Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.
It’s one of the biggest, most expensive American health crises in memory. But the field of addiction medicine is fairly new.
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Posted on 2018-09-16T05:49:46+0000
Religious bias okayed
To wilfully use religious sentiment for worldly gain is now firmly part of Pakistan’s political culture.
Hasnain says:
“No country is free of prejudices; certain groups of its own citizens are discriminated against. Still, at the very least this is normally deprecated officially and, as in some countries, one sees genuine attempts to create an equalitarian society. Pakistanis in Europe and North America take their freedoms for granted in spite of overtly projecting their identity. Still, they expect respect and mostly receive it. But in today’s Pakistan those with religious beliefs different from that of the majority’s stand little or no chance.”
Posted on 2018-09-16T05:19:19+0000
My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote
I promised two things when I did the closing keynote at RustConf 2018:
Hasnain says:
This was a great read on programming, system design, games, C++, and Rust. it's a companion / rough notes for a video of the RustConf 2018 closing talk (which I didn't watch yet)
"I had multiple purposes with this talk:
* To walk through the design of a medium-scale rust project for those with only experience in small-scale ones.
* To show some examples of traps people might fall in that cause them to “fight the borrow checker”, and to help make more concrete how to move past this phase, at least in part.
* To show how awesome data-oriented programming is and how well of a fit it is for games and for Rust
* To show how patterns in game dev that appeared long before Rust, when applied to Rust, still seem to be a good fit."
China Is Overtaking the U.S. in Scientific Research
Beijing’s long-term efforts to promote academic scholarship are paying off.
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Posted on 2018-09-15T06:41:04+0000
How Cycling Is Key to Safer, Healthier, More Vital Cities
In their new book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett use the example of the Netherlands to show how a cycling culture promotes community building and health..
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Posted on 2018-09-15T06:38:34+0000
Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ – William R Black | Aeon Ideas
Don’t become your own pharaoh: The Sabbath is the most radical commandment in a time of total work
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Posted on 2018-09-15T06:30:48+0000
The Myth Of CEO Work-Life Balance
I’m always searching for advice from those who are disrupting industries and making a difference, both in business and beyond. As I read a recent column in The New York Times about work-life balance of a popular CEO, it became clear that my experience is much different. It takes a strong community...
Hasnain says:
"But what the article fails to address is a fundamental question that working parents everywhere must answer every day: How does all this magic happen? Where are the children when you are at work (or the gym, or on the road, or sitting serenely in a meditative state on a pillow)? As a working mom, this tension-filled question is at the center of every hour of every day. The New York Times doesn’t even mention it. It’s almost like the paper wants us to suspend reality."
Posted on 2018-09-14T02:02:44+0000
EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’
It’s shameful what US Open did to Naomi Osaka
Naomi Osaka, 20 years old, just became the first player from Japan to win a Grand Slam. Yet rather than cheer Osaka, the crowd, the commentators and US Open officials all expressed shock and grief …
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Posted on 2018-09-11T02:50:54+0000
What if Allama Iqbal had remained an Ahmadi?
Instead of the eagle, his symbol would probably have been the snake – out to bite the Ummah, out to hurt the...
Hasnain says:
“We are fond of reading history with glasses coloured in religious prejudice and intellectual dishonesty. We do not honour people for their services, as much as we do for their perceived proximity with us on the religious spectrum.”
Posted on 2018-09-10T15:22:22+0000