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by eesmith 2y ago
KK&R bought the company my Dad worked for, then fired him to make more money from what was already a profitable company. That's evil enough for me, and is the default lens I use for all private equity. When will private equity comp
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by eesmith 2y ago
Clips from their (non-existent) Public Domain Songs album at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTBb95alU0
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by eesmith 2y ago
Indeed, I did not vet those links. The examples of hosting a foreign exchange student, and of couchsurfing, remain.
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by eesmith 2y ago
dlachausse did, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487126 , and that's what this thread is about. Irrational concerns are a very different topic. That's why I have a special rock to keeps tigers away.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Correct! Hence the need to switch to single-payer healthcare, to get companies out of the system.
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Umm, surely you've heard of exchange students, right? Foreign student comes, stays with a family for a semester or school year. Helps with the chores. We had exchange students in our school. There's also sites for people who wan
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by eesmith 2y ago
An irrational justification does not automatically make something a "good idea", which was the claim.
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Except that does not happen. For example, https://www.shareable.net/disaster-collectivism-how-communit... “When a disaster strikes, like the flooding in Houston [after Hurricane Harvey], for example, you see everyday people
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by eesmith 2y ago
In a comic book fantasy perhaps. A bat doesn't weaken a missile or drone attack, and it encourages the armed soldier to shoot you.
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dlachausse said it was "something everyone should do anyway", and not just for an attack. I ended with "What can a baseball bat do for the residents of Helsinki in the event of armed aggression against Finland?"
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Over and over again we see that defensive weapons are not needed when disaster comes. What job can a tire iron do while trying to get out of your flooded home, or escape a wildfire? What can a baseball bat do for the residents of Helsinki i
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by eesmith 2y ago
Homo but not Homo sapiens. > “The evidence is still insufficient for a definitive classification, which is why it has been assigned to H. aff. erectus. This designation acknowledges Pink’s affinities with Homo erectus while leaving open
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by eesmith 2y ago
More info in the press release from UCL at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
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"she just did chores" is an expression that some sorts of domestic work is below a reasonable de minimis threshold. You seem to think there is no de minimis threshold. I can't tell if that's because it's specificall
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by eesmith 2y ago
Your argument seems to have been that any domestic work requires a work visa. Is your argument now that if you do domestic work for a friend then it doesn't count as work? How well do you need to know someone before they are no longer
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by eesmith 2y ago
Okay, but it's under 10% now, at about 8.5%, so that won't change anything. The numbers I gave suggest 2% is what other countries have
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by eesmith 2y ago
Nutrition tracking apps have been around for a long time, and going back even further, people in the 1980s used spreadsheets to replace pen and paper tracking, letting them quickly change and adjust.
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by eesmith 2y ago
It seems more like "privacy, in search of a viable business model" (or possibly "security"). If Let's Encrypt starts charging for a certificate, how many web sites will switch to http-only?
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by eesmith 2y ago
Except that's not true. The US healthcare system has more bureaucracy and is more expensive, with no overall health benefits and with worse access, than other developed countries. The US pays more per capita for medical care than any o
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yup. And have for a very long time. At least when I was a kid there was the idea that prisons should be used to rehabilitate. Now it seems like it's only for cruel punishment and profit extraction.
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by eesmith 2y ago
I'm going to make a guess. I suspect the question is, will the translation to English convey the regional dialectal nuances of the original Swedish? Decades ago I read one of Douglas Hofstadter's writings about Gorbachev's ac
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by eesmith 2y ago
"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones." - Nelson Mandela
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The question is one of amount, not nature. AirB&B hosts may say you need to clean up afterwards, including sweeping up and even putting the sheets into the washing machine. That's definitely a domestic chore, yes? You pay less for
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by eesmith 2y ago
Who is developing, deploying, and profiting from these harder captchas? Apparently not Cloudflare. > They are using commercial services such as Cloudflare to outsource their bot-blocking and captchas, without knowing for sure what these
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by eesmith 2y ago
There is a reason I am self-employed, and have been since the 1990s. When there is easy freedom to change jobs, as there had been in tech for decades, then tech workers can be picky about their employer.
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$125 and I can start an LLC. That's a real-world corporate entity. Recourse ends at the "limited liability" in LLC. Make that LLC owned by another? Offshore ownership? Might take a few thousand bucks.
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by eesmith 2y ago
While I'm pointing out to both of you that criticizing "[t]he people who are making choices and citing the one time Eich gave $1,000 to a political cause" sounds like a deliberate strawman when the linked-to criticism lists t
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by eesmith 2y ago
Indeed! I saw the individual section titles and thought that's what you all were talking about.
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Just like parents said in the 1980s. Just like parents said in the 1950s. Wait until you find out what Jelly Roll Morton's nickname means, acquired when he was a fourteen year old piano player in a brothel, back around 1904.
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Just because it seems to fall, doesn't mean it's actually falling. The Shepard tone is an auditory illusion where the tone seems to be continually rising or falling in pitch. I've seen old films. They had terrible morals, lik

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