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There is no mystery on why left handers are rare. With the left hand shielding the liver side, the right hand becomes the weapon bearer. With the left side protexted, the deaths by liver puncture is greatly diminished. This is called survivorship bias. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Nice, except the liver is on the right hand side.
There is no mystery on why left handers are rare. With the left hand shielding the liver side, the right hand becomes the weapon bearer. With the left side protexted, the deaths by liver puncture is greatly diminished. This is called survivorship bias. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Nice, except the liver is on the right hand side.
I recently watched some Mets games and it’s just incredible how commonly you use a left handed hitter go up against a left handed pitcher.
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What is a PHB? I searched online, and found that it could mean bachelor's in philosophy (PhB) or polyhydroxybutyrate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxybutyrate ), but neither makes much sense in this context.
This is not a criticism, but I’m amused that someone with an HN account as old as yours is just now finding out what “PHB” means.
was right handed for 20 years, got paralyzed, became left handed. of course relative to the physical therapy/rehab that was easy -- but it still surprised me how quickly it became fluent. it kind of made me think that it's more just a coin-flip as to which you are, and the conveniences available during critical learning moments early in life. if my favorite rattle or play-thing was placed on my left versus my right i…
Curiously, almost every lighting control desk I've ever seen or heard about is left handed: the faders for controlling the lights are almost invariably on the left.
I write left handed, and use a fork in my left and knife in my right. Left hand for holding a phone or a drinking glass, and for shaving. I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed. I'm not at all ambidextrous, I can't do most of those things with my other hand.
I lived in Europe for 10 years and that was nice as far as eating goes. Here in the USA I always try to grab a left corner so I'm not bumping elbows with anyone.
I had an uncle just like us, my son is a true full on lefty.
Just throwing in my left handed anecdote here: the bottom of my hand was always covered in pencil graphite when I was in school because your hand drags over what you've been writing from left -> right. Also ring binders were a pain in the ass (your hand is blocked at the left margin lol)
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I thought that scissors were made to be right handed, and you need a 'reversed' pair for left handed people. Or is that a scam?
The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered. Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, sn…