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orn688 commented on Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/pseudolus

general1726 · 7 months ago

> many months of my & my partner's life, and risked dying to be a few cm taller

Wrong assumption. Men who wants to be taller are doing it to have more success in dating, because women are heavily biased towards taller men.

orn688 · 7 months ago

The main subject of the article, “Frank”, is already married. This is the part of the article that explains his motivation:

> There were the kids at school who taunted him for his height; a longtime online fan of his artwork who remarked, on meeting him, that Frank was “shorter than I expected”; or the guys who randomly shoved him in the street a few years ago, tearing out his headphones. They wouldn’t have done that to a taller man, he reasons.

orn688 commented on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody... · Posted by u/drankl

zug_zug · 8 months ago

It's interesting because there are two diametrically opposed ways to interpret what you said

One is - everybody thinks they have disorders, so just ignore that feeling it'll mess with you.

The other is - everybody thinks they have minor version of disorders, because we all do, we live on continuums, and therefore we should probably all think about it more

orn688 · 8 months ago

In my experience the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's helpful to neither completely ignore nor ruminate over one's traits, but just _be aware_ of them.

It's been very helpful for me to pay attention to and think about how my own personality compares to others'. For example, I tend to be a people-pleaser, but I used to think that everyone was just as people-pleasing as me, which only reinforced the people-pleasing because I didn't feel right putting my own needs first when everyone else was already sacrificing their own needs (or so I assumed).

At the same time, medicalizing these things paints them as "abnormal" disorders that need to be "cured", overlooking any of the positives these traits bring. When it comes to my people-pleasing, I like it about myself that I care about others. As long as I recognize that it sometimes comes at my own expense, I can begin to make more conscious decisions about when to allow the people-pleasing to flow versus when to try to subdue it.

orn688 commented on Writing code for both computers and humans tonymottaz.com/code-for-c... · Posted by u/pfrrp

orn688 · 2 years ago

I agree with the author that this is a reasonable way to indicate their intent. But I've seen so many accidentally ineffectual code snippets that if I saw this code I'd be inclined to delete it unless there was also a comment expressing its purpose.

orn688 commented on 'We don’t have enough' lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says finance.yahoo.com/news/li... · Posted by u/clouddrover

billythemaniam · 4 years ago

Public transportation alone cannot solve the problem in the US. It can't even make a large enough dent to really make a difference. Most of those other countries are like a small US state, but the US is much, much larger. Even a medium sized US state is larger than most of those countries. There is a massive scale difference that needs to be taken into account. Because of that scale difference, it is hard for public transportation in the US to appeal to our innate desire for convenience. That's why public transportation works so well in small countries, that transportation can take most people to most places cost effectively. In other words, it is convenient for them.

orn688 · 4 years ago

Certainly it might not make sense to build extensive public transit in or between every tiny town in Wyoming.

But within individual cities, or areas like the Northeast Corridor, the density is comparable to areas of Europe with fantastic public transit.

The issue is car-centric policy and culture, not lack of potential demand.

orn688 commented on Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in economist.com/special-rep... · Posted by u/brimnes

hiptobecubic · 4 years ago

They sprawl because people want space. If you're from Paris or Tokyo or London you really just don't know what it's like to have a quiet, detached house with a nice garden, maybe a pool where your kids can play randomly without needing to plan a trip to the community center, space for a garden, knowing everyone within 200m of your house by name...

It's a completely different way of life that is not possible without lots of space. Some people want that and so they will pay to buy it. It's not like city planners are laughing in smoke-filled rooms like, "haha! this will be our most sprawling city yet!"

orn688 · 4 years ago

As some other commenters have noted, in cities like Amsterdam and Tokyo there are enough nice safe public spaces that even young children are free to play outside on their own and there's much less planning required to go places since you don't need a car.

That being said, I'm sure there are plenty of North Americans who love having a ton of space for gardening etc. But I would guess they're actually in the minority and that most people choose to live in sprawling suburban developments because they're the only affordable option to guarantee access to good schools and a safe neighborhood.

orn688 commented on Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in economist.com/special-rep... · Posted by u/brimnes

MomoXenosaga · 4 years ago

US "cities" are just not dense enough to be called cities.

This is not America's fault. They have a resource most of the world lacks: space. Too much space and you cannot make a real city.

orn688 · 4 years ago

There's no "cannot", it's a conscious choice - if you have more space than necessary that absolutely does not require that you expand to fill all of it. And in particular this has caused issues because American cities tend towards sprawl, filling up area with low-density housing that requires significantly more infrastructure per capita, and implementing zoning laws to prevent higher-density development even as the population grows, resulting in housing shortages.

Not Just Bikes has some excellent content about this, e.g.: https://youtu.be/XfQUOHlAocY

orn688 commented on Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021 adamcadre.ac/calendar/202... · Posted by u/rossvor

WanderPanda · 5 years ago

I don‘t see the causal relationship between the 100%ers getting 80% and the 0%ers suddenly getting 20%

orn688 · 5 years ago

If you slow down the pace to help the "zero percenters" and only cover 80% of the material in the allotted time, the students who could have handled 100% of the material will be limited to 80%. And that slowdown still won't be enough to help the slowest learners much, so they'll still only learn, say, 20% of the material.

orn688 commented on A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program twitter.com/realchrisrufo... · Posted by u/Red_Tarsius

hirundo · 5 years ago

If it's wrong to support this kind of training for <random-race> <random-gender> then it's wrong to support it for white men. If it isn't wrong then everyone should be trained, or not, equally. Collective guilt is one of the most evil ideas in the meme pool. No <random-race> <random-gender> is more racist because other members of that group are racist, and it is racist/sexist/prejudiced/bigoted to assume so.

orn688 · 5 years ago

There isn't an assumption that all white men are racist here. Instead, I think the reasoning is that the vast majority of white men have benefited (probably unknowingly) from structural racism to the detriment of other groups. The training is intended to make these men aware of that in an effort to chip away at structural racism and its harmful effects.

orn688 commented on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public · Posted by u/winston_smith

aidos · 6 years ago

Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out.

Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportunities", which is news to me. On trying to change it to "Not interested in any new opportunities" there's a dropdown that says "I’d be open to new opportunities in:" and most you can set it to is 2 years. These are whole new dark patterns.

UPDATE You can turn off the setting they're talking about by going to [0] and then clicking the little grey "Visibility settings" under the Profile URL section.

UPDATE There's a delete your account option on this page [1], though YMMV:

>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify

[0] https://triplebyte.com/candidates/profile_builder

[1] https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center

orn688 · 6 years ago

What's worse, the dropdown doesn't even work for me (on iOS Chrome). It's stuck on 1 month.

orn688 commented on Apple acquires Dark Sky blog.darksky.net/dark-sky... · Posted by u/_egt6

mcjiggerlog · 6 years ago

Another great option is Klara - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.androworks...

Great information density, clean interface and has by the far the best widget of any weather app I've seen. It manages to display so much information with graphs without being visually overloaded.

orn688 · 6 years ago

Know of any apps like this that are available for iOS? I loved the old wunderground app's graphs and have been trying to find a replacement for ages...