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> There'd be a massive jump in the likelihood of finding a living snail. And there would be an ever bigger jump in the likelihood of some billionaire being the first to eat extrate…

My brain immediately went to British Petrol

You have read my mind!

This obsession with hyper optimization at every level is wasteful and unhealthy. I prefer to hire a mix of good enough people, it's a less conflictual team environment. At the end …

In female AI voice we seem to have encountered the overlap between your typical simp and corpo simp. Funny thing is, when an attractive female goes against a corp... the simps pick…

The USSR comment is even less funny.

Vice then released the following documentary "How low-income southeast Asian single cis and trans women are paid 3$/h to cry" 5 years later Prof. von Tränenberg is awarded the Nobe…

Marketing drove up demand, production had to be ramped up, and that's how we ended up in the dystopian nightmare of dozens of single women in open warehouses watching tragic romant…

It's only a matter of time now until the military industrial complex picks up on this and puts it in a missile. I can see it already "M-249 Mistifier - wide area pheromonal aggress…

> Your customer and company doesn't approve your paycheck. Your line manager does. Here's a quite common problem. Execs tell you to listen to the customer, that's where the money c…

> I mean, if I am looking for a notebook, I rather have FB/IG (or Google or whatever), show me adds of a notebook that I might end up buying, instead of the generic poker/porn adds…

> leadership literally lies to congress, judges, the public, their users and their customers all the freaking time. The judiciary system takes lies into account. Doing that while t…

> >> Laws generally don't allow you to sell or otherwise relinquish your rights, > Ahh, we are not asking you to sell. We are asking you to give them in exchange for services. That…

> Trying to squeeze into a few major metros is a terrible choice for young people who want a decent life. If remote work is a possibility, or big cities decentralize a bit, that ma…

> What if the bulk of CEO / board members' salaries & bonusses where structured as company share value, cashable no earlier than say, 20y from now? 'Pocket money' now for living ex…

The closing off and lack of a diversified approach to solving energy problems also reveals the incapability or unwillingness of the CEO to think of the long term success of a corpo…

China and free market in the same sentence is quite a paradox. Did you mean to say they moved from a planned economy to a market economy? A market economy yes they do have, but fre…

Can't wait for the Nintendo Switch Drone Operator Labo Pak

> At the gym, people assume anyone with big muscles must be an expert in medicine. Let's not make the same mistake here. Who would be better at building strawmen? An average HN com…

And here I was thinking a lunch interview would evaluate your masticative abilities...

Good example for the above comments on how certain business practices can make people have expectations that can be interpreted as entitled

Seatbelts made cars more expensive for people who didn't want them and a person without a seatbelt is much more likely to traumatize someone in an accident with their easier and mo…

Connectors like HDMI ports should not be the first point of failure, especially in monitors. That sounds like planned obsolescence.

> As a tech lead, the big problem I see now is that people are not hungry anymore. What incentives need to be aligned and how, to starve them a bit more and make them hungry again?…

> Why would an increase in revenue be an implicit reason for salary increases? Because increasing salary when revenue increases is a positive way to ensure employer-employee relati…