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New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:58:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

"It usually appears after a significant stressor, either physical or emotional; when caused by the latter, the condition is sometimes called broken heart syndrome"

New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:57 +0000

Yes, it's kind of the standard word for it in Iranian Persian

New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:04 +0000

Adding to what you said, it's worth to mention that her novel contains grave historical inaccuracies such that suggesting that the Cinema Rex fire was done by the Shah blocking the exits with police letting everyone burn, and later blamed on Islamists (what the revolutionary zeitgeist at the time wanted to believe), while in fact it was exactly the other way around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire

New comment by jagaerglad in "City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why"

jagaerglad — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

"men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures"

The journal article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3...

City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why

jagaerglad — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/city-birds-appear-more-afraid-of-women-than-men-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947828

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by jagaerglad in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

jagaerglad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:41:53 +0000

It's often not allowed to sell nicotine or alcohol to those who aren't penalized either

New comment by jagaerglad in "Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km"

jagaerglad — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:57:35 +0000

So instead of having to launch new satellites to replace the deorbited ones ever couple of years, do they have to send new ones every couple of months? Or can the functioning ones maintain their orbits somehow and this is only for the malfunctioning ones?

New comment by jagaerglad in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jagaerglad — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:20:39 +0000

terrible take, it's ruined otherwise amazing potential countless times. Just see how over-represented ADHD is in the prison population

New comment by jagaerglad in "How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)"

jagaerglad — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:43:45 +0000

I have the same one and I can definitely recommend it. It depends what your camera experience is, but if you have had one that collected dust on a shelf in the past, I can guarantee you that this one is more fun to use and has a much lower risk of dust collection

New comment by jagaerglad in "A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans"

jagaerglad — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:57:54 +0000

the "level 1, 2 or 3 autism" has started to gain colloquial traction recently

New comment by jagaerglad in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

jagaerglad — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:48:48 +0000

I disagree (but also with the prestige theory) it's not really a thing in other countries with significant amounts of Persians such as Sweden or Germany, there the exonym is still more dominant and no-one tries to push "farsi" out of pride or anything.

I think it just was a random occurrence / perfect storm in the US where some Persian speakers moving there didn't know there was an English word for it, and where the local population were more used to hearing names of unknown languages, and it happened to stick around and start spreading. And _then_ it maybe became a cultural pride or whatever thing with media following suit like you said

New comment by jagaerglad in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

jagaerglad — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:37:11 +0000

There are some people suggesting that, however at a small scale and not taken that seriously by many. What difference does it make? What about all the other words that underwent the sound change? Also, some nuanced people can keep languages and politics separate. The sound shift isn't even entirely clear to be due to arabic influence, how come it turned into 'f' and not 'b' such as the arabic approximation? How come sounds like 'g' remained?

And in the end, in English it should be "Persian" and not "Farsi", that is where the actual move should be. How sad and historically wasteful if we started to do that to all languages, "deutsch", "zhongwen" or "elliniki" instead of German, Chinese and Greek

New comment by jagaerglad in "TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning"

jagaerglad — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:26:05 +0000

Perfect, longer time to scroll tiktok while the TV is on in the background

New comment by jagaerglad in "iPhone dumbphone"

jagaerglad — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:06:03 +0000

Well if you disable App Store you cannot re-install apps you find distracting that you have removed. I actually remove Play store from my android through the debug shell for this exact reason. And yes, it happens that when all other apps are gone, things like Ebay, Foodora, App store etc are scrolled mindlessly, it's a hierarchy of stimulation, you remove one and move on to the next best one. Congratulations that you don't have adhd, it's hell

New comment by jagaerglad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

jagaerglad — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:25:59 +0000

Oh my bad, yeah that's a cool idea, think I've seen something along those lines once actually, think it was someone on youtube that built one

New comment by jagaerglad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

jagaerglad — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:25:51 +0000

why spend the scarce energy of the battery in addition what's already being spent spinning the propellers

New comment by jagaerglad in "CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion"

jagaerglad — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:35:44 +0000

in a sense it's mind blowing that we had images of stars being born, black holes, cells dividing etc before earthquake faults in motion. Like how the process of how they happen have only been inferred until now

New comment by jagaerglad in "Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors"

jagaerglad — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:43:31 +0000

if only a decentralized alternative had not become a money laundering tool and financial instrument

New comment by jagaerglad in "The Effect of Noise on Sleep"

jagaerglad — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:21:29 +0000

I don't know about the 1100 but I have another model (ear classic), just simple foam earplugs, of the same manufacturer. Having gone through many different foam, silicon etc plugs from the pharmacy and grocery shop, the 3M are undeniably the best I've ever had. No pain from the foam expanding bigger than the ear canal (although it's initially bigger), no itching from sweat etc, no pressure on the eardrum when side-sleeping (that tinnitus feeling from some foam earplugs). They are literally perfect, and the noise blocking is the best I've experienced. I don't know what it is but perhaps they have some foam patented that only they use (probably poisonous or something in true evil company fashion though)

The only reason I tried them is that I found myself in a situation where my standard silicone earplugs were gone and where somebody gave me a box of hundreds of earplugs they didn't manage to sell at a concert. I was bracing myself for a terrible night of ear pain, but was pleasantly surprised of how superior they were to anything I had tried, still using earplugs from the very same box as my night-to-night noise relief

New comment by jagaerglad in "Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window""

jagaerglad — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:02:03 +0000

The redditification of hacker news