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Remember five days ago when herpes was linked to Alzheimers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094317

Yes it's very interesting that two people came to the same conclusion of dismissal when there is no indication of dismissal.. it's almost like there is indication..

Commonality does not make negative emotions less terrible. A support group doesn't make a condition more or less common. A support group makes you less alone, which is another way of saying you feel your emotions are validated and youre relationship to your emotion changes in that group. Some people need a support group to change their relationship to an emotion.

The exact opposite of your conclusion is true.

Acknowledging someone's emotion gives them permission to feel it, and eventually let it go. Dismissing someone's emotion is denying them the permission to feel it, and let it go. Feelings we don't allow to be felt are never released.

This is true of PTSD at one bound, and the anxiety someone can feel day-to-day, over what seems like absolutely nothing to the casual observer, at the other.

Grief is never wrong, only our relationships to grief. This is true of all emotions.

Fear is a virus.

Try the coffee

That is sad. I'm so sorry.

Would it have happened without COVID-19?

I hope it was pride in having added value to the lives of many and satisfaction with a life well lived. The best any of us can hope for.

My experience is ~4 of productive creative work per day. I can go to 6-8, but that gets drawn out to a 12-14h workday. 4h is where Im happiest and most productive. I dont force it.

Based on your Best Books list, check out David Goggins book 'Cant Hurt Me'. I found him through a podcast he did with Joe Rogan and it resonated with me on a deep personal level. It ultimately inspired me to change my life: I lost 50 lbs since, got a raise and promotion at work and travelled more in 2019 than the last 5 years.

SJW != social justice

I am also confident that the Chinese aren't robots. Sadly I have no evidence directly from mainland China, you could say it's simply speculation.

Yes, it's a question of censorship. The people of Hong Kong are fighting for their liberties and this meandering response is a misdirection to that fact.

Nitpicking. The argument is clear.

Explain

Amazon Music's "Customers Also Listened To" is terrific.

Reminds me of Nassim Taleb's minority rule.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

This comment nails it. I lived in Kensington and never heard it. In early adulthood, I lived with upper/middle-class whites from the outskirts of Philadelphia and heard it regularly. This is an affection adopted by those on the periphery to signal they are not on the periphery.

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I work with a team from Bangladore daily and they frequently interrupt. I don't know if it's a cultural difference but it seems that way. I know when someone begins to speak Ill hear "ACTUALLY..." or "SORRY BUT..." soon enough.

Two things work. First is if I start a sentence I finish it. If you start talking then stop, you implicitly give permission to someone else to interrupt you when they interject. Get over the awkwardness of two people talking at once. They now (mostly) let me finish my thoughts -- after I started doing this.

This one is sneaky, but I do it when someone is especially obnoxious. They'll interrupt (on a call) and Ill say "Hey (name), are you there? We can't hear you." They freak out and beseechingly yell into their mic like Sandra Bullock in Gravity and then Ill calmly say "oh there you are, as I was saying..." and complete my thoughts. It's a pattern interrupt. Not the most honorable method, but it works.

I find I interrupting people while they speak to be terribly rude. I judge people pretty harshly who do so, which is probably my own hang up. These two methods have worked for me.

Admittedly, I don't like a lot of NPR content, but I think they do a wonderful job of storytelling. Thanks for sharing this, it's in my reading list.

I'm not a musician, but I love `Selected Ambient Works 85–92`. It sounds way ahead of its time.

This tension is fundamental.

You have two parties who feel entitled to the road, while few parameters exist around how they share the road. Naturally anything a cyclist does that interferes with the driver ends up irritating him/her and vice versa.

Protected bike lanes go a long way to solving this problem. We need rules around how we interoperate.

I used to bike every morning from my house on Morrison Ave in Somerville to Riverside Boat Club, then from RBC to Central Square. I would then bike the reverse in the evenings.

Rides could be treacherous because the tension between drivers and cyclists when they share the road. There is a hard division established for commuting by foot (sidewalks) and drivers (roads), but none for cyclists. Both cyclists and drivers feel entitled to roads, but there are few parameters around how they interoperate with one another.

I think designating a division for cyclists is a great idea in a city with a high volume of cyclists.

Antisense therapy for Huntington's is in clinical trials now.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/generalneurology/7711...

It's not a cure, but shows the potential to significantly slow, and possible halt (in some), its onset and advancement.

Same therapeutic approach as Spinraza

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/business/spinraza-price.h...

Here's a useful signal: If you are getting crickets or curt responses ("ok", "great") after you finish speaking, then you are not talking their language.

This was the first sign I wasn't communicating effectively in my client-facing role.

I am an app developer who interfaces with c-suite executives weekly.

Every time I get into the weeds with them I lose their attention. EVERY time. They don't care about the technical aspects of my solutions, they care about what it means to their customers functionality, the price they pay for the solution or the time it takes a product to be delivered. So I put things in those terms. I NEVER get very technical anymore unless it's absolutely required.

In short, summarize your choices, decisions and solutions in high level language from the perspective of what they care about -- that's it.

Even if it were beneficial (argument in itself), Big Government is unequipped to handle the break-up of these companies in way that protects their value to consumers.