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I think what the post above yours is trying to say is that the company I work for has no say what I do with my 8 hours of sleep time. If I want to only sleep for 4 hours but I come to work and get my job done, who cares? It is my time anyway and they aren't paying me to sleep so why should they have a say? If my work is suffering, sure, they have a right to fire me but if I get my work done in the 8 hours, they have no say over the other 16.

You can fit all the planets in the Solar System side by side between the Earth and the Moon. Makes you realize just how vast Space can be.

Source: https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-p...

Time management. Not only can it help you when dealing with deadlines, it can also help you manage multiple projects at once. Knowing how many hours to put into project A or B each day to still meet goals is pretty important. It can also bleed into your out-of-work life as well. Blocking off time to relax/learn/workout is important to get the most out of your day. It is definitely something I have struggled with but have seen results when actively trying to manage my time.

I don't think this is a terrible thing. I don't enjoy it, I would much rather have an ad free web, but I've come to terms with how many things on the internet have to make money. It isn't intrusive at all and is situated at the bottom of the page where I do not even glance at. As long as that is where it ends, then I am fine with it. It becomes a problem when we have browser forced banner ads that stretch across the screen obscuring parts of pages.

To be fair, is that not everybody's ideal life? To not have to truly "work", just to do things they find enjoyable? Feeling entitled would be demanding that from every job, being realistic would be understand that normal jobs can help motivate you to get to that "ideal" life.

> The Centralia mine fire also extended beneath the town of Byrnesville, a few miles to the south.

What an ironic chain of events to happen to a place called Byrnesville.

The DO droplets are such a great investment. Using them to learn and develop is such an easy thing to do and they can be used for almost anything. This last weekend I set up NodeJS and Postgres just to tinker with and it has been a blast to learn something new. At $5 a month, it is hard to pass up.

I am extremely torn in a couple ways.

On the entire fact-checking ordeal: Why do we even need this? I haven't used Facebook in the last year, but even during the time of the election, I would see outrageously incorrect "news" posts and just keep scrolling. They almost reminded me of those pervasive ads at the bottom of websites after an article. "This ancient paper folding technique will get rid of crows feet!" kind of ads. You just didn't click on it because you know it is just a scam. Yet at the same time, people were (not sure about recently) using Facebook as a news source. I imagine if they saw "[Politician] revealed as lizard man" had millions of likes/shares it would be hard to accept that millions of people are wrong. Personally, that is not how I view social media but after these last few years, it seems like not everyone shared my approach.

On Facebook: Fake news will be the death of Facebook. The harder it cracks down on it, the more we will realize how ingrained it has become on the internet. It really is a lose-lose situation. If they remove these outlandish posts, people will begin to cry censorship and leave the platform. These same people will just get their "news" from another site. If they don't crack down on it and just ride the "Fake News" wave, they will be seen as accomplices in the entire fiasco and once again, people will leave the platform. I would like to imagine the second scenario would equate in more people leaving but at this point, I really have no idea.

That is incredibly upsetting but was very fascinating to read about. The author handled the situation extremely well after seeing (what seems to be) a major part of their life be "intellectually" taken away from them. Even though they may own the patent, the patent troll will never take away the dedication, work and love poured into this passion project. It definitely should make anyone question the current patent process.

I should have made it more clear that it was in my own personal experience. Many of the kids from my highschool or even as late as the people I am still in contact with from college. Many are astonished I own a bookshelf full of books and actually read from it. I am pretty sure there is no real relation here, but I would like to compare it to how the same set of people feel about math. They have an assumption that it is boring and not fun so they actively avoid it.

I don't see where the comment above yours said anything about inviting screaming children into libraries. Screaming kids in most situations is frustrating and can be off-putting. Libraries should have similar social norms as anywhere else.

I feel like this is a very negative way to view the situation. Libraries should totally be "fun". It should be "fun" to go and find a book that you enjoy or just spend time reading in an area dedicated to the love of books. It shouldn't be a place to just drop the kids off and leave, but it should be a place kids want to go. Reading can be fun and I almost feel like it is a "trendy thing" of my generation (Millennial) to hate it.

I think what is trying to be said is that Amazon doesn't need a handout. They are fully capable of picking any city in the US to set up shop. What would have happened if nobody bit on the whole scheme anyway? Would have they just picked some random Townsville,USA and paid full price? Without the subsidies, Amazon wouldn't have been "donating" $2.4B, that's just the extra cost of doing business there. Amazon will be great for wherever they go but the money, in my opinion, is better spent on other things.

I am not sure BF5 relates to this at all. It seems like many people were under the impression DICE was involving "gender politics" into a video game even though women would have definitely been involved in the setting. The ones outraged by it, in my opinion, just wanted to be outraged by it instead of having a good reasoning behind it. The gaming industry also has a lot more artistic freedom in taking jabs at the political here and now.

Would you be willing to show some recent security failures? Whenever I searched, I found a few things from 2016 but that seemed like the latest thing. 2 years is a good bit of time without any incidences.

From a purely bi-partisan viewpoint, I think this is a big deal for many other reasons as well. If I remember correctly, a few Republicans defended Sessions saying that his firing would cause some backlash. This was due in part for their admiration of the man as he gave up a Senate seat to become AG and for being a pretty staunch Republican. On the left, Sessions is known to be the leader of all the big police/drug/immigration policies that the Trump Administration wanted enforced. He also was a piece of the puzzle between Trump himself and Mueller like you stated above. His ousting definitely has feathers ruffled on both sides from what I can see.

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I think it can really be summarized as the following: adding something to the community. It can be a new relevant story/project submission or a comment with an on-topic question/anecdote. As long as it adds something new and different,(I say different here because it can't just be a re-iteration of someone else's post, within reason) users will find it karma-worthy. Users here being users like me and probably your average user on HN.

Agreed. Someone stated the other day on something similar and it matches up pretty well, it went something like:

"...you have the right to free speech, not consequence free speech"

I do not believe that standing up to sexual harassment or other morally objectionable things as "dragging the company into the mud in the press". They are calling Google out on a multitude of shady business practices like any good employee would do. Keeping sexual harassment under wraps will just cause it to ferment inside the inner workings of the company and eventually it will boil over in an even larger scandal. It should be taken care of as soon as it comes up.

It shouldn't matter if she was going to get the position or not. This interaction between an interviewer and (recently) interviewee is just wrong. It is an abuse of power. If she HAD received the job offer, who knows if the advances would have ever stopped?