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natrikon To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

Is persuasion using emotion to heighten the strength of the persuasion manipulation?

Relevant - https://i.imgur.com/yN2l1Cp.png

natrikon Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance

Technically data can be biased because what you call a misrepresentation is termed bias:

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

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

natrikon Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance

How would you be able to tell the difference between actual personal identification and a lie?

natrikon Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day

People drink coffee (consume caffeine) because they wish to be more alert/are sleepy. This is a consequence of not getting enough sleep. Lack of sleep has many documented negative effects, but people trade sleep (health) for productivity/etc. via caffeine intake.

natrikon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

What if you don't consider it as compensation, but as an expense.

ie. Working for X company will net me $150k in wages, however I will have to pay for my own meat meals, insurance, etc. I probably won't work here. Even though the company pays for only economy class flights and requires me to take one every 3 months.

natrikon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

At my current workplace I can only work from home once per week. I would vastly prefer working from home than the uncomfortable chair and noisy working environment of the office, but I have to make do.

Options available to me are changing jobs, asking for a policy shift because of medical issues, etc.

If you have to eat a more ethically sourced and less savory meal because of work I don't see that to be a large issue.

natrikon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

Most of your comments on this thread have been illogical.

Companies are not required to dole out free food. Them changing their policies to only reimburse certain kinds of food can be met with you leaving the company if it matters that much to you.

You can bring your own food or pay for it out of your own pocket if you need to. They have stated people with medical/religious requirements that need meat will have their needs met.

natrikon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

Individuals requiring “medical or religious” allowances are being referred to the company’s policy team to discuss options.

In the rare occasions where you absolutely need meat it would be available...

natrikon WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

You can eat whatever you want, WeWork simply won't reimburse you if it is meat.

Once again to reiterate, they are not limiting your choice, they are limiting what they will reimburse.

natrikon Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Amazing short fictional novel by a Nobel Prize winning author.

natrikon Please stop asking me to use the app

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Interesting article I suggest reading.

I agree with TheCoelacanth that an increase in users will lead to a decrease in quality.

natrikon Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns

One of my friends who is still resolutely on Snapchat has told me that it gives her, “a space to be visible just to some people, to not have to share everything with everyone in order to share anything with anyone. That, to me, is too high a cost, and it’s a cost that so many other platforms require you to pay.”

One of the main reasons why I still use Snapchat.

natrikon Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

Your recent likes are shown to your followers on Instagram.

natrikon Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel

“We made it—we made it specifically for this shit too,”

probably said something like that

natrikon College is a bad decision for most people

>During that four year period, I took only 3 courses that actually helped me in life

>What should you do instead of going to college? Use the internet for your education.

Many places require a minimum of a bachelors for a 'job'. The internet may have better resources, but is not sufficient in terms of certification in today's society. Your later points attempt to rebut this argument with I do think that more and more employers are like me though. in the sense they do not require a degree.

>I also strongly recommend finding whatever career you want, then offering yourself as free labor – “unpaid intern” – for a year to apprentice with someone doing the job you want. You will learn all the practical skills of the work very rapidly and actually see if you like the field quickly.

Not applicable to engineering disciplines

>But won’t you be missing out on the great networking of college? If by great networking, you mean hanging out with people with no jobs or purpose who spend most of their time drinking, sure.

Social skills? You choose your friends and there plenty who obtain internships while still in college. Drinking responsibly is not wrong either.

natrikon Mark Zuckerberg: We want to get 1B people in virtual reality

https://i.imgur.com/uCHKebT.jpg