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by jjj123 6y ago
You will likely be surrounded by people who don’t care about the bad press, or actually believe in the mission to “connect everyone” or w/e. It’s unlikely team morale at fb is actually bad. However, if you are the type of person who ha
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> these foods are so fibrous it’s difficult to have anything resembling a binge You’re talking about eating too many calories, I’m talking about overeating and binging. They are related, but not the same. It is absolutely binging to eat
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by jjj123 6y ago
Overeating means eating so much your life is negatively impacted in some way. Gaining weight is definitely an example of a negative impact but certainly not the only one. I would eat until I felt sick. Sometimes I’d have a food hangover th
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by jjj123 6y ago
Speak for yourself. I have some issues with food addiction and have absolutely binged on celery, Greek yogurt, broccoli, etc. in an unsuccessful attempt to eat healthier without fixing the root issue. Of course I prefer to binge on pizza bu
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by jjj123 6y ago
Could it be the extreme wealth and extreme poverty that the Bay Area has? We have California’s highest levels of income inequality, not sure how we compare with the rest of the us [1]. 1: https://www.kqed.org/news/11799
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I think you’re right that you’d hear a lot of trite arguments you’d heard before in that pairing. I do think it would be worthwhile for one reason: it illustrates that politics are about deciding who gets what, not about some objective “cor
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I think both of those are interesting suggestions worth trying! About the audience voting thing, personally I think a curated list of speakers is okay, and isn’t necessarily going to be any more biased than audience voting. I would just pre
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by jjj123 6y ago
Hey Jonathan, My biggest issue with this site is that it presents these arguments as two-sided. Depending on which two sides you pick, this usually limits the window of possibility. The most galling example I found was in the “Medicare for
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The “value” spotify is optimizing for is for itself, not for the user. The greatest trick tech companies have pulled is convincing us that their metrics are our metrics, when they’re often independent or at odds with each other. Edited for
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I don’t think you answered my question. I don’t disagree it’s market manipulation, and I agree no one is “sticking it to the man” here (though I’m always happy to see hedge funds lose 20 billion). What I’m asking is why market manipulation
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I guess I don’t understand why manipulating the market is immoral if you’re open and honest about it the way wsb was.
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Not the OP but I had the same thought. I get frustrated by the “both sides” presented by mainstream media like the NYT, CNN, etc. it’s always democrats on one side, republicans on the other, as if there’s not an entire political spectrum th
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by jjj123 6y ago
The part about the upper middle class (myself included) being detached from reality is spot on. You have no need to worry about money other than the desire to upgrade status symbols. You have no real power or path to power, so you don’t und
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by jjj123 6y ago
I hope you learn that not everyone thinks the way you do. Shaming (on average) doesn’t help people lose weight, it actually adds to their stressors which can lead to weight gain [1]. So if you continue to do it, fine, but be aware you’re be
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Well endless growth is the goal in capitalism at the level of a publicly traded corporation, but I get what you’re saying that it can actually lead to beneficial impacts if that’s more efficient. However, I think short term monetary efficie
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There are a few reasons I think this. Endless growth and short term profit are two hallmarks of capitalism. They also lead to exploiting natural resources past the point of no return. I think there’s definitely potential for harmful growth
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This was not a productive comment. Those that have different views from yours are not insane. As for how? I am not a communist but I am anti-capitalist because it’s clear to me capitalism is not going to solve the environmental crisis it cr
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Worth pointing out that the political spectrum isn’t a line with democrats on one extreme and republicans on the other, it stretches much further on either side and probably has more dimensions. I’d put myself much further left than the est
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Being nice doesn’t mean putting their well being over yours. You can still set boundaries around what you’re willing to do for someone without being an ass about it.
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It’s important to understand that gates and his people have put in a _lot_ of work to reform his image in the last 20 years. We think gates is humble, kind, normal because that’s the image he wants to portray. I agree his philanthropy goes
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I’m in support of full legalization but there are so many good reasons not to have the “he can go to hell his own way” mindset in general. First and most obvious, sometimes there are reasons that person is not only hurting themselves, like
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by jjj123 6y ago
That’s fair, I agree with your definition of social justice generally, but I think the way it’s wielded by the powerful usually defangs the term. And that watered down definition has become the more common colloquial definition imo.
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No, corporate social justice usually means low impact changes that don’t affect the bottom line. I’m saying that speaking as someone who’s been on one of those social justice teams and was frustrated to discover we were mostly there for PR
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I think you’re probably right about the intention of the original comment, but that doesn’t change the fact that it puts the responsibility on the user to change their habits to avoid toxic content, instead of on the platform. These platfor
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Why is flagging a problem without having a solution a bad thing? This article offers a change in perspective, is that not enough to be worthy of HN?
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Wow. Thank you for sharing. That was super fascinating, I’ve never heard of these schools. I’ve never really listened to TrueAnon but the host is pretty interesting. He fought with some socialists against isis in syria and helped unionize a
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Working to make a difference is definitely good. However, you are not making a difference by working at Hubspot. It’s just a corporate job, and management telling you otherwise is only serving them. Edit: removed a pointless anecdote
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Really? I’ve never had this issue and I’ve stayed in dozens of listings. I’m sure this could vary by price/location though.
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I think you’re missing that Obama’s decency and pragmatism are also emotional appeals to a certain kind of person. Personally it feels like bullshit to me (less bullshitty than Trump but still rings false). More importantly, Obama’s decency
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This whole premise falls apart when you understand there is nothing universal about political decisions. Politics is deciding who gets what, that’s it. A poor person and a rich person can have equal understanding of the election and (ration

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