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by clipsy 2y ago
Unfortunately, that's an accurate description of how little privacy the vast majority of us have.
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by clipsy 2y ago
So, gut feeling.
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> The department is considering asking chief technology officers and other senior tech professionals to take up high-ranking positions in the reserves. So rather than a recruiting pipeline for actual technical experts, they'll be re
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by clipsy 2y ago
> but certainly more than $10b Based on?
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by clipsy 2y ago
> I only see a little bit higher than average Could you share your source for statistics on "eccentric geniuses"?
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> Evidently, the software vendors are either ignorant or are lying I’ll give you a hint: they’re not ignorant.
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by clipsy 2y ago
> One of my previous employers had a rule where they would vest all of my RSU if I were to die while employed there. Idle curiosity: Was that in lieu of or in addition to life insurance? (Most of my employers have had free life insurance
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by clipsy 2y ago
Fox extremely skeptical that henhouse requires guarding.
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by clipsy 2y ago
I periodically (~once/year) build giant Lego sets, and they're generally quite exciting to receive.
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by clipsy 2y ago
Go forth and multiply; no one is stopping you. The issue is when you take your own obsession with preserving your culture and try to turn it into a justification for running roughshod over others.
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by clipsy 2y ago
> The median american has a >62k disposable income and can easily afford to pay $254/month to a compounding pharmacy (not covered by insurance) The median US American household has an income (pre-tax) of $80,610 as of 2023[0]; th
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A pretty important difference is that Palmer Luckey has never and will never be "on that wall."
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by clipsy 2y ago
We need all food to be replaced with a standard ration of homogeneous nutrient slop, that way all of the dietary-related conditions that kill far more people than cars do will no longer be an issue.
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Info from Hunter Biden’s laptop was a focus of the “Twitter Files” and explicitly involved information being taken unethically and possibly illegally from a laptop at a repair shop.
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> You're free to do it. But many media companies don't do it for legitimate practical, ethical, and moral reasons. But Twitter’s current owner has explicitly attacked the media for exactly this reason, and has claimed repeatedl
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No, they don’t.
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by clipsy 2y ago
It always seems to shock HNers, but there is in fact an entire country outside of the bay area where most of the US population lives.
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by clipsy 2y ago
And while we're at it we can take money, resources, etc from people who have the highest carbon emissions to solve global warming, right? Right?
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by clipsy 2y ago
The key to success in business is to goose profits in the short term and GTFO before the consequences hit.
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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges probably tops the list for me.
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> Elon should blame himself. Well, at least you got one thing right.
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by clipsy 2y ago
Given his proclivity for keeping them secret and out of wedlock, how would anyone know?
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by clipsy 2y ago
Why would they use photos when they have a perfectly good corpse on hand?
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I'd say there's a pretty important difference!
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To be clear, I wasn't disagreeing -- just adding another (admittedly US-centric) factor in the decision-making process!
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> If it was done as a desired choice rather than it being driven by economic fears, you're right, we shouldn't care. But for most people, they aren't having kids because they don't have a house, they don't have a
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by clipsy 2y ago
Don't forget if you have life-threatening complications in certain states the local populace might try to sacrifice you to their god.
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by clipsy 2y ago
There's plenty of propaganda on both sides; you can't swing a cat without hitting someone who outspokenly believes that having children is the only path to true happiness/meaning/fulfillment.
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Do women have a choice in North Korea or Iran?
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Funny, none of the Republicans I knew at the time rallied behind President Obama in 2008.

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