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by maxaf 7y ago
Who am I protecting from taxes again?
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by maxaf 7y ago
Yes, that's what the liberals are saying. They're yelling for more humanity, but they want it to come at someone else's expense. This isn't my principle; it's the liberals'. I'm not the one who should be m
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by maxaf 7y ago
American liberals are always yelling for more “humanity”, but they keep quiet about the requirement that humanity must come at someone else’s expense. Yes, we need cheaper housing - but not here. Yes, guvment must build better jails - but n
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by maxaf 7y ago
As it turns out, journalists aren’t immune to subconscious bias, incompetence, and plain old bribes. So what’s the difference between journalists and me? I agree that it’s a dirty job and someone’s gotta do it, but journalists aren’t the an
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by maxaf 7y ago
News outlets and so-called journalists only ever had “credibility” insofar as there wasn’t another information medium by which their claims could be (in)validated. Now that this medium exists (you know, the internet) “journalist” is no long
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by maxaf 7y ago
> Unless one party is truly in it for the money, there is very little advantage to it other than the social acceptance that comes from being married which is vanishing anyway. There are other tangible advantages that you’re overlooking.
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by maxaf 7y ago
This article and the sad reality it portrays reminded me of Episode 16 of Timesuck: “Is we getting dumberest?”[0] The most obvious conclusion to be drawn is that the brightest and most educated members of our species are incapable of produc
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by maxaf 7y ago
One way is to define a set of bullet points that are representative of the team’s culture. This isn’t always easy, but is a worthwhile exercise even outside the context of hiring. Think: a localized version of the Joel Test. These values ca
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by maxaf 7y ago
The point of a transparent process would be to make the rubric as non-subjective as possible. A "how much they like me" criterion, if it were still part of the decision, would become very obvious if/when a company selected so
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by maxaf 7y ago
At FANG-style companies the decidedly non-transparent process is already well known and is gamed on a regular basis.
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by maxaf 7y ago
Hiring decisions can be made defensible by openly publishing a transparent process that reveals metrics at the end for all candidates.
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by maxaf 7y ago
There are metered parking zones all over Manhattan. Many are commercial-only during the day, but revert to regular meters after a certain hour. There are copious bus lanes on many major thoroughfares, which are legal to park in outside of p
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by maxaf 7y ago
I wish I could upvote you twice! I’m one of the minority of Manhattan residents who use a private car instead of transit. My schedule and routes are unusual enough that transit doesn’t serve me. Even when doing a more traditional UWS->Fi
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by maxaf 7y ago
Are you saying that Apple is the market maker for some shady marketplace of code signing certs?
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by maxaf 7y ago
It's an acceptable price to pay for security. This price is dictated not by Apple, but by all the malicious actors who have abused the frictionless path from dev to user in order to distribute virii, malware, adware, spyware, and all t
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by maxaf 7y ago
What the media can dig up is usually some small proportion of the real story, assuming that what they have is true to begin with.
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by maxaf 7y ago
Apple’s position is that the average user isn’t supposed to be installing apps from outside the App Store anyway. Who is the average user, you ask? No one who posts to or reads HN, that’s for sure. Your parents, grandparents, and clueless n
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by maxaf 7y ago
How people use e-anything in Manhattan already gives me a heart attack. These things are 100% silent, go 25 mph on a flat surface, and are illegal here without a license. In fact, I’d prefer a heart attack to being hit by one.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I’ve flagged your comment for non-constructive tone. Please be civil. Regarding, > And how will that fix plastic pollution you leave everywhere from the tires on your car? You literally just found out about this with the rest of us. Buse
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by maxaf 7y ago
> plenty of cities around the world with reliable and effecient public transport, don't write it off completely because NYC's is subpar. I'm certainly not writing off public transit as a concept. I'd love to be able
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by maxaf 7y ago
> The fact that you equate building 200 miles of bike lanes to "pushing drivers out" I haven't actually said that, so please don't put words in my mouth. I myself am an "intermodal" traveler, in that I do us
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by maxaf 7y ago
I don’t know how things are in Paris (never really been), but here in NYC public transit is extremely unreliable and optimized for only one use case: to move 9-5 commuters between their homes in the outer boroughs and the two central busine
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by maxaf 7y ago
> Penalties for offences whilst driving are often extreme in their leniency compared to same impact caused by other means. Yes, yes, absolutely. That was my point: change laws to bring punishment in line with crime.
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by maxaf 7y ago
If people can be nudged by street design or transparent B-pillars, they can also be nudged by heavy penalties that are commensurate with the deed.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I didn’t miss the point of the article; I simply strongly disagree with it. I oppose the constant drive to diminish the need to act responsibly. The idea of “baseline distraction” is used to provide an excuse for killing and maiming other h
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by maxaf 7y ago
Drivers are the ones subject to licensing and insurance requirements. Drivers are the ones operating heavy machinery. Drivers are thus the responsible party, even when pedestrians are clearly not looking out for their own safety. There’s ne
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by maxaf 7y ago
This is a contrived situation that never actually happens (even here in Manhattan, arguably the craziest place on Earth), but I’ll address it anyway. Where pedestrians are present, there’s never a sound reason for any vehicle operator to ac
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by maxaf 7y ago
Do you want to spend a year in prison for running over a pedestrian? Does anyone else?
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by maxaf 7y ago
Cars don’t kill pedestrians; drivers kill pedestrians. This is a case of lopsided stakes: pedestrians have everything to lose in case of car-on-ped collision, while drivers will merely have their day’s schedule derailed. The fundamental pro
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by maxaf 7y ago
> - Why were you selected for the team and who selected you? I was there, I was breathing, I was on the payroll. This one made me laugh out loud.

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