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Ehh, this take feels ungenerous to me. You don't have to believe a private firm is a holy order for it to benefit from a culture filled with "we believe this specific project is Important" people vs "will work at whatever shop drops the most cash" people.

Mercenaries by definition select for individual dollar outcomes, and its impossible for that not to impact the way they operate in groups, which is generally to the group's detriment unless management is incredibly good at building group-first incentive structures that don't stomp individual outcomes.

That said, mercenary-missionaries are definitely a thing. They're unstoppable forces culturally and economically, and that could be who we're seeing move around here.

Where broker’s fees are concerned, up-front cost is typically first and last month’s rent, plus the broker’s fee, which can be as low as one month’s rent or as high as 15% of the annual rent total (almost twice the cost of a single month’s rent).

Apply the rules above to whatever the average rent is for a given neighborhood, and there you go.

A good-faith deposit equal to a typical broker’s fee is WILD, very glad the unit worked out!

Is that available on spotify? I desperately check gvb every six months or so, but it seems like a husk at this point

There’s nothing about a “fight the status quo” mentality that inherently favors authoritarianism and it’s not helpful to claim otherwise.

That said, it is helpful to remember both knowing- and unconscious authoritarians will twist any framework into an excuse to establish and flex authority — that’s their whole modus operandi, after all.

This is the right take — whatever your position on the future of this technology or its costs and benefits for humanity, the hypocrisy mentioned here shouldn't go unacknowledged.

Everyone should doublecheck sensationalist claims given the well-known incentives to lie, exaggerate, etc.

That said, cutting off contact with an under-age relative over a couple hundred dollars does sound like pretty miserly behavior. A lesson in the tenuousness of familial ties in the face of stubborn ideology, if anything.

Everyone quoted in this article is roughly 60 years old - would have loved to know if other generations are similarly split about this experience.

That said, as a former cashier who mostly uses self-checkout in her 30s: babysitting self-checkout sounds way less fun than chatting with strangers while I checked them out was.

I think the individual you’re replying to may be lying about their identity to make a point (re: the first individual asking a stranger to send them financial info) :)

You don’t tease your male friends and coworkers?

I think it’s more of a bonding ritual than anything (a moment of false vulnerability/social danger that resolves into safety), with different outcomes depending on the folks involved.

I typically just praise with upvotes, but I’m feeling grateful today: anecdotes like this one and gp are why I love hn

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I think you might appreciate this article (if you haven’t seen it already): https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

I dunno, I really enjoyed Dragon Age: Inquisition... but it was also my first real exposure to BioWare, so take it with a grain of salt.

Surely!

Mmm, and reality has a well-known liberal bias.

I cannot wait to tell you about the cutting-edge technology my team is developing — it's called the twigchain and it's going to change everything.

Common right-wing talking point: California’s liberal policy decisions are turning it into a lawless, woke, communist hell-hole that rational citizens are leaving in droves for enlightened states like Texas (ed. note: where they can get murdered in one of the monthly right-to-bear-arms rituals).

Something something "free market" something something "competition" something something "creative destruction"...

It's nice to believe throwing more greedy people at a problem will fix it, and hey, sometimes it works.

Sign of the times.

And thus the motor vehicle takes his rightful place at the top of the food chain: King of the concrete jungle. May he reign forever, tire never, and render his enemies unto the road.

I haven't bumped into his work before, this was an interesting read. What do you like about it?

The Arnell Group’s Pepsi Rebrand doc

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

The Gervais Principle comes to mind.

Another skill that'll be pretty valuable in this era is one many of the best technical leaders possess: the ability to coach desirable outcomes from squishy autonomous black boxes over time.

Getting excellent, exact performance out of deterministic systems is an impressive feat, but autonomy means variability, and getting excellent performance out of variable systems (especially illegible ones) is a different game.

Worth calling out here: that "nearly double" rate is specifically for the 10-14 age range; the next group up is up 30–50%.

I say that not to minimize at all... if anything I'm more shocked by this steep rise in younger children.

I don't know if it's really even reflective of any particular social group, as opposed to a reliable rhetorical maneuver that's just too effective to die out. History is made by people and organizations who use this One Simple Trick™, for better and for worse.

Breaking news from HN user ActorNightly: Anti-AI Visionary Elon Musk is a woke soyboy now. Will antifa's reign of terror ever end?

The person you’re responding to is talking about other organisms (ie not the tree), which seems compatible with your observation here.

Trees might be screaming/bubble-popping into the abyss for simple physical reasons, but if cavitation is very important to some creature, there’s a decent chance that creature has evolved to sense these vibrations.

The letter-fetishists strike again, waging their dishonorable war on the visual arts (and our spare time).