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by seneca 4y ago
I disagree with the "mostly harmless" take in the article. HR is the group everyone, regardless of where they stand in a company, must be the most careful in dealing with. They are beurocrats and, in modern western companies, are
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by seneca 4y ago
Your reply is nonsense much more than the one you're replying to. Voluntarily entering a contract with bad terms has a lot less in common with feudalism than heavy handed government does. It's fine that you prefer the authoritaria
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by seneca 4y ago
It's just terrible reporting, and equivocation. It being a lifestyle problem and having a natural weight can both be true. People have a natural weight, and it's difficult to drop below it. No one's natural weight is to morbi
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by seneca 4y ago
Not just you. This stuff doesn't belong here at all. More and more of it is creeping onto the front page somehow. It's best to just flag it and move along.
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Hear, hear. It's not just forums, it's basically all forms of civil society these days. Organizations of all stripe get drown in activists. Always marching through the institutions.
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Over 99% of businesses in the US are "small businesses". Just under half of working Americans work for small businesses.
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Aircraft carriers are an important component of moving air power.
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by seneca 4y ago
> Calling the cops on an unattended child" is so very HOA-cul-de-sac American that it's hard to even fathom for a non-American. It's really not. It's not something that really happens anywhere with frequency, and subu
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by seneca 4y ago
It is extremely common to use "Golang" for Go to disambiguation the extremely common word. Not necessary on HN due to context, but it helps with SEO for blog posts.
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> Selfish observation: this coffee has to be close to its shelf life, despite being roasted in Jun/Jul and despite being sealed. A "one year best buy date" is unreasonably generous. Certainly. Then consider the fact that t
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by seneca 4y ago
Those options were explicitly laid out in the contract they signed, they even say that in the blog post. It's not a grift if they tell you up front exactly what will happen.
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This isn't grifting, and if they had specified the distributor it would be libel. This is a story about a small business that made a lot of bad decisions and got in way over theirs heads. That's all well and good, but the spin to
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by seneca 4y ago
I think this is pretty accurate other than the ADHD part. Work from home is vastly superior to the distractions of an office (especially open offices) for me. At home, I have much more control over interruptions and noise, and completely el
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by seneca 4y ago
Sorry, are you suggesting that people without a college education are too ignorant to make judgements about their own health and that it's therefore ok to lie to them? This sort of high handed paternalism is exactly the attitude that h
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by seneca 4y ago
> Agreed 100% and framing it as vandalism feels like a disservice from the reporting. The difference between vandalism and domestic terrorism, in this case, is intent. Since the reporters don't know the intent, calling it domestic t
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by seneca 4y ago
It sounds like holidays aren't the problems. What you actually seem to dislike is parenting. That is to say, it's not the lack of work, it's the lack of someone else raising your child. Framing the question correctly may make
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by seneca 4y ago
Using "bad faith" like this destroys any and all meaning in the phrase. It also directly violates the hacker news guide lines.
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by seneca 4y ago
It really depends on what area you work in. In the systems world Go still reigns. Kubernetes is still incredibly relevant but growth is slowing down (mostly because it ate the world already). WASM and eBPF are hot new technologies but still
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by seneca 4y ago
I don't think it's strange at all. After the fall of the USSR and the revelations of its horrors all but the most radical in the west came to consider Marxism as a dead letter philosophy. One ought to believe what they believe to
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by seneca 4y ago
Please don't post lazy throw away comments like this here.
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by seneca 4y ago
I'm glad to see competition. With the winner take all nature of social media, innovation is very difficult. Has the network effect of Twitter been seriously disrupted at this point? I know a lot of folks who disagree with Musk claimed
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by seneca 4y ago
The Linux foundation is heavily captured by companies like those others on the list. It only seems odd on the list for historical reasons.
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Completely agreed. They may be left out by some peers for not being up to date on internet culture, but they will have much richer lives and personalities for having spent that time with all of the things you listed. It's a difficult p
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by seneca 4y ago
Sleep apnea is a big cause of people not dreaming. They're not consistently getting into deep sleep cycles due to the constant breathing interruptions is how I had it explained to me.
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> Most of these are pretty cliche. New York City is one of the safest cities in the country per capita. But as with “cleanliness” is usually trotted out in a dog whistly kind of way that really is about something else. Calling someone&#x
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by seneca 4y ago
This is my first encounter, and I have to say I have a hard time getting through it. The drawings are distracting and not adding much and his speaking pattern is pretty grating. His vocal-fry/drawl is just too much for my ears, and sou
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by seneca 4y ago
This is pretty much dead on. All social media platforms, especially Twitter, have a hard leftwing bias. Musk has signaled that he intends neutrality for Twitter, which has triggered a meltdown from the left. What is it they always say? &quo
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by seneca 4y ago
> The severance package here only deferred the benefit to the bottom line, but it wasn't a consequence for over-hiring and potentially disrupting lives. In other words, the layoffs actually benefit the founders directly... This is a
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That seems like the obvious null hypothesis. To me, the interesting thing is how many people are in denial of that basic fact.
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by seneca 4y ago
You're contradicting thousands of years of political philosophy and theory with that statement. Democracy is a complete mess of whiplashing changes. It's only real redeeming factor is that it's better than tyranny by a monarc

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