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by awillen 4y ago
Reddit just doesn't have any incentive to do this - you're talking about people who are doing free labor for them. Maybe it's got problems, but if you get rid of the power mods (and don't change the structure to add any
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, I agree with all of that, but I would differentiate slightly between not being hungry and being full. I snack when I'm not necessarily hungry, but I don't snack right after I've eaten a full meal and am actively full. A
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by awillen 4y ago
Because many people just aren't able to get that ratio to a point that they're at a healthy weight (for numerous reasons - behavioral, medical, etc.). "Assuming no changes in behavior" doesn't make sense, because th
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by awillen 4y ago
Yes.
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by awillen 4y ago
It says that you can find a new job in your new location, continue to work your current job remotely or start a new business to qualify. Seems like the remote work category would be the easiest sell.
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by awillen 4y ago
> In case it's not obvious to everyone reading here, no one recommends using the cry it out method on infants younger than six months. This is wrong. Various methods recommend starting as early as four months (and some recommend a l
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by awillen 4y ago
It's astounding to me that so many people on HN, a place where folks generally profess to be driven by science and data, are in this thread just casually throwing around anecdotes and comments about evolutionary instinct while complete
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by awillen 4y ago
You're throwing around accusations of abuse despite the fact that you admit you haven't read literature on it. Why are you contributing your admittedly uneducated opinion on this? Go read some of the literature instead. Stop judgi
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by awillen 4y ago
True, though I don't think it has anything to do with AI - the filtering mechanisms are much simpler than that. That said, I like early-stage startups, so less of a problem with that kind of thing.
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by awillen 4y ago
I actually don't think that's as much of a problem as you'd think - I did nine months off after 2.5 years. I just wouldn't say you've been searching and not getting jobs - much better to say that you've intervi
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by awillen 4y ago
I've taken time off between jobs without taking on any meaningful projects, and I generally haven't found it to be an issue. When I tell recruiters I just wanted time off to relax, they're sometimes skeptical, but hiring mana
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by awillen 4y ago
This is actually fairly easily fixed by watching non-garbage videos and giving negative feedback on the garbage ones (click the three dots and choose hide/see less like this - it's something like that). My reels are close to 100%
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, I actually did really well after the Deepwater Horizon buying BP stock at the bottom, since the amount of value it lost in market cap exceeded the largest fine in history plus the cost of all the damage and lost oil by something like
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by awillen 4y ago
While the capitalist in me agrees with you that this is one the market can sort out (and believe me, I'm going to pay more to not fly Southwest moving forward, at least for 2023), I do think that this is just a case where people are ba
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by awillen 4y ago
I generally agree, but on the other hand I think the situation here presents a clear case where you could draw the line - if your airline is canceling at a rate that's, let's say, double the national average, you no longer get to
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by awillen 4y ago
Their market cap today isn't what matters - if people forget about this and continue to fly Southwest (which, let's be honest, many will), their share price will recover when they announce earnings. The reality is they save a lot
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by awillen 4y ago
I can't for the life of me understand how they're allowed to say this is due to weather (and thus not provide the same kind of compensation they'd have to if it were "Southwest's fault"). Sure, weather is the p
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by awillen 4y ago
Parties were a separate thing - this was just about students drinking in their dorms (or coming home drunk, etc.). If they weren't causing problems or in danger, RAs just left them alone.
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by awillen 4y ago
You're misunderstanding - it wasn't random RAs; it was university policy for RAs. Same thing in every dorm. They were taught in RA training to focus on safety and not to call the police or report to administrators if underage stud
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by awillen 4y ago
Former commissioner and champion of the Stanford IM Beirut (that's beer pong for the uneducated) here. The university repeatedly threatened to shut us down, but since we weren't an official group that was tough. They did ban drink
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by awillen 4y ago
If they want to hire you as CTO but are reluctant to give you shares, that should be a meaningful red flag. Bonuses for a rewrite being successful are pretty questionable territory - they'd need to put hard metrics in place to define w
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by awillen 4y ago
The Odd Lots podcast is great for this. They cover a number of different finance/economics related topics, but they've done some great deep dives into supply chain stuff - they've had the head of Flexport, the guy who runs th
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by awillen 4y ago
Substack is a really, really good place for this. I don't remember how I found https://paxtier.substack.com/ , but it's a great source of news on algae + seaweed technology/science. https://thealgor
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by awillen 4y ago
> Objectively, that makes him hostile to any non-corporate entity. You can't just put the word "objectively" at the beginning of something and make it objective. He's not hostile to those kids in Africa who don't
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by awillen 4y ago
The one that stands out to me is "Trigger Warning" - that's not something you should say because it might cause people feelings of anxiety. Of course, the reason it causes people feelings of anxiety is because they know it&#x
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by awillen 4y ago
That's why I stick to two minutes... this is about washing that dish instead of leaving it in the sink rather than problem solving.
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by awillen 4y ago
If something needs to be done, and it takes less than two minutes to do, just do it right now.
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by awillen 4y ago
If you're buying a house to live in, being underwater doesn't really matter as long as you can make payments. It's not great, obviously, but if you made the purchase to live there for a couple of decades, not as an investment
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by awillen 4y ago
People did pay - the dev unilaterally set the terms and price of payment, and people people paid that price and expected to receive those terms.
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by awillen 4y ago
Allow me to be a counterexample. I have purchased software licenses - the old fashioned kind, where you pay once instead of signing up for a subscription - and I expect that I will be able to use those pieces of software for the rest of my

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