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by octokatt 4y ago
Oh man. I guarantee they were inspired by The Home Edit, who are the Instagram'd version of Marie Kondo with none of the depth. Lots of "organize by rainbow color", not a lot of practical advice.
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by octokatt 4y ago
First, you don't want a way of life that creates problems, so take a step back. If you're overthinking things, stop thinking. Go do something physical, ideally something physically exhausting, until your brain resets. Gym time,
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by octokatt 4y ago
If you love your family, work hard at your job to be a provider. It's a conflation of personal responsibility into unquestioning work ethic, and begins the alienation of the worker from their craft.
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by octokatt 4y ago
The lesson I'm taking away from this is if the U.S. wanted to support its increasing senior population and improve the loneliness epidemic [1] _and_ obesity epidemic, buying up malls and retrofitting them into public community spaces w
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by octokatt 4y ago
The overall theme is good, and renders well on a mobile device and desktop. The design is modern and reasonable. I'll echo the "please don't make me watch a video by default" message, though I would keep a link to the v
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.ph/ZQP00
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by octokatt 4y ago
Haven't done it myself because my health isn't good enough to be a farmer, but I want to subscribe to your newsletter and live vicariously.
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by octokatt 4y ago
So. How much do I need to suffer from my disability to be a valid disabled person? How much success are disabled folk allowed to have before our experience is less useful than an abled advocate? The author circles around issues like Tik-T
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.ph/mUkHM TL;DR: As bodies age, they lose muscle. Eating protein and being active preserve and build muscle. Protein powder has protein.
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by octokatt 4y ago
> Before the pandemic, she said, she was putting about $2,000 into her savings account each month. Now it’s half that amount. The rest goes toward a costlier apartment ($600 more in monthly rent), evenings out with friends and small indu
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by octokatt 4y ago
Does anyone meaningfully disagree with this idea? (Note: if you like work, and want to do more than four-days of work, _you get to have a whole extra day to start your own company under this idea_)
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by octokatt 4y ago
Yes, we bloody should. Nurses and doctors are often called full-time at 32 hours. It's time to make that official, and stop burning our our medical folk. Making medicine into a calling only, and it's practitioners martyrs, helps
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by octokatt 4y ago
Direct linking the Opportunity Atlas feature, as it's the meat of the report: https://www.opportunityatlas.org/
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by octokatt 4y ago
I do not miss working for Jack Dorsey. My life is a lot calmer since I left.
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by octokatt 4y ago
This was a good enough question I started researching. TL;DR: Your microbiome adapts quickly, but you don't get to see the full effects for weeks to months. Turns out, your microbiome will shift significantly within a few days of chan
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by octokatt 4y ago
A useful way to interpret this blog post is “I had weird health issues that were resistant to treatment, but dramatically changing my diet helped”. This blog post does not contain useful advice for most people, but is a) vaguely interesting
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by octokatt 5y ago
> The study was not able to separately analyze any subtypes or varying severities of depression. The authors say that future studies should investigate the use of non-pharmacological depression interventions used in combination with anti
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by octokatt 5y ago
Take regular amounts of time to reflect on what is working and what isn’t, and be willing to change the things that aren’t working. When you identify a problem, be willing to take advice and experiment with ways to avoid or solve the proble
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by octokatt 5y ago
Because the grading system _encourages_ students who already know the material, and _discourages_ students who don’t know the material. If someone is discouraged from a subject, they are less likely to put in the effort to succeed in the su
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by octokatt 5y ago
Thank you for bringing this up; I think a lot of programmers might look at Wordless, see a seven-figure payout, and beat themselves up for not managing to do the same when their experience level is vastly different.
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We’re Killing Ourselves with Work(nautil.us)
5 points by octokatt 5y ago|1 comments
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by octokatt 5y ago
Some companies put in the extreme effort to make remote work useful. A lot of companies didn't, and never wanted to, and have been trying to count down the days until they can attend a meeting without their toddler screaming in the bac
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by octokatt 5y ago
The grieved might not be up for talking or doing much. Parallel play, where you’re both just in the same room doing your own thing on a laptop, can be a low pressure way to let them know they’re not alone. Likewise, if this has been an exh
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by octokatt 5y ago
This was one of the first articles on HackerNews in a while to genuinely make me laugh and enjoy the web. Thanks for posting.
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by octokatt 5y ago
A part of this that's missing is the effects of HD filming on practical effects. Back in ye old days of the 90's, props didn't need to be super good looking unless there was a close-up. Now in the days of 4k, every prop need
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Nostalgic, Useless Websites(theuselessweb.com)
4 points by octokatt 5y ago|1 comments
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by octokatt 5y ago
Honestly, finding this made my day. Finding single purpose, non-commercial, silly websites has been entertaining. There aren't many, but now I'm probably going to start making some, just for the sheer joy of it.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Hard agree. One of the worst gambles to make is ‘are folk going to be chill with they/them pronouns’ vs. ‘if I don’t say now, folk are never going to change later’. That’s not going away any time soon. Making the choice mandatory in
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by octokatt 5y ago
Almost certainly yes. Has anyone not seen the uptick?
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by octokatt 5y ago
I took a medical LOA. Who... did not pay out. I'm glad I'm in Washington State in the USA, they gave medical leave pay, as opposed to the STD and LTD insurance I assumed would actually help.

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