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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by pasabagi »

sofixa wrote: post #92
neonsunset wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the core of the issue. Instead of addressing rhetoric at a face value, people put their projection of disagreement into your words and judge you by that. After all, what is the difference between people who use "all lives matter" as a thinly veiled excuse for discrimination and people who use "it's a pride month and you're homophobic" as an excuse to attack you when asked to stay on technical topic? Addendum:…

> It is until after I got better at English and started immerse into the Western medium of discourse, that it became apparent that my beliefs of equality by judging people upon their virtues/vices are considered wrong by many who prefer to insist on categorizing people only by their superficial features and use that as a basis of the debate Don't confuse mostly American language and culture with "Western". The UK som…

France just narrowly avoided voting in the daughter of a noted neo-nazi, running the nationalist party that neo-nazi founded. It's also got a hijab ban, which puts it in the company of places like Russia, or Xinjiang in China, not noted bastions of tolerance and diversity.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Waterluvian »

kimchidude wrote: post #6

There is an infographic floating around at the moment that maps the migration of millionaires in 2022. I have not dug through the data to see if everything in the infographic is accurate, but as I think most people would presume: it shows loads of wealth holders are making their way into the western world from Russia, China, India, Ukraine (you can predict the others net negative countries). However what's got my min…

This feels like absolute unfair BS and it grinds my gears so much.

Someone gets rich in some crappy-to-live locale with bad human rights, etc. often by exploiting weak governance, regulations, exploitation protections. And then they take all that wealth and move to Canada or wherever, that's a delight to live and raise a family in. They get their cake and eat it too.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by sinenomine »

markdown wrote: post #25
rsyring wrote: post #13

Age. I turned 40 and realized I probably wasn't on the upswing of life anymore. I've developed a small but weighty sense of "time is running out" that I didn't have before. I want that to be a motivator to do good and meaningful things and not a growing sense of foreboding. That necessitates contemplation of life, faith, priorities, etc.

This, but with the added realization that I seem to be losing brain power and memory quite rapidly. I used to be able to contribute to intelligent conversations, but these days find myself unable to keep up with peers and elders who're still super sharp. It's terrifying.

This could be beginning of alzheimer's. Alzheimer's, like balding, is too often put away like an unpleasant thought until it's really too late to do anything about it. There is an obvious advice here of going to a good doc and having your lifestyle in order, but barring that there really is no sufficiently good treatment yet which is validated by large clinical trials.

But as a last resort, I'd check these papers and search for a doctor or an acquaintance who could help you make sense of the current cutting-edge research and possibly apply it for your case:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acel.13296

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0372-9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22370-2

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239641...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/med.21702

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728830

https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/7/5/905/4616724

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/07/chronic-neurovas...

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/09/an-inflammatory-...

https://forum.age-reversal.net/t/h4b2b5/a-spreadsheet-for-ca...

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by ctack »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #123
ctack wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can do - part of the treatment is more or less about relating to the traumatic event(s) in a healthier way. It stemmed from seeing comments here about a book called 'The Body Keeps the Score' reading the book and subsequently self identifying as suffering from trauma. So I sought out an EMDR qualified psychologist in the city and started seeing them. It's been just over a year now. Benefits so far have included an in…

Wonderful, thanks for sharing that. I had a traumatic experience about 50 years ago that didn’t affect my life much except for an occasional nightmare. I mentioned this to someone who is a psychologist and she mentioned EMDR. We had two sessions, and no more nightmares, and also I can think of that episode now with no anxiety. Wonderful tech.

Very cool! Interesting to hear how else it can play out. Fast and to the point like that. Terrific.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Giorgi »

raxxorraxor wrote: post #64
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #2

1) Execs complaining that it's hard to find skilled workers nowadays, while doing their best to make the company an unattractive workplace and not bother retaining existing workers who are leaving (including me soon). Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. If people are leaving by the numbers, then you have some serious issues that need to be fixed, otherwise the churn will neve…

> And the voters who keep voting for the same parties, time and time again, despite the corruption scandals and evidence of gross incompetence across the board Hardest nut to swallow if you are interested in politics. To a large degree it is due to a dysfunctional media. I have no better ideas how to create and fund a better press that is still independent though. Politicians need to get on board of the circus becaus…

media just feeds whatever is in demand. It's people who are stupid.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Giorgi »

neonsunset wrote: post #51

Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others. This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations. With…

It was on Reddit, was not it? I got banned from a sub just because of having opinion that contradicted OP, when I asked which rule did I broke, My account was suspended on whole Reddit... I have been member since Digg exodus and never had any problem till that day.

Unfortunately Reddit is ruled by moronic mods who can perma-ban your account, and admins can't be bothered. If your opinion is not in line, your IP is going to get blacklisted, so either you are extremely left wing, or you are out.

and it is sad, because I really liked the forums, discussions and occasional memes here and there, now they are just pushing ideas that can't be discussed, which is propaganda.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Borrible »

iroddis wrote: post #107

Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).

Right.

"You can’t go faster than the speed of light, because you can’t go slower than the speed of light. You are always going the speed of light through spacetime. If you use some of your speed to go through space then there is less speed through time." Lewis Carroll Epstein

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Giorgi »

WalterGR wrote: post #131
ant_li0n wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty ignorant of this, but was the phrase "All Lives Matter" really out and about in normal use for a long time? Or did it rise in popular use after "Black Lives Matter"? If it's the first one, yeah I agree w/you. If it's the second, well...

No and yes, respectively. OP is just being coy; they fully know this and tipped their hand by referring to the demonstrations as riots. > If it's the second, well...

It was full scale riots to the point that rioters actually looted. Don't push your propaganda on Hacker News, please.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by MockObject »

The vast scale of the organized child sex abuse activity among Catholic clergy. I have a hard time understanding how such organized activity can be performed by people who literally fear divine judgement, so I am alarmed by the number of clergy who are evidently atheist.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by bluesquared »

negative_zero wrote: post #86

I'm a hardware engineer: The pitchforking on HN about "right to repair" issues. Frankly, those threads degenerate into what I'd expect on reddit. To clarify, I support the problems trying to be solved but a lot of the ideas are just the wrong way to go about it. I've thought of weighing in, but the way some other dissenting commenters get beaten down means I self censor and move on to other threads.

Another hardware engineer here, and I feel the same way. As much as I know I lack knowledge in areas of software... there's something to be said from the wisdom gained from making an actual physical product and maintaining that product for years rather than making some CRUD app in some framework-of-the-month and hopping on to something completely different every 9 months.
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