I definitely appreciate the intention of the article and hope we can get to a more balanced society where one does not feel so much peer pressure to overachieve at the cost of health/wellbeing, but you make a very fair point: Candidate B, who lives and breaths the craft might have a leg up over the competition, merely because (s)he is so - I am afraid to use this word - passionate, about the occupation in question.
Although I use social media, I tend to only post pictures there that are meaningful to others, like photos with/of other people that dignify them, or pictures about my life that do not serve my ego, but can hopefully enrich the life of my friends.
I am quite sad by the glorification of narcissistic attitudes, posts, photos, etc in most of modern societies. That does not seem not me like the way humans as whole can evolve to be even better beings.
I completely agree.. HN is at it's best when it's inspiring, and this is a cool project that sheds light on a city that I'm guessing 95% of HN will never see. It's well done and highly interesting... I dig it.
Maybe unrelated with the product, but I think that the whole problematic of brushing your teeth is still a tabu on many environments (such as corporate). If you see someone brushing their teeth after a meal, chances are you will be looked jokingly and a joke about it is going to fall on your lap.
Now imagine that on bathrooms we could have something that would tell everyone that "washing your teeth is cool!". Like having tooth paste available, just like soap. Better yet, if there is a critical mass of people in the company that washes their teeth, than the whole company might start doing it!
It kind of sucks that you have to feel like a criminal when you wash your teeth and people are just passing by with judgmental looks.
The only thing that made me weary here was having a baby on immunosuppressants, and the danger that could present for the fetus. Anyone knows if this can affect the baby on the long term (associated with premature birth)?
During pregnancy the mother was on a triple immunosuppressant regimen: azathioprine, tacrolimus, and prednisolone (corticosteroid). The first is a Pregnancy Class D drug (some reports of human birth defects), and the two are class C (birth defects only in animal studies)
A study on azathioprine use in early pregnancy found an increased risk of congenital malformations which wasn't statistically significant (from 4.7% to 6.2%) , and an association with preterm birth and low-weight[1].
But a later meta-analysis concluded only the increased risk of preterm birth was significant for this class of drugs[2]
It's mentioned in the article that the mother developed pre-eclampsia (simply put, hypertension during pregnancy, which can lead to eclampsia, with seizures and coma). This should also be a concern for the other women in the study[3]:
Firstly, immunosuppressants might increase pre-eclampsia, since the risk is about double in women with a kidney transplant (22%).
Also, the age of the donated uterus should be considered: the risk increases seven-fold for pregnancies after 50, though it hasn't been shown the problem is in the uterus itself.
Finally, the risk is higher for IVF conception.
Given this accumulation of risk, I'm curious how the other pregnancies carry on.To understand what's at risk, being born preterm is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as lower achievement in general. Some papers point towards epigenetic changes (DNA methylation) as the etiology.
They say things like, “Nature is so wonderful; things are always better in the countryside where there are no people around.” They imply that humanity and civilisation are less good than their absence. But I’m not in that school,’ he said. ‘I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.’
Agreed that humanity can have a more positive impact of the world/universe, but this seemed to be a statement that humanity is above all things, including nature. Nature should be respected and we should have our boundaries. It is dangerous to think that human can play god, or have some kind of superior ownership of the universe.
I'll just kick this out by saying that widely used languages seem to be normally a response to a problem (functional programming got a lot of traction because of parallel processing), so another adjacent question to these is: what will be the future use cases in tech? Wearable tech, quantum computing (as its consequences), -?-
