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sjostrom7on Kim Jung Gi has died

It depends. If it's an interesting problem I have to work on, but I can't right away, I think about it as I'm going about my day. Driving, cooking dinner, rotting in a meeting. Then by the time I get to finally do it, it's close to a fully-formed solution.

If it's a problem that I have to address right now, it's more like prototyping the first idea that comes to mind and then debugging and refining and being more critical.

sjostrom7on Things people blamed on bicycles

I would imagine it happens a lot more than hospital visits would let on. Being nudged into the curb - or getting spooked by a too-close car and hitting it yourself - would likely result in just scrapes and bruises, especially if you're wearing a helmet. But it's terrifying.

sjostrom7on Color has been disappearing from the world

I'm no interior designer, but I think it's fun to let decor mutate slowly instead of "redoing the living room". If I see a chair I like, what do I need to change for it to fit in with what I have? I don't know if it's cheaper in the long run, but it does keep things more interesting imo.

sjostrom7on Color has been disappearing from the world

The car color graph is very effective, nice work.

sjostrom7on Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

Actually a great behavioral line of questioning - how clearly the the candidate can explain what happened, how they describe whatever part they played or mistakes they made...

sjostrom7on Show HN: A Reddit style site to discuss podcast episodes

Agreed with the other user - if you can get livecast + tipping going that'll be your hook. Hosts will then have a specific reason to plug your platform. Best of luck, very promising!

sjostrom7on Credit Scores Can Run – and Ruin – Our Lives

I don't doubt you, since you saw this first-hand and didn't hear it from your friend's cousin's dog. But what purpose could a sign like that serve for tellers?

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

Ok, I agree there, folks will always be at odds re:personhood and the morality of terminating a pregnancy. That's why I don't even bother with "it's a clump of cells" anymore regardless of my beliefs - it's a moot point in the face of our own rights over our own bodies. Codifying one "person"s rights as more important than another is wrong. Using the law to force anyone to suffer bodily harm for the sake of anyone else, even in a case of life or death, is wrong.

My thing with the hypothetical kid needing a kidney wasn't that a parent refusing to donate would be a good person, it was that by principle of law it would be immoral to force them to do it. That was taking the "pro-life" perspective all the way to "it's a whole-ass person" and showing that the concept of bodily autonomy still protects the parent, even if you don't agree with what they do. I don't mind if you think I'm a monster for getting an abortion, I just want to ensure that that choice is there for those who want or need it.

I get that it's a really intense issue for a lot of people, but all I wish is that folks didn't feel like whether someone else carries their pregnancy to term is a criticism of what they've done or want to do. It's truly not. I know for myself I have a list a mile long of reasons I would never carry or raise a child; some are personal and some aren't, but I am still happy when my loved ones welcome a new member into their family.

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

That's kind of silly. The easiest way to free the one frees the other.

We all just want to go about our lives within being forced by law to sacrifice our rights to our bodies.

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

Disagree. You can turn up the personhood all the way and still, in a scenario where a child was dying and needed a kidney and their parent was the only available match, the parent could not be legally forced to donate it. Why? They own their body and can't be forced to put themselves through bodily harm to help someone else.

You seem to be saying that "personhood" should be the deciding factor of abortion rights, but "personhood" is never going to be resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Bodily autonomy can and should be.

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

Not ignoring it. Just refusing to accept that the rights of the pregnancy supersede the rights of the human carrying it.

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

I understand you have strong feelings about whether you wanted an abortion, and that's totally understandable and I'm glad you are happy with the choice you made. But that's not at odds whatsoever with referring to yourself as "pro-choice". (Most folks that get abortions already have kids, so it's not like everyone has to pick "abortion" or "no abortion" for life.) I had an abortion back in the aughts, and never once regretted it, but that doesn't mean I think it was the right choice for you or anyone else that decided to continue their pregnancy. I'm glad we had the choice.

sjostrom7on Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

I (100% pro-choice) think they just get bored with hammering on the bodily autonomy aspect, so they start making posts about what the bible "really" says about abortion and other weak, as you say, arguments. I really think they get tired of saying the same thing over and over, even though it's important. I know I do.

sjostrom7on Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

And if they have the content you're looking for today, it'll be gone next week...

sjostrom7on The FDA is proposing a ban on menthol cigarettes

Hard disagree. The law should affect you exactly as much regardless of income. Poverty is not a moral failing and wealthy people should not be above the law, which they effectively are with a fixed-amount fine.

sjostrom7on A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/24/among-u-s-c...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/25/for-america...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/283979/women-handle-main-househ...

