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NoOneNew commented on Ask HN: Should grapefruit juice have warning labels for medicine interactions? · Posted by u/acadapter

t6jvcereio · 3 years ago

> We can't put billboards up for everything. It is your health, and therefore your responsibility, to read the provided literature and raise any questions to your doctor

I eat thousands of different things every week and I don't ask questions about any of them weekly. Do you? And would you think it's realistic to question everything all the time?

NoOneNew · 3 years ago

Actually, yea. Many people do. It's relatively common. This is an element of personal responsibility. Granted, I know how to cook and I'm not a big fan of boxed, processed foods. This makes the gamut of foods I care about easier to track.

Plus, knowing that grapefruit helps metabolize different things helpful and cheapens your bartab. You'll get drunk faster after eating a grapefruit or two. Animal derived fats help slow down the inebriation process, like butter and a really greasy beef patty.

NoOneNew commented on The slow death of the traditional business card wsj.com/articles/business... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

brk · 3 years ago

I just had to order more cards now that I am doing more in-person events. I have not seen any health concerns around business cards.

I have a QR Code on the back of my card to make it easier for people to import the data, but IMO the physical cards are still highly valuable. I use them as easy reminders about who to follow up with after an event, or to jot a couple of notes on while talking.

The contactless alternatives are neat, but they are always a hassle, IME, as the article also outlines.

NoOneNew · 3 years ago

Agreed. When your job requires you to meet new people often or do trade shows, business cards with a qr code are the way to go. At one trade show I collected about 80 cards. About 10 people had special app vcards. Each with a totally different app. I'm not downloading an app for your information. Give me the fucking piece of paper.

However, pro tip. Blank back cards. People want to write notes about you and vice versa. Stop over designing cards with a back. A typical card is not a flyer. You should only hand them out to people you've met and talked to. That same card will fail as that hybrid business card/flyer. You'll never have enough info to justify expecting someone to go "huh, I just found this card somewhere without context and suddenly I'm compelled to talk to them".

NoOneNew commented on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation? · Posted by u/aristofun

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

The only version of meditation I can speak to is probably better called focus training.

Just sit in a darkish room, no noise, close your eyes and just say in your head "breathe in" as you breathe in, hold for like 3 sec and think nothing, then breathe out saying in your head "breathe out", hold for 3 sec while thinking nothing.

Repeat.

You wont get to round 2 without your mind wondering and thinking about something else. Just focusing on your breathing without thinking about work, friends, politics or when you stubbed your toe yesterday is an incredibly hard task.

That's 1 part of meditation.

Another part is then doing the same idea with your breathing but then to an "idea". I find when I try to do focus training, I run into thoughts that "bother me". Well, I'd say it's my subconscious trying to warn me about something. Thus, I'll do the same thing with just that thought, and funny enough the wandering thoughts will relate heavily to whatever that issue is. I then start to analyze the issue in now a really calm state. Eventually I come to either the conclusion to the problem in a way that brings me closure to never worry about it again or what my next step is, which again, gives me a sense of closure/stop worrying.

Breathe in/breathe out, my subconscious brings up another stress/anxiety ridden issue tormenting me. Time to meditate on that.

A lot of it is like surfing a wave. You're just letting your mind bring up thoughts. You cant consciously force it without inflicting a bias. Once you feel like you have all the evidence, then you can put it together. Eventually, you do this enough, the amount of time you spend focus training will be on your breath as you've dealt with all the things your subconscious is pressuring you about.

The second part is what I think is closest to traditional meditation, but I cant see how to get there without the first part.

NoOneNew commented on Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career? · Posted by u/akudha

robcohen · 4 years ago

I collect a lot of certs for fun, but most have not been helpful. I still like to collect them anyway.

I think OSCP was the most legitimately useful in tech https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-oscp/

PMP has been useful to take on Project Manager roles, but really PrM roles aren't all that exciting to begin with. Still helps when you want to run your own projects.

I'm currently studying to be a certified parliamentarian from the National Association of Parliamentarians. I'm interested in corporate governance and learning Roberts Rules of Order definitely helps.

I'm also a certified farmer (yeah its a thing), I have 5 sailing certs, 3 scuba certs, Wilderness Emergency Medical Responder cert, working on my pilots license, getting my real estate sales license, ham radio operator general class, almost done with my CDL, there's lots more I'd have to check my notes on.

I do want to get a Kubernetes cert done this year. Long term I want to knock out my CPA/CFA exams, but those are a huge commitment so we will see if it pans out.

Most of this response hasn't answered your question at all, because certs really are mostly useless. Still fun to collect.

I'd imagine financial certs would be the most useful (CFA in particular).

If anyone knows any other fun certs let me know.

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

Past CDL holder here.

