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I've spent thousands of dollars and years in therapy because I was raised with the ethos of "Don't come to me unless you are bleeding" and "Why are you crying? You are crying for no reason." What that ethos led me to believe is that ALL emotions are irrational. So, I have a really hard time feeling empathy for others or being capable of putting myself in others' shoes in my adult relationships. Because in my head I'm thinking, "What's the big deal? Why is <partner> so worried about something that matters so little? She's crying for no reason."

That's why it's important to affirm your toddler's emotions. Even when it seems like a trivial event to you, their feelings and emotions about that trivial event are anything but trivial. And teaching them that feeling their feelings is silly or irrational will instill that belief in them for the rest of their lives.

Comment · 2 months ago
Korea has an amazing system for getting help. Every table has a little doorbell on it. If you need something, you click the button and a server comes. Otherwise, no one bugs you. I wish that sort of system would take off here.
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Comment · 3 months ago
As someone who runs something similar, but for stained glass I'm going to go against the grain here and commend you on your data set. I think a lot of posters here are unfamiliar with how time consuming gathering these datapoints can be. It's mostly by hand, mostly by randomly searching or scrolling through Wikipedia, stumbling upon a partial data set, or physically traveling and having first hand knowledge that a place exists. How were you able to put together such a GREAT dataset?

You could add the facility for visitors to add their own locations or submit them for review. That way the people who "know something is missing" can add it themselves.

Comment · 3 months ago
"The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving." - NotJustBikes
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Comment · 5 months ago
If they could get "Hey Siri, play 'Song Title' by 'Band Name'" to open the Music app and play the song I ask for, that's the extent that I give a damn about AI being introduced to iOS.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm not confident that any of us will ever see lower prices due to green energy. Why would the power company who currently makes $XX billions of dollars per year ever provide that same service for $(XX-YY) billions of dollars per year when they could pocket the cost savings themselves and pump up their stock value?

Aside from privately owned solar/wind/battery on your own home, there's no evidence that I've seen anyway that indicates when utilities move to more green energy generation that those savings get passed on to customers. Perhaps, there are examples out there somewhere.

Comment · 6 months ago
I'm guessing there's a sizable portion of the HN crowd that are millenials. Millenials who have paid the costs of the Boomer/GenX generations absolute destruction of the "American Dream" for their own benefit. They climbed the ladder and pulled it up behind them leaving millenials holding the bag.

That same set of millenials are now visiting that treatment upon Gen Z. We are building AI that will eviscerate the remaining middle class, raise electricity rates to a level where many people will not be able to power their homes, and poisoning the air and water so that portions of the world will become unliveable.

Gen Z is justified in being upset with millenials. We used to be the victims, but we've become the abusers.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
I mean…FAFO? He’s an egomaniac pushing a technology that is objectively negative for anyone not already a billionaire. I have no issue with more Molotov cocktails being chucked at his house, or OpenAI offices, or data centers around the world.

Sam Altman being removed from the equation would make the world an objectively better place.

Comment · 6 months ago
But...who will rake the forests to prevent the fires?
Comment · 7 months ago
Stained Glass Atlas (https://stainedglassatlas.com/) - working on mapping/documenting as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Anyone who knows of great stained glass in their local area is welcome to come add to the data set!
Comment · 7 months ago
Read the history of just about any political revolution in history. Eventually, those oligarchs at the top find their heads in the guillotine.

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