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by sukilot 6y ago
Work is most of life. Banning romantic couplings from that is deeply anti-human.
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by sukilot 6y ago
> Even though they were all dismissed, these three cases implied a pattern of harassment on my part. The other possible interpretation—that this was an organized campaign to damage my reputation for reasons that had nothing to do with se
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's called a "conflict of interest" and is simply handled by recusal.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Everyone has influence over their romantic partners lives. Anyone can trash talk an ex And what do you say to all the people who are happily married to (or happily divorced from) to supervisors at work? People like Melinda Gates and Mackenz
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by sukilot 6y ago
The title is misleading as usual. The article is about removing temptation being a better strategy than exercising self-control in the face of temptation (This is then "cultural/religious conservative morality" theory for pro
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by sukilot 6y ago
The critical point -- which applies to packrats at well, is that some things have negative value and are better destroyed than used. We know this for obvious toxins like smoke, but less often know this for sugar and junk gear.
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by sukilot 6y ago
The beeminder theory is undermining by the very concept of money, especially credit cards, which removes the short term cost of losing money. A simpler way to get the same result is to make the future present by surrounding yourself with pi
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by sukilot 6y ago
The wars are not for oil. The wars are for control of the profits from oil
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by sukilot 6y ago
Nissan Leaf outsold Tesla for several years, until other carmakers joined the market. Tesla is just one of many.
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by sukilot 6y ago
This kind of comment is not acceptable on HN.
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by sukilot 6y ago
"often using the same time or more" means often saving time when the whole shpiel isn't needed, which is the point. Time management ia important when your time is highly valuable with opportunity cost.
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by sukilot 6y ago
What do you mean "again"? Who stares into each other's eyes? Is your lover far away?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Everyone depends on everyone. https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html
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by sukilot 6y ago
Strange that the canonical example -- an addictive drug, isn't mentioned there.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's like saying shoplifting is extracting a valuable resource that society forgot.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That would raise prices for tickets. Concession prices are there so rich people subsidize poorer people.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Republicans and Democrats passed that law unanimously
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by sukilot 6y ago
Not true. It was a passed by a unanimous bipartisan vote, and cosponsores bipartisan.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Because got does nothing else, not even provide a UI for WYSIWYG editing a doc. If you have a great idea for a GitHub for Books, do it! You'll make a fortune from publishers
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by sukilot 6y ago
Lots of languages are ancient, supported and have predecessor. C++, Perl, Python. JavaScript.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Your comment boils down to "whenever there's a better alternative, I like the better alternative better." Then again, Google Apps is a viable alternative to MS Office, and fresh air it is not.
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by sukilot 6y ago
> obviously after checking each one to make sure it still makes sense Did you? > 3500 words is not a lot of text. The comment was regarding whether it's "easy".
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by sukilot 6y ago
Instead of hiring devs to fix browser bugs
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by sukilot 6y ago
"This idea works better the more people do it" it the most milquetoast criticism ever.
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by sukilot 6y ago
What you are saying as you don't want to fund your future because you are mad that other people fund their features.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Because income is lower than expenses.
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by sukilot 6y ago
They are invested in the business or diversified, obviously. Look at any corporate balance sheet
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by sukilot 6y ago
Because "endowment" is a simply the non-profit term for "capital" in business. Harvard's endowment is invested in profitable business to raise money. It's a non-profit so it doesn't pay out the profits. A
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by sukilot 6y ago
You are shocked that a non-profit competiting with $100Billion+ corporations, whose mission statement is "people over profit", hasn't been able to build an endowment? And that's the fault of Mozilla, not the billionair
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by sukilot 6y ago
That logo was launched 3 years ago

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