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by rexpop 3y ago
> The traits that make for the best infosec professional are the same traits that make for the worst spouse And why do those traits not also make you the worst employee?
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by rexpop 3y ago
> fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is a cognitive attribution bias where observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasi
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by rexpop 3y ago
> If you get exposed to a lot of glucocorticoids, you're more at risk now for depression. You can see this epidemiologically: you get people, and statistically, before their first major depressive episode something awful stressful o
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by rexpop 3y ago
> Overall, the comments provide a mix of technical insights, personal experiences, and opinions on the topic. Yeah, I'll bet. At first blush, I find this uselessly verbose. I get more out of just the headlines and I am already up to
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by rexpop 3y ago
> The agency also counts on bitcoin miners to soak up excess power when there’s too much supply, keeping prices in check. And how does the Texas public benefit from this? Is "to soak up excess power" really that valuable?
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by rexpop 3y ago
The alternative is actual ownership.
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by rexpop 3y ago
How can "public policy changes toward immigration" replace wage hikes? Won't that just result in a large population of untermenschen suffering substandard living conditions? Essentially a slave class?
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by rexpop 3y ago
Some "cultures" are just organs of a larger cultural superstructure, and they don't make sense to discuss in isolation.
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by rexpop 3y ago
1. Drink a glass of water 2. Dress as if going out 3. Start grains 4. Start coffee 5. Read HN 6. Eat grains / drink coffee 7. Shit I'd like to introduce "go for a run" in there, somewhere. Perhaps as a replacement for &q
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by rexpop 3y ago
A union's priorities reflect those of its constituent members.
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by rexpop 3y ago
That's one possible union architecture, sure, but you're missing the forest for the trees. A union offers job security to reduce the risk of "managing up."
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by rexpop 3y ago
> the union gets you a 7% raise (which you could have also gotten by switching jobs Fun fact: netting yourself a little associational bargaining power doesn't negate your job marketplace bargaining power! More leverage is more l
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by rexpop 3y ago
What, if anything, can be counted as the result of colonialism? Or can absolutely nothing be? Would you assert that the execution of colonialism was equivalent to the identity function? A complete noop?
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by rexpop 3y ago
Do you have any sources for your assertions?
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by rexpop 3y ago
> The valley’s valorization of “disruption” — a euphemism for destruction — allows bad people to keep winning. I've spent most of my life following this religion, but over the last couple of years I've started to think that we
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by rexpop 3y ago
No, it's that one's stewardship of the unbroken chain of vintage watches will be appreciated. Many hands maintained these hands.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Many of us will survive this apocalypse. Most of us, even if our quality of life suffers. The fact is that you have much more leverage over the carbon economy than you have been exercising, and even if you're not going to work against
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by rexpop 3y ago
That won't ameliorate the effect of CO2 in ocean acidification or human cognitive function. There's really no substitute for decreasing atmospheric CO2.
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by rexpop 3y ago
> SF is pretty much always about the current day. I can't comprehend this. Scifi is famously occupied with the future, and not the current day. Space travel, advanced technologies, artificial intelligences, and generally things that
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by rexpop 3y ago
Under capitalism, it's reasonable to charge for products and services. The jury is still out on "companies like Bitwarden, Gitlab, and New Vector". Kudos to them for pioneering novel business models.
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by rexpop 3y ago
> the article is ultimately complaining about [when a manager delegates tasks] I am sorry, but I re-read the article and still cannot understand why you believe this. The author gives three major examples: 1. Customer EFT: "sitting
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by rexpop 3y ago
So now we're just in disagreement about where these thresholds lie, and I think that's an OK place to disagree, because it will evolve over time with cultural evolution. I don't need to advise you that it's often tactica
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by rexpop 3y ago
> It was fancy alright I don't want to overdo it with high-falutin' theorizing, but I think your firm's definition of "fancy" might be missing some crucial aspects, or maybe "fancy" isn't the right
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by rexpop 3y ago
What you gain is a lawn, mowed.
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by rexpop 3y ago
I, for one, appreciate your deliberate and expository introspection but if you need this explained to you, there's a chance you will never—and I mean never—get it, but here goes: Some people believe that we owe it to one another to be
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by rexpop 3y ago
It's not only denial of use. The perpetrator gains the output of the delegated effort. The sale goes through. The business continues to operate. Paychecks get signed. The home's functionality is maintained. When the "non-prom
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by rexpop 3y ago
In a medical technical sense, perhaps not, but I can't understand a definition of "suicide" which is voluntary and not forced by adverse circumstance. There is no sense applauding--nor deriding!--folks who succumb to adversit
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by rexpop 3y ago
From this and other threads I am faced with the conclusion that Hacker News is shockingly pro-suicide. I want to present an alternative viewpoint, one which I thought was obvious, accepted and mainstream but which I am dismayed to find abse
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by rexpop 3y ago
> ask your politicians why the US still has no socialized healthcare Better we should ask our employers whose regulatory capture blocks socialized healthcare.
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by rexpop 3y ago
You are right, the OP does something of a disservice to the facts. Slavery was prevalent elsewhere in ancient Egypt[0]. In a sense, however, the contributions of slavery to Egyptian society provided economic foundations for projects like

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