dicey_pv
Re:Sinister parasites that control their hosts' minds
on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:00PM (#16998288)
>They found that people given a flu vaccine interacted with significantly more people, and in significantly larger groups
I have a personal hypothesis that the coughing and sneezing that come with the flu are also an adaptation of the virus. Getting people to cough and sneeze is a great way to spread an airborne disease.
Re:Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching?
on Saturday February 24, 2018 @09:33AM (#16453368)
Personally, I embrace the downtime that I get after finishing a large task. I see it as a way to force myself to take healthy breaks, which are easy to forget when I'm "in the zone."
When I finish a large task, I take a few minutes to think about how I should spend the rest of the day, grab a coffee or snack, use the restroom, check the news, then jump back in.
I even find that, when I forget to take breaks, I'm more easily fatigued and discouraged by what can otherwise feel like an endless amount of work.
Re:MoviePass wants to let you go to the theater once a day for $10 a m...
on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:44AM (#15018613)
If this move were so ingenious, why wouldn't the movie theaters just lower their prices to get more people in the door? Instead, the trend over the last few years has been to increase prices (according to the article).
Re:Some 4.5M Japanese aged between 35 and 54 are living with their par...
on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:36PM (#14149789)
Similar situation here. I'm a 20-something with a Bachelors in MIS. I make $80,000 in the Dallas area, and consider myself stable.
I also took out a sizable chunk of student loan debt for my degree, and have paid it off already, so now I'm debt-free and employed. Nearly every one of my friends and peers are in a similar boat. No apocalypse here, yet.
I also grew up in a non-nuclear family with a single mother and 2 siblings.