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by rwhitman 11y ago
Now that this is off the front page... You seem to be incredibly smart and well educated and would do the world a great service if you worked to shift your energy towards compassionately sharing in knowledge exchange rather than venting ang
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Sorry for making such a "boring" point that was apparently also worth committing several paragraphs to debunking.
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Not to mention that food itself does not elicit rational behavior. If we were remotely logical about how we consume food, we'd all be voluntarily eating a nutrition paste out of a tube every morning. Eating food is an animal need, and
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It's getting really hard to find simple problems that have software solutions in a niche that isn't already competitive. There are a lot of software companies out there and more talented developers with successful side projects fl
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The keyword you're looking for here is "topgrading". Basically it's management social darwinism that breaks down a team into "A Players" "B Players" and so on with the end goal being to weed out anyth
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I agree, it goes against the best interest of any of these countries to risk a military clash with China over it building infrastructure on some unoccupied patches of sand in the middle of the sea.
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HN has a bit more diverse mix of users than r/programming, including a healthy amount of non-technical or semi-technical people, so my suggestion would be giving some context to the project in a blog post rather than only linking to th
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The opinion that I wrote here was formulated several years ago after a long conversation with an accountant I met on the set of a major film, who was sent by the studio to audit the production. The inefficiencies and borderline corrupt natu
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Those roles can be outsourced offshore to cheaper labor markets or handed to cheaper (aka non-union) domestic talent markets, which is what I was hinting at. Wasn't really implying that computers can replace creatives. Basically the ar
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Hollywood is an industry that should be very vulnerable to disruption. Even if we ignore the whole digital distribution aspect, there's so much bloat in the overhead cost of producing a film. Everything about the industry is based arou
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I once knew a guy who was sent to jail for insider trading in the 80's for manipulating stocks as a WSJ writer. It was a big deal at the time. Publishing an editorial in the WSJ with the intention of manipulating a company's stock
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Adblock and any other plugin that manipulates the DOM interferes with web frontend work, also marketing work.
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I have trouble understanding why a buyer would waste time and money negotiating the acquisition of a liquidating business if the only valuable portion of the company is 2 engineers. That's what recruiters are for.
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I got kinda sucked into this situation a long time ago.. You don't own the product and your stock is now worthless. Being unshakably loyal to a product you don't own and a company you don't own is undermining your negotiating
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At the lowest tier for just floating desk space the cost of WeWork and these other coworking spaces is kind of ludicrous if you consider the free alternatives - working from home, a laptop-friendly coffee shop or even the library. So when t
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Self employed health insurance in New York is ludicrously expensive, or at least it was prior to Obamacare. I've been on my wife's employer's plan but before that, I used Freelancer's Union which is NY only. I'm a b
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100% agree with your point. Novice programmers don't have the perspective to understand that the latest hot library may be old news in 6 months, and how the old adage of "hold a hammer and everything becomes a nail" can impac
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There were campers in retail spaces even before laptops and mobile tech existed. They weren't as common and were harder to spot but back when I worked in an independent bookstore pre-broadband era, there was always a subset of the cust
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Both of those articles are a good illustration of my point actually, sensational conclusions drawn from reports that don't take into account the dramatic differences between the cities being compared. In this case, NYC is so enormous t
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In NYC if you need a $1200 / mo 1BR apartment, sure Manhattan and north eastern Brooklyn aren't options but you still have places like Harlem, Queens, New Jersey, The Bronx, Staten Island all of which are under an hour commute fro
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The conclusions from the article seemed a bit rushed. NYC and the Bay Area are pretty different when it comes to NIMBY policies and commutes from low income areas to high income.
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The PR effort in this case was being lead by Gwynne Shotwell who is the President & COO. He was apparently tweeting information that his COO wasn't prepared to comment on yet. That doesn't send a good message about leadership
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If you submit personal information to any business you're putting yourself at risk. Social media companies have a lot of data, yes, but most of it is pretty benign. The world should be far more concerned about the PII that gets trans
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After watching the press conference yesterday I got the sense that Musk's tweets aren't particularly helpful for SpaceX press relations
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There are several ways to expose data on dropbox as the result of human error that don't apply to lastpass
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I don't understand why 1Password's approach to the cloud - syncing via Dropbox or Google Drive - is considered that much more secure than LastPass. If anything relying on Dropbox has always seemed to me to be a huge liability
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You're building up core strength which is pretty widely accepted as the best solution to the majority of back problems. Also can be accomplished with a number of other exercises, particularly planks and related
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In my case I was doing physical therapy for back pain at the same time I picked up the book, so while I was being taught how to change my posture and ergonomics by med professionals, the book was a good companion for expanding my knowledge.
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If you're acute like that there are a lot of exercises that can make the situation much worse, particularly if you don't have a diagnosis and are unsure of where the injury is located. Best course of action is go to a Dr and push
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No, actually the entire book is just about comparing photographs of people who live in different parts of the world and how they sit / stand / walk etc.. If you wanted to sit for a few hours with google image search it could give

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