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by notpc 10y ago
It's not really. Coworkers engaging in banter is friendship. But yes, there's no doubt that friendships between coworkers affect how things get done. That's just the human condition. If you want to change that, you'd
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by notpc 10y ago
God bless Bill. I've also heard great stories of chairs being thrown (not at people, of course) in high-level Microsoft meetings. Can you imagine him getting away with it today though? Someone would have tried to sue him for creating
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by notpc 10y ago
Friendship is not fair. Friendship is freely given and freely withheld. Who you choose for your social circle, and why you choose them, is unassailable. Also, it's not a purely gender thing. My mother, of hispanic upbringing, finds tha
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by notpc 10y ago
When meeting with clients or other teams in a big organization, it's obviously discouraged. When speaking with colleagues, it's discouraged only when there's people who are trigger-happy about complaining to HR. Fairly or not
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by notpc 10y ago
> The funnest part of writing a bot is using all the historical data to observe how the bot would have done during that period. I ended up checking thousands of permutations of parameters by brute force to determine the best ones, but in
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by notpc 10y ago
It's also very difficult to have a "well-planned" vegetarian or vegan diet, especially for children. The chance that you get it right is pretty low. A vegan diet for children is borderline child abuse in my opinion.
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by notpc 10y ago
I didn't call anyone an idiot, a fascist, a libtard, or a 'whatever'. Good try at a straw man though.
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by notpc 10y ago
35 years with the possibility of parole in 10 years seemed pretty reasonable to me.
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by notpc 10y ago
It's troubling that calling for witch hunts and firings over political opinions is okay, but a direct tone is a problem. Maybe our society would be better if that was flipped around.
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by notpc 10y ago
You have it backwards. I have this account because HN is not very open to political discourse unless you toe a very specific line. The Overton Window around here is very small.
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by notpc 10y ago
"circus and farm animals"
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by notpc 10y ago
It's been reported in the news for the last month that Obama has no intention of retiring from public life. He's going to be a major spokesman and "spiritual leader" of sorts for the Democrats going forward. The reason
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by notpc 10y ago
You're conflating two totally separate things. The treatment of circus and farm animals is completely unrelated to supporting biodiversity.
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by notpc 10y ago
I don't think you get me. I'm not concerned about animal welfare and I don't think other people should be either. It is all the way down on my list of concerns, right below the least important human concern.
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by notpc 10y ago
Identifying hypocrisy is not just about dismissing opponents, it's about getting them to reconsider their views, which are possibly not well-founded and contradictory.
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by notpc 10y ago
None of them bother me actually.
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by notpc 10y ago
I hope you all don't eat meat, eggs, cheese, or milk. The animals that those come from would love to be treated as well as circus animals. And do you understand that these animals are absolutely vicious and cruel with each other in the