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This isn't just recognition of disease though. Its a prediction that you might get that disease in future.

> Apart from being hazardous to dreamers and their partners, RBD may foreshadow neurodegenerative disease, primarily synucleinopathies—conditions in which the protein α-synuclein (or alpha-synuclein) forms toxic clumps in the brain.

Re:Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:15AM (#34467425)
Yes focusing eyes close all day is the real culprit. But there is something about bright light of monitors that seems to impact my vision too, i am not quite sure what its callled though. I don't feel the same fatigue reading a book. Its just my personal experience.
Re:Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:07AM (#34466882)
I will drop $750 in a heartbeat if there is enough reviewed proof that eink can limit vision damage longterm. Its one of my main health concerns.
Re:There was PayPal mafia. Meet the Berkeley mafia on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:25PM (#34460937)
Yes it does and its bleak. I don't understand the valuation based on assumption that even the smallest startup will need to write some fancy map-reduce spark jobs to do analytics and AI. Most companies are best served by a warehouse like snowflake and a realtime layer for analytics. I don't understand the value add of databricks.
Re:Job Hunting in 2022 on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:38PM (#34459562)
>unknowingly setting up

Wondering why they are giving such big serverences. Surely its not out of goodness of their hearts. 7 month severance at google seems a bit over the top to me.

shut up dummy
you started it moron. go play class monitor on reddit.
please refrain from copy pasting your dumb explainers everywhere.

I see you edited out your idiotic hot take.

Re:Ask HN: Where Are All the Parties? on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:07AM (#34455018)
i rent a room from 2 ladies who are ski instructors in their early 60s. They seem to have a lot of friends and party a lot ( i get invited to some) and go to a lot of trips and play/ski/camp in the mountains here in the colorado. They are leaving this weekend to party somewhere in streamboat springs.

I guess its important to have hobbies and put effort into weaving those into your life ? Its also easy to find other people who are into and hang out with them?

Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your medical history? on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:07AM (#34449754)
my hospital (northwestern in chicago) syncs to my apple health.
spivak calculus
Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:44PM (#34419764)
you should write a substack or a podcast. Lots of ppl are oblivious to this stuff.
Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:41PM (#34419712)
prbobaly not a whole from the layoffs i've seen at 2 of my employers.
Re:Quitting the Rat Race on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:51AM (#34413034)
> If Swedish residents can work fewer than 40 hours at their discretion, why is it you think most in your circle do not take advantage of this?

Maybe because they want the money and working 40hrs isn't so bad? But i really have no idea.

That survey isn't directly related to your original point about working less than 40hrs.

If you are claming that its much different in other countries mere existence of some law isn't enough, it would be a stronger point if you had quoted how many people are actually taking a paycut in those countries in exchange for a day off.

Also sounds like you haven't really looked into laws of MOST first world countries ( whatever that means) yet you made that claim without any proof.

Re:Quitting the Rat Race on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:53PM (#34408937)
> In MOST other first-world countries, the working class has the RIGHT to elect to work less than 40 hours/5 days per week (in exchange for a proportional reduction in salary)

I work for a large swedish company in USA. None of my coworkers in sweden work less than 40 hrs, like not even one.

So is having that choice really relevant and does it really make it different than USA.

Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:29PM (#34407008)
Ah yea if you found your purpose in life that doesn't need money that is just nirvana.
Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:26PM (#34406976)
> Expensive trips are often social status signalling.

I would love to go to so nice destination with magical mountains in colorado than my local hill in wisconsin. I don't care about posting in on facebook or whatever.

Memories are not just for kids though. I would argue they are more for adults.

Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:43PM (#34403280)
> I'm collecting a ton of money now that I don't know what to do with.

Why not increase your desires.

Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:18PM (#34402891)
> for our vacation fund.

Well most people with the mentality GP is describing cannot get themselves to do this in first place. not sure if this is a budgeting problem. Ppl save obsessively because they think they might need that money for an unavoidable future expense even though they can't quite tell what that might be.

Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:15PM (#34402858)
And What is this advice. I couldn't search for it with the keywords in your comment.
Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:14PM (#34402845)
You made an unconvincing point by reducing money to stereotypical 'expensive cars' . What about going on ski trip while your kids are still young and having a magical and memorable moments in life.
Re:The Art and Science of Spending Money on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:11PM (#34402798)
hey are you Indian by any chance? I've noticed this with my indian family and friends. They don't think they are any downsides to saving too much and only upsides. There isn't even a realization that there is something wrong with saving too much.
> I might be doing it wrong but I constantly pay down technical debt to almost zero.

How can you tell that tech debt is at zero.

Re:YouTube Addiction on Saturday January 14, 2023 @11:43AM (#34381603)
> This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
I googled first one on that list and there were the top hits

https://neurosciencenews.com/omega-oils-reading-memory-child...

" New research has found no evidence Omega-3 fish oil supplements help aid or improve the reading ability or memory function of underperforming school-children."

Fish oil supplements may not improve memory

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/fish-oil-...

which nutrients exactly
implication being they don't transfer over to humans ?
Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:31PM (#34362386)
you mean the cases where a layman thinks he knows more than a trained professional ?
Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:28PM (#34362352)
> PCP ignored escalating PSA levels.

He was ordering psa tests but just ignoring the velocity ?

I had similar discussion on HN last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251569

Re:Ask HN: Are you thinking about Quitting? on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:01PM (#34359473)
> a large corp with good engineering standards.

what are the examples? I've worked at amazon so thats out.

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