I feel like they missed out by not saying “Meet the new Meet, same as the old Meet!”.
Readit NewsYes, you have reached the zenith of your career. Congratulations. You are self-sufficient and able to provide for the financial needs of your family. This is a true victory.
Now, it is time to focus on people other than yourself. Most other advice on here is awful; it amounts to different directions to run on the hedonic treadmill.
Instead, you have to give back now. What good is there to be done, that only you could do? What will be worse off if you don't lend a hand? This can range from finding better ways to support and mentor your children, to donating time to tutor students in programming, to building a well in Africa. Think hard about what you really care about, and then work hard to bring that into being.
I 100% agree with this, and it’s why we see a lot of lucky billionaires looking to give back to society. What do you do when you’ve reached the pinnacle of achievement? How can you make yourself happier when you no longer have unmet needs?
You start looking for ways to improve life for everyone else, and focusing on what kind of impact you want to have on the world. What’s something that has caused you or someone you care about a lot of pain? Could you help prevent someone else from going through that, or make it easier somehow? Maybe you can’t achieve something grand like world peace, but you can use your skills to improve education in war torn areas to provide new options, etc.
Start to think of the world as an extension of yourself. After you’ve honed yourself, hone the world.
Akinato commented on “World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat kotaku.com/guitar-hero-cl... · Posted by u/luu
I think one thing to keep in mind is that cheaters in baseball, cycling, and even Donkey Kong brought more eyeballs to those games than anyone could have imagined. I'm sure a lot of people forgot GH existed before seeing this thread.
I wonder how much devs should care about this in single player, score attack type games.
Did they? I’d argue that the next highest competitor that is competing legitimately would bring just as many eyeballs to the games. People are attracted by watching the best of the best compete — I don’t think the exact score is as important.
Unless you’re talking scandals, and then I guess so? There’s temporarily more eyes on the drama but it quickly drops off.
Yup same here. So many for Shoppers Drug Mart or other silliness. They’re very clearly fake and have all the tell-tale signs of spam that Google used to properly filter for me. I’m very surprised at the recent drop in quality and it’s had me looking at other providers.
Akinato commented on Elon Musk and His Companies Are Changing the Future of Mankind thefuturist.co/how-elon-m... · Posted by u/CarCooler
I can't shake the feeling Elon paid for this.
There was another comment that highlighted how he's trying to bury this story right now:
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-08-05...
That comment seems to have been deleted, but I thought it was interesting. I hadn't heard anything about this and it's fairly bad.
Akinato commented on A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/rzk
I came here to say this. My step-sister's family sticks to the concept of family despite all the women being raped and beaten by their father. They will not address the problem, their mother will not address the problem, and the only way to live in reality is to leave them. They violently attacked her for trying to discuss it on multiple occasions. Their mother continues this even after the death of their father.
They tell everyone they know that she's addicted to drugs and won't talk to them because they want to help her. In reality she's more successful than all of them combined, which she attributes largely to seeking mental health counseling and removing herself from their constant drama.
We're living through a reckoning for abusive people. In the past people were ostracized for cutting off their families for any reason, especially women... but now there's little reason to put up with this kind of bullshit. These cycles of familial abuse reach back generations and it's about time they're addressed.
Exactly. Most of my family and I cut ties with a family member as she went batshit insane and started thinking the secret police were after her. Started yelling and screaming at all of the family members that eventually cut contact, usually calling them at odd hours in the night. Nothing we did could convince her to get help, and there's no way to force her into care even though she's called the police constantly to report false crimes. (Such as the janitor breaking into her house and rearranging her furniture).
However, she's very cyclical and can act normal ~30% of the time. She's told everyone that we're all drug addicts, or child abusers. Lots of people believe her, and think we all abandoned her. I've had family members call me and reduce me to tears with insults, because of the things she's told them.
From what I've seen anecdotally in every single family where the child has cut contact: there's ALWAYS a (good) reason. It almost always boils down to a failure in respecting their children, and treating them with kindness and understanding.
