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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is this article, but about a thousand times more interesting. It's on my list of books I recommend to people about to enter the corporate world, even though it's about the life of a drug
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Wow, I wonder if the 95% of reddit users for your sub that use the new format are net new to the site, or if there actually are a lot of old-reddit users that happily converted to the new UI. Don't get me wrong, the old UI was awful, b
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Someone else in this thread mentioned the "boiling frog" effect. Personally, I'll keep using Reddit until they remove support for old.reddit.com. Then this frog is out of the pot!
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I live in Wisconsin, USA and I always laugh when people talk about how hard the winters are here. 3-4 well-planned layers on your torso and legs, a good pair of wool socks and boots, and a cross-country skiing hobby and you end up anxious t
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I did a lot of consulting with the design team in my last role. My company was creating a "builder" app, where you can use a GUI to create and deploy custom clinical research mobile and web apps. The way I was finally able to get
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Anecdotally, I remember that the kids who got smartphones the earliest were already "bad kids". Their parents let them watch explicit movies and TV shows, party unsupervised, and slack off with their grades. (This goes for low- an
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> prefer a 12 hour drive to a one hour flight I'm right there with you. I'd go as far as 14 hour drive before I start thinking I should fly instead. It wasn't always like this, flying was bearable even as far back as 2002-
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I am a little religious (deist and Quaker background) so it's easy for me to hand-wave away the origins of life as divine, but I often think about how life could have arisen completely randomly. This line: > everybody in the world h
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I've been trying to remember this joke for so long, thank you!
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> Which, despite the many issues with the Soviet economy, is obviously not true. The first thing I hear from any ex-Soviet who grew up in the USSR is how their lives were impacted by the constant shortages and censorship of issues with t
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I once read a tweet that said "the most effective people I know just work on the most important thing, and they get way more done than the people I know who obsessively manage their time". Oddly enough, when I thought about it, I
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Wait, did it reduce the quality of your writing or increase it?
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And this would stop global carbon emissions? What about the shipping industry, the mining industries, the fuel required to do all the shipping and mining and farming, etc. etc.? My understanding is that nothing short of a massive, forced re
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Do you enjoy having a sense of smell that powerful?
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2% GDP until 2050 would allow for every single chemical and material used in farming, building, and mining in the world to become part of a net zero carbon supply chain?
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Culture and innovation blossom from human knowledge , not formal state-mandated education systems. Today, as throughout history, most "culture and innovation" (as measured by inventions, companies, researchers, art, philosophy, e
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You are clearly well-meaning, but your suggestions indicate a lack of familiarity with the mindset and behaviors of people that become chronically involved with the criminal justice system. You are not going to teach a mindless drunk driver
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"Two social workers walk past a man lying beaten and bloody on the ground, moaning for help. One turns to the other and says 'My God, whoever did this needs our help.'" The weakest in society are those who are taken adva
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I did not say that the current situation was created by the reformers, merely that the existing US prison reform movements lack the support they need to move the needle because they are controlled by people who are far too broadly optimisti
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"Rehabilitation" is in many cases a misnomer. There's a difference between Rehabilitating someone who developed a problem and Habilitating someone who was never taught to think with a moral compass. People in the US could be
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White (downstream of northern Europe)
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If you meet certain... standards , Utah contains probably the highest-trust society present in the US. Just don't try to leave the <large religious organization in Utah>, or be the wrong race. But it makes sense that they were t
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After reading several autobiographies of people who lived in the USSR, I've started to think that material shortages are actually the deliberate goal of people who run communist countries. More succinctly, without material shortages, c
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Fukushima was cleaned up by a massive task force using globalized technology. What I'm wondering about is if nuclear power is scaled to have hundreds or thousands of plants across the world, and something happens to humanity's abi
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I was just listing things that could affect the structure of the core. The real question about nuclear disasters isn't whether or not humanity can respond to them given functioning society, it's what happens when a society collaps
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The day HN starts running that awful "squares on squares" JS design method where everything is a button with no borders is the day I leave HN. Luckily I don't think that day is coming.
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Your implication is that a reactor containment vessel in a Gen 3 nuclear reaction is capable of containing radioactive material no matter what physically happens to it (flooding, earthquake, asteroid impact, etc.) Is that accurate?
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Most Americans have no idea what "culture" is; they assume it refers exclusively to consumption, i.e. what is available to consume and how people prefer to consume it.
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I see you worked for both of the past two companies I worked for as well.
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The Beatles couldn't have gotten famous using their "simple pop" formula in the 70s-00s either, but if they'd been putting out the quality of songs they did I think they'd always have at least a cult following. Thei

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