Joshi

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's not a bad measure but I don't think it's the best, I'm currently working my way through Spirit Level and so I think some measure like the Gini coefficient would be important.

I think that median income, Gini coefficient, poverty rate and something like the human development index would give a decent overall picture. I don't think a single metric really does the job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Also anything potentially breakable. Crockery, glassware etc. Best to have something that's already been stress tested in someone else's home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I know some nurses that know them pretty good, it's not that outrageous to know the schedule by heart if you use it most days. I don't use it most months though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nearest thing I can think of is a running file with medical guidelines I use occasionally but not often enough to want to learn, childhood vaccination schedules, colonoscopy follow up timelines, lots of imaging follow up guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I agree and I'd like to add that education systems that treat WW2 as the war to understand is actively harmful.

In part due to characteristics of the war and in part due to how it is taught and remembered.

Just 2 examples

  • WW2 can be quite easily presented as having clear good guys and bad guys which makes it fairly unhelpful to study to understand modern conflicts.
  • Chamberlain is consistently painted as a naive idiot for trying to prevent a war through diplomacy. Whether or not it was futile in that case isn't really relevant, when WW2 is the only war most people study in any depth then all attempts at avoiding conflict get characterised as naive appeasement.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the correct answer. At some point paediatricians and other folks interested in child development standardised the meaning of infant as above but unless you're a paediatrician they are completely interchangeable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have a personal website, not a business one but if all you want is to display some information and contact details etc then Hover for domain hosting and Squarespace for the website, they are easy to use and relatively cheap for a simple website that looks professional. If you want things like e-commerce or online booking you might want something else although linking to another service from a Squarespace site could work.

I'm currently shifting to self hosting and having troubles with Hover, but for an easy to use service that doesn't require any technical knowledge it works fine. They also offer [email protected] which I use as my main personal email with no worries.

Please don't just have a Facebook page, it becomes a real pain for non-facebook users, especially on mobile, and it makes you look like a complete amateur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Guitar and ukelele are relatively easy to learn and don't require reading music. Ukelele would probably be a bit easier on your joints though.