I re-read their comment and I sort of get it now. We could bring back "gentlemen's spaces" and these single guys might be less lonely. They would still die alone, though, and it wouldn't do anything at all for the lonely women out there (who also account for 15-20% of the lonely deaths mentioned in the article).
Though I'm not really convinced that those opportunities for socializing no longer exist, I mean any medium sized city has meetup groups, pubs, and probably all sorts of other social outlets I'm not thinking of. The modern middle aged man's problem isn't meeting people, it's building relationships that have a closeness and intimacy equivalent to familial ones, which some people seem to think is easy but if it was these corpses wouldn't be rotting in apartments would they?
You act like ‘back in my day’ there wasn’t any crime.
If you look at murder rates in the UK they peaked in the early 2000’s. Maybe those abused boys were taught violence is the answer?
Letting your baby ‘cry it out’ is abuse in my eyes and you can sleep train them without doing this.
With my daughter we soothed her in her cot instead of picking her up.
She will now link her sleep cycles and only cry when there is something wrong
The murder rate in the UK tracked the presence of environmental lead from things like paint, leaded petrol, &. The murder rate in the UK is now trending towards what it was in the Edwardian period, when it was introduced.
Beating children doesn't make them obedient and law-abiding adults.
> If you look at murder rates in the UK they peaked in the early 2000’s. Maybe those abused boys were taught violence is the answer?
There were earlier HN posts attributing the decline in the rate of murder rate/violence crime to countries phasing out lead-gasoline. Now we might never know unless we do a properly controlled experiment.
We've seen exactly the same pattern everywhere in the world when leaded petrol was banned. At this point, we've had our controls, because different countries scrapped lead at different times, and exactly the same trend has been observed. Think of the ones who scrapped it later as acting as the control group for those countries who scrapped it later.
Besides, the effect of lead on the human brain had been well known before leaded petrol was banned.
> We perform the first meta-analysis of the effect of lead on crime by pooling 529 estimates from 24 studies. We find evidence of publication bias across a range of tests.
> When we restrict our analysis to only high-quality studies that address endogeneity the estimated mean effect size is close to zero.
> When we use the full sample, the mean effect size is a partial correlation coefficient of 0.11, over ten times larger than the high-quality sample.
Interestingly, I met someone on HN once who insisted that effect sizes are always smaller in larger trials because that's just the nature of reality. This does not say anything good about scientists' conceptual understanding of what they're doing.
On the contrary, a drill press is one of the most basic and most used workshop tools.
If you’ve always been handy then you’ve probably already got one, if you’ve just decided that fixing and making things is where you want to go then you will collect various tools.
Telsa is not worth the valuation. Just speculation it may be in the future which is bad, stocks are bought on what its worth today.
Telsa is valued at the same as all the other manufacturers combined, which is obviously wrong and Elon got a free purchase of a social media company out of it.
Vw isn’t just cars. They’re are invested in things like Siemens’ energy to be the worlds biggest producer of synthetic fuel. Vw is the big boy and toyota is the big boy in asia. Tesla is valued the same as all the other car manufacturers put together.
Their market share price is speculation from fan boys that want a poorly manufactured usb mouse to drive in that you have no way of fixing yourself or even taking to a specialist.
If you want to make some money in the next year or so, open a short position on Tesla. Not financial advise, just 2 cents from a guy that worked in the motor industry for 15 years
Tesla is priced as a volatile growing tech company, for better or worse. They aren’t priced according to current performance, but predicted future performance.
VW is a known thing, they aren’t expected to get much bigger than they are today, they might even shrink a bit.
Tesla is more of a risky bet, which is why it’s stock price is so volatile.
> If you want to make some money in the next year or so, open a short position on Tesla. Not financial advise, just 2 cents from a guy that worked in the motor industry for 15 years
Short pressure is enormous. It's not cheap to open this position.
Being an ex-mechanic I second this.
You HAVE to specialise otherwise you’ll be left with the simple competitive jobs like tyre replacement.
I specialised in new vehicles and then you have specialise in brand to actually know whats going on and how to fix said black boxes and systems.
My reason for training to become a software engineer was mainly because I felt like the knowledge and on-going training you need to retain/constantly learn was not worth the money earned.
Instead now I earn my bread from what was my hobby, essentially the same work ethic as far as knowledge is concerned just less back breaking to put into practice.
