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Being poor means that you can't delegate a task like wealthier person would do. When you are poor you are often forced to become your own mechanic/doctor/accountant/lawyer (with results that can go from decent to…
I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. levels. I have psoriasis and Vitamin D…
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to…
Oh well, I must be so controversial.
>Ever since I have been ill, I have longed and longed for some palpable disease, no matter how conventionally dreadful a label it might have, but I was always driven back to stagger alone under the monstrous mass of…
As I see it there are a lot of advantages and few disadvantages in WFH. Advantages: - No need for commuting. This is maybe the lowest hanging fruit if you want to reduce CO2 emissions and pollution in general. -…
A couple of interesting articles that may be related to what you are saying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22189514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20676785/
> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs. But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that is? To me the answer is simple: most…
People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very few exceptions.
I should've said "outside the richer parts of the western world and maybe some other countries", you are right. People in the "richer parts of the western world" take pride in achieving "independence" in their 20's.…
>The problem with allowing children at home forever is a lack of forced maturity. Why bother figuring out life as an adult when instead you can continue to live carefree as a child? Hey, you can figure out life as an…
I think you are on point. There is a high probability that (a subset of) the symptoms experienced by COVID survivors are due to Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Maybe COVID is what it takes to…
>Which of the two holds more institutional power is up for debate Easy, just track the opinions that can get you fired and unpersoned. Let's not kid ourselves on who holds the real power in America and the West.
>A number of quite reputable SoC brands here in the PRD are known to be based on 100% pirated EDAs. Not cool man, not cool.
Actually, in Italy, leftists political figures grossly underestimated the extent of the problem, urging people to behave normally. This is Zingaretti, current secretary of the Partito Democratico, at an after-work…
I'm in a similar boat. I don't go to the doctor anymore, I don't like my symptoms to be blamed on an inexistent depression. If I understand correctly you had your cyst removed. Did all your symptoms go away?
The article was written before communism. I've heard from different accounts that communism has had a deleterious effect on people's manner. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's a reasonable explanation.
>His primary care doctor at the time, Lopez said, was dismissive, telling him he was “anxious” and “working too hard.” It was an explanation he would hear from other doctors. I've had the same experience myself. It's…
>But at the applied end, the liberal arts run the planet. They don't keep the lights on - engineers do that - but they set the policy goals and define the political, economic, moral, and philosophical orthodoxies that…
>I’ve experienced burn out before in my previous career, but never experienced very bad symptoms like the lady in this article did. From the article: >But she was ignoring some significant signs that all was not well.…
Another name for cfs is "systemic exertion intolerance disease". This alternative name never caught up, but it does describe the reality of the ilness quite accurately. Post exertional malaise is literally the defining…
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Being poor means that you can't delegate a task like wealthier person would do. When you are poor you are often forced to become your own mechanic/doctor/accountant/lawyer (with results that can go from decent to…
I've only skimmed the article, but it confirms what I've seen reported from people who have chronic illnesses like CFS, autoimmune diseases and Lyme: chronically low Vitamin D. levels. I have psoriasis and Vitamin D…
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to…
Oh well, I must be so controversial.
>Ever since I have been ill, I have longed and longed for some palpable disease, no matter how conventionally dreadful a label it might have, but I was always driven back to stagger alone under the monstrous mass of…
As I see it there are a lot of advantages and few disadvantages in WFH. Advantages: - No need for commuting. This is maybe the lowest hanging fruit if you want to reduce CO2 emissions and pollution in general. -…
A couple of interesting articles that may be related to what you are saying. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22189514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20676785/
> Free software allows you to hire anyone to work on your software, just like with car repairs. But almost nobody does. People have voted with their wallets. Why do you think that is? To me the answer is simple: most…
People do leave home when they marry. In general, where I live, people leave home when they have to. People leave home if they can't find a job nearby, to study and to marry. Very few exceptions.
I should've said "outside the richer parts of the western world and maybe some other countries", you are right. People in the "richer parts of the western world" take pride in achieving "independence" in their 20's.…
>The problem with allowing children at home forever is a lack of forced maturity. Why bother figuring out life as an adult when instead you can continue to live carefree as a child? Hey, you can figure out life as an…
I think you are on point. There is a high probability that (a subset of) the symptoms experienced by COVID survivors are due to Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Maybe COVID is what it takes to…
>Which of the two holds more institutional power is up for debate Easy, just track the opinions that can get you fired and unpersoned. Let's not kid ourselves on who holds the real power in America and the West.
>A number of quite reputable SoC brands here in the PRD are known to be based on 100% pirated EDAs. Not cool man, not cool.
Actually, in Italy, leftists political figures grossly underestimated the extent of the problem, urging people to behave normally. This is Zingaretti, current secretary of the Partito Democratico, at an after-work…
I'm in a similar boat. I don't go to the doctor anymore, I don't like my symptoms to be blamed on an inexistent depression. If I understand correctly you had your cyst removed. Did all your symptoms go away?
The article was written before communism. I've heard from different accounts that communism has had a deleterious effect on people's manner. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's a reasonable explanation.
>His primary care doctor at the time, Lopez said, was dismissive, telling him he was “anxious” and “working too hard.” It was an explanation he would hear from other doctors. I've had the same experience myself. It's…
>But at the applied end, the liberal arts run the planet. They don't keep the lights on - engineers do that - but they set the policy goals and define the political, economic, moral, and philosophical orthodoxies that…
>I’ve experienced burn out before in my previous career, but never experienced very bad symptoms like the lady in this article did. From the article: >But she was ignoring some significant signs that all was not well.…
Another name for cfs is "systemic exertion intolerance disease". This alternative name never caught up, but it does describe the reality of the ilness quite accurately. Post exertional malaise is literally the defining…