Younger generations are growing up with better mental health care and social awareness (due to the pervasive nature of it these days with social networks) than previous generations. We grew up in an era of public PSAs and school videos on bullying and acceptable behaviour. We know what's "right", can recognize abuse, and prefer to associate with those that treat us well.
Not sure why this is on HN, but it is indeed a good game. Top-notch writing--really evokes the old-school style of point-and-click adventure games like Gabriel Knight or Planescape.
Yeah it's a brilliant game, and quickly became one of my all-time favourites. I've never felt so invested in my player character's personality. I loved it.
However, I'm also confused as to why it's on HN right now. The final edition was released a while ago now, and it doesn't look like there's any recent news.
Akinato commented on Three FDA Advisers Resign over Agency’s Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug nytimes.com/2021/06/10/he... · Posted by u/nceqs3
One problem is that it’s actually extremely difficult to derive meaningful information from data collected outside of the context of a clinical trial.
So you’d be giving greenlight to tons of fraudsters, exposing people to potentially way more suffering than their baseline disease causes, AND not learning anything from doing so.
On top of that, we currently have a grossly overburdened healthcare system that in no way could support this. This presents so many clear problems that I wonder if the people are thinking critically about the long term effects of an unregulated drug market.
1. Knowledge -> How will doctors possibly keep track of the knowledge of all of these new drugs? If they don't need to be verified beyond a claim, they could be getting thousands of options. How do they pick between one drug with no proof, and another drug with no proof -- especially if they all have negative side effects?
2. Data -> All of the data for these drugs will be extremely if not impossible to derive. This will probably result in it taking even longer for evidence of the drug's efficacy to be built.
3. Resources -> Hospitals across North America are understaffed and overworked. How could they possibly find time to not only learn the entire treatment path for new drugs and all the necessary information, but to do this countless times across all their patients? MRI machines are already backlogged quite a bit, do we really think they could weather the storm of an unregulated drug market?
4. Liability -> Whether we like it or not, this adds quite a bit of liability to a hospital. Insurance will absolutely be against this, and would likely greatly increase the number of people trying to sue the hospital.
5. Fallout/Complications -> Can you imagine the strain of the additional complications that arise out of allowing free use of untested drugs? Imagine how much more expensive a patient would be if they got a brain bleed from a medication that they would never have had previously. This isn't just like "I tried a drug and it did nothing", it's more like "I tried a drug that had the potential to kill me. I had severe complications that required me to be in the hospital for 2 months but the drug still did nothing to help my problem."
Effectively, we'd be breaking our own healthcare system by breaking down our regulations. Regulations are written in blood. They're there for a reason.
Akinato commented on Three FDA Advisers Resign over Agency’s Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug nytimes.com/2021/06/10/he... · Posted by u/nceqs3
I really think the FDA approval system is backwards, especially for a terminal disease like Alzheimer's that we have no good treatment for. In my view we should encourage people to try whatever with a minimum of regulation and approval and then approve the best options for Medicare.
I imagine companies pitching (and discounting) any idea they can come up with and patients signing up for the best deals. As soon as someone starts to show something promising they get tax payer money and become locked in as the cure.
I just don't see any reason not to go balls to the wall on experimentation when you are treating the dying elderly. My grandfather died with some type of dementia. If I were in charge of his care I would have taken any experimental treatment over just letting him die with medical care that didn't have a chance of saving him. Better to take 1% chance of cure and 99% death than 100% chance of death.
There's a lot of great arguments presented in the article for why we shouldn't go "balls to the wall on experimentation". The drug costs $56k a year, can cause some severe brain bleeding and swelling, and requires regular MRIs which can put quite a strain (and cost) on the system. These are some significant negatives for a drug that hasn't been proven to be effective at all.
There's your problem-- you used the wrong pronoun. Reddit posts identify as "they," not "it."
If you have valuable insight into anything, don't post it on Reddit-- the bullies have taken over the playground (same with StackOverflow, sadly). Your only audience there will consist of children and underachieving adults with moderator privileges who invariably know your domain better than you.
I thought hacker news strived to at least have some decorum in regards to discussion.