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by zer8k 2y ago
It's always funny to see people touting the virtues of de-escalation and soft talk. What happens when that fails? I started martial arts long ago because soft talk and de-escalation failed. I started training martial arts years ago. Of
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by zer8k 2y ago
> If you're a professional athlete trying to be vegan, then sure, you'll end up with a weird diet Professional athletes that are actually vegan are 4 sigma outliers. For most normal humans it's not possible to even be a mo
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by zer8k 3y ago
> but it's only hell because of the individual decisions of actual people up and down each belligerent's chain of command. If a 10 year old takes up an AK-47 and points it at you what are you going to do? If a woman carrying a
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by zer8k 3y ago
I mean, that's not true. But you won't agree with me as it's en-vogue to be pro-hamas. You should actually be ashamed of yourself how little you understand about how these terrorists operate and how boldly you claim shit like
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by zer8k 3y ago
See the part where I said aiding and abetting a known target makes you a target. "What about the children" is a very poor argument. Would you rather a fireteam kick down the door and have to shoot the entire family when they all s
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Killing innocent people is against international law and harms the country doing it. While killing terrorists is acceptable and even desirable to many people. Enemy combatant has a very specific meaning and that _can_ include people a
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Keynes’s dream that we could all work for only 15 hours a week could finally be true – with only one small, simple (but transformative) change. What the author fails to mention is Keynesian economics is how we ended up saddled with abs
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Not necessarily motivation in the sense of "why is this important", but motivation in the sense of "we are beginning a three page proof. Let me give you a paragraph to give you the outline so that you can fill in the det
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by zer8k 3y ago
SG&A is a cost on the income statement. This can only improve their quarterly earnings. Unfortunate it's the case, but stocks don't appreciate on goodwill (real goodwill not the line item).
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by zer8k 3y ago
The only reason I was on the radar is because I knew who to socialize with and what they wanted. After early senior engineer every promotion thereafter is typically political. My first order of business at any company is to sort people into
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Your skills and experience are what get you ahead truly In a decade of working in the industry I have found this to never have been the case. Every promotion I've ever gotten except for maybe the first few gimme promotions was bec
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by zer8k 3y ago
> commodities don't go up 100x like stocks do This is entirely due to the limit mechanism that tries to keep prices approximately in line with supply and demand. There have been several instances of grains in particular locking limi
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by zer8k 3y ago
If you look at old crop/new crop spreads over other commodities such as corn and soybeans it's clear that the disconnect between the front and back month is entirely on the yield (and therefore the price) of the future harvest. In
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by zer8k 3y ago
This is a lot of words to say you've never traded a commodity market. Blaming the liquidity providers while the fundamentals point to an exact reason cocoa is going nuts. Maybe do a little more than "clicking on random graphs&quot
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by zer8k 3y ago
There is a dramatic, almost chasm-like, difference between "stupid" and rational. Tactically it is a stupid decision. Remote work is by-and-large one of the biggest boons to an employee who would otherwise be jockeying for a house
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by zer8k 3y ago
> I have noticed a drastic increase in mental health and substance abuse issues among coworkers. This anecdata is not realized in the actual data. So we can disregard this. > An office job provided structure and meaningful daily conta
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by zer8k 3y ago
It's never a problem until it effects women, isn't it?
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by zer8k 3y ago
> So the unintended consequence I expect will be that censoring people for their political views will be the only strongly protected moderation actions. That's entirely intended. Look at what happened during COVID, the race riots po
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by zer8k 3y ago
Speculating on the journalistic quality of a far-left magazine on HN: Taboo Speculating on the journalistic quality of a far-right magazine on HN: "due diligence". It's important to understand the standpoint of the magazine.
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by zer8k 3y ago
Unions have their own problems that aren't often spoken about. Just recently, in fact, several hospital unions made concessions on employee safety due to COVID crises. As for me, personally, I don't plan on working for a company m
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by zer8k 3y ago
Did they send a formal cease and desist to entire countries worth of scammers? Otherwise, this is yet another piece of feel-good legislation that will do nothing to stop my phone from going off. Yes, I use RoboKiller. No, it doesn't st
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by zer8k 3y ago
Using your real identity anywhere online is a terrible idea. I'm not sure exactly when it happened that it became normal but I'm guessing social media is why. I see two problems: 1. You can never be truly honest. Everyone has a si
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by zer8k 3y ago
This has never, and probably never will, be anything more than a theory. In my experience this is only true if: 1. The "unit of work" is small enough to decompose into a 50 line PR. This is possible on larger codebases and less ve
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by zer8k 3y ago
Does the person just say "I have type 2 diabetes"?
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by zer8k 3y ago
Like usual lawyers walk away with Ferraris and the victims get a pittance. It's particular egregious in this case. $15k is almost surely less than even a year's wages. How pathetic. The very least they could do is calculate 7 year
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Tl;dr - "masking" making defining "authenticity" challenging for neurodivergent folks. Understood > But I don't think having a fixed concept of self is a universal experience. For me, (when I'm at my fu
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Do we even see authenticity in public? If you have the ability to sense another human's emotions you can often tell when someone is being authentic or not. Set and setting are also important. Authenticity is closer to honesty abou
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by zer8k 3y ago
> Tech has obviously in general has made considerable progress in being more inclusive Ah yes the old and tired argument comes out again. Since there are 50% men and 50% women in the world why doesn't tech look the same? Cool opinio
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by zer8k 3y ago
The first rule of being an American overseas is you are not an American overseas. You are a high priority target for robbery, kidnapping, extortion, scamming, murder, and a host of other things from the lovely locals you're mingling am
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by zer8k 3y ago
Strangely everyone here is suggesting overt attacks on the drone. That will get you put in prison. Rules for thee but not for me is how the police operate. The drone will have an FAA number and it'll become a felony for "shooting

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