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A treatment is available but it doesn't seem to work in some cases. The author of the post is motivated to improve that. Honestly, I feel happy when people choose to spend their time trying to solve these types of problems instead of working on things they may not be that interested in or on problems where success doesn't really yield a real benefit to humanity.

Maybe, he spends a lot of time on it and doesn't have success. That seems better to me than spending time on something he doesn't really care about.

While uncommon, people deeply researching their loved ones disease have had success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto,_Michaela,_and_Lorenzo...

Even just fundraising for diseases yields tangible results. Some folks dismissed the viral ice bucket challenge, but it raised over $100 million dollars and funded a lot of research in ALS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_Challenge

Hopefully he accomplishes new knowledge discovery and/or fundraising for research into this disease.

He's probably really shaken that the future he imagined may not be in the cards for him and his partner.

I had a positive reaction to his post. The way he wants to spend his time seems more useful/meaningful/intentional than what most people choose to spend their time on. I hope he has success. While rare, others who have devoted themselves to studying the disease of a loved one have made meaningful progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto,_Michaela,_and_Lorenzo...

Hyundai is investigating 12.6 billion dollars in Georgia, and the response is to raid the facility and arrest ~500 people working there. How does that benefit Americans? Korea is pumping money into our economy, and we throw the people working there in jail. For what? Working?

If Hyundai's operations keep getting disrupted, they can't justify spending billions here. Other international companies also won't waste their time investing and building infrastructure here. They'll spend it somewhere else. What is pro-American about this? Is the Republican party now anti-money? Anti-capitalism? How is this a win for Americans or Republicans or conservatives or anyone?

I get that only talking politics can be exhausting, but I think not talking about politics is the trap. If a hurricane can destroy my life, I should prepare for that before it impacts me: pay for home insurance, buy a generator, weatherproof my home, talk to neighbors.

I should prepare for politics that can destroy my life before it impacts me, and preparing for it means talking to other people about it.

If people don't vaccinate, and my baby gets measles before I can vaccinate her, she could die. If I have a complicated pregnancy, I could be forced to wait it out and get sepsis and die. If my friends get deported, they lose their jobs, homes, cars and I lose my connection to them. If I have to pay more for goods because of tariffs that is less money I can spend on my family.

If I wait until my baby has measles, I have sepsis, or my friends get deported to talk about these issues and convince others, then I haven't adequately prepared for politics that can destroy my life.

I had this experience too! My math professors in community college were much better than at my significantly more expensive university.

You say that 3/4 of companies you are familiar with used discrimination to achieve numeric thresholds of 40% women software developers. I can't name a single medium or large tech company that is 40% women software developers. Can you?

On Hacker news I see this question mostly asked about desirable fields. In education, there is a huge push to recruit more men. I can't speak for sanitation specifically, but I have seen efforts to get more women into stable, well paying blue collar professions.

Women didn't become the majority of pediatricians until the 2000s, so up until quite recently yes we did expect pediatricians to be 50% or more men.

I get why the majority of jobs that require a lot of upper body strength (lumberjacks as you mentioned) would continue to be majority male, but in other jobs to me it seems like it's mainly networks and socialization that causes gender imbalances. There's no reason more men can't become pediatricians or school teachers. They can obviously do the job, and did in the past!

For tech jobs, I often see people saying that men are more interested in numbers and things, so it's biological that men would gravitate towards tech. I used to think that sounded like a plausible explanation, but then I read that women make up 60% of accountants, and other examples like that. Seems like accounting was just more socially accepting of women, otherwise by that argument accounting would be majority male too.

One example that I thought was quite interesting was that 65% of realtors are women, but in commercial real estate it's only 35% women. It would be quite a stretch to come up with a biological argument for the real estate example.

