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by daxorid 8y ago
I believe the standard retort to this is that religion is a choice, whereas sexual orientation is not. Which is understandable as far as it goes, except it is the sole exception to the accepted blank slate belief of sociologists everywher
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If we remove the ideological aspect of this argument entirely, what we're left with is the notion that employment is supposed to be 100% comfortable. But... In any given employment environment: chairs may be less than form-fitting; dif
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I've seen what the OP describes on HN many times in discussions of engineer salaries. It's usually not really a personal snickering as much as a stern warning that the person is "being taken advantage of" and they should
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I'm old enough to remember when a significant part of the "dream of the Internet" was that knowledge workers could work anywhere with an ISP. Obviously that dream was not widely realized, but there are some employers that wil
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Move out of urban or suburban hellscapes. Move to the country. Get off social media. Remove strivers and other hedonic treadmill users in your life. Live simply.
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> there is a lot more freedom in renting than buying There are varying definitions of "freedom" to consider. Sure, there is the freedom of being able to walk away after 12 months to someplace else. But there is also the freed
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In before questions of "why would I pay so much for such a slow machine" - the target market for Talos is not necessarily those who seek raw performance. For many of us, having a workstation that is at least in the same rough rang
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> Claims like this require hard evidence This is an interesting take. The CIA/FBI/GCHQ have provided precisely zero evidence to the public on their various, and extensive, list of claims that Russia did bad thing X. Why is the
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Agree. I didn't say anything about Fox. They are definitely MSM. An accurate perspective of the reality of uniparty puts Fox News mere nanometers to the right of CNN.
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> "Fake news" is an awkward word choice by the President For context, it was the opponents of the President who coined the term. It was originally designed to discredit Pizzagate, etc. He co-opted it and turned the term against
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> it means he has a realized gain of ~$333,000. Where did that money go? Generally, the way this works is this: 1. You realize your gain in 2017 by exchanging for, say, ETH, at BTC $19k. 2. BTC falls to $7k, and ETH falls in accordance d
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[edit] Disregard, can't ask an earnest question on HN either.
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There's nothing wrong with the name. It's quite good, in fact.
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> I wouldn't expect it to collapse until 2019 at the earliest. Part of the function of financial cash markets (options are another matter) is to discount future profits into present prices. An expectation of a 2019 collapse is near
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[edit] Forget it. Uncritically swallow whatever propaganda FVEY feeds you. I have deleted my violation of groupthink and its associated factual sources. Carry on.
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> Does anyone know what marketwatch does to make money They are one of the largest mainstream financial sites, partnered with CBS and owned by Dow Jones. This is a very odd question.
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> Musk can raise a couple of billion whenever he wants This is true, until it isn't. Moody's just downgraded their bonds, and their stock just hit another low. Whether Musk goes to the debt markets or the equity markets to rais
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Western China is a combination of agriculture, and completely barren, unused land. They have plenty, without Tibet and Taiwan. There's another reason, here.
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This is more or less the "argument" I bring to bear in gun control debates. There is no point arguing. My go-to "argument" is a form of the following: I don't argue what should be, only what will be. And this is
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> having a bad demographic to advertise to I don't follow. A full 31% of the US population, most of whom have sufficient disposable income to blow $600-$2000 on a piece of steel and polymer. How is that a bad demographic to advertis
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Maybe their operations were suboptimal, I don't know - but the PRIMARY reason they went under is because Bain Capital conducted an LBO, sucked a ton of value out from coupon payments, pushed its own debt obligations back onto Toys R U
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[edit] Point made, I suppose.
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Definitely shouldn't be surprised, and it's not just the suits. It seems that the election of Trump, in particular, has turned half of the infosec community into rabid fans of the CIA/FBI/NSA. It's really quite sick
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If I may ask, how old are you? I am increasingly seeing people whose entire experience of the markets being after 2009 believe that it's trivial to "consistently make money". Prior to the central banks of the world eliminatin
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The author makes mention of paying $10 per drink, then goes on to include alcohol-induced food consumption.
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Wood-framed single story homes are some of the most seismically safe (by virtue of flexibility) structures. Unreinforced masonry structures, tilt-up concrete buildings, and the like are far more dangerous. California has a lot of legacy t
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Correct. Further, even if I did believe that, I wouldn't wish it in practice: Criminality and psychopathy are tightly correlated, particularly with fraudsters. Psychopaths are excellent at faking remorse and other emotions that they d
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Alternative take: it's disgusting and offensive to the foundational concept of blind justice that punishment is more highly correlated with charisma and obsequiousness to judges than it is to actual crimes committed.
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> shouldn't these two simply be in prison right now? Compare and contrast with Shkreli sentencing. Some animals are more equal than others.
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Theranos CEO Holmes and former president Balwani charged with fraud(cnbc.com)
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