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by slibhb 4y ago
> I have absolutely no interest in leading a team, but senior members in my org keep trying to groom me into a TL. I like being an IC and building what I'm told to build; I have no idea how to decide what it is we should be building
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by slibhb 4y ago
> Ben’s got it just right. These things are terrible at the knowledge search problems they’re currently being hyped for. But they’re amazing as a combination of conversational partner and text adventure. I don't think that's ex
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by slibhb 4y ago
So it's a good thing for the government to set a minimum wage of $21/hr but a bad thing for the government to set a minimum wage of $50/hr (100k/year). Where is the cut off exactly?
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by slibhb 4y ago
Oh okay, then let's set the minimum wage to 100K per year. Then everyone can own two cars and a home.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Why do you get to decide which businesses should survive? The market decides, just like it sets wages. Your argument is that, if we get rid of welfare, companies will raise wages. So welfare is just taxpayers subsidizing companies. You&#x27
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by slibhb 4y ago
The idea that hunger is the result of "people owning mega-yachts" is populist nonsense.
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by slibhb 4y ago
I completely agree that "hierarchies themselves are a fundamental, natural part of human societies, and you can't just do away with them."
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by slibhb 4y ago
Well said, voting 10 times a week does sound like a drag, but surely it's better than decades in the gulag or a bullet in the back of the head.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Gould is a controversial figure. He was a popularizer who mixed politics and science to a degree that made some uncomfortable.
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by slibhb 4y ago
If you stopped listening to Dylan after his first few albums you might describe him as an anti-war, protest singer. But by Bringing It All Back Home (1965) he was -- for the most part -- done with that. "Time passes and love fades&quot
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by slibhb 4y ago
> That all changed with laws mainly passed by state senators Nancy Skinner (D - Berkeley) and Scott Wiener (D - San Francisco) in the 2010s to update the RHNA requirements. Cities now had to zone for a variety of equitable impacts, most
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by slibhb 4y ago
That's a fascinating idea. I googled it and came upon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship and https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/22370#:~:... . Sounds like i
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by slibhb 4y ago
He's not literally forgotten but few read him compared to Heidegger and Sartre. Some of his writings aren't translated into English or are very rare.
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by slibhb 4y ago
A teacher from the article is quoted: "My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids," said Olivia Garrison, a history teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., who is nonbinary, who has helped students socially transition at school
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by slibhb 4y ago
This is part of an ongoing conflict between schools and parents. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/gender-identity-studen... While banning books is creepy and unproductive, the schools have exce
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by slibhb 4y ago
You disregard anecdote when it clashes with your priors.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Did God deliver you this information?
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by slibhb 4y ago
> There's nothing to suggest it serves a legitimate purpose. Well there's nothing if you disregard personal testimony as stockholm syndrome.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Parents are always experimenting on their children. Faddish observational studies reflect the biases of the researchers. Also, there are legal and cultural definitions of child abuse and, at least where I'm from, corporeal punishment i
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by slibhb 4y ago
It's always funny how, when you engage with the "kinder, gentler" crowd, they immediately prove themselves morally unsophisticated. Striking a child is abuse and if your child was struck, you would take revenge by hitting the
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by slibhb 4y ago
Defining corporeal punishment as "child abuse" is incorrect.
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by slibhb 4y ago
Let's see some 20 year old mice before we get our hopes up.
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by slibhb 4y ago
You raise a good question: if you're unwilling or unable to check the author's work, how should you evaluate articles like this? I'd say the right answer is that you shouldn't evaluate it with any certainty, just file it
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by slibhb 4y ago
I thought this was a pretty good essay. Schopenhauer thought his pessimistic philosophy was similar to Buddhism. Negation of desire or denial of self is a tricky thing. You can see the issue here with this table (from the article): https:&
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by slibhb 4y ago
When people talk about "homelessness," they're often referring to street people. Most technically homeless people aren't street people, they're between jobs or living in their car or something like that. It seems cl
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by slibhb 4y ago
Somehow I doubt HN commenters and voters in Louisiana are a similar demographic... My point was that, if you disagree with this law and don't live in Louisiana, your attitude should be "those crazy conservatives!" plus an eye
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by slibhb 4y ago
I don't really understand the uproar in the comments. Socially conservative states should have socially conservative laws (like this). Ditto for liberal states. If it's unpopular or LA ceases to be socially conservative, democracy
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by slibhb 4y ago
I think it's personal choice and in many cases a rational one. Men who don't want to start families and have no particular ambition really have no reason to work.
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by slibhb 4y ago
I'm very anti-cancel culture but it's absurd to compare cancellation to death. Or to compare the West to communist China. Actually, that people make these comparisons is a testament to how good things are.
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by slibhb 4y ago
You don't have to intellectualize movies to enjoy them.

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