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by addicted 2y ago
There have been a lot of good antitrust action recently and in the past. But this particular decision didn’t make sense from the beginning. There are 3 major airlines in the U.S. already (4 if you include Southwest). Those guys are also too
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by addicted 2y ago
They almost certainly won’t get rid of it because people are abusing it. If they do it’s because they don’t want to offer it. If they want to end the abuse they will simply toughen the verification procedure.
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by addicted 2y ago
Alive != sentient
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by addicted 2y ago
Our descendants are gonna look at horror at how we have been capturing, breeding, torturing and then killing sentient animals, for the most part completely unnecessarily. 80bn land animals are bred and killed annually for food alone. Comple
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by addicted 2y ago
VIM already basically does this and can be configured to do it automatically with folding as the default, while providing pretty fine grained manual control on folding.
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by addicted 2y ago
> Absolutely nobody is going to see these ads and to "Ah, well, now that I have seen this ad I will start lying". I don’t think anyone is claiming these ads will get people to start lying. The claim is that lying to your loved
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by addicted 2y ago
I’m not so sure about the Canonical ad, but the Apple ones are really bad. I clicked on those thinking that the author may be overstating things but those ads are really really bad. There’s basically 2 messages they’re promoting (the office
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by addicted 2y ago
Wow. Microsoft Licensing was the stuff of nightmares. You could literally get certifications in Microsoft licensing. There were experts whose only job was Microsoft Licensing consultants. MS’es licensing was so bad you would get different q
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by addicted 2y ago
In the US tipping isn’t just a cultural expectation. There are fundamental legal differences between tipped and non-tipped employees. For example, federal minimum wages for tipped employees are close to $2 vs the $7 for non tipped employees
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by addicted 2y ago
This article doesn’t understand what was fundamentally wrong with Ballmer’s leadership and what Nadella actually changed. The specific technologies that were successful is irrelevant. Microsoft has and continues to invest in nearly every co
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by addicted 2y ago
What about it is either ambitious or progressive? They’ve not even met the goals they said they would meet 3 years ago.
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by addicted 2y ago
[2016] Yeah, sugar isn’t good for you. It’s a lot of concentrated calories. And possibly has some other issues as well. Probably stay well below the guidelines. An occasional sweet treat isn’t gonna kill you but don’t go guzzling down coke
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by addicted 2y ago
Why are all these articles by Nina Teicholz. There’s nothing “unmade” in the scientific opinion. It’s her opinion because she insists that saturated fat is good, but provides no scientific evidence. Almost all scientific studies and scienti
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by addicted 2y ago
> I remember the arguments I hear here on HN these days "No company can be that big and still grow. Also competition will catch up!" from the early 2000's when Apple's market cap crossed $100B. Early 2000s the iPhone
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by addicted 2y ago
Based on the article alone, you seem to be getting that from the Venn diagram. But the Venn diagram doesn’t attempt to define Ikigai. It’s a tool to help one find their own ikigai. The definition of ikugai in the article does not include so
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by addicted 2y ago
This is a very small study with n = 24 with significant conflicts of interest. > Funding. The project was financially supported by a grant from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association. It’s a start and shows there’s more m work that ne
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by addicted 2y ago
I may be misremembering but I thought Google kicked them out even before, primarily because Huawei wanted to have only Huawei services and not Google services, which goes against Google’s terms.
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by addicted 2y ago
iPhones have the fastest chip in existence in this market which also happens to be the most efficient. The screens are some of the highest quality. The cameras are among the best. The software is unique and much more consistent and easy to
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by addicted 2y ago
Elon Musk is censoring people. So no, he’s not fighting against censorship. Only someone extremely divorced from reality or wearing extremely partisan blinders could believe this.
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by addicted 2y ago
What dark patterns have you observed that I should keep an eye out for?
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by addicted 2y ago
They also divorced the H4 renewal process from the H1B process. USCIS had consistently renewed H4 visas along with the primary H1B application. Since H1Bs can pay for premium processing this meant both would usually be renewed within a mont
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by addicted 2y ago
I think it could be boiling frog syndrome. For the last decade I have always signed up for Twitter, used it for a few months, deleted the account and stayed away for months/years and then returned. This is largely because I get addicte
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by addicted 2y ago
Fluoride may potentially have some negative effects but we’ve been drinking Florida red water across the world for several decades and different countries have added fluoridation at different times etc, and it’s hard to see any severe effec
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by addicted 2y ago
There’s a 120 page report with all sorts of detailed analysis reviewing 5 years of the project linked in the article. If this is genuinely your concern you should read that before deciding whether they are trying to rip anyone off. Coming t
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by addicted 2y ago
No one in the US follows the food pyramid. Go see what people are eating in real life. There are a lot of studies. Americans eat way more meat, almost no fruits and vegetables, and a lot of carbs. The point is that the food pyramid has abso
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by addicted 2y ago
And there’s no truth to it either. Cutting carbs only helps to the extent you’ve reduced calorie intake. People drop their calories too low, and then they take a cheat week after a year or so where they eat pasta, and suddenly they feel a l
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by addicted 2y ago
The EU has its problems. No country in the EU would have been better off if the EU hadn’t been formed. The only way the EU can be described in the economically apocalyptic way you are is if you don’t consider the alternatives at all. Consid
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by addicted 2y ago
> Despite repeated reminders, the company (Tata Steel) didn’t comply with the rules,” the confidential letter reads. > And when threatened with recourse to the law, “the company started submitting the correct royalty. IOW they continu
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by addicted 2y ago
No comment on the specifics of these issues, but I find the Wikipedia pages illuminating. The “cow lynching” one has details about every incident. Whereas the “terrorist attacks” one simply has summaries. The “cow lynching” is treated as fa
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by addicted 2y ago
The growth was fake which is why the USSR collapsed.

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