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msboton Ask HN: Have you been on a meditation retreat? How has it changed your life?

This is my favorite. http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...

msboton Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?

I love this. I will be using this from now on.

Sorry to hear you were one of those receiving that dump work. I saw it happen to one of the most talented developers I've worked with at a prior gig a few years back. A few of us made a pact to never dump our work on "V___" and try to lighten his workload. Hopefully, this will improve people's situations.

msboton The Age of Rudeness

You may consider yourself rude, but it takes a lot of guts to admit what you just did. There's a lot of honesty there.

There are probably others who feel very similar to you, minus expressing it. And you having posted it may have helped inspire an observer.

There are probably moments where you've been "right" and didn't notice it.

msboton Chase had ads on 400k sites, then on just 5k, with same results

The adtech places I've worked at relied on cookies. They usually have massive networks of major sites and track your browser activity as you browse different.

However, the servers were always crashing and I was always wondering when the customers would figure out that they were throwing money away.

msboton In under 24 hours, two people will die unless we get drones out to Joshua Tree

Way to bring attention to this. Great news!

msboton Uber rival Karhoo shuts down

Ha ha ha, did you interview with them, too?

msboton Ask HN: Who is firing?

This happened at my prior job which ambush fired me back in February. I noticed that their main investors had started to back out of tech investments in general, and then heard about several rounds of layoffs since then. Friends told me about a morale drop, but they are also friends, and might have been trying to soften the blow.

Anyhow, I like your idea for dayssincelastlayoff.com.

msboton Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream

He's also citing the inclusion of women's right to vote. To even question a demographic's right like that makes him incredibly suspect in my eyes.

msboton Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream

I can, and so can women.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

msboton Guccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation

As an American, thank you for stating what I thought was obvious.