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by fiblye 8y ago
I'd like to think afternoon naps would be a good thing at work, but my worry is that employers would mandate 30-60 minutes of unpaid nap time at the workplace. Thus we'd end up extending the already bad 9-6 days (because 9-5 is no
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by fiblye 8y ago
As someone who's moved between states and cities all across America, GPA really should be dumped for system like that. I've lived in schools where an A/4.00's average score was 90-100 and I lived in another school where
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All languages are going to have dialects. Trying to eliminate that "bias" is going to just result in removing language entirely from exams, unless we decide to make tests for every single test taker. But the point of standardizati
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>The most explicit example is that ancestry correlates with whether you are a native speaker of the dialect the test was written in. What kind of absurd "argument" is this? If you're testing for a university in America, th
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by fiblye 8y ago
Having just finished a job search last year, starting wages in Tokyo range from $1600/month to $3500 WITH extensive (80+ hours) of "expected" (mandatory) unpaid overtime. But the $3500 is very theoretical. If you're not
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by fiblye 8y ago
>The Nazis shot people in the head for extra-marital sex. I can find zero statements outside this comment on HN backing up or even implying any sort of punishment relatively close to this absolutely absurd statement. Nazism wasn't s
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And "us" refers to exclusively America, <5% of the world. The ones that are seen as dangerous are anyone and everyone in a non-allied country.
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I didn't say that it's only a result of mental illness, but lifelong depression is definitely a big factor. Few living things who are physically healthy and with no history of suicide ideation just decide to die just because. Gene
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A lot of people don't notice it, but Japanese apartments and houses have paper-thin walls with no insulation. People may think they're being quiet because they don't hear the person next door (since people generally live here
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The CNN article about his death had this: >Suicide is a growing problem in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a survey Thursday showing suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States o
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by fiblye 8y ago
I'm actually kind of surprised that HN permits clear marketing babble headlines like this, vs a more objective "Microsoft acquires Github" headline.
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by fiblye 8y ago
They knew it was infected. That's the reason they recalled it in financially significant territories. They continued to sell it for a full year after that point. Accidents happen, but intentionally taking your product out of one market
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After it was revealed that their products were infected and had to be recalled, they realized they could make some cash by just selling it in countries without easy access to western media reports at the time. And Bayer being Bayer, they di
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by fiblye 8y ago
Yeah, Bayer's gonna see their reputation fade a bit, especially after their past classic hits, including but not limited to Heroin; Slave Labor, Human Experimentation, and Investments in Human Poison During the Holocaust and The World
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by fiblye 8y ago
>And sometimes the best way to save lives of your people is to bomb other people. Sometimes, yes. But those "preventative" bombings in recent decades are the very reason those people want to kill those in other countries. They
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by fiblye 8y ago
Facebook will keep collecting data for organizations like the NSA and it's silly to think that they wouldn't. At best, they won't be sharing data or storing it in the EU. Most likely, they'll be gathering and sharing dat
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>I still can't decide whether FB (and others) think they can get away with being non compliant There's zero precedent to suggest that they won't get away with it. All Facebook has to do is go undercover with their data col
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I don't think "better" is the sole quantifier here. Accessibility is an important thing. Many Americans are afraid to go to the doctor because it's incredibly expensive. Many people brush off the early symptoms of seriou
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People could voluntarily distribute their wealth today if they wanted to. Few do. The crypto meme won't be changing that.
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by fiblye 8y ago
>It’s not likely the military where you are doing something decently important. You are wasting your life to ship clothes for the Gap or frozen pizzas. I was never a truck driver, but my father was. He was in the military for about 7 yea
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by fiblye 8y ago
Agreed. I'm well beyond being a teenager, but I still hear these things. Some stores put them near their entrances and it's never a pleasant surprise.
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It might end up superficially banned in the EU or something, but their data collection is just too valuable to America, China, and Europe's governments to actually forbid.
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The most interesting thing that came to my mind reading this was how different life would be without any distinction between night and day. If the amount of sunlight reaching the planet were consistent at all times, would life (assuming it
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Most people wouldn't have spent that money during that time either. The reason this story is told is because it's pretty unusual. Carmack's success is a result of him doing fairly exceptional things.
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by fiblye 8y ago
When it comes to life in Tokyo in particular, people really do not have time for anything outside of work and a small slice of time on weekends (if you even get that--overtime is even more crushing if you're a man since you're bor
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by fiblye 8y ago
With China, there's literally no option aside from having their products being barred from being sold or manufactured there. The fact they're standing up for user rights when given a legal possibility is a good sign, compared to m
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by fiblye 8y ago
And controlled "truth" about the west is what keeps North Korea afloat. When people say that (insert liberty here) is what leads to Nazism, you're not making that liberty seem more dangerous. You're making Nazism seem le
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by fiblye 9y ago
It's easy to find information on bad things the CIA did [1], "minor" things of note including classic hits like "imposing a dictatorship in Iran, leading to an Islamic fundamentalist revolution and thus creating a powerf
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by fiblye 9y ago
Having used both American-style toilets and first world-style toilets, I'd say the former is stinkier simply because there are often remnants left behind after people give up/toilets get clogged. Throughout my life in America, I s
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by fiblye 9y ago
>2) Yes. Half or more of the applications I've reviewed are totally unqualified. Either they ignored the requirements or fudge it and flop on the interview. Common advice is that job posters put insane requirements on their posting

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