I'm surprised the system accepted this nonsense in the first place. I tried to register "Capital Investment Advisors" in Romania and motherfuckers rejected it, they realized it abbreviates as "CIA" and denied it.
Wow! What a cool website, I was looking for something like this for a long time, gotta take a look and definitely I'm not an alter-ego of the original poster :)
I suppose the problem with moonshots like "X can cause cancer in the long term", replace X with "alcohol", "cigarettes", "cola" or what else, is that "in the long term we're all dead. sometimes unexpectedly". The unexpected part is key. If it were guaranteed you live 100 by abstaining from vice then by all means. But illness and death can and will come out of nowhere and it leaves you even more bitter: you didn't even allow yourself to enjoy life and now it's taken from you.
So like vice, also abstinence: in moderation. In fact abstinence is itself a vice if taken to extremes I would say.
I’m not so sure alcohol is really helping us enjoy life that much though. I’ve had periods with all kinds of different drinking patterns, and it always feel like alcohol always takes away from you as much as it gives. Even when I drink so much that I get a noticeble hangover. It might be subtle. Like feeling ever so slightly worse when not drinking. But there’s always a trade-off.
During long periods of not drinking I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
That’s even more the case these days when there’s so many good non/low alcoholic beers and dry ciders (had some good wines too but too many are bad)
The only pattern of drinking I’ve found that I think actually make life more enjoyable in total, is to have like 2-3 units of alcohol on really special occasions, like 3-6 times a year. Any downside is immeasurable and when you wait so long between drinking it the alcohol is more efficient at making you feel good. You can also go back to not drinking easily without feeling like you’re missing something.
It should be said that the chance of developing a serious problem if you have a habit of drinking. You can have a traumatic experience, or other kind of psychological issues, and suddenly that casual drinking can turn into a real problem.
Do these "uncover employer's culture" articles have any relevance in today's job market, where qualified candidates send 100s of CVs and don't even get an interview? Then if they somehow get that interview, it lasts 10+ rounds? After being jobless for months and basically going through a full blown proctology exam without lube to get hired, who's finicky to turn that offer down "nah, I don't think we are culturally compatible"?
Exactly, which is why it gives you a leg up on everyone who isn't willing to live in a major metro.
If you're raising kids, you probably want this anyway. What kind of schools and jobs are they going to be able to pursue without moving far away otherwise? What kind of hospital systems will you and your elder parents be able to access as you grow old otherwise?
I've come to peace with the fact that major metros have significant economic gravity for anyone with a long term time horizon and a focus on family.
Well, currently I'm in a major metro with good schools and hospitals, big houses for cheap next to modern transit, where my wife does not get regularly assaulted whenever she goes outside. The pay is several times higher in major metros with bad schools and hospitals, tiny shoebox apartments where the only ISP is the local cable monopoly, where my wife has been regularly assaulted whenever she went outside, and where I will probably get to have a favorite window glass shop again.
Yeah as someone who only gets more or less 1 offer per few months while job searching, I'd rather take the possibly-shitty job while continuing to hunt for a better one if it comes to that than risk draining the rest of my savings with no further (or possibly worse) opportunities
Well I'm in Europe (Romania) too and street crime is basically nonexistent where I live, yet I don't let my 11 years old kid commute home by himself. Problem is cars, he only has to make a mistake once and I can't afford that mistake.
I grew up in the countryside in the 80s, cars there were as rare as hen teeth at the time so entirely different situation. Also parents used to have 2-3 kids back then, I only have one so gotta pay extra care coze there's no backup :)
I suspect that part of the worry aculture around parents being overprotective of kids today (at least in the west and the U.S. in particular) comes from exactly what you mention, a prevalece of single-child homes with no backup so to speak, vs increased worry in general.
>> High-quality blogs exit, but they are impossible to find in the sea of “personal” blogs trying to sell you something.
I guess the only way to know about a quality blog now is being an old timer who knows the blog address from memory and grew along the blog writer. Plus fingers crossed that the blog writer didn't abandon it or realized raw, unfiltered content doesn't put a bread on the table but "10 Ways to Boost Your Productivity" does.
An example of old timer, in Romanian. Content is so good that corporate VPN refuses to allow access due to "sensitive or offensive content". Yeah, not your usual "How to Retire Early in Six Steps": https://www.piticigratis.com/
One of the latest posts is about the "pride" march in Bucharest which somehow became a pro-Palestine exhibition. Not only supporting terrorism but completely irrationally, supporting a bunch of people who would behead and defenestrate the very "proud" people so heartwarmingly supporting them.
Of the consistent crowd that frequents Hacker News, I'm sure at least a few know about such blogs. I wouldn't mind finding about them even in national languages other than English. For German, French and Italian I can mostly read them directly, for the others' there's Google Translate.
