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by J-dawg 10y ago
Because of the subject matter, there's a lot of anger and bitterness in that subreddit, and people make a lot of sweeping generalisations. There's not much point getting into my specific opinions, everyone has to make up their own
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I agree. With something like a job offer that requires a bit of contemplation before going ahead, email is clearly the better method of communication. Usually after these calls they end up emailing over the job description anyway. I can onl
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by J-dawg 10y ago
It has helped me understand why my marriage failed and made me realise how I need to behave differently when I start dating again. I must admit, a lot of the commenters there have extreme views and some of them come across as misogynists. H
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is possibly controversial, but /r/TheRedPill has helped me a lot recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I was the same with Elite as a kid (although I never actually reached 'Elite'!). There was something about that game that made it so immersive. I wasn't just playing a game, for a few hours a day I was a hard-bitten space tra
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Diesel cars produce more toxic emissions than trucks and buses, EU study says(theverge.com)
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by J-dawg 10y ago
> I go to the gym at least 3 times a week What are you doing in the gym? From the point of view of aesthetics, doing cardio etc is basically a waste of time. Focus on lifting weights and building muscle. I'm reliably informed that b
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Related question: I've seen several comments on HN and elsewhere about how bad the dating scene is (for guys) in Silicon Valley / "Man Francisco". I'm curious, is it really that bad? I'm assuming Seattle has si
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Ha! If we assume the goal of such research is to improve patient care (rather than grab headlines) then is there any benefit to comparing demographic groups like this? If the hypothesis is that female doctors get better outcomes because the
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Good point about not correcting for medical speciality. I'm neither a doctor nor a statistician, but surely that pretty much invalidates the whole thing?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Indeed, I wish we could get rid of this idea that it's so hard to fire people in the UK, and stop using it to justify low pay. Before that 2 year milestone you can basically be summarily dismissed. The probation period is meaningless.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I asked about this about once before, and I thought the comment from dfraser992 [0] was interesting. > the UK, culturally, regards software engineers or those similar to be little more than educated manual labor. You're not in manag
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I agree with the spirit of your post and I think it's good advice for someone within the range of 'normal' mental health. However I think telling someone who is depressed to 'suck it up, buttercup' is unhelpful and
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Too late to edit so I'm replying to my own comment. I also wanted to mention that there is a place where the Lord of the Flies approach has been taken to its logical extreme, in a long-running experiment which continues to this day. Th
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Admittedly my anecdotal experiences might also be affected by confirmation bias, based on the nerdiness of the people I associate with.
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to HN. People here consistently have the ability to either change my opinion, or (as in this case) articulate something I've always felt but not quite been able to explain. Thank yo
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is brilliant! As a fellow skeptic of "corporate values" I'm going to remember this one. It might be a fun exercise to trawl through the company values of failed / disgraced companies to see if there's any patte
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I might be with you on the others, but [3] is just media hysteria based on faulty logic. I've seen this type of story repeatedly after there's been an incident in some city. If it's not Uber it's a hotel chain or similar
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by J-dawg 10y ago
This is me as well. I keep stuff for as long as possible because of a mixture of tight-fistedness and anxiety about my environmental impact. So when something breaks there's always part of me that's delighted to be finally "a
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I think this is slowly becoming one of the last acceptable forms of discrimination. We know that terms like "Cultural Fit" can be used a proxy to cover up for all kinds of discrimination which is illegal / socially unacceptab
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by J-dawg 10y ago
> I wonder where the information about these searches came from? I've also wondered about that. Presumably it could simply be from the browser history of a seized computer. But now, who knows? Will it become standard practice to loo
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Excuse my ignorance but won't they have access to the whole URL?
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Here's more David Mitchell on the subject of passion. I think the OP will probably agree! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2-49q6DOI
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I agree. It's also incredibly difficult for those who haven't practiced as you have. The few times I have tried it (in safe conditions) I have ended up braking far too hard. My left foot somehow doesn't have the "feeling
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by J-dawg 10y ago
Some ECUs also cut fuel on braking. I remember reading a review of a car where the reviewer (obviously an "enthusiastic" driver) was disappointed that he couldn't do left-foot braking because it kept cutting the fuel. (Left-f
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by J-dawg 10y ago
I remember reading about an experiment done on birds (in one of Richard Dawkins's books, I think). They put together a highly exaggerated model of a baby bird, with a huge, red mouth. They found that the parents feeding the bird would
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by J-dawg 10y ago
My attitude to the fossil fuel industry always used to be something along the lines of: "we know it's bad, but we all fly in planes and put petrol in our cars, so it's not fair to blame everything on the oil companies."
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by J-dawg 10y ago
The US practice of locking people up for life is pretty shocking to many people in Europe. In the UK, the number of people who will never be released is somewhere around 50, in the USA it's something like 50,000. Maybe I'm a limp
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You can release a wrongly imprisoned person or refund a wrongly imposed fine.
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Interestingly something like this was done 15 years ago for a UK channel 4 documentary. https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/apr/22/features...

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