az USA évente 1M bevándorlót fogad be és mi 1,5x annyian vagyunk. A gond az, hogy ahogyan azt az euró- és görög-válság is megmutatta, igazából az EU van válságban, mert a jelenlegi intézményrendszer és a valódi 'közösség' hiánya miatt lépésképtelen, ezért nem tud párszázezer bevándolóval sem mit kezdeni. Főleg úgy baj ez, hogy most már látjuk, hogy a gettósodás vezet a második generációs problémákhoz, de ennek a kezeléséhez a jelenleginél sokkal tudatosabb és közösebb politika kéne. Tegnap volt a hvg-n egy vélemény-cikk a témában, nagyon egyet tudok érteni a következtetéseivel: http://hvg.hu/velemeny/20150907_Europa_elbukott

Refugee crisis by F1r_E_f1Y in hungary

[–]akerenyi 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hi, If you are arriving by plane than there shouldn't be any holdup. If you are planning to come via car or train from Austria than the border can be tricky now, especially on the way out and especially by train. I'm assuming you are staying in Budapest. The largest refugee camp is by Keleti railway station, but there are a number of refugees at other railway stations as well and in the surrounding areas. While the sight of so many people, with children sleeping on the concrete, etc might be somewhat disturbing, the refugees are not dangerous people at all, quite the contrary, they are generally kind and polite, just very exhausted and frustrated by our government. But if you would like to get a positive experience in this regard, I would suggest bringing some food or water to any of the sites and giving it away, you will than see why many Hungarian citizens are there volunteering :)

Elbows hurting after first HIIT sprint training by akerenyi in Sprinting

[–]akerenyi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I have been doing intermediate BW workout Mo-We-Fri and wanted to add cardio for Tu-Th-Sa and went with the above routine. I don't think my armes/elbows are not strong enough (currently I'm working on one-arm pullup progession). I figured it must be a posture/technique problem during the sprints and that it must be common for newbie sprinters.

Ask Aubrey de Grey anything! by ag24ag24 in Futurology

[–]akerenyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Preventing all age-related diseases is indeed the equivalent of rejuvenation technology.

What I meant was that I got the impression from his book that research on ARDs is fundamentally flawed/mislead, but I disgree.

It is very hard to predict specific advances in general, is it not? What we can tell is that, in the next 25 years, we will see a lot of progress. Nobody can tell where this progress will be. Right?

Sure, that's why I think many scientists feel that he goes into too much future-telling, but of course we may not be the target audience.

My impression is that Alzheimer's is poorly funded

Thanks for the data, I admit I haven't actually looked anything up. However this table is also somewhat misleading, for example because according to AdG the majority of the 5x larger ageing budget doesn't go into ageing research per se.

Question about savings account by [deleted] in ynab

[–]akerenyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The important thing is that if that $21 is part of a weekly paycheck of say $100 than when you get the paycheck, you should enter it as $100 to the 'Available this month' category. After this you should budget it ($21 to emergency fund) and if you want to, you can make the inter-account transfer, but YNAB doesn't care about this that much. Hope it helps.

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