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Also note https://text.npr.org/

They might as well call the site "PleaseHackMe."

And considering carcinogens specifically, they're so ubiquitous in modern life in various tiny quantities that eliminating credible risks becomes an exhausting goose chase.

There's a lot to appreciate about Stallman, but as an ideologue, he's never going to prioritize a gentle & incremental articulation of his ideas. We could call it a failure to empathize, but you see ideologues all over undermining their communication by making it as distilled & radical as possible. But that's not what tends to convince other humans they're wrong about something.

That makes it hard to come out of your office to accomplish a specific task, like grabbing coffee or visiting the restroom. Then your attention's not free game, and you still have to sneak around.

It's basically a warning against escapist entertainment of any form.

You're getting downvoted, but I just want to let you know that you're absolutely right. It's a very adolescent thing to reduce life-meaning down to career, and project one's angst onto everybody else. I'm all for finding a way to enjoy the 1/3 of life that is your career, but the "wake up sheeple" alarmism is not higher vision, it's a failure to see both the restrictions of a scarce economy and the joys of family and responsibility.

Why do you hate it?

You don't envy me, you don't know anything about me.

I'd encourage you to examine some of the many arguments for the supernatural that have been discussed for many years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0

Anecdotally, I'd say yes, it's mostly the discoverability, plus things like Prime shipping, reviews, the generally good UI, etc.

Sure, but I like most of the critically acclaimed books that I buy, which is more analogous to mrec's comment.

How much profit does Amazon show?

As above, I was referring to mrec's behavior of returning most games he buys, including critically-acclaimed ones. That's not a case of disliking a certain work, but of either not knowing your own taste or disliking the medium itself.

I was referring to mrec's behavior of returning most games he buys, including critically-acclaimed ones. That's not a case of disliking a certain work, but of either not knowing your own taste or disliking the medium itself.

Are you sure you like video games?

I hope you can make your way toward a less noxious & more trusting version of the human experience.

Maybe it's only made toxic by those who need to shout to negotiate a raise.

> There isn't any evidence that there is anything happening that's not biological despite 1000's of years of searching for that evidence.

If we're looking for something supernatural like a soul, then we shouldn't expect to see natural evidence. Thus the lack of that evidence does not imply its nonexistence. Relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/638/

I understand hating that from a health perspective, but for a profit-driven entity there's no resolving this issue without compromise. Sick time will always get abused by someone, so you might as well provide some incentive to not abuse it.

It's very hard to quantify the marginal business value given by a single employee, especially if they're just starting in the position.

Economics is driven by scarcity - supply and demand. Companies have no financial incentive to pay us any more than it would take to hire a replacement. They're in the business of making profit, which necessarily means paying people less than the business value they add, and if a company wants to be very profitable, the only way is to pay substantially less than the value received.

So even if you pitch based on value add, you're really just signaling that you have top skills which are in short supply, and they'd better pay you more or else some other company will. They have no obligation or incentive to pay commensurate with value add, only to pay just enough to keep getting the value add.

Finally, some respect!

> I work remote and get a fair market rate (for the value I add, not based on where I live)

Unfortunately there are two misconceptions here: 1) that companies pay based on added value and not on replacement cost, & 2) that "a fair market rate" does not vary with location, when in reality different locations have different labor markets.

The reason SV companies pay so much is because their candidates expect it, and part of why they expect it is the high cost of living in the area. A company that pays less than average will get worse/fewer candidates, thus a local labor market. For a remote company, paying an SV employee the same rate as a midwest employee is to effectively compensate the latter much higher, and what's fair about that?

> If a job gets automated, now the thing being produced costs less. At scale it means you can have the same standard of living with a lower salary -- a boon for the poor.

This is making the massively optimistic assumption that cost savings will be passed onto the consumer rather than hoarded for executives & shareholders.

I find int helpful for companies to convert unused sick time into vacation time at a rate like 2/3. This provides less incentive for faking sick.

How exactly is it misleading? I know that things are things, and include both short- & long-lived things.

> I can't think of a single software tool that has enabled more productivity than a spreadsheet.

I submit to you: a clock, and a calculator. :)

It can't be guessed, but it can be shared, which is a vulnerability for content that would otherwise be inconvenient to share e.g. large videos.

think you could make yourself happy, by selecting a screen & scaling that allows default sizes to be readable. If I browsed from a Blackberry on a selfie stick, the onus wouldn't be on the developer to make me happy.

Shipping it over to user testing will help.