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I should really fix my submission!
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isolate on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I believe oil prices are going to go back up, how do I go about buying some oil? Is there any benefit to using a discount brokerage or can I just walk into my bank? I'm in Canada, does that matter? What kind of fees are acceptable? I have modest investing experience, enough to know that mutual funds are generally a rip-off. I don't have a financial advisor at the moment.I know it's a bit...
Again, that's why it's in quotes. Everyone agrees with you. Here, have an upvote.
That's why it's in quotes.
It's not even a fact - she can exercise the options more slowly than she is given them and still exercise all of them.
You can walk bookshelves if you tilt to one side and rotate, then tilt to the other side and rotate. Just in case you ever lose those muscles... hey, it happens!
I recommend hiring an independent financial advisor, they probably cost $100-200 per hour in your area. (Banks will do it for free but they will also recommend that you buy garbage.) Ask them about options up front and see what they say. And also get an accountant to do your taxes. The cost is peanuts compared to the amount of capital you're dealing with. Just because you can learn how to do something doesn't mean it's worth it.
It's the grams of sugar in Coke that makes it unhealthy. Organic cane sugar isn't much of an improvement on HFCS.
Nobody would ask questions like, "Can you read?" before, and the guy above that wouldn't be downvoted for asking about profile information.
I think that startups becoming trendy made HN trendy, and trendy anything is bad. I've been here for a long time too (I ditch my accounts) and it really does seem there's been a gradual increase of nasty children and a corresponding departure of nice adults. Whenever I go away and come back it seems worse. The worsening also seems to be marked by big events like the Reddit fiasco, that women-in-tech stuff, Steve Jobs dying, Snowden, etc. I think when pg left that was it. I just want to have conversations with intelligent people but that doesn't seem to be the point anymore.
Reality is somewhere between the two positions being argued.
Where I live you're allowed to stick things on the ceiling as long as you take them off again when you leave.
> I've noticed in an industrial setting, that managers are often looking for closed solutions that can't be modified by the user, either for regulatory reasons or adversarial labor-management attitudes. The industry wants your boss to think that letting you make your own tools is either dangerous, or a waste of your time.
It's interesting to consider in this context that workers owning the means of production is what links the GPL with Marxism.
> How many buttons does your phone have? Mine has five.
To be fair, the indoctrination starts at a very young age.
You can teach an 8-year kid the scientific method so they can "do science" with household chemicals. Probably they won't discover anything novel, but assuming they don't look at the internet it will be new to them and that's the important bit: reasoning about truth on the basis of experimental observation.
All I'm doing is trying to examine your claim at the extremes. At the other end, are we able to tell the difference between zero suffering and some suffering?
Where can I look at chickens from the 1920's?
The name for this in the helping professions is "compassion fatigue", basically the only way out is to stop trying to help so many people for so many hours per week.
No, but I probably misread yours if you didn't understand my question. I thought you said different kinds of suffering are incomparable, and so I asked about not being able to compare two specific kinds of suffering, murder and insults. (Or rather, acts that can induce suffering and the suffering that results.)
Cutting someone's head off is not necessarily worse for their friends and family than insulting them?
Given that front ends have a huge visual component, it kind of makes sense that developers would approach them like clothing fashion: you don't have to watch the designers to look reasonably good, or even pay attention to construction, you just have to watch everyone else.
Well, at least that's what I picked up from this rather honest opinion.
I prefer an operational definition: a scientist is somebody who does research using the scientific method. But then again, this eliminates a bunch of CS people, since they're mostly doing math and engineering.
> The article isn't set to examine the quality of human relationships
It does use the word "best" in the title.