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by mynewwork 13y ago
One guy has time to go walk in the park on weekday afternoons and can go out to a bar or to a show any night of the week, while the other is at work all day and can only do late nights on the weekend. One guy can lounge in bed then take yo
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by mynewwork 13y ago
You know how when the US invaded Iraq and you said "Wow, the American government is evil". And then when the US did a terrible job of handling the Hurricane Katrina disaster you said "Wow, the American government is incompet
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I see a lot of attacks on any sort of libertarian (and for balance, many attacks at libertarian straw-men) on HN that use this same sort of inversion of force - the "stopping theft is violence" argument. Yours seems well-written
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by mynewwork 13y ago
But there are plenty of companies that make a lot of money specifically because they 'stick to a promise'. Whole Foods, Chipotle, REI, Patagonia all spring to mind as companies that I will happily pay a premium to shop at because
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Better tip - 99% of America would without hesitation agree with a statement like "The Democrat party is the main left-wing party in America". (Similar with 'right' and 'Republican'). Would the terms "left
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Disappointing. In a world where hunger remains an issue, it's sad to see fear-mongering preventing us from using the best technology available to produce the most food with the least negative externalities. Oh well, I guess if we just
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by mynewwork 13y ago
I don't see how this is "favoring one business rather than another". Isn't this just "A lot of people like and want X, therefore the law should allow X"? I (as random citizen who neither uses airbnb nor owns a
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Then prepare to be surprised, it is nothing like that here in 99.999% of cases. The average american construction worker lives in a house or apartment comparable to any other working class / middle class person, owns a vehicle, etc.
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by mynewwork 13y ago
But the specific example points out the flaw. The data can be misleading, for some people and in some scenarios substantially (buying a round of drinks for clients looks the same as buying yourself 8 drinks at the bar to your credit card).
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Reading Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" was eye-opening for me, I'd highly recommend it to everyone. In short, while I think communism is roughly the worst idea ever, that book gave me an understanding of the world he liv
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by mynewwork 13y ago
>Can you make a reasonable argument, that given the same manufacturer and roughly the same workers that the $30K car wouldn't by definition cause about twice the environmental damage as its constructed as the $15K car? That doesn&#x
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Is this a satire on something? I can't tell if this is a big joke or if you actually believe this "cannot do more than $X of environmental damage" absurdity.
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Employees != engineers. They probably have twice as many people in marketing and sales as they do in R&D or IT.
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Title: "No one knows why" Article: "female obesity and drug abuse have risen dramatically over the past two decades"
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by mynewwork 13y ago
> Side question: How long is one allowed to hold an ETF for? As short or long as you want? You can algorithmically trade them in microseconds or buy and hold until you die and pass them to your heirs.
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by mynewwork 13y ago
If socialist centrally planned economies were perfect then Moscow would be the tech capital of the world. Well, that didn't solve anything. Maybe one-liner hyperbole doesn't add much to the conversation.
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Videos like this are why people dislike crossfit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8up6A4QesU Crossfit is just a very successful gimmick, but unlike the fad diets that are unlikely to cause harm, crossfit is likely to cause
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by mynewwork 13y ago
If McDonalds runs an advertisement claiming Burger King serves horse meat, that's illegal. If McDonalds pays a company to post a review posing as a customer that says Burger King served them horse meat, how is that any different?
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Most of my happiest moments as a child were while playing organized sports. I'm not sure where you're getting your idea that dis-organized sports are "actually fun" with the implication that playing on a team isn't
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Lack of courage to even discuss? An article about gender or sexism in tech is on the front page of HN every day or two, and always results in over a hundred comments. If anything, writing an article about gender-based discrimination seems
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by mynewwork 13y ago
So, did anyone actually read the comic? A slave is pleading to be rescued, and brings up that in addition to being a SLAVE he also gets raped. There is nothing 'supporting rape' in the comic or the joke. Rape is used because it&
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by mynewwork 13y ago
How much innovation has come out of San Diego, LA, Fresno or Sacramento? How many tech workers moved to silicon valley from somewhere else after college? I'm not sure 'California mindset' is the right way of framing the inno
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Go to school. You'll have an uphill battle for the rest of your life if you don't. Your resume will always be viewed with a bit of suspicion if you don't have a degree, you'll be expected to do more to prove there aren
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Not at all. Humans are incredibly good at adapting. People in war zones get used to violence, people in high-corruption societies get used to giving bribes, etc. Clearly those are still real problems.
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The same set of circumstances could arguably destroy motivation as well. Your life is already better than any of your ancestors, why stay past 5pm? You already make a lot of money, why bother with a side project or startup on nights and we
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Fantastic. I barely have any apps on my phone because I refuse to accept the egregious abuse of privacy (why does Pandora or Yelp need to access my contacts etc). Recently some friends recommended WhatsApp, but after seeing the massive wa
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by mynewwork 13y ago
You may be slightly out of touch if you think saving $700 a month is poor. Huge portions of America have no savings and live paycheck to paycheck. Many more have only a few hundred in savings total. 50% of Americans couldn't come up
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by mynewwork 13y ago
Can anyone explain why ronaldx is being downmodded for this comment? As someone who knows nothing of bioinformatics or their relation to drug discovery, I see nothing wrong with his post. Perhaps what he is saying is incorrect, but can som
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by mynewwork 13y ago
You say "IT" but then programmer, which is typically a job in R&D, not IT. Are your data sets comparing apples to oranges? If you're looking at IT salaries in one place (network admins, db admins, help desk) and R&D
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by mynewwork 13y ago
"She had no prior work experience and had applied for a clerical position, but was offered a higher post as an executive manager making close to six figures" Does this anecdote not sound crazy to anyone else? Racial discriminatio

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