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为什么我们会拒绝更好的选择?

上周我妹妹来家里玩，吃饭时她的眼镜脏了。我去浴室找了一张擦镜片的湿纸巾包。她看了一眼，摇摇头: “这个我不敢用。” “为什么?” “不确定会不会磨损镜片上的镀膜。” 听起来挺有道理的。我好奇接着问:”那你平时用什么擦?” 她的回答让我不知该如何礼貌的对应 — “没带眼镜布的时候, 我就用衣服下摆擦一下。” 一说完，她自己就笑了。她也意识到了用衣摆绝对不是一个很好的选择。不过最终她还是坚持没有用我的镜片湿巾。如果我们真的拥有理性的话，那让我们理性的分析一下: 专业擦镜湿纸巾: 专门设计用于清洁镜片材质柔软，成分温和但她”不确定”是否安全 → 拒绝使用衣服下摆: 纤维相对粗糙可能沾有灰尘、颗粒客观上更可能造成划痕 → 却一直在用这不是很奇怪吗？她选择了客观上更危险的方式，仅仅因为它…

人生有意义吗？

昨天看了一个油管视频，是我最赞赏的投资专家JL Collins 和另外一个相当有名的博主DOAC的一个访问采访。这是我人生第一次花了一个多小时看一个完整的访谈视频。你知道的，如今我们大部分人的注意力持续时间还不如一只金鱼。它的题目是 Passive Income Expert: Buying A House Makes You Poorer Than Renting! 三个原因坚持看完了。最近考虑是否买房一直纳闷这些长访谈都啰嗦些什么虽然我从不追星，毕竟是第一次看到我一直远远跟随并且卓有成效的投资专家 JL Collins 真人在视频的结尾提到了对人生意义的看法，居然和我出奇的相似。原文摘录如下： DOAC 问 – What actually matters? JL COLLINS 答 – Nothing. Nothing really matters…

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China and "404 Not Found"

China and “404 Not Found”

The wall fences in a Chinese information prison where ignorance fosters ideologies of hatred and aggression. If the firewall exists indefinitely, China will eventually revert to what it once was: a sealed off, narrow-minded, belligerent, rogue state. Scaling China’s Great Firewall – 纽约时报中文网国际纵览. I have long forgotten about my frequent experience of “404 not Found” when lived in China a couple…

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#China #Government censorship #Great Firewall #Great Wall #Internet security in china #VPNs

Todoist Add-on installation problem for Firefox on MacBook Air

Todoist for Firefox Add-ons on MacBook Air

I have been spending some time puzzling over why my favorite task manager Todoist add-on won’t work on my Mac version of Firefox on my Macbook Air. After the installation, it can be found nowhere on Firefox menu bar as it did on my PC. The reason I specifically mention Macbook Air is that I do not know if the same issue happens on the bigger Mac. I have tried to download the add-on for Firefox…

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#Firefox add-ons #todoist

Two busy bees @ Heidelberg Germany using iPad Mini on 7.11.2015

Sunset over Junk Bay HK It has been a overcast day and at some point was having heavy shower with complete grey out sky in the afternoon.

Why Mainland Chinese are rude?

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My take on OMG~!

Yesterday I was reading some meditation website. Just as I was getting comfortable with the author, I was introduced to her meditation app which is named OMG. I Can Meditate! I was instantly turned off. What kind of people name their work in such brainless and senseless way. This seems to me beyond the understanding. It puts the credibility of the app in great question. And there just happened to…

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A stroll in the garden and discover beauty of life.

A stroll in the garden

We went for a leisure stroll in the estate garden after missing doing it for a long time. Our turtle friends have apparently grown much older. I wonder if they really do grow so fast. I remember they were tiny when we moved here three years ago. Now they look like they have must have had their own family already.

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Google 2-Step Verification Issue

I was warned by Google recently that someone has been trying to break into my Google account. To be honest, there is nothing there other than tons of newsletters and promotion emails covering wide range of subjects from world economy to growing my own garden to some peculiar spiritual advise which I managed to accumulate for last 10 years. Some of them I am not able to unsubscribe and was sent to…

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