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And currently, as we speak more and more violence is spreading based on people looking at others as genetically different.

Of course sleep schedules are pretty tame stuff. I'm just asking us all to please be to mindful of those who may misinterpret our discussions.

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Otherwise we're just talking about state taxes which the federal government has no control over.

I expect to see this on some Facebook/reddit post, but on HN it is depressing to see how many people don't realize that what this comment describes has existed for decades.

It almost ends up that there are so many people with a thread of responsibility that everyone involved has someone else to blame. Resulting in there being no one to blame.

Fascinating to think about.

With that said, I don't know if that is applicable here as I'm not even aware of what the potential charges might be.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/business/volkswagen-engin...

"Drawing from the right side of the brain" is basically just a brain hack to allow a person to essentially trace what is in front of them. To some people that might be the goal. To make a reasonably accurate copy of what is in front of them. For others they may want to be able to draw an accurate picture of something from their head. Others may want to create wild stylistic abstractions. The original post referenced impressionism. In that case a more informed knowledge of color and composition might be more helpful.

Personally, as someone who has spent my entire life drawing(and a chunk of it painting) I cringe at that advice to learn from that book. I have read it and it will definitely help someone to render and accurate version of a photograph or object in front of them. But it really boils down to a shortcut as opposed to fundamental learning. Its like teaching math with just a series of steps to get the answer without teaching the underlying fundamentals of what is happening. In the short term you'll test well, but in the long term your growth will be stunted if you do not also learn the concepts involved.

Hope that is a bit more clarification. And with all that said, for some people that book might be wonderful. I do think it is well written and I did enjoy it and I imagine others will as well. Its a fun read and set of exercises. Just wanted to give you a bit more perspective on the opinions presented.

With that said, the general advice given in what you are replying to is way over the top. No one needs to spend 6 months drawing cones in space. That smells like your typical exaggerated internet advice that tends to prevent people from taking the first steps.

It feels like having a purely merit based population of students would create a very stagnant and dull environment.

Automation should follow the same rule as other things in a business. Only automate when it becomes painful not to. Or if it is trivially simple to.

The reason for deadlines in software, they way they are used today, is simply to get more hours out of a week from a software developer. Unlike in construction, software developers do not get paid hourly, nor do they get overtime pay. Abitrary micro deadlines coerce developers to work extra hours which makes their cost per week for amount of work to go down.

In construction, if they made up an arbirary micro deadline that was too short, the workers would get overtime pay at 1.5x their normal rate. Plus the additional hours. So for them, a too short deadline makes their cost per week for amount of work to go up.

We debate endlessly about all these estimates becase we're all pretending its about things that its not. Its almost completely based upon getting more hours per week per developer, as it makes the labor less expensive.

I've found there is massive deviation between what co-workers I've worked with define those personally as. To the level where one might consider a behavior helpful and uplifting and another would consider that identical behavior abusive and emotionally crushing.

That is definitely not a rare circumstance. I would be shocked if any data company at reasonable scale was not actively doing that.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sometimes I just feel fortunate for the career I've had. I mostly wonder if I'll miss it or be glad to move on to a new chapter.

We will likely not see jobs move to less expensive areas in the US(or any other high wage country), in any meaningfully significant number, because those cheaper areas can never compete with cheaper countries overseas on cost.

Money from inheritance and family grossly distorts the market. Anyone who takes money from family or inheritance should be ashamed of themselves unless that money is used for helping the less fortunate.

Edit: I should add that I had access to family assistance financially and chose to not take it. Which made my life significantly more difficult. So this is something I feel very passionately about. Those who take the money know it is wrong, because most of them will never admit publicly they took any money.

Please be mindful of spreading the belief that it is harmless. I certainly do not think it as dangerous as many drugs, but it certainly ruins, and will ruin, millions of lives.

The solution is pretty much that simple. I would argue that all correlative models dealing with human beings will always be discriminatory.

Will loans become more expensive for many people? Sure. But that is the true solution. Sometimes the right decision is simple but unconfortable. In my opinion, this is one of those times.

Who agrees to being on call 24/7 for a week? Especially when you are getting paid a typical professional salary? It seems absurd. I've always been active after hours and willing to jump in when things happen.

But this idea that you are essentially working (since you need to always be somewhere you can start working within minutes) for a week out of a month every month of your life for a salary job with no equity or long term payoff on the other end, has to be the most bizarre choice a person could make.

Maybe there is something to that I don't understand? I guess if you don't have any other interests or people in your life. But that just seems really sad.

Possibly someone who does this could help me to understand this a little better?

It's nice to have the option for the data to still be queryable without having to make it a first class schema with all schema setup involved.

It isn't for 1st class data that is used frequently. But when you might only need the data on occassion its nice to have productivity-wise.

That is just the reality of the web if you live in a high wage country. There is very little legacy work in web technology that is not outsourced.

Unfortunately, the baseline for your understanding requires a reasonable amount of intelligence, a reasonable amount of empathy, and a reasonable amount of ability to frame situations in context.

The reality is that, surprisingly enough to people like yourself, the majority of the population does not actually have all three of those abilities. It was something that was unbelievable to me until I was close to something that dealt with public opinion.

You are absolutely correct on your take of the situation. The reality, unfortunately, is that the majority of the population is not capable (not their fault) of understanding the situation at that level.

This is why messaging out of corporations and politicians tends to be so odd. The majority of people are simply not capable of understanding things at your level.

Edit: I would strongly encourage people here to look up the median reading level in the United States. Then find an example text above that reading level(it's around 9th grade) and realize that half of the United States is below that level

We're talking about twitter posts. This stuff has incredibly low value on its own. Viral content really only exists because it is all free and very easy to consume. Unfortunately, twitter and others(Facebook, instagram etc) do a lot of tricks to fool people into believing the content they post is valuable. So people start to think their post that received X amount of like or views is actually valuable. This is why people get so upset about seeing their content used elsewhere. Because they've been foolded into believing it has significant value. The reality is that it does not.

Not a hospital. Nothing was burning down. Not even transportation or infrastructure related.

A review website. 24/7/365. For a review website.