MyHypatia

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by MyHypatia 8mo ago
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 time trying to solve these types of problems instead of w
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by MyHypatia 8mo ago
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 diseases yields tangible results. Some folk
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by MyHypatia 8mo ago
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 seems more useful/meaningful/intentional than
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by MyHypatia 1y ago
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 pumping money into our economy, and we throw the people worki
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by MyHypatia 1y ago
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 impacts me: pay for home insurance, buy a generator, weatherpr
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
I had this experience too! My math professors in community college were much better than at my significantly more expensive university.
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 company that is 40% women software developers. Can
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 have seen efforts to get more women into stable, well payi
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 that require a lot of upper body strength (lumberjacks
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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. In a lower cost area, there are fewer job opportunitie
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 another job that can pay the mortgage even though it is in
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 feels worse than just apologizing. It's like crashing someo
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 feels worse than just apologizing. It's like crashing someo
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by MyHypatia 2y ago
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 couldn't help but giggle at the ir
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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.
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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 avoid long chats at the checkout counter that waste my time.
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
Sometimes I wear a mask to keep the sun off my face or if there is a lot of pollen or dust outside.
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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.
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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 trying to save electricity and not is less, so the incentive is
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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.
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by MyHypatia 3y ago
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 appliances, light bulbs, turn off my A/C and electric
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by MyHypatia 4y ago
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 like we are wasting hours of kids lives on an ill-defined conc
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by MyHypatia 4y ago
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 leave due to some type of pai
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by MyHypatia 4y ago
>> 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 practically cannot, or doing so is incredibly inconvenie
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by MyHypatia 4y ago
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 babies in the US: Babies start eating solid food at 6 month
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by MyHypatia 5y ago
I wish I had read this essay before the start of every year in high school and college. It would have saved me a lot of frustration, and helped me understand why things are this way.
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by MyHypatia 5y ago
The article says they only surveyed 930 Americans, and the survey was done online. They say the margin of error is only +-2% but I think it is much higher given the low sample size, the way the survey was administered, and no information on
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by MyHypatia 5y ago
I started having neck pain from sitting at my computer all day, to the point that I couldn't sleep from the pain. I now do this 10 minute neck yoga exercise everyday. The pain has pretty much gone away and I sleep great: https:/&
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by MyHypatia 5y ago
Yes, I am surprised too. Especially when an In-n-Out Double Double costs $4.20 (this is in expensive California) and their burger has more meat. Plus In-n-out is notoriously generous with worker pay and benefits ($14 - $38 per hour, 401k be
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by MyHypatia 5y ago
What software do you use to compose the articles and tag them?

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