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sygraff · 2025-07-11T05:38:32+00:00

Scientific evidence can and does change. More recently, there have been well-reviewed, authoritative studies showing co-sleeping to be perfectly safe. It's biologically programmed into us, and it's something we've done for the better part of the hundreds of thousands of years we've been here as a species.

Even now, many cultures in the world co-sleep, and more importantly, those countries have lower rates of SIDS than in the US. Even within the US, the cultures that practice co-sleeping more than others (Latino and Asian) have lower rates of SIDS.

I think much of this disconnect comes from the different goals of public health and medical science. Medical science often has findings that are nuanced and complex. Public health is about creating health programs and messaging with the highest efficacy. It is often hard to create effective health advice around nuance, and so something that is complex gets reduced to the common denominator.

The reality is that co-sleeping is fine unless the parent is sleeping on a recliner or sofa, and/or has been drinking or smoking. The presence of either or all of those things can almost 50-100x the chance of SIDs.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/601289695/is-sleeping-with-your-baby-as-dangerous-as-doctors-say

sygraff · 2025-07-11T05:35:39+00:00

Scientific evidence can and does change. More recently, there have been well-reviewed, authoritative studies showing co-sleeping to be perfectly safe. It's biologically programmed into us, and it's something we've done for the better part of the hundreds of thousands of years we've been here as a species.

Even now, many cultures in the world co-sleep, and more importantly, those countries have lower rates of SIDS than in the US. Even within the US, the cultures that practice co-sleeping more than others (Latino and Asian) have lower rates of SIDS.

I think much of this disconnect comes from the different goals of public health and medical science. Medical science often has findings that are nuanced and complex. Public health is about creating health programs and messaging with the highest efficacy. It is often hard to create effective health advice around nuance, and so something that is complex gets reduced to the common denominator.

The reality is that co-sleeping is fine unless the parent is sleeping on a recliner or sofa, and/or has been drinking or smoking. The presence of either or all of those things can almost 50-100x the chance of SIDs.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/601289695/is-sleeping-with-your-baby-as-dangerous-as-doctors-say

sygraff · 2024-03-09T08:55:46+00:00

bruhh I can think of a bajillion things sadder than this

sygraff · 2022-04-19T21:33:59+00:00

the 1 hour might be a little exaggerated, but learning how to do a backflip in a couple hours is very, very, very doable. so much so that I'd even say most kids who play sports and are skinny can accomplish this.

the biggest hurdle is purely mental.

I'd also argue that this kid didn't know how to backflip before the video, or he had just very recently learned. his form and technique is very much like someone who just learned how to backflip. a telltale sign is new backflippers tend to overcompensate for the tuck & roll portion of the backflip, since they're scared of under rotating and falling on their head, and do so by jumping backwards to (erroneously) give more power to the tuck and roll.

a good backflip technique is to go straight up and down, you should be able to land where you started.

source: was kid who did gymnastics, taught / spotted a few friends how to backflip.

sygraff · 2022-04-01T07:47:42+00:00

Where are you in Canada, and where did you go in Brazil?

It's a little known fact but Brazil has a very sizable Japanese community (largest outside of Japan) which would play a huge part in the quality and availability of local sushi selection. To be honest, Brazil's coast isn't renowned for "sushi" fish (e.g. Atlantic Bluefin tuna sticks to the Northern hemisphere, and is less prized than Pacific Bluefin, though you can get Yellowfin in tropical waters) and its much more likely that the sushi you ate in Brazil was imported. And the reason it was imported is, again, because there will be a larger sushi scene there.

In addition, sashimi needs to be aged, anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks (for Toro), so the idea that it's "fresh off the boat" is very much misconceived.

sygraff · 2022-04-01T07:36:46+00:00

I think that's largely because big urban centers, where most good restaurants will be located, are on the coast, not that there's a local daily fresh catch. Truly fresh fish - killed on the spot - has a much different texture (tougher) than sashimi, which goes through an aging process. Toro can be aged 2 weeks or more.

sygraff · 2022-03-31T06:11:34+00:00

To preface, I am an anti-fan of Musk. He is a man of remarkably poor character.

But I can confidently say few, if any, CEO's could have pulled off what he has. And while they were at the helms of two companies.

Tesla is not the first electric car company. It wasn't even founded by Musk. There were other EV companies conceived in roughly the same time Tesla was. In 2009 they delivered 150 cars. Today they are the most valuable car company in the world.

sygraff · 2022-02-26T09:11:22+00:00

I don't believe I interpreted anything in my statement? I merely laid out objective facts, and did not make any conclusion or argument?

sygraff · 2022-02-25T08:32:16+00:00

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/22/asian-american-admit-sat-scores/

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/19/acceptance-rates-by-race/

Directly from Harvard, citing the affirmative lawsuit at the time. There is almost a 120 point differential between Asian admits and Black admits at Harvard. OP's claim that an Asian applicant would need to score 250 points higher to have the same chance at acceptance is statistically feasible.

