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I found myself in a very similar situation. My solution was to get a job at a large company. It didn't help much with the making friends part, but I am happy now that I don't work …

I agree, it seemed like he was driving at the idea that we shouldn't dismiss the way women were acting as wrong, but instead try to see the advantages of their approach. Even thoug…

Yes they do have a choice. Their choices are more limited because they live in a poorer country. On the American companies, didn't you said I hear some companies actually get work …

I don't really see the problem here. Indians are willing to work under these conditions, which honestly don't sound worse than the US. It sounds like even though they might shrink/…

This is nonsense. Various funds available to ordinary people, including pension funds, do invest in the hedge funds and private equity funds. If anyone were actively buying busines…

I don't see how this rule helps me figure out the meaning of sama's actions. At least five people (including myself) in that thread interpreted his actions as indicating that mods …

I never implied that sama's actions were doxing. I would however, like to a clear statement from mods regarding actual doxing, whether by them or other users.

In this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418885 sama posts some personal information about an alleged troll. This information wasn't enough identify that person, but i…

How is Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?" harassment? Seems like providing personal information of an individual who tho…

Well everyone here is as anonymous as they choose to be, apart from being outed by mods. Given that mods can ban any person with a click, I don't see any excuse for them punishing …

>At a base level, as you can see in a lot of the replies, it comes down to "people believe that if they've been somewhere long enough, they now have a right to stay there as long a…

Have to disagree with you there. Educated people tend to be well informed and hold sensible opinions on global warming, vaccination, and education (and often hold silly opinions on…

The argument was that people should move to a cheaper city if being a Facebook bus driver can't support them. But that doesn't imply that Facebook is forcing people to move cities.…

Labor markets are inefficient, that's the primary reason the field of "Labor Econoimcs" exists. However, these inefficiencies do not explain why Facebook bus drivers make so little…

I think that when people argue against unions, they are usually implicitly arguing against the moral duty of the company to concede to the unions demands, or to allow the union to …

I rode the corporate buses, and underpaid or not, the drivers are highly professional. I wouldn't trust my life to a random fellow employee over a trained and experienced driver.

I appreciate you and DannyBee's comments. It is disheartening to me that basic economics is treated here as right wing propaganda. Mainstream economics won against all other theori…

“You can’t legislate your way out of a red-hot housing market, but the Board of Supervisors is trying to mitigate the damage,” Ms. Wolf said. “This is a big problem. If you don’t c…

Maybe the speed of light has changed, but your reasoning is completely wrong. The big bang theory is based on solutions to the equations of General Relativity, the same equations t…

I think you've hit on something very fundamental here. When the government has well targeted interventions that achieve specific goals, this can be a good thing. But the cumulative…

I think we need to balance the need for deception in some cases, against the fact that tricking/pranking people is fun, and makes you look cool. There is an inherent ego boost from…

Selectively providing information is not equivalent to lying.

Ethics panels are important, but not the final word on what is right or wrong. If someone isn't defined to be an experimental subject, then the rules regarding deception are pretty…

>The reasons behind her actions, however, are noble: it was all part of a university project, in which she wanted to show how Facebook activity is not necessarily reflective of rea…

Your post captures the problem much better than the linked article. I would summarize the problem as being that the result is tautological, but the gloss of mathematics gives it th…