Fyi, you are then a "professional driver" even in a normal car driving to the grocery. If you get a ticket, many states will instantly double the fine because as a pro, "you know better". Plus there's the medical aspect and other bullshit.

Unless you're going to actually use it, dont get it. Learn to drive an 18 speed with air brakes etc, sure. Just dont get the actual cdl.

NoOneNew commented on An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’ smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... · Posted by u/drdee

giraffe_lady · 4 years ago

“The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience,” Serling later said. “He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus the issues of his time.”

Good quote. It's been weird to see the belief growing the last few years that art should (or even can) be apolitical, and an artist's job is to make art uninformed by their political needs.

Such an art doesn't exist of course, and I'm thankful to see a classic acknowledge that not as a necessary deviation from an ideal, but as an ideal in its own right.

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

I think the problem with "political beliefs" is do you really believe in them or do you want to be apart of a club? Pretty much anytime I've had a calm political discussion with someone, I've found out that they're a scatter chart on that political leaning grid instead of a solitary point. Yet they still say I'm this party. Or they're just a parrot for whoever is the poster child that week for whatever party.

Political beliefs when parroted as a clear cut, right/wrong for every situation is what makes people's stomach churn to projectile levels.

Political beliefs when presented as a complex flaw of the human condition that makes us all realize we're better off burning it all to the ground and sleeping on grass again... then enacting a system to severely punish anyone who tries to bring it all back, which would require a group to enact said system with then another group to oversight that group... oh shit wait...

NoOneNew commented on You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016) physiqonomics.com/eating-... · Posted by u/gonehome

retrac · 4 years ago

One of my roommates tried everything, including good hard exercise and all sorts of diets. Nothing seemed to be working. It was kind of perplexing me, actually.

Then we started working the same schedule, breakfast together. The whole thing unravelled with a casual comment he made. "Wow, you're really stingy with the sugar in your coffee."

Except I wasn't. I was actually indulging myself, like two tablespoons.

Show me how you make coffee? Ah. Yes. If you put 500 calories of sugar and cream into your coffee multiple times a day, you're not gonna lose weight.

He didn't believe me at first! I had to measure his quantities out and calculate it and show him. Liquids/powders in general seem to trip people up. We are bad at measuring them by sight. Soda, mayonnaise and dips. The oil in a nice salad dressing applied over-liberally can exceed the calories in the burger that goes with it.

Try measuring/weighing these sorts of foods and looking up their caloric content if you haven't before. You may be a shocked as my poor roommate was.

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

You, this.

I can second this fully. Figured out the same thing when I spent a solid week nazi tracking my eating.

The thing that blew my mind. I always used heavy cream in my coffee. 150cal per 2 tablespoons. I would use like a quarter cup. I switch to milk, just 150cal per cup.

The little things really damn matter.

NoOneNew commented on 15M people have died in the pandemic, WHO says nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

What about all the science on obesity related deaths?

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-fac...

This hasn't been a secret for a long time. Yet when anyone says someone needs to put the fork down and go for a walk because they're fat... granted general diet changes need to dramatically change due to modern "foods".

I say this again like in another post, generally the same people who scream the political rhetoric of day 1 covid prevention are the same ones who think anything less than fat acceptance is fascism even though their same source also says obesity is just about as deadly.

It truly is hard to care now when people dish out "scientific illiteracy" like they're arms dealers dishing out guns during a war.

Way too much of covid rhetoric is rooted in vote swaying, on all sides. The "correct" tie colors are in charge and nothing really changed.

Plus, let's please stop and remember why any pharmaceutical takes time to become widespread... wait, sorry, pharmaceutical companies have a perfect track record of business practices. Sorry, my bad. No one claiming to have a cure for anything has ever done so out of malevolent greed.

NoOneNew commented on 15M people have died in the pandemic, WHO says nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

socialdemocrat · 4 years ago

Is that what you tell everyone who looses a loved one? Don't worry now the planet has less overpopulation, it was for the better. Oh and plenty of new people are being born so don't worry about your loss.

It find it revolting all the people who seek to trivialize the effects of COVID19. If it didn't matter, I guess Mao and Stalin purges didn't matter either. Just piles of people in an overpopulated world right?

NoOneNew · 4 years ago

I mean 2.8 million folks die each year due to obesity related diseases and effects.

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/6-fac...

Since fat is beautiful, does that make covid more beautiful? Maybe we should stop stigmatizing it.

PS: I vomited in my mouth after typing that. But my general point to that sarcasm, putting any "problem" on a pedestal is stupid. Is covid dangerous, absolutely. 1 death is one too many. But a lot of the same people who go hysterical about covid, claim obesity is fine... and wear masks while alone at home during zoom meetings. There was no way to day 1 avoid deaths no matter the "scientific illiteracy". That's just political rhetoric to sway votes. Just like student loan forgiveness.