It would be interesting to see copies of this from subsequent years (this is the 2012 edition) to understand how Valve's process has evolved over time.
This was PR prop
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bira commented on “A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf] gutenberg.org/files/38769... · Posted by u/bikenaga
Alternative link:
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.239784/2015.2...
bira commented on Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains blog.frontiersin.org/2023... · Posted by u/geox
I mean, that's a useless number unless I know the list of things that the FDA once approved and then did not turn out to be detrimental to patient's health.
I'd be more surprised if it didn't happen more than once in 117 years.
I can't pretend to be an authority on this, but without going back 117 years, in the 2000s, you google Bextra and Vioxx.
bira commented on “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you bigthink.com/health/healt... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Simply put, it’s an enabling belief.
Being obese isn’t a root cause. It is a symptom of something else.
Particularly, when it is a symptom of depression, believing in “healthy obesity” can be enabling even if it’s not the truth. That person (not statistic) needs to see themselves as healthy and loved to have a chance at being healthy.
Telling them to eat better or exercise is thinking about yourself in a generic version of their circumstances rather than them in their actual circumstances.
It they see themselves just as healthy as obese, why would they want not to be obese?
Sounds like enabling obesity to me.
Telling them to eat better or exercise doesn't work because it's a pain in the ass to be in a caloric deficit. They have statistically low dopamine levels (among other markers being out of wack) so they just don't have the mental fuel to deal with doing what's hard. That's what lead them to be obese in the first place, seeking comfort in food, sitting on their butt and avoiding the harshness of their reality.
Another key component are high cortisol levels (ie chronic stress due to past traumas causing depression and other mental illnesses), hindering the parasympathetic brain to switch on digestive metabolism.
You don't solve all these underling issues by saying "hey fat isn't that bad, you can still be healthy being heavy".
Like you wouldn't say to a drug addict "hey drugs aren't that bad for you" to make them feel less shitty about their situation.
I'm a communist, I've been on HN for 8 years or so.
I've found that the political bent of HN is much, much more varied than "taken over by commies". In general, I've met many folks here from across political spectrum -- from arch-capitals to libertarians to progressives/socialists/leftists to neoliberals.
When we can be up front about our own beliefs and share our perspectives on them in a non-demonizing way, the discussions can actually be quite enlightening.
I might not agree with a libertarian ethos, but I've met many libertarians here I could have elucidating chats about things with.
And before you ask, "Why bring politics into hacking at all?" I'd argue that hacking is, by it's nature, a political activity (whether that's hacking in the cyber-crime sense or in the 'assembling something from spare parts' sense.) There's something about operating outside of systems, about putting one's mark on the world, about expressing yourself through what you choose to build and how to build it that is inescapably political.
Politics doesn't have to be a team sport. We can disagree and still converse.
Do you realize that you contradict yourself? You claim to be a communist yet you expect to be free enough to express yourself and choose what to build? Discuss politics and being free to disagree in a communist state?? You either weren't thaught XXth century history at school or you are very confused. Saying you are communist is like saying you are a nazist, it makes no sense. IMO you are confused.
My left nostril appears to have collapsed at some point, I really should prioritise getting it sorted, it reduces the amount of air I can breath through my nose significantly, especially if one nostril is blocked.
The less 02 you breath in, the more the CO2 build-up and, per the Bohr effect, the more efficiently you'll absorb the 02. Just don't mouth breath and you'll be fine. Actually, you'll be healthier because of it.
bira commented on Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Bender
I’m absolutely not implying in any way that alcohol is needed to make social connections. It’s just a fact, either in scientific research and historical research, that it helps tremendously.
You are fine and that’s nice. But my thinking was about people who struggles to socialize and suffer from it.
From a health perspective, are those people better alone at home or should they profit from the alcohol properties, even at moderate doses to create better connections ?
The question is important because socialization is important for your health. It greatly reduces stress and anxiety, it improves self confidence, and more generally, it gives you more luck in life. COVID lockdowns impacts on mental health are real, for example.
You seem to don’t drink alcohol (which, again, is perfect) so maybe you don’t know that its social lubricant effects (making shy people talk without anxiety, if you want) are effective at really low dose, way before being drunk.
You can socialize without alcohol and you should, like people do literally all the time. Imagine being able to talk to others only when you are "socially lubricated"... a slippery slope for alcoholism.
Struggling with socializing is a matter of being inexperienced at it, like you would struggle to play guitar or to swim if you've never done it long enough to be at least proficient at them. Luckily socializing is one of the few things we've been doing since we were born so we got a degree of experience there.
If the struggle comes from having underlying issues that undermine your ability to socialize, say, lack of self esteem, depression or any other mental health issues, those need to be addressed as well and drinking is not going to solve them.
Actually those conditions will most likely improve by socializing without alcohol. Alcohol is just a false friend.
As a moderate outgoing and sober person, alcohol actually makes me shy, it numbs me down and takes away the edge I've been sharpening all my life. In other words it prevents me from actually be myself.
bira commented on A black market where people pay for Instagram verification mashable.com/2017/09/01/i... · Posted by u/gfredtech
Was the traffic worth that? If so, would it have been worth it if the corrupt employee had been reassigned after three months rather than three years?
He did it for SEO purposes most likely.
"Was the effect on your rankings worth it ?" would be a better question.