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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Marriage is actually a great financial choice for most people. If marriage rates are dropping, I'd blame our culture — the financial incentives are clearly there.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Marriage licenses are like $100 — are you confusing wedding and marriage in this? (i.e. it should be that marriage paperwork is not too expensive, but a wedding is unaffordable)
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> Which version of the OED includes the phrase "without favouritism or discrimination" in the definition of "fairness"? It sounds like your definition is more of a list of synonyms — I was using the current Oxford dic
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Regarding your first paragraph, from Oxford Dictionary, "fairness" means "impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination." The above poster was right — it's fair if you're referri
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I'm merely clarifying HN's common opinion. As for the whistleblower, I'm very skeptical of her — to be a tech PM against encryption, and somehow linking e2e encryption to making the platform less safe, is dubious at best. Rem
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> On one hand, it seems everybody wants more freedom and less surveillance, but they give FB a hard time for not monitoring content better. I don't think these are conflicting views: (1) Less monitoring on private messages (2) More
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> Every selective admissions process has the potential (probably history) for bigotry. University/school admission, mortgage approval, job hiring. Does that mean selective hiring needs to end? There's a very big difference betw
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Generally, once you get through the metal detector, the knife that was accidentally smuggled through won't be found by a simple body search, if that's your inclination? This happened to my friend (not White if that's so impor
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Are you suggesting that metal detectors are racially biased?
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
The above comment referenced medium-well, which is close to well-done and far from medium-rare.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I really don't think "gentrification of a very small area" is at all the reason for SF's astounding rate of homelessness, robbery, violent crime, and low rate of prosecution for crime. There's plenty of info online
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
The difference is that Chesa Boudin, SF's DA, won't prosecute those misdemeanors (and often won't even prosecute felonies). > “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes,” the DA, Chesa Boudin, said in an
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
They were taught, through teachers but especially through the peer community, that there's an established, unarguable set of world views that shouldn't be questioned or challenged, and the scope of that set only grows larger. I be
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> You're gonna have to cite some kind of example of what you believe pseudo-science is if you're saying critical thinking was somehow detrimental to someone intellectually. I said that colleges are teaching the opposite of crit
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> it teaches students how to think critically Most colleges have done the opposite in recent years. They provide echo-chambers for emotionally-fueled pseudoscience. I've seen this while spending time at Boston University, Harvard, B
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
>> At least in principle they’re more pro-China than pro-US > This is likewise false. Not the above commenter, but there are many, many people in SF that I've personally met who prefer China to the US. They have a disgust towa
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Part of the beauty of the USA is all its distinct regions and cultures. Interestingly, studies have found that goods sell for more when they say, for example, "Made in Detroit," as opposed to "Made in the USA." That keyn
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
That's exactly the point, putting aside your vitriol! If you don't care, then just don't open the thread or comment on it. Start another thread sometime based on the events you actually want everyone to discuss. Nobody is gai
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
That belongs in the history books, Wikipedia pages, and retrospectives of one's life. History will not repeat itself because you didn't properly and fully disparage a person beneath the news of their passing in a little-known inte
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
This is one of many obituary posts on HN I've seen a ton of hate and accusations on, along with questions like "why does everyone venerate the dead regardless of their acts in life?" Some of us have a different threshold than
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> What if you found every other company were the same way? Then make your own company, or failing that, start to think critically about why every company is structured in the way it is. Maybe others have tried it your way and it didn&#x2
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
That's just there for the sympathetic headlines — she deleted Google Drive as well, and we can all easily imagine what that suggests. I think a good rule as an employee is "if instructed to hand over your phone as part of an inves
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> I’m curious how Pokémon Go and her (presumably personal) Robinhood account were pertinent to whatever investigation they were conducting Her work phone is pertinent to the investigation, and I'm more curious how she thought it was
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> £19.99 per month if paid monthly, but £7.17 per month (as £85.99 per year) if paid annually. As someone who's worked on pricing models, this speaks either to very little thought to pricing or a monumental churn issue. A hefty disc
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
There has to be another country-like entity directly causing it for the war to occur. A housing shortage doesn't qualify in that sense, and a revolution (internal war) is unlikely as a result of it because we don't have some treme
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Well this link is on nobelprize.org, the website of the official organization in charge of the Nobel Prize Committee. Thus, it's more like the comment you were replying to — creating a new degree program within Harvard University that
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
The war began when they were faced with a threat of being less well-fed (not disregarding the immorality of it all).
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> paid by the pipeline company, the chief of police surely would know Awareness of who is paying is step one of the potential for corruption here, but it's far from conclusive. The chief of police is getting paid regardless, whether
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I imagine it's more so, at least according to the article as well, that this extension is automating user interactions. As an example of automated user interactions: It's clearly not allowed to use an extension that will automatic
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Most nomads are straight, and the prompt was: > Who is the average nomad? While "nomads are disproportionately x, y, and z" would also be a great follow-up, "the average nomad" is separate and it's just as intere

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