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cmonnowon Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

Probably the same reason why the life of a cow is apparently less significant than that of a human.

There is a hierarchy of 'life'. Those who try to say 'All or Nothing' when it comes to harming a sentient being are either ignorant or simply trying to justify their meat-eating habits.

cmonnowon Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

faag ?

cmonnowon DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

Close to a billion people are going to vote using this method in a month's time.

cmonnowon Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

you're assuming that men and women have sexual differences? it's 2019.

cmonnowon Ask HN: How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?

same. i worked on-site for 1 year. then told them i was moving, from a 30 min commute to 1.30 hr commute (imagine DC beltway work-hour traffic), and that I'm not willing to do that every day. that's it, didn't say i'm gonna quit, or that i want to work remote etc.

they said 'would you like to try working remote for a few months, see if it works out for both of us ?'. I agreed and few months became 4 years. I'd visit the office once a month for department-wide meetings, so they wouldn't forget my ugly mug.

of course, database stuff is very well suited for remote work, so I might have lucked out there.. then again, when it came time for a promotion after 5 years, they gave me a decent raise, but on the condition 'you have to come in once a week'. i took the raise but left soon after.

cmonnowon The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]

May everyone reading this be happy and free.