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by fnimick 4y ago
[citation needed]
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No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger,’ but We Should(nytimes.com)
9 points by fnimick 4y ago|6 comments
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by fnimick 4y ago
Or worse: they go right up to the edge, convince people to work for back pay for "a month or two", then shut down afterward. I've seen that happen.
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Online testing is a joke: How Chinese students cheat on U.S. college entry exams(restofworld.org)
21 points by fnimick 4y ago|1 comments
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by fnimick 4y ago
You can go even farther and generate an entire GraphQL api with row level security, custom functions, etc. I've had a great experience developing with Postgraphile - https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
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by fnimick 4y ago
Not watching and giving them your attention (which equals advertising dollars). Which isn't likely - all the people I know who were upset about Qatar hosting are sports fans in the first place and all got together to watch it regardles
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by fnimick 4y ago
So when your new teammate decides to start working through the weekend and suddenly you need to do so as well in order to match them in the performance review, what's your response? And notice that I didn't say anything about the
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by fnimick 4y ago
Yes? They raise the bar for every other player. Great as a spectator, bad as a participant. Don't turn our field into one where you have to sacrifice your personal life to succeed.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Not just that, but every employee who wants to work nights and weekends puts pressures on those who don't to catch up or be cut. It's a race to the bottom that leads to people who do have things they need to do scheduling emails t
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by fnimick 4y ago
Anyone who stayed on after the "extremely hardcore or quit" email shouldn't be surprised by impulsive and bad management.
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by fnimick 4y ago
> Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment. Unsurprising, but also darkly humorous.
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Elon Musk is laying off even more Twitter workers(theverge.com)
12 points by fnimick 4y ago|1 comments
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by fnimick 4y ago
> how did anyone serious think this guy was brilliant? He made a lot of money by bucking norms. Hacker news of all places should recognize that people are drawn to those who project an appearance of improbable success through skill despi
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by fnimick 4y ago
So in your world, if someone doesn't have a useful skill, they deserve to be destitute?
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by fnimick 4y ago
You just invented Indy racing. And it's excellent.
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by fnimick 4y ago
This. The second the company or the persons running the company make more money by burning the bridge with you, they will do so without hesitation. I know some people who worked for a company which got acquired a while back. The CEO walked
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by fnimick 4y ago
> This is an amateurish and exceptionally stupid strategy, and a poor way to conduct business. I've never seen it come around to bite those who do it though. The problem is one of power - the people affected typically are those earl
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by fnimick 4y ago
Have you never seen startups that fire people right before their first vesting period cliff and therefore get them employed at a discount? I've seen a number of those. In one case, the CEO fired the CTO right before the one-year cliff
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by fnimick 4y ago
The natural world also involves species consuming their entire food supply and then going extinct. Or polluting their ecosystem until they are unable to survive. I would hope we are intelligent enough to avoid that. Meat eating is contribut
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by fnimick 4y ago
It's the UN climate report you dunce. I picked the first search result because I'm lazy, but you can find it from any credible source you choose.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Or, you know, the climate is in crisis already: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-... And meat eating has an enormous effect on climate change: https://www.bbc.com&#x
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by fnimick 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-... Our lifestyle is unsustainable. Take your head out of the sand.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Or we give out "free lunches" to people because as a society we don't value them starving? It's not an indicator of some huge oversupply and I certainly hope we wouldn't let them starve if food became slightly more
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by fnimick 4y ago
I was going to say - I know where the parent comes down on abortion laws. Given that they obviously think an unwanted child being born into an impoverished family unable to support them is still a net positive.
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by fnimick 4y ago
"Future generations don’t need us to thrive. Plus, what’s your obsession with future generations?" Have you considered asking those "future generations", i.e. YOUR KIDS, whether they'd like to live on a planet with
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by fnimick 4y ago
Yes, except unlike wildlife, we have evolved be smart enough to limit our consumption in order to sustain future life. Unlike the algae that grows until it literally chokes itself to death, we can limit ourselves so future generations can a
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by fnimick 4y ago
"We're destroying the planet with unfathomable cruelty, but at least we get to eat what we want!" This is not the accomplishment you think it is. This is absolute depravity on a societal scale and the fact that we're all
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by fnimick 4y ago
Maybe because your meat consumption and demand for increasing land and water use to satiate your meat consumption is ruining the planet for the rest of us? If I could trap all the "unrepentant meat eaters" in a dome and let you ru
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by fnimick 4y ago
The answer to all of these is "it depends", and quite frankly has nothing to do with how people should be taxed. If you're making more money, you should be paying a higher proportion of your income in taxes. This isn't
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by fnimick 4y ago
How can you possibly justify keeping even more of your money that you earn from profiting from the work of others, when people in need are freezing and starving? I know HN runs libertarian but this is just abhorrent.

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