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On the one hand, instinctively, calling such a large group of people evil feels wrong, it's painting with too broad a brush. On the other hand, I know where you're coming from. I grew up in NYC feeling pretty much American, but my
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Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu?(thetyee.ca)
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Of course. Because like you, I am literally Plato himself.
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Here here. This and metafilter are my two islands of quality, both very much moderated.
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Perhaps people on the internet are happier than they seem. Because they are grousing and complaining. Which are great guilty pleasures which until recently there was little room to indulge in day to day life. Until we invented something to
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Beautiful, High Fidelity experiences, your users will love(avaloniaui.net)
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I'm happy to hear someone make this point. Rather than sneering "vaporware" when decades fail to crack a problem, I would prefer us to keep in mind that if we never try multi-generational projects, we will never taste the fru
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Yeah, I think we really need to look at the qualitative aspect of the work being done when having these discussions. A pediatrician may really be working 8 or more hours a day, where 90% of patients are utterly cut-and-dry AND often having
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Well I come from NYC, so this is not exactly new to me. I suppose I'm the kind of person that belongs in a big city that's not really part of it's host nation. Also, it is really not true that you can truly integrate, even in
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Check out Tempelhofer feld, not exactly beautiful but utterly unique.
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I moved from NYC to Berlin about a decade ago, in my mid 20s. I'm never going back and I'm glad I made this call back then. I would say the older you are the harder it is to adjust. I had a blast, while people I know who moved in
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I'm in Berlin and feel fully integrated here. Whether or not that's possible really depends on location, there's many in Europe where it absolutely is.
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When I looked at the list of natively-supported languages, which are not only webdev-focused but also exclusively dynamically-typed, I felt a blast-from-the-past from around a decade ago. Back when Mac-armed developers writing rails apps w
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The thought that makes me most uncomfortable is the idea that we're reading code written by a dumb process, not a living thing. Dumb physical processes shouldn't be able to compose anything. It's like we broke into the univer
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That's interesting. A German friend of mine who's on the spectrum and had established a second life in Japan told me that Japan's explicitly defined social mores, and slightly more chilly and formal relations between people s
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I want to strongly second this. Asperger was a complicated person with a complicated story in a brutal context, but ultimately a sympathetic and insightful man. His story is told in "Neurotribes" which is a thorough history of aut
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by m_fayer 5y ago
I almost wonder if empathy is the right word then, maybe this would best be described as something like "susceptibility to emotional contagion." Empathy as commonly defined includes an impulse to comfort and stand by, as opposed t
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Modern medicine is hamstrung by nearly universal application of "evidence based medicine" - which started as a commendable approach but has been twisted into: "we diagnose A and then find therapy B with the most institutional
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Pre-pandemic, my social life made dating platforms unnecessary. Now? No house or dinner parties full of acquaintances, no clubs or festivals, everyone's clustered into inner-circle friend groups, my employer moved out of the enormous s
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Never would I have thought I'd see the day when a relatively cut-and-dry question of epidemiology and public health would get so thoroughly contaminated by paranoia, hucksterism, and opportunistic politics that it would routinely be tr
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Depression -> not eating -> weakness -> accident or opportunistic infectious disease. It's also underappreciated how often depression in the elderly can lead to confusion or even psychosis. Which can also lead to a fatal accid
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No the unvaccinated just gave the health care system a few good kicks in the ribs after it was already down.
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I'm in a Berlin medtech company closely related to GPs and have multiple other connections to area hospitals. From this perspective I would say everything you've said is entirely accurate for at least this part of Germany, if not
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Every "native feeling but glitchy mess" app I've had the displeasure to use turned out to be RN.
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There's plenty of autism in my family, I've read plenty on it, have plenty of personal experience, and plenty of empathy for autistic people. That said, most of this list hits home, and not just in a surface-way.
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+1 It's striking that although there's a lack of meaningful identities to adopt, the number of shallow identities to choose from is mushrooming. Pursuits that used to be "interests" or "hobbies" (gaming, fandom
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This post made chuckle with recognition. I'm typically a fast and very occasionally aggressive cyclist, on a fast bike with 15 years of experience. Lately I've been seeing aggressive moves that I recognize from visibly unathletic
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I agree with you. But I did not think that this applied to the New Yorker. Thanks for this comment, you got me curious. I'll take a look at the New Yorker of the past, maybe reevaluate.
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> When you make informing facts a literary adventure Literary journalism, like non-fiction, do much more than mere fact-dumping. And what we now call "bias" used to be called "perspective".
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Long form journalism has been a buzzy format in the last years and has gotten a bad rap, for good reason. The New Yorker has been doing this since before it had that name. They're as good as they've always been. What they do used

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