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.
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"?
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 :)
>> 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.