In my view, a non-discriminatory hiring process is one that accounts for the very real human behaviours that 1) people feel more comfortable with people who are similar to them, and 2) when jobs skew dramatically towards one gender/race it creates a social barrier to people from outside that group getting hired and accepted by the team. If we just completely ignore how humans actually behave, we accidentally end up with a discriminatory hiring process without anyone wanting do anything bad. I have no doubt that some implementations of affirmative action are terrible and discriminatory. But I think ignoring human tendency to feel drawn to people similar to themselves, and thus inadvertently discriminate is a mistake as well.

Sure, it almost certainly won't unless you buy a mansion. However, a job is still required to pay a mortgage, save for retirement, have health insurance, and cover living expenses. In a lower cost area, there are fewer job opportunities. If I spend 40+ hours a week at my job, I'd prefer it to be a job where I don't spend my days looking at the clock waiting for the day to be over every single day.

Because that's where many good paying jobs are. If I buy a home in a lower cost of living area, and my employer decides to do away with remote work, I may not be able to find another job that can pay the mortgage even though it is in a cheaper area.

A $10 gift card after messing up millions of devices and stranding tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people...this seems completely tone deaf. Giving people a $10 gift card feels worse than just apologizing.

It's like crashing someone's car and then giving them a bag of Skittles for the trouble. Sure you can't uncrash the car, but the bag of Skittles trivializes the whole thing and makes a genuine apology feel cheap.

A $10 gift card after messing up millions of devices and stranding tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people...this seems completely tone deaf. Giving people a $10 gift card feels worse than just apologizing. It's like crashing someone's car and then giving them a bag of Skittles for the trouble. Sure you can't uncrash the car, but the bag of Skittles trivializes the whole thing and makes a genuine apology feel cheap.

I agree that the word "trauma" is overused and exaggerated to describe situations that are not really traumatic. Ironically, I think that the word "outrage" is similarly misused. I couldn't help but giggle at the irony of "outrage" being used as the word to describe the response to this.

Yep, I wear a hat and a mask. Keeps the sun off of most of my face.

Sometimes I forget the hat or the mask and then I just wear one.

There are lots of reasons I continue to mask that have nothing to do with COVID. 1) To keep the sun off my face. 2) if there is a lot of pollen or dust in the air. 2) If I want to avoid long chats at the checkout counter that waste my time. 3) If I want to avoid having creeps tell me to smile or catcall.

Sometimes I wear a mask to keep the sun off my face or if there is a lot of pollen or dust outside.

Where do we complain? I live in a tiny apartment and don't use much electricity. My monthly bill is quite low. This would quadruple my monthly cost.

Thanks! I answered my own question right as you posted this. It still seems to me that if there is such a high flat rate for higher income earners, that then the delta between trying to save electricity and not is less, so the incentive is still reduced.

I think this article explains it better: https://abc7.com/utility-bills-income-california/13126671/

There are two parts of the bill: a fixed amount, and an amount by usage.

Doesn't this effectively eliminate the incentive for people to use less electricity? If I am going to pay a fixed amount every month, why make any effort to buy more efficient appliances, light bulbs, turn off my A/C and electric heaters when I don't need them.

I see the appeal of SAT as a standard metric, but rather than SAT why not allow kids to submit AP (or other standardized subject test scores) instead? Studying for the SAT feels like we are wasting hours of kids lives on an ill-defined concept of general aptitude. Whereas for subject tests (like AP or other standardized subject tests) there is a concrete subject that students are demonstrating that they can choose and master (chemistry, English, Spanish, Calculus, etc.)

I think this approach has the benefit of standardization and the benefit of not wasting kids time forcing them to study for a test which people claim won't change their scores much and where the notion of what aptitude even is isn't really clear (the SAT has changed substantially over the years).

I also really doubt the claim that studying for the SAT won't impact a kid's scores much. I can't think of a single other test where this is the case. It sounds like something people tell poor kids so they don't bother studying for it, while rich kids spend hours in test prep. Then we can say "well it wouldn't have mattered if they got the same resources because aptitude is innate". In contrast, no one can claim that if you just waltz into your chemistry test without studying it won't have an impact.

