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by sershe 3y ago
1) Mindfulness is a few millenia older than capitalism. 2) CBT is also anything but status quo. I think the thing that the above comments mentions is just window dressing for trying to go back to older approaches... it's hilarious how
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by sershe 3y ago
The article lists potential societal causes, among other things. The fact that Mayo is not "the left" if anything makes my point stronger. If this is the "institutional" view, imagine the actual left-wing view (that I wa
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by sershe 3y ago
I think the phrase you are looking for is "beggars can't be choosers".
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Hmm, are they hard to find? If you want one random example from a major source, here https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/23/real-man-wy... I mean left in US context. The further to the left, th
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by sershe 3y ago
Looks like this issue in particular is not being discussed politically. The closest I can find is that it's explained by depression in women, which in turn is partially explained (search for culture) as I've expected: https:&#x2
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by sershe 3y ago
I provided a real example of an issue where men do worse being diagnosed on the left as a problem with men. I don't think I need to provide examples of issues where women do worse and it's diagnosed on the left as a problem with m
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by sershe 3y ago
The litmus test is whether the issues are being treated like an (apocryphal?) Medieval witch test, where you are a witch regardless of the outcome. For example, the fact that males disproportionately commit suicide is blamed on toxic mascul
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by sershe 3y ago
Why is that incredible? I left a top level comment on why I hate unions [1], they create the worst set of incentives possible - they are exclusionary, anti-meritocratic, bureaucratic, anti-innovation... if I was to make a purely morality-ba
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by sershe 3y ago
Unions work best in industries that have captive audience, that's why public sector, and public-sector-adjacent (e.g. infrastructure construction) unions are the ones that stick around more; no matter how bad they are, the taxpayers ca
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by sershe 3y ago
Until recently, tech had a large number of jobs and a shortage of competent workers - these workers don't need unions pretty much by definition. What kind of workers need a unions, esp. US-style unions? 3 types (I could give a ton exam
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by sershe 3y ago
I still have a Lack side table (the only Ikea name that makes sense in English too) and a 1-2 bottom-tier cheapest chairs that are at least 10 years old and maybe more... or e.g. Malm bed of similar age (I think that is the cheapest beds th
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by sershe 3y ago
What are you guys doing with your Ikea furniture? I bought a bunch since 2008 and I still have some pieces that were with me thru about 10 moves, including 2 interstate moves and one international move, all involving a stint in a warehouse
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by sershe 3y ago
Yeah, as a matter of fact I do. Even the snideness of this comment is revealing for how extreme the bias is :) The spectrum goes from, I've talked to quite a few people who only talk about negatives of having kids as long as they are t
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by sershe 3y ago
One thing that definitely skews the reporting of this is that it's socially acceptable to admit you regret not having kids, but it's absolutely not socially acceptable to admit you regret having kids.
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by sershe 3y ago
The intent is good, but the govt doing it kinda gives me the Soviet vibe. Someone in my family told me that, before they were able to go abroad as a tourist (to a Warsaw pact country), as part of the exit visa process they were quizzed on a
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by sershe 3y ago
+1 on that... I had a complicated ISO options situation once, and that was the only time I used a tax advisor to help me take the return over the finish line. The only mistake in my taxes was in what tax advisor did; I was able to figure it
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I'm surprised they don't go for an alternative idea, since the govt has all the data. Make filing taxes online easy based on the info they have, but then require everyone to scroll thru e.g. a "tax invoice" that would br
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by sershe 3y ago
I mean, upper middle class are the people who bike, at least in the coastal cities. I've never met anyone who wasn't a tech worker/realtor/doctor/..., or at least a teacher or a PhD student in something abstract, wh
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by sershe 3y ago
That's how I felt after finally ditching car-free lifestyle at 30 (including selling my 2nd bike and letting my main one rot in sheds/parking garages/basements) and starting to drive everywhere ;)
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Hmm, housing in Europe is more expensive than in the US, especially per square meter. Not needing to drive a car is a preference and Americans clearly don't have the same one, it's not an economic advantage for most, and cars in U
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by sershe 3y ago
Stuff like this, broadly, is why California is known for its affordable rents and sane housing markets :)
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Price to income ratios before covid were within normal variation, not even 25% higher than normal iirc. Easy to find sources I'm on my phone:) they are a bit higher now but birth rates were low before, too. Of course the fact that the
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I think the above comment is spot on, the level of hypocrisy here is quite off the charts. With "protocol" defense, would you view the content with adblock if the browser displayed a gate screen (that adblock didn't block - e
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Auto industry? People on HN really like to blame industry for everything. While I fully 100% support car-centric development and I think we just need to fix emissions like we fixed pollution, technologically - via massive renewables/nu
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The whole experiment takes as a premise that merit doesn't matter (coin toss)... and arrives to the obvious conclusion that merit doesn't matter. Especially since, as someone indicates in another top level comment, the percentages
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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development(nber.org)
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"We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than those in the office"
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Cycling commuting distances/speeds, especially European-style, only counts as exercise for very sedentary people. Walking is barely exercise at all.. in the same time one could drive and also do some real exercise. Reading does make tr
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Yeah, most people thru history were also subsistence farmers and it's "tragically hilarious" that "civilized brain" only considers I dunno, engineering or science or art to make a living, or whatever when you could
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How short is short? Edinburgh looks pretty small. I just plotted a route from a random point in the center to a place called Bonaly that looks like a residential area, 5 miles away. Two observations is that traffic is pretty bad (red), so i

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