lobotryas

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by lobotryas 7y ago
Because they want to keep getting Chinese money. It’s that simple. Same reason the NBA will work to expand in China despite the outcry of Western fans lol China found the ultimate life hack: money. Who they can’t buy they will either try to
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Slave wages? How do you figure? Are you comparing eg Foxconn wages to wages of Western workers in Western factories? If so then that’s a ridiculous comparison to make because COL and culture are so different.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
You wrote a lot but I am struggling to see your point. The TAs tried holding student grades hostage as leverage in their strike. Now some are withholding those grades for work they reviewed out of spite after being fired. They are hurting i
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Is it Ok to strike when that will hurt innocents? I think we can all agree that having nurses strike and abandon care of their patients is unfair to those patients. This fight should be between UCSC and the graduates, not holding innocent u
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Did you reply to the wrong person? By my reading we are saying the same thing. If a person cannot overtake quickly enough then they are at fault for impeding the “rocketship” traffic behind them.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
If you as a driver or your vehicle cannot move quickly enough to overtake another car on the autobanh then the fault is with you. That “rocketship” behind you should not have to decelerate because of this. The other poster is right: you are
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Did you do all your own research or did you go through a specialist? Hopefully you are getting regular monitoring and testing because big health problems can sneak up on you over time.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Agreed. The rhetoric now is even worse because some people maintain that “words = violence” and real violence is needed to shut down this “wrong think”. I think some people would be amazed if they realized that it’s OK when people disagree[
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Hobestly it doesn’t have to be. Ban majority of data collection aspects and be done with it. We are wringing our hands over the issue when in reality we can solve it like the Gordian Knot.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Because such a set would lack playability and have zero mass appeal (you would never buy this set stand alone). There was an Idea submission for such a set and it was rejected bu Lego: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Or even more specifically: it’s a person who has an ulterior motive for being nice instead of being altruistic for its own sake.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
To put what OP wrote in tl;dr format: Get good, like REALLY good, at one specific thing. You don’t have to reach levels of a pro, but if I ask you “what are you good at” you wouldn’t even have to think before you told me. This mastery will
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Wait, why free to the whole world? NIH is funded by US tax payers. Why should China benefit from our hard-earned wealth?
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I wouldn’t. Why is the knee-jerk reaction to solve problems (especially trivial ones like this) with more red tape and bureaucracy? Remember that HN is a bubble. We might care about bloatware, but maybe millions of regular users don’t (or e
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Did you just make a new account to reply to me...? Even if you are not from the US you care because because other world powers (China and in a much smaller way Russia) will be much worse for you.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Absolutely not. Spying, even on America’s friends, is important for our foreign policy and for staying on top. I think you are confusing the world of geopolitics with concepts like “fair” and “good” and forgetting Lord Palmerston’s quote: “
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by lobotryas 7y ago
But whether or not it belongs here is just your opinion. People have reposted plenty of stuff from your site here that I thought “doesn’t clear the bar”, but everyone else disagreed. And while you are no Paul Graham, you’re a big enough mem
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by lobotryas 7y ago
You are right. What some people want is to punish your success by arbitrarily deciding how much money is “too much” and using taxes to take away what they think you should not have.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
No, because it’s easier to go after and strong-arm or pass legislation against a guy earning 250k than a guy earning 250mm.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Same amount of courage as it took Apple to remove the headphone jack? :)
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by lobotryas 7y ago
The company must provide benefits required by law. Everything else is discretionary. What’s definitely optional is for a company to take a stance on a political issue just because a vocal minority of their employees demands that.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
I love getting “anonymous” quarterly employee surveys that have a unique ID embedded in the URL. That’s not even trying.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Maybe because OP believes that google employees don’t have the right or reason to unionize. Or because they believe employees should not have the power to dictate what projects a company undertakes on ethical grounds. If someone believes th
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by lobotryas 7y ago
After what happened to Damore I am happy to hear that Google’s “activism” culture is finally getting pushback because they became bold enough to attack the company’s financial interests.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
They present their INTERPRETATION of the facts. For example some may call ANTIFA as a force for good and others as a terrorist organization. Snopes themselves have a pretty clear slant/agenda.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Have you checked how much info can be found by just googling your first and last name in quotes? For many people their home address will show up thanks to whitePages.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
Consider the option of open office two days and WFH three other days. I’d find that better than commuting 3 hours round trip through traffic for 5 days.
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by lobotryas 7y ago
It’s almost like both approaches have their pros, cons, and appropriate times when they should be used. I like a combined arms approach. Start an email thread and if there is no timely reply, or consensus is getting hard to reach, walk over
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by lobotryas 7y ago
What do you do for people who refuse to go to a shelter for any number of reasons and just want to continue doing what they’ve been doing for years now? Not trying to put you on the spot with a “if you don’t have a solution...” trope, it’s
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by lobotryas 7y ago
It’s only an accusation. It will be up to the justice system to determine if it holds any water (innocent unless..., right?). Terrible for Marvin’s reputation though.

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