My preference would be to get rid of "aptitude" tests like the SAT, and use standardized subject tests instead.

I think branding this as menstrual leave is unfortunate. We don't brand leave due to back pain as "back pain leave" or leave due to migraines as "migraine leave". It's just medical leave due to some type of pain. They are just including severe menstrual pain as a type of pain that you can get leave for like back pain, migraine pain, etc. These are all valid reasons take medical leave. From reading the article it sounds like severe menstrual pain will be put in the same category as migraine pain, back pain, other source of pain that regularly occur for different people.

My initial reaction before reading the article was, "It's dumb to create a unique category of leave for this type of pain when there are many types of pain people may need to take leave for". But it sounds like currently people can take leave for other types of pain, but conspicuously cannot take leave for this type of pain.

> the majority of US women have the ability to breast feed more.

Sure, technically many women can physically breast feed more. The point is that while they physically can, they practically cannot, or doing so is incredibly inconvenient.

The majority of women in the US do not have 6 months off after giving birth to a child. If a woman works an office job, she might be able to take breaks to pump. If she's a teacher, fast food worker, delivery driver, etc. where and when can she pump and store her milk?

Also, there's a lot of social pressure to breast feed but then people get annoyed and pissed off when you do it. Dealing with people feeling offended and grossed out if you breast feed in public, or dealing with their irritation if they have to wait for you to breast feed. So, I'm not surprised that many women who can physically breast feed more, don't do it.

A lot of comments here and elsewhere focus on how breast milk is better than formula. Many women know that. So let me clearly lay out the math of why formula is critical to so many babies in the US:

Babies start eating solid food at 6 months. Women only get 3 months off (unpaid) after delivering a child. So in the remaining 3 months that the baby cannot have solid food, should the woman feed her baby exclusively breast milk or get fired for not returning to work?

Of course, there are also women who cannot breast feed, don't produce enough milk to exclusively breast feed, or have to return to work sooner than 3 months because bills have to be paid. So while educating people that breast milk is healthy is important. It's really cruel and stupid that for many women the choice is: feed your baby exclusively breast milk for 6 months and get fired, or don't feed your baby exclusively breast milk for 6 months and keep your job. Only the cushiest jobs have 6 months maternity leave and lactation rooms, most other jobs do not.

I wish I had read this essay before the start of every year in high school and college. It would have saved me a lot of frustration, and helped me understand why things are this way.

The article says they only surveyed 930 Americans, and the survey was done online. They say the margin of error is only +-2% but I think it is much higher given the low sample size, the way the survey was administered, and no information on the geographic distribution of the participants.

I started having neck pain from sitting at my computer all day, to the point that I couldn't sleep from the pain. I now do this 10 minute neck yoga exercise everyday. The pain has pretty much gone away and I sleep great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-gKPNyrTA&list=PLciXFzGqhH...

Some days I just do it in the morning before work, or in the evening before bed. Other days I do it up to 3x per day: morning, after lunch, and evening. I also try other neck exercise/stretch videos on youtube to mix it up. I never expected 10 minutes of simple stretches to be so effective, but it has been like night and day for me.

Sometimes I forget to do it for a few days, and then I start to feel the pain again, so I just go back to doing the stretches. It's free and takes 10 minutes, so I recommend just giving it a try to see if it helps you. If I am feeling especially sore, I also use a heating pad and I find that it helps ease the pain.

Yes, I am surprised too. Especially when an In-n-Out Double Double costs $4.20 (this is in expensive California) and their burger has more meat. Plus In-n-out is notoriously generous with worker pay and benefits ($14 - $38 per hour, 401k benefits, health benefits, and paid holidays and vacation). I guess for McDonald's that extra money goes to advertising and executive pay?

What software do you use to compose the articles and tag them?