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I am speechless. Just in case anyone reads this and thinks having a C-section is painless: it's not. It's really not for the faint of heart, and it almost always happens after hours in labor anyway.

Before leaping to insulting conclusions about why women get C-sections, consider the most obvious explanation: this whole thing is just due to gestational diabetes -> higher risk of c-section AND gestational diabetes -> higher risk of obesity later in life for infant.[0]

[0] http://www.webmd.com/baby/gestational-diabetes-you#1

Did you run into social adjustment issues?

>I've yet to hear of a horror story of the kind that people tend to raise in the abstract

First result on Google:

>When Sufiah Yusof was 13 in 1997, she was accepted by Oxford University but left the school in 2001. Although she later returned, she did not earn her degree. It was later found she worked as a prostitute in England before finding employment in the social work field[0]

People in this thread are acting like denying these kids entry to college is denying them the opportunity to learn. I just don't think college is the only way to learn (arguably, it's not even the best way). We have online courses, we have all kinds of resources.

[0]http://study.com/articles/How_Young_is_Too_Young_to_Enroll_i...

>Stanley convinced a dean at Johns Hopkins to let Bates, then 13, enrol[sic] as an undergraduate.

>“I was shy and the social pressures of high school wouldn't have made it a good fit for me,” says Bates, now 60. “But at college, with the other science and math nerds, I fit right in, even though I was much younger. I could grow up on the social side at my own rate and also on the intellectual side, because the faster pace kept me interested in the content.”

OK, I might take a lot of heat for this, but I don't think it's a good idea to put a 13-year-old with college students. In this case, he was a boy, but imagine if he were a girl? One of the main causes of failure to achieve educationally for bright girls is getting pregnant. 40% of the fathers who impregnate girls under 15 are 20-29 years old [0]. So in the case of girls, this is a super visible obvious problem, but what happens with a teenage boy? I could see him getting in an abusive relationship or otherwise preyed upon in a zillion ways.

This article takes a blasé attitude toward the social concerns and cites no sources about the actual social outcomes for these kids. Let your kid study by themselves, send them to a gifted child summer camp, etc.

[0]http://www.teenmomnyc.com/

I am similarly put off by yoga, which as practiced currently is not an "ancient tradition" but a bizarre relic of 19th century Indian nationalism[0]

Some people find the woo motivating, but I find it to be a distraction. I want my exercise regimen woo-free, thank you very much.

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94-...

Agreed on the bullshit. I think this might have something to do with me growing up in a certain hippy town on the California coast, but I couldn't get through this article without a lot of eye-rolling. OK, let's just put the whole drug thing aside and call it a hobby. You can have a hobby without having a pseudospiritual and vaguely appropriative justification for it.

Bodybuilders have a term that they use to describe the mythos that has evolved in their subculture regarding steroids and supplements: Broscience. This is the yuppie drug-dabbler equivalent.

Except for the fact that Japan actually has a very low rate of workplace participation for women, I agree with your comment.

Feminists actually talk about this a lot, using the term "emotional labor"[0]

It is a bit like how the decline of religiosity in the US has led to a decline in social participation. It's clear to me, at least, that whatever your opinion on these institutions (religion, patriarchy) there needs to be a movement to fix the void in civil society created by their decline.

I think about when I visited the Middle East and how I would often see men on "friend dates", i.e. having a coffee together or relaxing in the park. They would often be sitting close, even holding hands. It made me think about the strange distance men in the US have from each other and how lonely it is.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/women-gender-r...

Too much! To me, it doesn't matter how short the meetings are, even a short meeting is disruptive. My new manager is really excellent, though. She has moved all our meetings to Mondays and it is now very manageable.

It's not about the money: many of the people complaining are extremely wealthy. It's because they moved to California with an aesthetic in mind. They wanted rambling bungalow houses, palm trees, quiet boulevards, and sunshine. They wanted flea markets and VW bugs with surfboards strapped to the roof. Shops that sell homemade tie-dye and vegan coffee houses with patios in the sun.

The anger is because they bought and paid for a fantasy of California and now they are upset about the change, which they see as a bait-and-switch. Really, it's just the evolution of a region. It's irony that these same people are most likely to call themselves "progressives"

I think this is basically a competitor to AWS API Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

This sounds terrible, really! Which makes sense because I do not like Twitch etc. :)

The GP is getting downvoted, so I guess a lot of people do enjoy watching games be played instead of playing them. Thank you for providing an explanation. As someone who does not enjoy it, it IS really difficult to understand.

>Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse.

This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-psychotics, which are sophisticated drugs that are very effective against psychosis and are the best therapies we currently have [0].

[0]http://jop.sagepub.com/content/25/5/567

I don't see how I misread at all. 4x as much time off for the mother vs the father still tips the calculus to the point where it makes sense for employers to discriminate.

IMO it's premature to congratulate Sweden's supposed gender equality when the disparity is that huge -- Sweden's women still spend 400% of the time as their male counterparts on childcare. That's huge.

What exactly is wrong with a man wanting to stay at home with the kids? Even if the mom does it during infancy (when, due to breastfeeding and so on, she's arguably a better fit), the dad could take over later, maybe the second year. How is this unnatural?

Take my situation: I'm a woman, I make way more than my husband. I'm not the most lovey-dovey/maternal person in the world, my husband is. He did not have the resources while staying home that are available to women. In fact, he was jeered at in the streets and discriminated against.

