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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I think there will always be some real meat production, unless the ethical consensus shifts so much that it is banned.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Personally I find Quorn insanely satiating, but YMMV.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
How does this represent a breakthrough beyond mycoprotein A.K.A. Quorn(TM) ?
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Just because you have imposter syndrome doesn't mean you#re competent ;)
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
> We are going to have to accept an important role — society as a whole — in making sure that the transition period from the pre-robotic technology to the post-robotic technology is as painless as possible. We have to make sure that
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
The problem is, the more experience you have, the more challenging tasks you get given. This makes complete sense. But it also means that very often you are doing a thing you haven't done before. I guess at some level of experience it
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Ask HN: on Earth do you estimate software projects
3 points by helpfulmandrill 3y ago|5 comments
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
On the "misaligned incentives" thing, I wonder if you could have a dating site that works as follows: - The user chooses a charity of their choice. - All subscription charges are kept in "escrow". - If after two years th
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
People's autonomy over their sexual activity is universally acknowledged to be much more important than their autonomy over the totality of their paycheck. For a start, getting taxed is much less distressing and psychologically /
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I think monasticism needs to make a come-back.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Women aren't saying they have a right to go out with a movie star. At worst, some of them are choosing, upon finding out they can't get the movie star, to remain single. Which would seem to be their right, no? Even if us non-movie
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I think your google example is a bad one. Almost everyone is more "libertarian" about the right to choose your partner / choose to be single then they are about the right to freely choose who to employ without any constraints
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I've had my microwave for 16 years. Was thinking of replacing it with new one with a smaller counter footprint. Now thinking perhaps I won't.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I had the same thing with Ebay. Tried to sell an old linguistics textbook. First thing I ever tried to sell, new account. Instantly banned. Refused to tell me why. Total lack of accountability. Guess I'm never buying anything from Ebay
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
The right-wing of Israeli politics draws strength from the conviction that Jewish people aren't safe anywhere in the world other than Israel. This course of action would only strengthen that conviction. Politically, if not exactly a wi
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I think most companies would struggle in these circumstances. Co-ops can and do lay people off and/or reduce hours.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Possibly. My impression, purely from popular media, is that only partners have any say in the running of a law firm, and becoming a partner involves cash buy-in of some sort, which might be a little different from co-operatives, where usual
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
What sort of hard times are you talking about? Like the 2008 crash, for example?
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Well, looking at real-world examples, one large Basque cooperatives managed a downturn by agreeing for everyone to take a temporary pay-cut. > the Erreka Group averted layoffs by temporarily trimming wages by 5 percent. It continued to p
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
A bit of a long read, but the co-operative sector does have some ideas about how to offer "founder incentives" in workers cooperatives. https://jrwiener.com/cooperatives-and-founder-incentives/ The idea is th
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Does IA have some sort of legal fund one can donate to? Edit: answered my own question: https://archive.org/donate
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Consent meaning "sign here or we fire you"...
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I've literally never worked somewhere where people other than upper-management had individual offices. I'm on board with the theory of why its better, but I think it would feel weird to start with. I might grow to love it, but it
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I think the home-maker role would be a better thing if it hadn't been largely determined by one's gender.
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
> why begrudge anyone for offering a product or service that someone wanted at a price both parties considered fair? Because in the context of our quite dysfunctional laws around copyright, competition, DRM etc., this isn't a remote
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
It doesn't matter if its overdrive's fault or not. If we don't like the direction of travel as a society, we need to find ways of countering this tendency. It isn't about labelling certain companies as evil, its about ap
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
The snarky tone of prefacing your comment with "Reality:" is making me want to disregard your point entirely, so maybe you're right... ;)
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
Fine, what would making these points in a more palatable way look like, exactly?
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
The fact that you're misusing the term in that very sentence is either pretty stupid or supremely clever :)
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by helpfulmandrill 3y ago
I mean, if someone has been right multiple times maybe you should take them seriously despite them not being cool enough for you in some sort of nebulous way...

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