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Re:Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse
on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:42PM (#38367020)
(2012)
> “I hire them just like me: smart, poor, and want to be rich,” she quoted former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski as saying.
Some time later... "Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski says he stole out of pure greed"
( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyco-kozlowski-release-id... )
Re:California strikes another blow against rooftop solar
on Friday November 17, 2023 @03:47PM (#38310030)
It's the article's title, for sure, but it feels misleading to call a reduction in incentives from a successful program (rooftop solar generating 11% of California's power is amazing) a strike against the goals of that program.
LEDs/CCFLs being subsidized until consumers switched over to them (I know the story is more complex than this) made sense too.
Re:Jerks might win the battle, but nice guys win the war
on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:21PM (#35264200)
Time the jerkiness well, and how can anyone tell which you are? An opportunistic jerk who otherwise cultivates a 'nice' reputation is going to attract the same kind of gossip as anyone else in a position of authority, no?
Re:AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:58AM (#34115764)
From a month ago, with twenty-three comments:
Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:23PM (#33898016)
I still disagree with the shift from PR to 3P, but in that spirit, this might be a better URL:
https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/07/apple-advanced-data-protectio...
Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:28PM (#33217818)
The 'Talkie' was a little surprising.
"Someone here?"
Yes, I'm here.
Re:Young adults in L.A. to get $1k a month under new guaranteed income...
on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:44PM (#33186954)
HN hews to using the source title, which I think the submitter did here (based on the URL, 'l-a-basic-income-program-to-give-young-adults-1-000-a-month'). See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for more.
Re:Extreme rise in porn addiction fueled by working from home accordin...
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:09PM (#32601197)
Rather than another "Back to the office" screed, this appears to be an advertisement for "Dr" (PsyD, not MD) Paula Hall's various clinics for keeping hands out of pants.
Re:How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus (2016)
on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:35PM (#31963519)
Previously, in 2016, with ninety-six comments:
Re:Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think ...
on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:12PM (#31816000)
This might be a naïve idea and you didn't ask for any advice, but have you considered doing free/reduced cost work for children or the impoverished? I'm sure you'd face a similar range of responses, but that last line - "no good deed" - made me wonder if using your considerable skills for a bit of charity work might help with the burnout.
Side note: I've had to prepay for appliances and night guards in the past when the cost exceeded some threshold - the latter wound up being supremely disappointing considering it was ~$600 and broke within a fortnight, but I didn't bother complaining to the dentist since the staff would just have to argue with the fab.
Re:An evidence-based guide to reversing caffeine tolerance
on Saturday June 11, 2022 @06:31AM (#31703439)
Almost like cropping tables from a study isn't a sharp way to present data...
From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467199/
> Simonin et al. [72] assessed caffeine consumption in 80 patients with HD and it turned out that among people who consumed a caffeine dose greater than 190 mg per day, the risk of earlier HD was higher. [As parent referenced]
> Tanner et al. [79], based on their study results, concluded that only caffeinated soda, but not other caffeinated beverages, was associated with Huntington’s disease risk, nor was a combined caffeine dose associated, but this finding may be spurious, or not related to caffeine.
Re:How to Be Successful (2019)
on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:39AM (#31456543)
(2019)
Previous discussion, Jan 24, 2019, 299 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18992914
Re:5th Circuit Court Finds SEC Enforcement Unconstitutional [pdf]
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:54AM (#31431227)
Setting Congress aside, you'd then need thirty-eight states to ratify the amendment!
Re:Meta Rescinding Offers Now
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @06:25PM (#31299200)
Suggested title change:
'Meta rescinded their offer letter to me'
Re:Ford's New Ad Pokes Fun at Elon Musk's Loud Mouth and Thin Skin
on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:53PM (#31288550)
Kinda hard to look down on someone for flying their own personal spaceship when Elon is one of the few to not have actually done that yet, but some interesting criticisms about their non-union factories. Is Gizmodo usually so pro-Ford?
Re:What we can deduce from a leaked PDF
on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:51PM (#31264970)
> none cried with her
I'm not understanding - these men aren't as upset as biological women are?
Re:Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:53PM (#29884911)
This is probably just evidence that I care about something unimportant, but sharing this after noticing a diminishing change today:
In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
↓
U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
in reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882912
Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
Re:Wordle Is a Love Story
on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:54PM (#29829990)
Of course it's luck based - it's mastermind with a preset number of mnemonic arrangements. I struggle with it too, but the problem with systems thinking is that you don't get to enjoy the magic which drives the fad.
Re:Microsoft and an army of tiny telecoms are part of a plan to wire r...
on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:50PM (#28647649)
More terrestrial infrastructure - fiber and radios - is an interesting 'Tech New Deal', but I look at just Starlink (and I hope there are more competitors with customers soon!) and see this area is already covered:
https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html
If we're gonna spend 65B, could we throw 100M at buying everyone in the delta a dish?
Re:Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:38PM (#28447531)
Just a suggestion - I tried to look this up in HN search (there is an unrelated YC company, Bonsai, that I thought this was connected to) and didn't get a hit as the title doesn't include the name of the project - so please consider including it next time. I love the direction you're going here!
Re:Fundamentals of Incident Management
on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:09PM (#28120155)
There is a month and day, Feb 15, in the header, but no year. I can't figure out if that's ironic or apropos, since this story reads like a thriller from perhaps ten years ago, but the post date appears to have been 2020-02-15 - yikes.
Re:Plane Food Simulator 2021
on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:09AM (#27830496)
https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-investigates-the-science-of-...
TL;DR it tastes better at altitude.
Re:Politics would be less crazy if voting were compulsory
on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:50PM (#27135010)
I would hope a philosopher would choose his words more carefully. However, 'crazy' is only used in the article one time, as a modifier to the word 'partisanship'. Partisanship is exactly what Washington warned us about more than two hundred years ago:
> However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
> President Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
The author of this article goes on to admit that compulsory voting isn't a solution to partisanship, but rather provides sufficient political ballast to stop the center from shifting away from the otherwise apathetic.
I would love to see a fresh analysis of term limits.
Reshoring Production and Restoring American Prosperity
Re:How neutering dogs became the norm
on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:44PM (#25512272)
Talks about, but provides little evidence for. Banning puppy mills and letting dogs breed freely is hardly a solution.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:30PM (#25293432)
More like coup d'état, or an underdog victory. Author doesn't seem to be using it right, since this would be an actual shift in power, rather than a failed insurgency (as in OP).
Re:Apple cuts App Store commission from 30% to 15%, if your apps earn ...
on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:31PM (#25162720)
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135410
Not a great headline or interpretation of the program - it's not automatic.
Re:The Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to ...
on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:49PM (#24667829)
If support is a cost center, may as well make it a moat too.