it's shocking that this division exists. liberty requires freedom from ANY institution, whether state, church, or corporation, from having too much power over your life.
HN has a lot of blindspots. This famous quote comes to mind. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
>about: Google fanatic from your HN profile
most drivers in NY drive for multiple companies. Uber, Lyft, and Gett are the most common.
a permanent resident immigrant is definitely an American. it's important to distinguish between temporary guest workers and Americans who were born somewhere else.
you're already writing the test cases to ensure correct behavior with typical input, and predictable exceptional input. putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a…
The type systems of Java and C/C++ are the most commonly encountered ones and by far the most widespread in industry programming (as opposed to academia/research) and they are actually awful and really add a lot of…
I think you should be a lot more careful about throwing around terms like "extremely narcissistic", which both has a technical definition in psychology, and also an enormous amount of emotionally loaded subtext. I also…
No zero days is such good advice. Even a small, but concrete, goal to accomplish every day makes a huge difference. It requires self-compassion to set appropriate goals that match what we're capable of in the middle of…
you may have a very idealistic idea of academia.
its not non-sense but it might be underspecified. the only jobs that care that you have, specifically, an English degree are jobs in academia. Corporate jobs will gladly hire an English major just because it's a degree…
this is the demogaphics page from the Harper's Bazaar media kit http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp... they push heavily that their target audience is affluent, college-educated women. they…
it was a bad interview and Peterson's cantankerousness got the better of him during that segment. The second interview is more worthwhile, and the two of them have an interesting discussion about what sorts of concepts…
was he right? he's one of the most historically examined leaders of all time and we still don't know. In the present we have the benefit of hindsight and can more easily see that war was inevitable and we might even…
> In the 1850s US, there were pro-slavers and anti-slavers. Who was in the middle, and were they right? Abraham Lincoln
you're correct, there are many many different varieties of Buddhism. It's more correct to talk about Buddhisms since it's not just one thing. In the Chinese context though we're generally looking at Mahayana schools…
Trump is deliberately using the language and tactics of his political enemies against them in a kind of counter-trolling demagoguery. This is ugly stuff. The discourse has descended to the level where the media is…
Romulans are emphatically not dark and barbaric, they're "evil" Vulcans, and aesthetically modeled on various European Imperial iconographies with lots of Eagle/raptor symbolism. Ancient Roman (it's in the name already)…
you just reflexively accused someone of being a sexist on no evidence
Chinese philosophical roots include both Confucianism and Taoism, as well as the imported schools of though associated with Buddhism, and more recently quite a lot of modern Western ideas (particularly Marxism). Taoism…
that isn't what compensation means, and the amount of money it costs to improve your health outcomes is not much how much those improved outcomes are worth, it's how much you were billed
kind of a bogus measure. if the nominal cost of health insurance coverage rises, and your employer continues to pay for it, your total compensation went up, but you didn't benefit from it at all. it just became more…
you're bending the word propaganda to the breaking point.
I think they stumbled into being media companies out of naivety and not understanding, initially anyway, that they had duplicated a media company business model with everything except the content generation. they simply…
the parties differ on fiscal policy, and each has chosen opposing sides in the inter-generational culture war, but besides that they are shockingly similar. both parties are corporatist, neoliberal,…
it's shocking that this division exists. liberty requires freedom from ANY institution, whether state, church, or corporation, from having too much power over your life.
HN has a lot of blindspots. This famous quote comes to mind. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
>about: Google fanatic from your HN profile
most drivers in NY drive for multiple companies. Uber, Lyft, and Gett are the most common.
a permanent resident immigrant is definitely an American. it's important to distinguish between temporary guest workers and Americans who were born somewhere else.
you're already writing the test cases to ensure correct behavior with typical input, and predictable exceptional input. putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input (wrong type) doesn't really add a…
The type systems of Java and C/C++ are the most commonly encountered ones and by far the most widespread in industry programming (as opposed to academia/research) and they are actually awful and really add a lot of…
I think you should be a lot more careful about throwing around terms like "extremely narcissistic", which both has a technical definition in psychology, and also an enormous amount of emotionally loaded subtext. I also…
No zero days is such good advice. Even a small, but concrete, goal to accomplish every day makes a huge difference. It requires self-compassion to set appropriate goals that match what we're capable of in the middle of…
you may have a very idealistic idea of academia.
its not non-sense but it might be underspecified. the only jobs that care that you have, specifically, an English degree are jobs in academia. Corporate jobs will gladly hire an English major just because it's a degree…
this is the demogaphics page from the Harper's Bazaar media kit http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp... they push heavily that their target audience is affluent, college-educated women. they…
it was a bad interview and Peterson's cantankerousness got the better of him during that segment. The second interview is more worthwhile, and the two of them have an interesting discussion about what sorts of concepts…
was he right? he's one of the most historically examined leaders of all time and we still don't know. In the present we have the benefit of hindsight and can more easily see that war was inevitable and we might even…
> In the 1850s US, there were pro-slavers and anti-slavers. Who was in the middle, and were they right? Abraham Lincoln
you're correct, there are many many different varieties of Buddhism. It's more correct to talk about Buddhisms since it's not just one thing. In the Chinese context though we're generally looking at Mahayana schools…
Trump is deliberately using the language and tactics of his political enemies against them in a kind of counter-trolling demagoguery. This is ugly stuff. The discourse has descended to the level where the media is…
Romulans are emphatically not dark and barbaric, they're "evil" Vulcans, and aesthetically modeled on various European Imperial iconographies with lots of Eagle/raptor symbolism. Ancient Roman (it's in the name already)…
you just reflexively accused someone of being a sexist on no evidence
Chinese philosophical roots include both Confucianism and Taoism, as well as the imported schools of though associated with Buddhism, and more recently quite a lot of modern Western ideas (particularly Marxism). Taoism…
that isn't what compensation means, and the amount of money it costs to improve your health outcomes is not much how much those improved outcomes are worth, it's how much you were billed
kind of a bogus measure. if the nominal cost of health insurance coverage rises, and your employer continues to pay for it, your total compensation went up, but you didn't benefit from it at all. it just became more…
you're bending the word propaganda to the breaking point.
I think they stumbled into being media companies out of naivety and not understanding, initially anyway, that they had duplicated a media company business model with everything except the content generation. they simply…
the parties differ on fiscal policy, and each has chosen opposing sides in the inter-generational culture war, but besides that they are shockingly similar. both parties are corporatist, neoliberal,…