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Arguably if you can't achieve this, ngmi.

No, you can squat in the hospital bed. (Source: have given birth.) I'm not sure whether this is the same in India, but in the USA most hospitals don't want you to get out of bed post-epidural because you're a fall risk which incurs legal liability.

> probably because at least someone in HN leadership realises just how bad this reflects on the USA and its people.

flags are user-driven

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Whenever you submit a link, you get dropped on /new, so that's when I look at it.

Partying is fun!

Even Amazon has substantial ad revenue now, and it does in fact undercut customer obsession by polluting search results.

People who will get paid more if AI eliminates jobs (in theory, anyway — execs aren't necessarily owners) versus people whose jobs will be eliminated.

Trans men have no advantage against cis men.

It's more that "military power" per se is not the be-all-end-all of conflict.

Right? I was like when did software quality matter. Let alone code quality lol

Are countries within the EU sovereign, or is the EU sovereign? This is a sincere question. I googled for the official answer, which is that member countries are sovereign, but in terms of realpolitik?

Man, I broadly agree with you about this type of person, but it makes me cringe that you say "this creature" and use the dog metaphor. He sucks but he's a human.

You are, of course, under no obligation to capitulate to my discomfort, but I figured it was worth commenting.

Just wanna say, as a candidate, your product is so good. 1000x less annoying to use than alternatives.

Rote learning isn't the be-all-end-all of education, but it's actually very important. You can't think anything interesting without knowing stuff to think about. Facts are important. Memorization is important.

> But why does that feel like anything?

Anthropic principle: because it does. If it didn't feel like anything, it wouldn't. But it does, so it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Per American jurisprudence, this is false. Incitement / true threats are very narrow.

Homelessness and world hunger are not bottlenecked by money. There's a stronger case for healthcare, but that's also substantially a political issue.

this is a bit hackneyed but it's true: time in the market > timing the market

now obviously, if you do time the market perfectly, that's the best. but it is far far more likely to shoot yourself in the foot by trying

The school system needs an Official™ medical justification to grant your kid extra accommodations for whatever his behavioral issues are. They are less interested in whether he "actually" has autism than in a rubber stamp that gives them more options for managing him. Which might indeed be a good thing for your son! It's hard to say without being closer to the situation.

Stocks are narrative-driven, and sometimes this aspect swamps the "fundamentals." Keynesian beauty contests all the way down.

> Lack of interest in the field would result in fewer female applicants

Anyone in a hiring position would tell you, lack of intrinsic interest, or expertise, does not stop people from applying to an open position.

No they are not equivalent. This came up with James Damore too.

Let's say there's a pool of 20 candidates, 10 male and 10 female. Since more men than women have an abiding interest in engineering, let us posit that 40% of the men are top prospects for the job, and 20% of the women are equally high-quality workers. The company is trying to fill 6 roles and has an internal mandate to hire 50% women. To serve that mandate, 1 unqualified woman will be hired, at the expense of 1 of the qualified men.

You can apply the exact same logic w/r/t race. Yes, there are legacy-of-slavery reasons why fewer blacks than whites are qualified for any given technical credential, but those are upstream of hiring decisions, and are not the job of e.g. airlines to solve, especially not at the expense of lowering standards for a crucial position like pilot.

It is bizarre to me that you relate this experience like it's fun and whimsical trivia. Maybe that's because I'm a woman and identify more with the victims...

~No one pushes back on abuses of power by their own side.

(Not literally no one, but few enough people that they effectively don't matter.)

Dairy farming is pretty brutal to the cows, as is all industrial-scale animal husbandry.

(I'm not vegan, I eat dairy. It is what it is.)

Point being? Are you insinuating that Usha Vance is treated equivalent to a chattel slave? That seems... incorrect.

Total fertility rate. I am mostly joking (sorry, I know is verboten on HN), but there is actually a lot of chatter about whether Taylor Swift having a baby would impact the reproductive behavior of her huge following.

While anti-vax people / families obviously exist, are there really that many? Any substantiating data? (I am genuinely curious, though skeptical.)

Honestly, I do think there are advantages to in-person work, in terms of team cohesion, serendipity, etc. That said, 1) I don't care, the advantages to me of remote work vastly outweigh the advantages of working on an irl team, 2) many organizations don't set up their irl work environment to effectively maximize the benefits. But I get why employers would prefer it.