Anecdotally, I have a fairly progressive friend circle and I still think, between talking to different halves of a given hetero couple, it seems like the man tends to exaggerate how much he does around the house, how much childcare he does, how self-motivated he is to do so, etc. When asked, these men will enthusiastically agree that the split should be even when both partners are working, but walking the walk is understandably tougher. These patterns don't disappear within a generation, unfortunately. If I only spoke to the men, I'd have the same impression you do.

sjostrom7on How many days since a record-high temperature?

Bold of you to link to a conversation where you get put in your place, but ok.

Since you're apparently not interested in the politifact or snopes links someone else provided, here's a "primary source".

In your comment you're making a stink about, you have one proper link to data from 1999, and one direct link to a later graph without context.

The NASA page with the current graph, and explanations addressing the discrepancy directly below it, is here: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/

But I suspect you already well knew that.

sjostrom7on Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

This article stinks of that feeling from the first sentence.

> The toll that working through the global pandemic has taken on employees’ job satisfaction and emotional well-being has focused business leaders on fostering workforce happiness as never before.

Yes, I'm sure it's that and not the record-high rates of resignation.

sjostrom7on Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now

There's a link further down but tldr, he ran a department that struggled to disperse unemployment benefits to the people of New Mexico during 2021. Hard to say if anyone else would have done better in his place, but his address and family info were getting shared online and a car got blown up at his place of work.

sjostrom7on Is old music killing new music?

It certainly doesn't for me. Once you listen to things (presumably things you like), it updates your suggestions and offers a lot of more fine-tuned stations and mixes.

sjostrom7on More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

You're probably also more able to work if your folks make enough money to have a stay-at-home parent (so you don't have to watch your younger siblings), buy you a car to get back and forth from your job, etc. Without seeing how they actually did this study, I'll go ahead and chalk most of this up to generational privilege.

sjostrom7on Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection

In addition to the other responses, plane cabins have very low humidity, which can take out your mucosal protections from getting a cold. It's really common to at least have a scratchy throat after flying just from dryness, and often times catch a cold afterward.

sjostrom7on Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?

That sounds like a good decision. I would greatly respect someone that I saw making this call, far more than if they tried to struggle through and did damage to their own careers or others. Best of luck to you.

sjostrom7on The "five whys" productivity technique

Exactly. If someone's in the meeting in genuinely bad faith, 5-whys isn't going to improve their attitude. But it can help re-frame things for folks that just hadn't taken the time to consider other viewpoints.

sjostrom7on Books I loved reading this year

The book is great at emphasizing and re-emphasizing the incremental nature of the journey, all the competition and co-discovery and the tiny steps building on each other's work that led up to Doudna and Charpentier's breakthroughs. Including the researchers that concurrently discovered CRISPR. Despite centering around Doudna's life and career, it very firmly gives credit where credit is due.

sjostrom7on South America's second-largest river retreats to lowest levels in 77 years

The word "ice" doesn't appear in the piece. It's about a combination of severe droughts and damming.

sjostrom7on Google cutting wages of some who work from home

Intuitively, this makes sense to me. Material costs of working from home vs commuting are highly variable, but considering time costs: if you value your employee's time, and they're spending more of it to get to work each day, shouldn't they receive more money?

sjostrom7on Myths of Human Genetics (2011)

It was a rhetorical question, sorry :) It sounded like they were saying that the only cause of kids being confused about their biological parents was infidelity.

sjostrom7on Myths of Human Genetics (2011)

Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?