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I remember resorting to using typeorm's queryrunner.query writing SQL by hand quite a few times. Eventually I figured I'll just get really good at SQL. Haven't tried it but MikroORM has been on my list of tools to try out. Hoping its good.

> "The technology is simple and very safe, using a deep red light of a specific wavelength, that is absorbed by mitochondria in the retina that supply energy for cellular function."

Interesting, I would have never thought that we have cells that use light as energy.

Also, is this deep red light found in sunlight as well? As in, does this treatment only work with light that is restricted to this wavelength, or does it work with any light that contains ample amounts of this wavelength?

I know its been coming up here and there that we are just not getting enough sunlight in general with everyone studying indoors, working indoors, exercising indoors, etc. Just seeing if this is a broader issue of people not spending enough time in the great outdoors.

And that is a big difference - Christianity views suicide as disgraceful, punishable, and cowardly. Seppuku on the other hand is honorable and courageous. I've also heard of older Japanese committing suicide to ease burdens on the next generation. I would imagine just this difference in perspective would lend itself to very different rates all else being equal.

Its not so much about the removal of google for the sake of privacy for me. I think part of it is the way that google caters answers to you, and in a very weak way setting off your mind into a feedback loop of your own proclivities. We get developer version search results from google and that can be a good thing, but so do the flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers.

We are polarized in part because google has become omniscient, but when we go there seeking answers, we are told different things.

Don't you think there's too much thinking involved in an article about not thinking?

I just watched Joe Rogan's interview of David Goggins[1], and he lives the essence of what this article is trying to express. I think his perspective is far more succinct and sharper, its sort of an anti-motivation motivation. Its definitely worth a watch if anyone is interested.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY&t=4s

> people that want innovation and people that want stability

Ha! very true. You should see what some people can make in Autocad,

So weird. My clear nostril just flipped a few minutes ago. I can't believe I never knew about this. Do you know how many times I dug around to clear obstructions out of my nose because I was only able to breathe from one nostril?

I'm glad they spent that $50 million on research rather than on next year's football program. Seems to be a decision most big state colleges would not make.

> But everybody seems to agree: it’s a citizen’s responsibility to keep up with the news. Everybody except me.

This rings true. I've been ridiculed for not knowing about the latest news a few times before, and its why I started reading it more.

I'm in the same boat. News is addicting. I've done a lot to rid myself of various addictions but news has been the last and hardest one to crack. It seems like it would be beneficial to know what's going on, and sometimes it is. Socially you look like a weirdo if you don't know the latest scare.

But that's not why I check it. I am addicted, and people a hundred years back recognized this as well.

Why I don't spend the time reading Tolstoy or Neitzsche or something more substantial I don't know. What I do know is that I burn more time than is healthy consuming it and it doesn't give back nearly as much as I give in. I have no suggestions, but maybe this will be what I try to expunge for the rest of this quarantine phase. I think at the end of it, the only thing in control of any addiction is one's self, site blockers and timers help, but what I really need are bulletproof arguments against consuming it, and from there I believe the motivation will follow.

I agree with the sentiment that they only augment our capabilities, but then we end up with another problem, which is that the people who write the software are not fully aware of how it all works. Relevant to my argument is Jonathan Blow's `Preventing The collapse of Civilization` talk in which he discusses the disappearance of knowledge as generations pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk&t=3407s

This sounds like a huge step up in company management from what exists at most places.

I love how it creates the side effect that bad managers get fired if they fire a good employee (as you mentioned elsewhere). Its not even a written rule, but just through social physics it seems to bring out the correct outcome for people who actually add/subtract value.

I bet they also save a lot of money simply by not employing people who do nothing but look good and smooch around while being a negative contributor, since those people typically cost the most. And, a small portion of the money saved goes back into the salary of those who deserve it for the rate they are worth making them glad to stick around and help them succeed.

Just because we eliminate oil as a source of energy doesn't mean we end its dominance. The stone, bronze, iron age were not about using them as fuel. Plastics are still everywhere and not about to change any time soon.

> says they'll do it in half the time and tick every single checkbox in the massive excel RFP including the contradictory requirements and the requirements that flat out make no sense

I see your point, thanks for the counter arg, I can't refute this.

It seems the key strategy is to make the payer aware of how much BS they're paying for... but knowing all the people I know, I know that's just flat out not going to happen save for a very small percentage of people.

