I don't know where you live but it's astonishing to see how quickly people in the west criticize those fleeing war or economic collapse for minor comments or actions - do you think you would always say the right thing if you were in that situation? Cut the guy some slack. He's obviously desperate, even if he's not in a warzone
I'd recommend reading the classics - Plato, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Homer, etc. Reading enough classics will challenge your mind in many ways and give you broad historical and cultural understanding that will help you improve your thought processes, regardless of the field.
The articles I've seen about this say it's a significant move, but what exactly will it mean for Russia and its economy? Will it also impose costs on western economies? What exactly are those?
In my experience, the more the word "community" is used the less of an actual community exists. I grew up in a fairly religious household and the religious community I was a part of growing up was the most tight knit group I have ever been apart of. Even if I don't practice it anymore I can show up at the religious center I grew up in and can see people I have known since I was born (I'm in my 30s now). One woman I see always tells me that she was the first person to feed me water. Many people never really get anything like that and it's a shame. Because people are so starved for some sense of real community, it's become a marketing buzzword.
I do like that hacker news does have a set of rules, and people try to enforce them (i.e. avoiding divisive topics, down voting low value comments, etc), but this alone a community does not make.
This article probably violates HN's rules but confirms what plenty people have suspected since the Floyd riots: BLM is being used to enrich it's founders and provide cover for far worse actions by American/global elites: the hollowing of the middle class, erosion of civil rights, and consolidation of power, to name a few...
I have been thinking about this a lot and though I'm not at all an expert it seems like people just assume the internet will always be accesible and exist forever no matter what happens to human civilization, which is obviously not the case. There are thousands of companies that make the thing work as effectively as it does and as we are seeing with the labor shortage, relatively small shocks impact the company in big ways.
I doubt the cloud would be _that affected in the case of a US civil war but I could see it if there was an economic collapse on the scale of the great depression. I think a us civil war is rather unlikely and people will sort themselves into red states/blue states with potential succession long before there is widespread violence. Economic collapse seems far more likely and would be much more damaging.
Why would you have empathy for them? They have fought the vaccines for close to a year now and if they haven't gotten it they probably have a pretty good reason. Shouldn't the vaccine protect vaxxed people from everyone?? I seriously do not understand vaxxed people who care about other people's vaccination status, especially when those people aren't their elderly friends and family.
Re: prisons - This isn't necessarily the case. Florida's private prisons have air conditioning and the public ones don't in part because of democratic control and the private ones have fewer deaths from heat stroke as a result.
Yes this is true. I realize my comment had the wrong tenor in that the actual exams matter less than just having rigorous courses. Not everyone should be a doctor or a physical therapist or a software engineer and it's common nowadays to credential so that some institution can make money.
I feel very difficult exams should be commonplace. Everyone should be held to very high standards. It's surprising how many professions don't do this. For example, I've been to several physical therapists who barely seemed to understand what was wrong with me even after several visits. Each gave me what seemed like the same standard routine that they give everyone with <insert pain type here> problem.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. People here complain that a website/app doesn't load quickly even if it's a few seconds regardless of the complexity. I'm not going to use the service if it has problems. I don't care about the "engineering challenges" unless it's moving needle dramatically.
Yeah what a terrible example. We can all strive to more curious but bad product design is bad product design. We shouldn't let people off the hook for that regardless of the engineering challenges that arise.
I love that we are collectively acknowledging that we're all lazy as hell. First that askHN about lying about working and now the HN hug of death for this article
I do wonder if the great resignation has anything to do with this. My team (no affiliation with Amazon) was cut in half from last year and we are struggling to keep up with all the work
What exactly is sales engineering? I have never understood this term or what the work these people do is. To be fair I haven't spent much time looking into it but any insight you have is appreciated
We in the west are mortgaging our future to help people who are 80+ lives a few extra months or maybe years largely in isolation, how is this a better alternative than letting them see their families and enjoy doing the things they want to do? Why are we putting kids, who basically are guaranteed not to die through the COVID wringer to save old people. These kids are the future.
Besides plenty of people warehouse their parents in nursing homes, is that a better option?
As far as I can tell developed countries largely aren't dealing with hospital overcrowding. If I don't go to an in person event in a large American city, will this prevent cases from occurring in say, eastern Europe? In the aggregate and at the margin, maybe, but this is a highly dubious claim.
I found out the food bank I had been giving to pays their CEO (or executive director, I forget) more than $350k a year. To be fair, Their budget is more than 90 million dollars but it seems absurd that a not-for-profit CEO needs that kind of salary. Anyway, I've decided to donate to a Catholic church 2 blocks from where I live. I saw them handing out food during covid and they have a food bank just a couple blocks away from the church where I regularly see lines out the door.
Regarding books: the older, the better. There's a reason they're still around. Read the classics.
Other advice: consistency is key to be good at anything. It's better to do 5 or 10 minutes a day every day than once a month for a full day.
Other comments in this thread mention therapy: i had a very mediocre experience with therapy and think a lot of therapists dispense advice that follows cyclical social trends. If you sense this, run. It took me a while to realize this. Also I think most people wouldn't need therapy if they ate right, exercised, had a half decent job and had a handful of close friends/a spouse they got along with. This might sound cynical but i think a lot of what people are missing can't be replaced by therapy. Some things can be resolved but most can't and you just have to be constantly improving as a person.