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by papito 5y ago
The book "The Dorito Effect" goes into this a lot. Basically, the sugar substitutes are often discovered in food labs by accident (someone didn't wash their hands and licked their fingers, ew). These substances are tens of th
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by papito 5y ago
The alternative is winning the birth lottery and sitting on so much real estate that the market doesn't really matter - it's just another source of more risky income.
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by papito 5y ago
That's actually normal now. We've come full circle, but it's called "observability" - since you can't integration test the 100 microservices that you have (for no reason), just throw it into prod and see of any
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by papito 5y ago
I call it "active meditation". In Layer Cake, a character disassembles and assembles a weapon, as a way to distract the brain from racing and focus on that one task.
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by papito 5y ago
Alaska is by far a "nominally" independent state. They rely on massive federal spending. It's besides the point that a secessionist movement is very possible in the near future in the United States - I just fail to see how it
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by papito 5y ago
OKR - "a way to make your team feel bad about themselves".
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by papito 5y ago
There is no "civil war" in Ukraine. It is well-known at this point to have been instigated by agents of Russia. There are more tanks in the occupied territories than in multiple NATO countries combined. Drones, artillery, anti-min
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by papito 5y ago
Throwing around obviously good jokes on HN is dicey. The local squares may start sending the links to their precious research papers on how "people who think they are funny are not really that funny".
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by papito 5y ago
How about the Mac Mini?
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by papito 5y ago
Zillow can't even predict house prices with an algorithm, and now we are going to tackle suicide?
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by papito 5y ago
If there is no law against it, who is going to stop them, and why would they care?
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by papito 5y ago
Yourself as a Facebook employee, you should know first hand that your employer lies to their own workforce without flinching. The only thing I will trust Facebook with is when they report their earnings. The Facebook brand has become utterl
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by papito 5y ago
Typical HN relativism and intellectualization. In its current state, Taiwan is independent, and it will require either: a) Taiwanese consensus to officially rejoin China. b) An act of war. We can discuss China's perspective all day,
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by papito 5y ago
One way to kill a good business is to start carrying inventory.
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by papito 5y ago
I say we give up on thriving for a better economic balance and just leave it to the faulty AI redistribute the dumb money sloshing around.
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by papito 5y ago
Yes, I did my share of that. Then I started going to be bed early, got myself an accu-pressure mat and all. Does wonders. How many of these people who are late nighters simply postpone going to bed, squeezing in that one movie before 1AM? A
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by papito 5y ago
You mean, admit a flaw? Riiiight. I also imagine narcissism closely correlates with Dunning-Kruger.
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by papito 5y ago
If you are not a manager, that sounds a little agro. I can stand for my untouchable lunch break, but the rest is not up to me.
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by papito 5y ago
Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency. But this overhead is deadly in a small, under-resourced team. Kanban is a better choice. Just let people blow through cards with as little communication as possi
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by papito 5y ago
Oh, God, I hate that. I would rather get the stand-ups out of the way first thing in the morning so I can have interrupted time before lunch, but most software engineers are massive divas, who think it's a horrible affront to be in the
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by papito 5y ago
The first time in American history there was no peaceful transfer of power, the loser claimed the election stolen, and refused to concede. So, no, it's not "just another candidate". This false both-side-ism is intellectually
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by papito 5y ago
I like a little bit of both. They better be downright brilliant if I am going to put up with their ego. I worked with a guy like that once. Yeah, he worked at Google, and "that's not how they did things over there". He was ve
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by papito 5y ago
I understand that HN leans toward research as the final word on everything, but sometimes anecdotal evidence is pretty accurate. It's like saying "but the poll researches are saying candidate X is going to win". Then a season
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by papito 5y ago
If both-side-ism makes you feel better than everyone else. It didn't start collapsing in 2017. This has been brewing for a long time, one could argue since the 90s, when political discourse and bipartisanship started degrading. Donald
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by papito 5y ago
"Are you sick of your boss? CLICK HERE"
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by papito 5y ago
Expecting Donald Trump to observe the rules and norms that are not strictly enforced is extremely naive. He thinks only suckers do that. What does he do? He ignores all of that and gets ahead. That's why I call people like him "te
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by papito 5y ago
There is a massive hit to entrepreneurship because of lack of blanket healthcare. As if it were not enough to risk everything on a bootstrapped business, I have to now risk pulling the short straw, getting hit by a car and going destitute?
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by papito 5y ago
Mark Zuckerberg does not care about money. That's what I gathered from reading Chaos Monkeys and An Ugly Truth. He never had that problem. A privileged sociopath who has never known life outside of Westchester, Harvard, and his Silic
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by papito 5y ago
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by papito 5y ago
The concept of sacrifice nowadays is very different. "Sacrifice" is eating the opportunity cost of not working for a company with zero moral compass. What used to be a baseline is now somehow pinnacle of moral strength. "I

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