For all the people talking about how much BS there is in big consulting, dont any of you think there could be a business model that could usurp the way the BS'ing boys club siphons money through narcissism, lies, and incompetence by replacing them with better quality development for a smaller price tag (but still with very well paid developers - from the looks of it)?

I'm personally thinking of a team building model where developers can join together and form teams to bid on projects and win financial rewards for delivering, reviewing, and passing quality benchmarks, with some sort of rating system in place to keep bad actors and bs-er's out.

I've been cutting my own hair for some time now, and I have to say that after a while you develop a certain level of proprioception for where the buzzer is at. I don't even look at the mirror for most of the time I'm cutting, only to check if I did it right. And almost always I know the instant I cut too much (because I get the same kind of cringe feeling you get right when you throw a basketball and know instantly that you missed).

Then again, I have a "good enough" attitude for haircuts - but people are genuinely surprised when I tell them I cut my own hair. I think this is because I've gotten better at cutting my own head of hair than what a random barber would be capable of.

The story very much reads like a hit for sure. It sounds like he was interrupted because the neighbor called from hearing the screams and loud noises. I would imagine if he had another hour the body would have left the scene in the man's suitcase and the apartment would have looked spotless.

It could simply have been personal too. Have you ever watched Uncut Gems? I knew someone like the loan shark guy that if he didn't win, he would "win" anyways just to ease his inner cognitive dissonance. Just glad that he didn't have the money to pay for a hitman cause I could be dead too.

Do you mean depressing like Amazon warehouse workers? Or do you mean more like Uber drivers?

Bezos & company aren't exactly considering the plights of their employees/independent contractors for their quarterly financial report.

Is it bad that I rank how successful a venture might be based on how many jobs it might destroy?

I would argue that a large part of the value proposition of Harvard is it's brand name. Its a sort of veblen good that is intrinsically tied to a person when they attain it.

But yes, most technical knowledge is not very valuable in and of itself, especially in the information age.

Not a lot of genuine people in the entertainment business for sure. Its tragic that such a great thinker is lost, especially for our generation 50 feels so young, who knows what he could have done with more years.

I guess that would also entail, surrounding yourself with people who don't embroil your blood pressure. That's something within some level of control.

Yeah I agree, I think this space is huge. Imagine two or three generations down, someone from a poorer country using some form of VR tool with this, maybe with two arms instead of one, navigating your airbnb rental, cleaning counter tops, doing laundry, and organizing your stuff, and then jumping to the next appointment and doing it over and over for a solid days wage for their respective economy. With someone manning the bot, I see this being far more flexible than just your robot vaccum. They might not be able to do as many things as well as an in-person maid, but for 80% of tasks they might be able to do it good enough.

With everything being digital these days, physical failsafes are slowly becoming a luxury. I love having the vibration/sound-on hard toggle on my iphone. I don't see why this can't exist for something people feel so insecure about like webcam functionality - a physical toggle that physically disconnects webcam wiring.

> But employer-based insurance is heavily subsidized by the federal government.

I don't know enough about how the health insurance beast works, but it would seem that if the federal government stopped giving an unfair advantage to organizations, then the unfair advantage would stop existing for these organizations that were given the unfair advantage and fairness would somewhat return for individual persons.

Wood floats and so do ducks. So logically if the dord of the duck equals the dord of the girl then the girl must be a witch. `checks dords of both duck and girl`. "She's a witch!" -- excerpt from "A More Scientific Guide to Witch Hunts".

What did you spend your time doing though? Did you read a lot? Did you draw? Did you spend a lot of time working on things within arms reach? Or did you spend your time staring off into the far yonder? Isn't there a case to be made that sunlight is more of a signal used to help the eyes learn to focus and that by staring at something a foot away with low signal strength the eyes never got the feedback necessary to shape itself to the environment that it needs to work in?

This is sort of like if snapchat altered the faces of the people who look into its camera to make them more attractive to match what they look like in their own heads. The correct way is to not fuel delusions about the individual and get everyone to reach a consensus about the real world that we all live in. But if snapchat presented reality they probably wouldn't have a market either.

This is pretty cool!

So taking the question to the obvious next step: is it possible the entity of an organization of people, corporations, clubs, churches, cults, have its own conciousness (feelings, goals, awareness of itself)? Does HackerNews have a conciousness?