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I'm not asking people to treat children as adults.

I'm just saying that hitting a child is always as abusive as hitting an adult, and often more so because the child has no chance of escape.

There are many ways of parenting, and msot of them do not include violence against the child.

This is why hitting children is illegal in many countries.

Never mind treating children as adults: how about we treat them as humans, with rights that need to be protected?

It is injurious. It causes harm. We know it causes harm.

But let's go with your incorrect assertion that it doesn't cause harm. Try slapping one of your co-workers, and then in court saying "but it was a completely non-injurious form of discipline" and see how far you get.

Sure, but Parent poster is linking to accounts who are also making the same disclosure. "Here's this product I ahve". And while I didn't look through the entire posting history of the linked accounts, the mentions don't seem too frequent.

You grab a child by the arm and drag it -- that's potentially violence, but we'd need to look at the action as a whole.

You hold a child's hand to guide it -- that's probably not violence.

HN needs a name for the falacy that people always seek to define precise exact rules for everything, ignoring the way that courts work by investigating the context of an action.

Sure, but parent poster mentioned violence against the child and I'm always always going to say that it's wrong.

> because we have no story for dealing with nuclear waste.

We have no story for dealing with CO2 waste from fossil fuels, and so far we know that's destroyign the planet while nuclear waste isn't.

There are designers and creators and inventors on HN and they have an interest in protecting their work from being copied by other firms.

But there are also a bunch of people on HN who think that anything is fair game.

I thought this video interview with small designers battling huge companies was interesting.

Anna Boniface has made some important contributions about RED-S (reletive energy difficiency in sport), which often accompanies an eating disorder, or disordered thoughts about food.

We have a lot of preconceptions about eating disorders, and it's good to hear from people who challenge those.

Also, HN for some reason flipping loves the idea that exercise is a treatment for mental illness, so it's useful to remind ourselves that for some people exercise is part of their illness.

> But in her late 20s Jacka managed to recover and stay well by focusing on her diet, exercise and sleep.

Depression is a relapsing and remitting illness so people get better and worse all the time as a normal part of the illness.

Depression is a word that covers a wide range of different forms of illness.

We have no idea if better sleep, exercise, and better food played any part in her recovery. We don't know if that is applicable to other people. We don't know how to tell who will experience recovery from depression from exercise (good evidence that it's not many people) or better food (not much evidence either way) ro sleep (good evidence that it's important).

With almost all of these we find that there's not much attempt to work out the causal direction. (Is Joe Soap depressed because he eats junk food, or does he eat junk food because he's depresed and can't shop or cook?).

Unsurprisingly, this person is selling a book, which is usually a sign of an oversold bit of research.

This video shows traditional techniques to attach a ladder to a tall chimney. It comes in two parts. I'm not sure when this was filmed, but some time in the 1990s would be about right.

I'm glad these traditional techniques have been preserved in film, especially with commentary from the expert. But I'm also glad that we don't use these techniques anymore and are much safer.

Self promotion within limits is fine for HN. See, for example, this valued contributor who posts links useful content they've created. Most of these appear to have been upvoted, not downvoted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:minimaxir%20minimaxir&s...

The first one is just someone asking for a product recommendation, and someone else giving a recommendation. Nothing about that looks like astroturfing.

The second one is from an account who doesn't push their tutorial in most comments. A search for [author:vram22 gumroad] shows no submissions for that domain, and a handful of comments.

It's fine for people on HN to push their product, so long as they don't do it too much and so long as they're clear that it is their product.

If you really think something is being shilled it's far better to email the mods to let them know than it is to start meta-threads.

From the comments:

> the long-short of this: Say nothing, ever, except “I am (ironically) exercising my right to remain silent, and I want a lawyer”, unless your lawyer says you have to talk? (because we know cops can lie, so we can’t trust them to tell us how our rights are going to apply)

> > That’s what you say if you’re in custodial interrogation, sure. But if it’s not law enforcement asking you the questions (or providing the forms to fill out, or whatever), you have to assert that you’re taking the privilege every time they ask a question. And there are some situations where the 5th Amendment will NOT apply, and you will have to answer or face penalties.