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by rgifford 6y ago
I'm an engineer, so presumably not the intended audience wrt Figma. I hate it. Hopefully changes to the free tier curtail adoption. Three big reasons: - It's built around an un-cropped 2d view. Cute-sie and unique, I know. But sen
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by rgifford 6y ago
Diabetes is highly preventable and we choose not to address it societally. We may not like what that says about us, but it says something. Especially when you compare our societal response to it with our societal response to COVID.
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by rgifford 6y ago
Diabetes kills 1.4M a year. Do we reorganize society to make people walk more? No, it kills slower and more spread out. I agree with the reaction. We needed to flatten the curve to protect hospitals and hospital workers. That is the only ju
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by rgifford 6y ago
It's 10 - 100 years of the flu all at once. It's bad, puts strain on hospitals, and deserved closures and mask mandates to flatten the curve. There's a lot of media incentive and initiative to make it appear worse than it act
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by rgifford 6y ago
I swear every day a new article comes out painting COVID as the new TB, AIDs, or Syphilis. Everyone I know who's had it (and is under 60) is fine and reports no/very limited lingering issues. TB has killed 1.4 million+ for years n
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by rgifford 6y ago
If you're considering taking drugs for ADHD or giving them to your child, I highly recommend reading into Fen-Phen (1) and other popular, contested drugs. Fen-Phen was a drug marketed to housewives in the 70s that promised weight loss
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by rgifford 6y ago
We're kind of talking in two threads and I wasn't able to directly reply in the other, so I'll repost this here: Over prescription of pain relievers is widely regarded as what caused the opioid epidemic. Sedation causes lots
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by rgifford 6y ago
Over prescription of pain relievers is widely regarded as what caused the opioid epidemic. Sedation causes lots of deaths every year. Back pain is highly avoidable with basic lifestyle changes. I don't know much about MS. My grandma to
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by rgifford 6y ago
I think most of these kids just need a lot more personalized attention. I think medicating them is a convenient short term solution that will cost society more over the long term in alcohol dependency, heart issues, and other medical condit
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by rgifford 6y ago
I have lots of friends who've taken Ritalin and Adderall. I've noticed a much higher rate of alcohol dependency among them, I suspect as we age they'll also have a higher rate of heart issues. Many tell me they quickly increa
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by rgifford 6y ago
All of these diseases are far overrepresented in the modern world. I don't intend to say these issues don't exist regardless, just that when you setup a society of people who drive everywhere, work 55 hours a week, spend more time
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by rgifford 6y ago
Most people I know with ADHD got taken to a doctor, diagnosed, and put on medication as a consequences of their grades. I'm sure this quirk in the distribution of human psychology has existed for a long time, I just question the sudden
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by rgifford 6y ago
We have partially lizard brains that evolved for running distances to pack hunt. If your expectations are that we should all be able to sit for 8-10 hours a day from the time we're children, it's easy to say some percent of us hav
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by rgifford 6y ago
ADHD, diabetes, depression, anxiety, heart disease, suicide and obesity are all labels for defects of human physiology that exist or come to exist from sitting and focusing on one thing (usually alone) for long periods of time. Labeling in
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by rgifford 6y ago
A friend of mine decided to pursue music production around the same time I started in software engineering. We're both 20 somethings. We swap war stories now and then. I get to hear about how he's working with his mentor to do voc
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by rgifford 6y ago
If this were a typical end of market cycle, I'd say spot on. However, the Fed owns 30% of US mortgage backed securities. The last time they tried to reverse QE was 2019 when we had that liquidity crunch and markets crashed. I think thi
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by rgifford 6y ago
> Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold? Gold has limited value as a commodity and widespread usage in central bank reserves. People I know who value Bitcoin highly do it on the expectation that eit
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by rgifford 7y ago
Selectively quarantine at risk populations, segment the population and share non-overlapping access to public spaces and workspaces, work with large employers (esp. state run) to define new workplace procedures that limit transmission, run
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by rgifford 7y ago
I don't really know what you mean, but I'm assuming it's something along the lines of a recent tweet I saw by Cuomo: "My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human l
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by rgifford 8y ago
Funny you say that, I was an English major for a brief while in college. I switched to a creative writing minor before the end of my first year. For whatever it was my English professors had, it was my creative writing professors with real
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by rgifford 8y ago
> I liked the way Ray Bradbury writes about this in Fahrenheit 451. When you read books, you have time to think about it, re-read it and question it. Whereas while watching video, things move so fast that the decision is made up for you.