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by vba616 4y ago
George Bernard Shaw "argued that moderns are no less inclined to accept incomprehensible miracles on faith than were [Joan of Arc's] supporters and enemies. It’s only the flavor of the miracles which has changed. ``Our credulity,
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by vba616 4y ago
Places I've worked, I'm not aware they ever had severance, stock options or RSUs, or free snacks. One job had free keurig cups, and one job had free coffee in the form of a couple of pots in the morning that got pretty burnt tasti
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by vba616 4y ago
Ahhhh...people shouldn't complain about criticism that compares the US to others, but it's "apples and oranges". That phrase, apples and oranges, is a rebuke to an attempt to compare things. You sound like you're on
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by vba616 4y ago
I have a hard time following what you've written, but none of it seems to have to do with liquidity - short term investments - so why bring up reserves?
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't know, all the hand-wringing articles I see seem to ignore what seems interesting and notable to me. That is, the dollar has been strengthening for an extended amount of time versus other industrialized nations' currencies,
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by vba616 4y ago
Yeah, so the only possible loophole I can see is the definition of "flavor". Somehow, "sweet" must not legally be a flavor? Furthermore, reading your quoted definition closely, it seems to me that "artificial"
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by vba616 4y ago
If people are talking about "bait", I assume they mean the title is bait for the article. Don't see how the article can rebut the title being designed to enrage by misleading.
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by vba616 4y ago
Temping is a thing that exists, doesn't it? Is it immoral because some people are stuck with commitments that preclude it?
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by vba616 4y ago
Everything changed overnight. Literally overnight, from Saturday to Sunday, it seems. “Mike do you know even one person who has a problem withdrawing from Celsius?” Mashinsky asked venture capitalist Mike Dudas on Twitter on June 11. “Why s
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by vba616 4y ago
The title on HN reflects and is almost identical to the original title on Chen's post. The entire point of the story is to be misleading at first and produce some mild humor.
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by vba616 4y ago
Seems like there are many parallel universes. In one of them, people who do bad things or even crimes, may be forbidden to do certain kinds of jobs, but the generally agreed-upon ethical framework says that discrimination is only permissibl
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by vba616 4y ago
The thread that runs through this is loyalty to an organization and the assumption that it will be reciprocated. But reality is that there are all sorts of conflicting interests, and no principle can tell you how to resolve them in all case
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by vba616 4y ago
I didn't write, think, or imply anyone was a saint! Literally nobody used the word in this thread until you! I responded to you, and you seemed to have two categories: 1) sociopath (Putin, Hussein) 2) not-a-sociopath (Washington
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by vba616 4y ago
The point of automation is making sure you get things correct.
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by vba616 4y ago
In newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it is a complete functional-esque language. Like SQL plus easy higher order fun
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by vba616 4y ago
People I've known who do sewing and needlework and stuff seem to have perennial stories about clueless people asking if they can buy or commission a piece without the vaguest concept of how much time and effort went into the one on dis
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by vba616 4y ago
I agree that the list has a tone and probably originated in a desire of letting people who are making six figures for the first time know what they can do, but more than a few items are potentially relevant to someone making half of a bay a
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by vba616 4y ago
>all this stuff If you aren't rich, you're allowed to do some of the stuff that rich people do, without doing all of it. In my opinion, that's the entire reason for preferring a capitalist society where money determine
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by vba616 4y ago
I would like to know why products can say "no artificial flavors" when they use artificial sweeteners. I guess someone somewhere convinced people that "sweet" isn't a flavor. But it's extremely misleading, and
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by vba616 4y ago
>George Washington, Ghandi, Churchill - they weren't sociopaths Oh dear...we can all agree about Gandhi and Churchill? They go together like Le Duc Tho and Kissinger. Churchill is associated with a famine in India during WWII that k
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by vba616 4y ago
Moreover, if someone is talented and driven and charismatic and a sociopath, then they are probably at an advantage compared to someone who is missing one or more of those characteristics. By default, one should assume the most successful p
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by vba616 4y ago
This "logic" of denying that something is real by saying people wouldn't stand for it if it was, bugs me. People will stand for it if they accept this sort of denial that it's happening!
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by vba616 4y ago
Geico didn't think it was a great policy; they said it didn't cover the claim, and then the panel of judges said they failed to defend their policyholder, so tough, pay up. And Geico is still going to appeal in a federal lawsuit
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by vba616 4y ago
But there is no comparison, is there? It's a completely unrelated flamewar.
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by vba616 4y ago
It appears the award was determined by an arbitrator, and the appeal determined by judges, so I'm not sure it's at all similar to the McDonald's case. It sounds like another example of big corporations forcing arbitration on
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by vba616 4y ago
You can say the phrase "task capability", but where is it? I mean, where is the universal capability? The comment that you have responded to lists a bunch of examples that fit a pattern of very non universal capabilities. I th
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by vba616 4y ago
You can make an argument, and I think many people have, that only rich people should be taxed and not corporations, because only some of the stakeholders in corporations are rich. But there are two questions that I can think of raised by el
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by vba616 4y ago
It is difficult to discuss the errors of the Third Reich, because it can be easily misconstrued as considering the possibility that they were right about some things. In my view that means that some of the things the Nazis were gravely wron
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Psychiatric Genocide: Nazi Attempts to Eradicate Schizophrenia(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by vba616 4y ago
>You can imagine it being like if a farmer had a bunch of grain stored in a silo and it somehow went bad. It's fundamentally different, practically the opposite. Paper losses are like a farmer realizing that the grain in his silo

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