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How to Make Meals from Office Snacks
- dominotw 8y agowow 5 nytimes articles on frontpage atm
- azhenley 8y agoAnd 4 more on the second page.
- acheron 8y agoSurprised they were able to push down all the Guardian articles.
- keiferski 8y agoYeah, I posted an Ask: HN question about this last week. Posting articles from nytimes.com on here seems to be a popular trend, which is disappointing, as HN used to be more obscure and less mainstream. It’s called Hacker News, not Most Popular Newspaper in the World News.
- dymk 8y agoHN has had a bit of an infatuation with NYTimes ever since they started running a negative article about Facebook at least once a day.
- freddie_mercury 8y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=nytimes.com&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=1267401600&dateEnd=1270080000 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nytimes.com&sort=byPopularity&... 9 years ago, in March 2000, I see 12 pages of NY Times articles in the archive.
- keiferski 8y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=nytimes.com&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=1548979200&dateEnd=1551484800 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nytimes.com&sort=byPopularity&... And 26 pages (500+ links) of submissions in the past month. Note that there doesn’t seem to be a way to calculate total points, which is the real issue. It seems very clear that nytimes.com is on the front page more frequently as of late.
- nathanaldensr 8y agoI've said it before and been downvoted, but it's true: HN has becoming a dumping ground for low-quality online rags--Vox, New York Times, etc.--similar to the feeling one gets when visiting /r/politics or /r/news. HN has become a source of eyeballs for these sites and I find it likely that people are being paid to post links here. Nowadays, most of the time stories have no relevance to tech whatsoever.
- cylinder 8y agoC'mon Americans. Midday means noon. It doesn't mean middle of the afternoon.
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- cheerlessbog 8y agoJust because you can, doesn't mean you should.
- Scoundreller 8y agoBut then you have to buy your own lunch/ingredients with your own after-tax dollars, instead of your employer’s pre-tax dollars. And good cheese is expensive in N. America.
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- jjeaff 8y agoActually, as of 2018, food for employee snacks are no longer deductible. So it's post-tax money for the corporations.
- saghm 8y agoIt still is money not out of your own pocket, at least
- jjeaff 8y agoTechnically yes, but economically, that is part of your compensation and could have been used to pay you more. In the past, there was at least the argument that by providing the services with pre-tax money, it is going a lot farther, so worth the trade off. Now, not as much. But, at least the economies of scale remain. If every individual employee had to hire their own gourmet chef to cook their lunch, then it would obviously cost them more. But my guess is that if you quantified how much some of these benefits cost and allowed employees to take the money instead of the benefit, they would probably take the money.
- Scoundreller 8y agoIf the corporation can’t deduct it, does that mean it’s a taxable benefit for the employee? If not, corporate taxes are less than personal (usually), so it still makes sense for the Corp to provide it even if they can’t deduct it. (Assuming they get équivalent pricing to what consumers get (probably false)).
- jeandejean 8y agoI struggle to understand why these random ingredients put together are called meals... Not for me!
- quickthrower2 8y agoIt’s pretty unhealthy unless your company orders healthy food.
- benj111 8y agoI suppose you could use it as a prompt to request healthier snacks. I don't see what problem the company would have with that, your coworkers might complain though.
- mido22 8y agoI don't want to be that guy, but why is this silly article from a pay-walled site on the front page? Time for some sort of algo update?