> but as a Muslim, this is the best place to live. Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not.
Very insightful, surprised to hear people like it there, I'm glad.
I think the problem with Sharia law and such is when people come from say Saudi Arabia or similar middle eastern countries and expect to bring their backwards ass laws with them to EU countries.
I concur. The vast majority of people have the exact opposite problem and sleep too little, therefore the general advice would be to get at least 8h of quality sleep per night.
It threw me off the whole article as well, it's hard to take it seriously when it hits me with "don't sleep too much" in the beginning, especially since I've always been somewhat of an insomniac and I'm intimately familiar with the impact of sleep deprivation across all aspects of one's life.
I used to be obsessed with DRY. After having written tens of thousands of terraform lines in the last few years across a multitude of platforms and use cases, I say everything in moderation.
Going DRY is a decision you pay for in complexity, it's the typical programming problem of genericity. Sometimes it absolutely makes sense and you're a mad man if you skip it, but in isolated cases making things DRY just for the sake of it is just as nuts as not doing it when required.
It's a fine line to walk and it requires hands-on experience to know when to employ DRY and when to repeat yourself.
Isn't it funny how just a few years ago the eternal HN discussion regarding remote working always took place in the same way: about half of commenters for, and half against.
The typical arguments of social interaction, in person brainstorming and so on, vs free time, no commute, can work from anywhere, "zoom is just as good" always went round in circles.
Now I see those in the mainstream and HN seems to have cross over almost completely to the WFH side.
I wonder how "converted" HN-ers got where they are. If you're here and changed your mind regarding remote work since the pandemic started, I'd like to hear why; what, other than the obvious pathogen, has caused your change of heart?
> I would suspect that most people who are were already vulnerable have already passed or built immunity if the virus is equally dangerous, resulting in a lower than equal death rate despite equivalent risk.
You are forgetting about the most vulnerable group of all: immunosuppressed people.
They cannot mount a sufficient immune response, in severe immunosuppression like after a transplant event months or years after. In some cases the covid mortality for these people can approach 40% for young adults.
We have to be mindful of people like this when thinking about dropping mask mandates and such. Or "whoever's not vaccinated dies of their own fault". Not 100% true.
We as a society must protect those most vulnerable.
Very insightful, surprised to hear people like it there, I'm glad.
I think the problem with Sharia law and such is when people come from say Saudi Arabia or similar middle eastern countries and expect to bring their backwards ass laws with them to EU countries.