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A treatment is available but it doesn't seem to work in some cases. The author of the post is motivated to improve that. Honestly, I feel happy when people choose to spend their ti…

While uncommon, people deeply researching their loved ones disease have had success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto,_Michaela,_and_Lorenzo... Even just fundraising for disea…

He's probably really shaken that the future he imagined may not be in the cards for him and his partner. I had a positive reaction to his post. The way he wants to spend his time s…

Hyundai is investigating 12.6 billion dollars in Georgia, and the response is to raid the facility and arrest ~500 people working there. How does that benefit Americans? Korea is p…

I get that only talking politics can be exhausting, but I think not talking about politics is the trap. If a hurricane can destroy my life, I should prepare for that before it impa…

I had this experience too! My math professors in community college were much better than at my significantly more expensive university.

You say that 3/4 of companies you are familiar with used discrimination to achieve numeric thresholds of 40% women software developers. I can't name a single medium or large tech c…

On Hacker news I see this question mostly asked about desirable fields. In education, there is a huge push to recruit more men. I can't speak for sanitation specifically, but I hav…

Women didn't become the majority of pediatricians until the 2000s, so up until quite recently yes we did expect pediatricians to be 50% or more men. I get why the majority of jobs …

Sure, it almost certainly won't unless you buy a mansion. However, a job is still required to pay a mortgage, save for retirement, have health insurance, and cover living expenses.…

Because that's where many good paying jobs are. If I buy a home in a lower cost of living area, and my employer decides to do away with remote work, I may not be able to find anoth…

A $10 gift card after messing up millions of devices and stranding tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people...this seems completely tone deaf. Giving people a $10 gift card feel…

A $10 gift card after messing up millions of devices and stranding tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people...this seems completely tone deaf. Giving people a $10 gift card feel…

I agree that the word "trauma" is overused and exaggerated to describe situations that are not really traumatic. Ironically, I think that the word "outrage" is similarly misused. I…

Yep, I wear a hat and a mask. Keeps the sun off of most of my face. Sometimes I forget the hat or the mask and then I just wear one.

There are lots of reasons I continue to mask that have nothing to do with COVID. 1) To keep the sun off my face. 2) if there is a lot of pollen or dust in the air. 2) If I want to …

Sometimes I wear a mask to keep the sun off my face or if there is a lot of pollen or dust outside.

Where do we complain? I live in a tiny apartment and don't use much electricity. My monthly bill is quite low. This would quadruple my monthly cost.

Thanks! I answered my own question right as you posted this. It still seems to me that if there is such a high flat rate for higher income earners, that then the delta between tryi…

I think this article explains it better: https://abc7.com/utility-bills-income-california/13126671/ There are two parts of the bill: a fixed amount, and an amount by usage.

Doesn't this effectively eliminate the incentive for people to use less electricity? If I am going to pay a fixed amount every month, why make any effort to buy more efficient appl…

I see the appeal of SAT as a standard metric, but rather than SAT why not allow kids to submit AP (or other standardized subject test scores) instead? Studying for the SAT feels li…

I think branding this as menstrual leave is unfortunate. We don't brand leave due to back pain as "back pain leave" or leave due to migraines as "migraine leave". It's just medical…

>> the majority of US women have the ability to breast feed more. Sure, technically many women can physically breast feed more. The point is that while they physically can, they pr…

A lot of comments here and elsewhere focus on how breast milk is better than formula. Many women know that. So let me clearly lay out the math of why formula is critical to so many…