Readit Newsragtagtag commented on Show HN: I rebuilt the recruitment process from the ground up chronoflow.ai/... · Posted by u/ammaramehdghani
Sounds interesting. How do candidates update their profiles? It can be annoying to have to replicate information that's already on both a CV and LinkedIn into yet another recruitment system's custom format. I can understand the limitations of parsing a CV, but how do you make it easy for candidates to describe themselves?
ragtagtag commented on Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them ft.com/content/80c39c74-8... · Posted by u/bishopsmother
I actually prefer the (grammatically incorrect) sentence-starting “And”.
Sentence-starting “And”s bring the drama. And that’s why I love them.
Or even better:
Sentence-starting “And”s with line breaks bring even more drama.
And that’s why I love them.
Yeah, all kinds of rule breaking with this (pluralized quote word). But that’s how I like to write.
Too much drama; too much!
This is one area where richer countries can learn a lot from poorer countries, should they choose to listen.
When I lived in Liberia, there were about 10-15 different newspapers in the capital, from websites to print to one guy with a massive chalk board on the main road. This diversity of sources served quite a small population, but there was a massive appetite for news.
In such a situation, you don't expect impartiality, but each news organisation's perspective sites is more obvious, and reading about events from multiple perspectives gives, in my view, a broader and clearer window into what happened.
I think it could make sense to value in news, not impartiality, but diversity of viewpoints.
Conveniently, the internet does make this much easier.
I my opinion, a lot of poverty continues because of terrible politics. Many areas could have economic growth, but are restricted by authoritarianism, corruption, and a lack of rule of law that make investments and productivity growth impossible. Without a stable non-corrupt government, there is no way for economic improvement even if you had a lot of money to spend because it won't make it to where it's needed.
I would add that the terrible politics doesn't need to be local. There are a large number of international norms that benefit the already-wealthy, at the expense of the poor, for example, by supporting authoritarians in other countries.
It’s not possible for everyone to have decent living standards. China and India need to decrease their birth rate so the rest of the world can thrive
You may or may not be correct, but I'd say, citation needed.
It's not self-evident that life is such a zero-sum game that more people necessarily means fewer resources to go around; I'd even venture that the last hundred years of development suggests the opposite.
It's quite possible that more people enables a slew of network effects (such as technology improvements due to more minds attacking a problem, say) that improves everyone's living standards.
ragtagtag commented on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn
I was diagnosed with migraine as a kid when I was 10. The doctor made me undergo a battery of tests including a contrast CT scan that consumed aj entire day, only to confirm at the end of the day that it was migraine. The migraines weren't even that debilitating but my mom was just being extra careful.
After that, I still got headaches at a good frequency and tried all sorts of specialists from orthos to opthalmologists, all of who checked their areas of the body and said I was perfectly normal. The one doc I didn't see was a gastro and this was a mistake.
Eventually I grew older and realised first that my headaches were always preceded by some sinus congestion and milk was a trigger of said congestion. So I switched to lactose free milk and that helped.
Eventually I realised that I was a chronic acid reflux patient, that a lot of small symptoms I had had over the years (a feeling of something stuck in the throat, congestion etc) were basically just the gut throwing up acid, or more accurately LPR/silent reflux. The reflux was the actual trigger of my headache. So my usual medication of Paracetamol, or worse, ibuprofen was actually making it worse in the medium/long term.
I switched my strategies to fixing the gut/acid reflux instead of treating the headache. The max I do nowadays is 325mg of paracetamol if I need to sleep and the pain doesn't let me. Ibuprofen is a nuclear option that I haven't resorted to in years.
The gut issue is still not resolved, I suppose years of damage to the oesophagus takes time to heal, so I'm still prone to reflux but I make do with a bland diet, avoiding triggers like milk and resorting to PPIs for short bursts during an attack. Oh and I also do the bending while swallowing trick that was on HN sometime back, which has helped immensely.
My headaches are mostly a thing of the past. Haven't had a debilitating one in years.
> I also do the bending while swallowing trick that was on HN sometime back
Could you share the link for this, if you can find it?
ragtagtag commented on Ask HN: What's a good electrical UPS for a home dialysis machine? · Posted by u/nitred
You might want to look into EcoFlow. I use their River system to provide backup power for my home equipment (I have frequent power outages, usually about 2 hours in length). I can't tell you whether it'll work for medical equipment, though.
ragtagtag commented on I would have shit in that alley, too lesswrong.com/posts/sCWe5... · Posted by u/vermilingua
> Who’s going around giving pro bono Brazilian waxes to the homeless?
Apparently this is most likely to be a local clinic; when handling lower-income clients, it's often a routine part of any sexual health treatment.
(A friend who is a medic is slowly enlightening me on all the necessary parts of life and healthcare that we're too polite to talk about in school.)
What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?
Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski!