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by shredprez 8y ago
The extra $3k might not mean a lot, but knowing your CEO gave $28m back to the workers at his or her own expense? I'd argue that kind of thing is great for retention. The challenge, obviously, is that CEO pay is a market and the curren
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by shredprez 8y ago
This is a fair nit, but still: it's self-evident that modern advertising high-jacks natural competition and amplifies it in order to drive an unnatural level of spending (else companies could just skip advertising and see no change in
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by shredprez 8y ago
Optimization in the sense of optimizing for a specific (often ideological) outcome, rather than optimizing away an objective inefficiency. Social welfare is a perfect example of "competing optimizations" precisely because there ar
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by shredprez 8y ago
I agree. It's also worth noting the lifecycle of most optimizations, including the non-partisan variety: 1. Early on many benefit and costs are minimized per capita. 2. As the benefits diffuse across the population, smart/wily&#x2
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by shredprez 8y ago
I interpreted GP's comment differently: Unusually high CPAP intensity indicates unusually severe sleep apnea, suggesting a connection between sleep disorders and mental disorders. Reflecting on the impact sleep has on my mental health,
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by shredprez 8y ago
I know commenting to agree is not encouraged on HN, but I feel obligated to. This is an extremely compelling case/strategy guide for uncompromising pacifism and I haven't ever read anything like it. Powerful in a way so much of th
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by shredprez 8y ago
I think your reading makes more sense than mine. Agreed!
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by shredprez 8y ago
Lacking any intelligible means to communicate, this is tough to say definitively.
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by shredprez 8y ago
I clearly interpreted CalRobert's comment differently than you did. To me, it read as a comparison between "domestic servitude" and working a job.
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by shredprez 8y ago
I'm absolutely not making a case that women weren't effectively forced into domestic servitude in the past (and, depending on a a range of factors, in the present). I'm also not making a recommendation that anyone be a full-t
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by shredprez 8y ago
Maybe pointedly so? "Don't let the interesting be the enemy of the good."
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by shredprez 8y ago
"Domestic servitude" is a poor way to present homemaking, but calling its historical pull a trap for women isn't far off. Obviously anyone who's struggled in the business world understands joining the game is only libera
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by shredprez 8y ago
I don’t find it to be racist (unless your definition is ‘someone who talks about race’). But it is exceptionally lazy. Rather than making the case they wish to directly, they’re offloading that work onto their audience, many of whom will ob
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by shredprez 8y ago
I’ve noticed similar patterns here and there on HN. On the other hand, it could be more a reflection of the community’s general contrarian streak and bias for consciously impartial rationality (whether or not we succeed there is a different
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by shredprez 8y ago
This is extremely illuminating; thank you for taking the time to respond.
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by shredprez 8y ago
Fair enough :) Thanks for the recommendations!
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by shredprez 8y ago
Great response, thank you!
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by shredprez 8y ago
Great response, the historical Puritan context is something I hadn't considered before. I mention in another response that I'm looking for a description or model that isn't reactionary, but your reply makes me wonder if that&
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by shredprez 8y ago
I'm not making a case for progressivism here and I'm clear on the traditional (and international?) definition of "liberal." I'm mainly interested in what specifically constitutes a liberal platform or policy model
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by shredprez 8y ago
I'm pitching my board-member verification platform to the state authorities right now. Would love to grab coffee sometime and synchronize!
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by shredprez 8y ago
Definitely possible. I'm curious why they went the punitive route rather than providing some kind of incentive structure. In some ways it works out to the same thing, but tax breaks for businesses committed to the cause seem way easier
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by shredprez 8y ago
Would you elaborate on the ideal liberal platform? I see and hear comments like this quite frequently (from folks of all political alignments, interestingly) and I'm always interested to hear what beliefs and policies people around me
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by shredprez 8y ago
It looks like this comment is being downvoted because it appears to endorse being deceptive. I’d like to chime in and second the sentiment in slightly different terms: value is not inherently visible. You can waste a lot of time contributin
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by shredprez 8y ago
It totally comes down to the interface. When people think of computers (or, more broadly, devices), they mainly think of the screen and the inputs. If VR or AR can significantly improve on the experience of using a 2D screen + mouse, keyboa
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by shredprez 8y ago
Try Overcast! I use Stitcher to avoid ads on some of my favorite podcasts (Stitcher Premium feature), but using Overcast is unquestionably a better experience. More focused and intuitive interface, tons of control over downloads, and the ad
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by shredprez 8y ago
Any change in the psycho-spacial context you pegged the forgotten information to? Hard to say what the minimum change might be; I'm sure it varies significantly from person to person.
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by shredprez 8y ago
> If we want to disarm Alex we need to recognize there are real problems in America outside of the coastal areas. And inside the coastal areas as well. Still, none of this stress and anxiety condemns a reasonable human being to become a
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by shredprez 8y ago
Oath and licensing aside, public trust in doctors isn't great. Still, some code of ethics and associated incentive structure for tech would be great. But as long as the industry can stay just ahead of legal ramifications and stay solve
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by shredprez 8y ago
A couple thoughts: Cultural relativism is amoral. It isn’t about good/evil, it’s about local norms. What is normal one place may not be normal elsewhere, from the national level down to the family level. When paired with fatigue over t
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by shredprez 8y ago
Sorry to hear about your father, neverartful; that has to be incredibly difficult. Wishing you peace, for whatever it's worth.

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