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You'd don't think corporations use marketing to intentionally make people feel bad about themselves?

This article strikes me as a person who begged for attention via social media changing their tactics and begging for attention by being anti-social media. That is to say, this stri…

Reading this made me consider the possibility that people with anti-government sensibilities have intentionally gotten themselves into critical government roles and employed these,…

Wow. That is an intensely personal, and really thought provoking, post. I happen to be going through something startlingly similar, so this hit home pretty thoroughly. I wonder if …

>Possible, but if you want us to the ignore the hugely differing economic incentives for men and women wrt pregnancy then the discussion isn't going to go anywhere. What possible i…

Is reddit starting to migrate to HN or something? I've been seeing a lot of these types of comments recently.

I've always quite disliked advertising. I really think that it's a rather insidious force in western culture, and it has always bothered me that it's so aggressively forced into pe…

Even more interesting is watching these people trickle into the professional environment. Universities need to accommodate this stuff, to an extent, because the students are their …

It's an interesting concept. I agree with you completely, but we're basically saying that the gifted have no responsibility to the average and below average. While in this specific…

Very true. It's a feedback loop as well. Schools perform poorly, so affluent people remove their high-performing children, which lowers the average performance of the school and gi…

The high-school I attended used that method. I was often forced to spend significant chunks of class time teaching other students how to do their work. It was frustrating, and gene…

I'm slightly surprised by the numbers given for IOps. The example they give is 48 drives giving 2MM IOps: 2,000,000 / 48 = 41,666.66… IOps 45k IOps for 16TB limits its use cases a …

Could you expand on that thought a little? I'm not clear how Facebook's open floor plan is dehumanizing.

It's a relational database without joins? Can you join within an actor?

I can't tell if you're joking.

My thoughts exactly. You see this all over the place; people talk about their job requiring passion and sacrifice as if it's a good thing. If your job requires you to do the work o…