IMO, people who smear a loving man being the primary caregiver for his baby as being "unnatural" are cruel and backwards.

Swedish mothers still take four times as much time off as Swedish fathers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden....

Despite this, the NYT reports in the article that women's paychecks are benefiting from all the paternal involvement in childcare.

I think a lot of it is that men are freeloading on childcare. Who takes leave when the baby is born? Women. Who is more likely to drop out of the workforce when they have kids? Women.

So, as it stands, it's really a better economic decision to hire a man than to hire a woman, even if the woman is cheaper per hour (you still have to train a new person and so on). As a woman, I always find this discussion frustrating because nobody admits this. Everyone just pretends that employers are being irrational and sexist.

My husband stayed at home with the baby at first and he was socially ostracized for it. "Parents' groups" (really, MOMS' groups) told him straight up they didn't want him to attend, no other men were staying at home, etc. People actually pointed and laughed at him in the street, and this is in Seattle!

Until childcare is a socially acceptable role for the dad, this whole issue is going nowhere.

I know this article is mostly about web development, but if you're interested in writing less Java code I encourage you to consider Lombok: https://projectlombok.org/

I did the Alexa Skill tutorial[1] and hosted the skill on AWS Lambda. It was really easy, fun, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to mess around with Lambda.

[1]https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/TxDJWS16K...

My parents believed in "radical unschooling", i.e. they didn't formally teach us anything at all. I had to ask to learn to read.

I entered the public school system for high school and did not find myself at all behind. Much of the history kids had learned was wrong (Columbus, anyone?), I was reading better because I basically read fantasy novels 24/7 for the last seven years, and I caught up in math in one semester even though I started high school not knowing division. I have a BS in CS from Georgia Tech now.

I am not surprised that students are bored in elementary school. I am also skeptical of everyone commenting here to say things like "but in Russia/Singapore/China/Norway school is so much harder!" etc. Any motivated kid can catch up pretty easily. The big fear, IMO, is that you will burn your kid out, bore your kid to death, and crush their curiosity. I am pretty sure all school systems are capable of doing this, albeit in different ways.

It's a trade-off. There are a lot of reasons to duplicate (faster reads, etc.), with the big drawback being consistency. The duplications are basically caches, with similar pros and cons.

I think a good solution is to use something like DynamoDB and use hot/cold tables. Like, if you're storing something high read/write (i.e. today's olympic stats), keep it in the hot table with a frequent cache timeout. Later, when they become yesterday's stats, move them to the cold table which will basically be read-only, with a longer valid cache.

The problem with MongoDB is that it discourages this type of data management, at least how I've seen it used.

>Personally, I would like to make it a requirement of my next job search that if the company does a standup, I'm not taking their offer.

I think that's a bit extreme. My current team has a standup that is quite useful. It's a few minutes, and we often end up canceling other meetings as a result of it. Standup, like any other meeting, is not evil by itself. But I would have agreed with you one year ago when I'd only been in Evil Standup.

I was on a team with tedious, competitive standups. It was horrible and I dreaded it every day. If I kept my contribution to about 1 minute (as it is supposed to be), I would be interrogated. Oh the memories.

>One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum, and can end up drowning out the voices of the young.

This is actually not true [0]

[0]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/getting-more-li...

I'm assuming the "rare star with a strong brand" is someone famous outside of the PSO cottage industry (i.e. in films or something).

The whole thing reads like someone trying to sell you on a shady MLM.

Just talked to my friend who's a former PSO and she said this is a very confused article and, while she supported herself doing it for several years, no one she knew doing only PSO (i.e. without some other prostitution-related side job) ever made anything close to $100k.

Also, she said it is surprisingly stressful work, fielding a lot of calls from unstable/unpleasant people and that she does not think it is a good line of work for the mentally vulnerable. You have to have a very thick skin and to be able to compartmentalize very well.

>Ads are a donation box, not a price tag

Well, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion. But realistically, we all consume content that is ad-supported that we might be paying for otherwise. The fact that so many ad-or-pay services exist is proof of this (Youtube with ads, Hulu with ads, etc.) The are both business models.

If you don't like the service at the price, don't buy it. Honestly, no one is forcing you and tons of people get on perfectly fine without Facebook (some people would even say they are better off without it).

Agreed. There are plenty of studies that attest to the well-being of children who go to daycare.[1]

"Home grown tomatoes" may be best when grown by good gardeners (i.e. some people are just better with kids, including their own) and the ideal environment (parks, museums, grandparents nearby). But it's not a universal truth.

[1] http://www.cckm.ca/ChildCare/EvidenceQuestion1.htm

My parents unfortunately did this to my brother. Especially my mom: "oh you're SO handsome/smart/awesome, all the girls will love you, you should go to the best colleges" etc. He is an extremely unpleasant person now, and definitely not popular with women.

It is not entirely parents' fault. I mean, a ton of men have had the same type of conditioning, but then go on to have a series of uncomfortable epiphanies in high school and college that lead to self-improvement and later happiness. But it for sure is setting your kid up for misery, whether temporary or permanent.

>"He will probably be caned"

[citation needed] because it looks like they only cane about 2500 people a year, and can't cane people under 16 unless they get tried as adults.

I feel like you are exaggerating -- like saying that because the US has capital punishment, and sometimes people get convicted wrongly, moving here will mean that you will get executed.