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Just one example is it's the norm to ask police for directions in Japan.

> “If you are paying people to look at a screen, they’ll end up going to the highest bidder. There’s no glue.”

You're showing your cards here, champ.

My ex used to give her friends low doses of her ADHD medication for tech interviews and every one of them said the outcome was significantly better than they expected based on other interviews and preparation. I'm not sure what this says about the interview process, but it does indicate that for real-world applications it's more complicated than "stimulant = bad". They say they chose doses that "reflect typical doses in nonmedical settings", but those doses don't reflect what she gave her friends for performance _at all_. Let's reproduce this experiment with starting doses rather than straw-man high doses and see what happens.

Regardless of your opinion of WFH this sounds exactly like the kind of statement a company makes when they want to force their employees to deeply identify with their employer in an unhealthy way, or at least fake it. It's a great strategy for producing a monoculture of thought long term.

In my culture we don't keep a live current in pools of water around the house. To many that may sound bizarre but it's how we've always done things.

When the "dangerous SF streets" angle didn't hold up they had to find a story to dig for even if it's relatively tame and dorky to a lot of us.

Five+ years ago when more of us believed that false promise that it was happening any day now it made more sense to have discussions about these kinds of hypothetical situations.

Psychedelics don't "cure" depression, but they can show you the way with the right intention. That can sound very woowo to a bunch of scientists and engineers, but over the years I've found it's the easiest way to explain it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-insulin-resista... Inflammation leading to glucose accumulating in the bloodstream.

That's like saying people who see a door handle and instinctively pull are foolish because they missed the "push" sign, so just blame the people. It's not at all helpful no matter the veracity. Good technologies/rules are designed around people and our flaws even if eventually we're working on reducing said flaws.

If you don't know anyone who thinks about everyday purchases like this then you're in a social bubble. This is a normal concern for a lot of people.

Shhh, let people enjoy things.

Picking the grocery industry isn't exactly the best choice to show healthy competition and that we have a wide range of options https://prospect.org/power/proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger...

The reference paper says it's MB40: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36646104/

He doesn't know your vitamin D is high enough without testing at least once. Plenty of people who are outside a lot have vitamin D deficiency because we don't actually expose much of our skin to the sun due to clothing.

It's true - if you're lonely you're probably not good at being supportive to other lonely people so it can feel weird. Something that brought together groups who are willing to be patient and encouraging that are looking for more people would probably work well, kind of like an extrovert "adopting" an introvert.

From the beginning of the article:

>The 28-year-old has sold all the rights to the 291 songs he has released, or has an interest in, up until the end of 2021

Considering you created multiple accounts to promote a viewpoint to create a false sense of consensus rather than arguing in good faith, I'd say maybe god could have taught you more ethics https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fjweoijf

Concur's backend is typical of a slow moving industry that works with old awkward systems like airlines. It's a shitshow of business logic and 20 year old legacy code that would be a long expensive nightmare to rewrite for little actual profit so no manager would ever approve of such an endeavor. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mess of queries involved with this search such that trying to do a real sort of the results would require a significant degree of rewriting and touching scary code with huge amounts of bureaucratic review in order to be DOD compliant, so it gets labeled as "good enough" even if the current state drives some developers crazy.

1) From the average Twitter user's perspective it's currently a mess. Pages timeout loading constantly, I can't think of a single user I know who doesn't know multiple people who are permanently quitting specifically because of this buyout, and multiple features are now either disabled or not functioning properly. Maybe they can pull out of this but it's evident just from trying to use Twitter that right now the company is clearly in chaos. The media can say what it wants and can focus on a few funny trolling moments, but the experience speaks for itself.

2) Keyword "sometimes". So wait, you completely trust a man who bought a company for multiple billions and doesn't even really understand how to run the organization he took complete control over before starting to take drastic actions? Do engineers do that sort of thing? Sometimes NPD in a person can lead to getting a lot of things done and getting a lot of support for it when needed, but in this case like many others it goes down a destructive path. If he had a clear way out he would have proudly announced it and stuck with it with some signal it's working a long time ago without constantly having to back peddle or drastically switch directions. Maybe he can eventually pull it off, but what he's doing now isn't showing any indication of that.

It's a difficult task to fix a broken culture like in law enforcement and we're seeing the realization that just cutting funding isn't going to magically fix everything.

It's a simple hypothesis to say that after the CHAZ suddenly everyone hated police, but in reality the tone among young people in Seattle was already becoming heavily anti-cop for years if you were part of the conversations going on. It's possible it just became more acceptable to express those feelings towards police directly and less acceptable to be positive towards them, especially with the stress of the pandemic destroying people's filters. Enforcement of certain laws like traffic violations or drug use was also already on the way out well before the pandemic started. Electing a pro-cop candidate like Harrell may be an indication of a swing in the other direction.

More important are the millions of working-age Americans dealing with sequelae from acute covid illness, aka long covid, who are now unable to hold down a full time job. This issue has been grossly neglected because the majority of medical professionals have been largely dismissive of it.