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by tharne 4y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised to find it is most insurance companies. In the U.S. I guarantee you that most insurance companies are NOT doing this. What this company is doing is called "Bad Faith" in insurance jargon. And the
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That's ice cold.
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The better question is, "Should it?". Malls are awful and in their heyday, they decimated downtowns and small businesses. Good riddance.
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When folks wonder why Julia hasn't displaced Python or R, despite being better on a number of fronts, I'm always reminded of this quote (courtesy of wikipedia) by Eric Raymond around why plan9 never went on to displace Unix: >
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> Truth is a significant portion of employees, in my experience, advocate for work from home because they want the chance to slack off. You don't need to be WFH to slack off. People have been slacking off in offices since the offic
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Agreed. Understanding what "not to do" is often times more important than understanding how to do something well. Avoiding communism and poverty, and the human misery, poverty and 6 and 7-figure death tolls that so often come with
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Agree. I've seen the demand on both sides of the equation. Plenty of folks reaching out to me with opportunities and it's a competitive market if you're trying to hire.
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> COVID was never found in any animal from the Huanan market Seems pretty straightforward to me. The Chinese said it came from a market, but never found a single animal in that market with COVID.
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I just read the article after reading this comment. You weren't kidding! That was a really great read and one of the most original things I've come across recently.
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All commutes are terrible. If you have the type of job where you can work from home, then any commute is a theft of your time.
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True. If you look at porn on the internet, you're almost certainly visiting pornhub-owned sites whether you know it or not.
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It's ok, but not great. The biggest issue is that Signal is really designed to be tied to your smartphone and managed from there. I, and I suspect a lot of other folks who use the desktop app, would prefer Signal to be more platform an
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> a real attempt to reduce rent seeking would probably lead to civil war. Agreed, but a failure to reduce it would probably lead to the same thing eventually.
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That just sounds like a form of mob rule. That's why most democratic countries have some basic rights enshrined in a constitution rather than dependent on the will of the voters.
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I often really like this community, but I have found people here especially prone to falling to the "no-dissapointment-in-my-life-is-ever-my-fault trap". ie.: believing that they are where they are due to vast and well-executed sy
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> Because if we banned sites for causing suicides then Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok would be off the internet. You'd have to ban mainstream news outlets for the exact same reason.
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Knowing someone is "at school" or "at a friend's house" is qualitatively different from being fed their geographic coordinates in real time. Kind of like if you were in the bathroom when a guest arrived at your hous
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> As a non-parents and a tech guy who believes in freedom, my preferred solution is parents doing their jobs properly and restricting their children's access to devices and content that is harmful and not meant for children. As a pa
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If you're betting on California doing something stupid, you always want to go long.
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Don't go ruining a perfectly good internet argument with the facts /s
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> I guess it’s a matter of opinion whether or not making people sweat is the mark of a good interview. Exactly. Part of the reason Joe Rogan is so huge is that a lot of people are sick of the current interviewing model, where some sneer
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He let his guests talk without trying to put words in their mouths. He respects his guests and takes a sincere interest in them. In other words, he's the exact opposite of most people in the media.
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Unreal this amount of hate toward a man who does not claim to be an authority on anything and happens to have a popular podcast. Don't like Rogan? Don't listen to him and leave it at that.
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> But let's have a random arm-chair HN poster tell Tim Cook how to run Apple. No one's telling Tim Cook how to run Apple; just stating facts about how the world works. Tim Cook (presumably) wants the best developers. The best d
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by tharne 4y ago
Exactly, folks like @senttoschool seem to think that somehow Chinese workers are okay with being treated like shit indefinitely - they aren't. Like anyone else, Chinese workers are going to push for better wages and working conditions
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C'mon man, we all saw the president of Ukraine very vocally and forcefully asking the West for help in the form of advanced weaponry. Back in February, at the outset of the war, the U.S. offered to evacuate President Zelensky. His exac
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> Opposing nuclear power was probably a mistake at scale Tell that to the folks in Ukraine who now have to worry about one of their plants melting down in addition to everything else they're dealing with. Imagine a conflict on the s
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> Working in an office is now considered as "being pushed around like a bunch of peasants". Having to be in a particular location for a set number of hours per day because someone else says so, when it has exactly zero to do w
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> What’s a word where dystopia meets Stockholm Syndrome? I laughed so hard, I spit out my coffee reading this line.
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> A lot of developers seem to underlook building for mobile, despite how important it is That's because mobile is inferior from a design perspective - you just have lot less to work with. People like mobile because it's super

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