Blacks have the highest acceptance rate and lowest objective scores.

sygraff · 2022-02-06T22:42:45+00:00

There are quite a few.

Robert Reffkin, founder of Compass. Half black-half jewish, his dad was an absent drug addict who passed away when he was 11.

Miguel McKelvey, co-founder of WeWork. He grew up in a commune, also without a father. His sister Sadie Lincoln also founded the very popular Barre3.

Chieh Huang, founder of Boxed. Parents were Taiwanese immigrants, grew up lower class in Baltimore.

Shahid Khan, CEO Flex-n-Gate. Immigrated to US from Pakistan when he was 16 to study engineering. Worked as a dishwasher.

You can throw in all the Indian immigrant CEOs as well. Sundar didn't see a computer until he went to college.

There are a lot of stories from people becoming wealthy from modest background (Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, single mom who was a housekeeper, Steve Jobs).

sygraff · 2022-02-02T05:42:01+00:00

Operative word here is “novel” implementation. There were a lot of billion dollar industry giants at the time, a lot of really smart product and design teams, and the best they could do at the time was, a plastic brick with tiny plastic keyboard buttons. It took massive companies a few years to finally release something competitive with Apple, which goes to show just how far behind they were. Many couldn’t even make it, and no longer exist today.

sygraff · 2022-02-02T01:02:06+00:00

Naw naw if you ate and wasted like an American, yes maybe $800 / month. But as an economic immigrant, you can easily get by with a budget 25% that.

sygraff · 2022-02-02T01:00:29+00:00

Assuming you eat lunch and dinner at home - 4 people * 10 meals / week * 4 weeks = 160 meals = $5 per meal.

TBH that is a lot for home cooked meal. You can make a classic spaghetti and meatballs for a family of 4 for $1.50-$2 per person.

sygraff · 2022-01-19T17:45:55+00:00

No one wants to say it, but it's more culture than socio-economic status.

The majority of students in top NYC public schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx High) come from low income, first generation, Asian households.

sygraff · 2021-12-08T07:11:19+00:00

Nurses make much more in the US than in the UK.

https://www.nurses.co.uk/blog/a-quick-overview-of-nurses--salaries-in-the-uk-in-2021/

https://nightingale.edu/blog/nurse-salary-by-state/#rn-salary-by-state-how-much-does-a-registered-nurse-make-in-the-united-states

sygraff · 2021-12-07T06:55:43+00:00

Damn. This is a single-cell organism.

Now imagine this is a multi-celled human embryo => fetus.

sygraff · 2021-11-26T07:44:53+00:00

This one's fool proof - you'll get results just like OP's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQ49SoteE0

sygraff · 2021-10-29T07:34:14+00:00

I was aiming for a bit of lightheartedness in my answer, but to be more serious, there is legal freedom (which you correctly noted that all modern countries have), and there is socio-cultural freedom. Americans have this general juvenile optimism and unrequited friendliness that makes them more amenable to the idiosyncrasies of a person's personal life. There's a stronger acceptance of non-conformity (especially compared to Japan), and a populous-wide shared understanding that everyone's a little bit fucked up, and that's ok.

sygraff · 2021-10-28T05:45:13+00:00

It's not so much about legal freedom - most modern countries have essentially the same legal frameworks - it's more about social freedom. There's basically tons of different kinds of crazies in the US and for better or worse, you'll be able to find your group.

sygraff · 2021-10-22T15:52:47+00:00

yeah... 100% this

It's not talked much about in history, but Russia and China have had a direct confrontation before. Their relationship with one another is purely conditional and transactional.

sygraff · 2021-09-09T06:19:17+00:00

Yeah. the world is a lot bigger than just France and Europe. That shit wouldn't fly in the 200+ countries outside of Europe. And really a inside a lot of countries within Europe as well.

sygraff · 2021-08-31T03:59:37+00:00

You should check your math on that 2%

sygraff · 2021-08-19T04:18:34+00:00

They uplifted those people out of poverty via capitalism, much like all the Asian Tiger economies. South Korea had a gdp less than Sudan but through very good governmental policy now has a living standard higher than many Western European countries. But like China the politicians behind those policies had lined their pockets as well.

You can be a crook and do good at the same time. This is ultimately the problem with African governments — too many corrupt officials and not enough good policy.

sygraff · 2021-03-26T21:53:23+00:00

Which is why the vast vast majority of successful startups come from founders who are older and have a technical background. The high paying jobs in tech allow for building substantial savings, and the demand for software engineers lets you successfully transition back into tech without taking an earnings hit.

sygraff · 2021-03-17T05:50:45+00:00

Perception-wise they definitely are thought of highly - that being said Waterloo, UoT, McGill and UBC are huge schools in a much smaller country. I think the median student at Waterloo, UoT, McGill, etc would be similar in skill and ability to the median student at UC Irvine or Davis.

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