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by nineplay 3y ago
Perhaps its a false dichotomy, but I'll take a pay freeze/cut over a layoff any day.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I daresay that there are no policies that work well for everyone.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm a lifelong Californian, I love California, I can't imagine living in any other state, and I'm continuously baffled by these hand-wringing articles. Why would I be unhappy that people who want to leave California are leavi
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by nineplay 3y ago
Every company has engineers who don't like some products or features. We aren't mindless corporates drones. I don't personally use any of my employer's applications. Some article like this comes up every so often and it
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by nineplay 4y ago
There's a scale I suppose. Paranoia is "China deliberately created and released Covid". My non-paranoid opinion is that China is a large and powerful country which has complete control over its citizens and companies and ve
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by nineplay 4y ago
It's the conspiracy theory I 100% believe in. I don't think the reason to ban TikTok is that it gathers information, I think the reason to ban it is that its ranking algorithm is deliberately destructive. Maybe it's a coinc
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by nineplay 4y ago
I "collect" books in that I sometimes buy physical copies of books when I only read e-books, but when I purchase something it's usually because I've found an paperback in a used bookstore and can't resist the fantas
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by nineplay 4y ago
I've gotten a few voicemails that are a recorded message telling me that I am going to be arrested the next day unless I call back. I know it's a scam but it's still physically alarming. I picture being arrested, I picture
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by nineplay 4y ago
There are a variety of options between driving a Dodge Neon and driving a 4x4 with a lead foot. Suburbanites who take road trips are probably going to find a Dodge Neon inadequate for their needs. I admit to being personally impressed - h
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by nineplay 4y ago
My experience in snow differs from yours. If that makes me an excellent driver in your eyes then I appreciate the complement. I've slept in a minivan many times and it's wonderful for 2. 3 or more, not so much.
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by nineplay 4y ago
Perhaps it's specific to my area of suburbia but a) road trips are by far the most common way to take vacations and b) many of those road-trips have portions going over snow or sand or mountain backroads. So you want some sort of all o
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by nineplay 4y ago
There's no way to make it better if you don't start with the root cause.
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by nineplay 4y ago
I get that but > despite working hard that's a non-sequitur. Migrant laborers on farms work absurdly hard. "Work hard and get more" is practically a boomerism at this point. There are many reasons to work hard, but non
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by nineplay 4y ago
People aren't paid by how hard they work, they're paid by how much money they generate and how hard they are to replace. A head chef might be hard to replace but popular bars and restaurants are not, as we saw during Covid. They
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by nineplay 4y ago
"Covid was most likely a lab leak" is currently on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and reddit. What was your point again?
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm normally sympathetic to 'wokeisms' but this sickens me. A lot of the value of reading is in learning to expand your mind, expand your perceptive. Take in the book, read it, make your own decisions on how to process it a
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by nineplay 4y ago
> The boomers should have their medicare and social security yanked for what they did to this country. What did they do to this country?
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm not sure how this makes since with "classroom" education far predating the modern era. See English boarding school stories or any number US girl coming-of-age stories. Certainly none of them justify the idea that educat
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by nineplay 4y ago
I don't trust a 21 year old to know if they've found a good spouse. I don't trust anyone to know if they've found a good spouse which is why I'd tell everyone, male or female, to have a career they can fall back to
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by nineplay 4y ago
I agree that this is a serious issue. I know 3 kids who graduated in 2019 and got into top universities. Three years later -- One flatly refused to leave home despite a lot of pushing from their parents. They are working at the local the
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm glad you have positive feelings towards Wild Wild Country. I though it showed a lot of restraint in presenting the bulk of Osha's followers as decent people. The "villains" are the attempted murderers and the local
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by nineplay 4y ago
Parenting books are the worst. I read one of the pro "cry it out" books on the recommendation of friends and at one point the author had a chart of how the rise in juvenile delinquency corresponded to rise in attachment parenting
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by nineplay 4y ago
> My background is as a follower of Osho (the guru from Wild Wild Country). That is so interesting to me and I wonder if you could answer just a couple of questions, with as much or little detail as you feel comfortable with. Do you stil
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by nineplay 4y ago
It's a real problem that goes further than feminism. There are large numbers of men and women who truly believe that childcare is more naturally a woman's domain and see men getting involved as a kind of 'woke-ism' - me
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by nineplay 4y ago
I used to work with UAW in the 90s and it was excruciating. I'd be on the floor with one of our machines and I wasn't allowed to even take a panel off with a screwdriver. There was one guy whose job allowed him to unscrew the pa
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm so weary of this sort of 'society is in decline' clickbait articles. Let's take some minimal amount of data, analyze it by some absurd criteria, and then present as some stunning insight. There's so much wrong
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by nineplay 4y ago
My current employer is a non US company and layoffs don't seem to be in their vocabulary. Their customer is every data center, everywhere. I feel pretty safe.
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Ask HN: Would you accept a job offer in this economy?
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm not a crypto user so I may not understand the ramifications, but while I can see why "imminent death of crypto" headlines seem like clickbait, is it fair to say that this is the end of the crypto exchanges? This is the e
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by nineplay 4y ago
When I write software, I know that users will do dumb things and it is my responsibility to write my code in such a way that they can cause no damage. The legal system should have similar responsibilities. If citizens can report crimes, so

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