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Religions and denominations of the same religion won't even agree on the nature or existence of free will. Why everyone else is so concerned about the same, I don't understand. It'…

I find this unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive of people's (willfully chosen) social responsibilities. Yes, "the wife" is a convenient excuse for many things, including why yo…

Vicious cycle / feedback loop. I recall there being a few studies suggesting that being poor can lead to poor decision making, and I certainly agree that poor decision making reinf…

Even if they are accepting of you earning more, their own boss and/or Human Resources may well have a different opinion. Woe unto those whose supervisors are also underpaid.

Viable long-term survival strategies on Earth have some pretty hard limits. Even if we master famine, disease, our own worst impulses, and asteroids, there's still the expansion of…

Perfection is a particularly anthropocentric concept. Earth was clearly a local optima, but our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow. We've changed …

Assuming artificial gravity generators, who needs planets?

We stay on this rock, we die on this rock. Confining ourselves to Earth isn't a survival strategy, it's giving up. Rebuttals would be appreciated, though!

To be fair, only some do. Others just assume endless reincarnation is a thing and promise escape. Whether you see that as real distinction is something else entirely.

From the moment those copies exist, I'm not them and they're not me. We do not share subjective experiences. If you think we're equivalent and expendable, you'd best murder me in s…

If everyone has similar memories to conceal, problem solved. Who's ready to sign up for Total Recall style memory implants?

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting…

If employable programmers are as rare as brilliant young mathematicians, we have a serious problem.

> Alcohol is a poison. A meaningless blanket statement. Methanol is a poison, far worse than ethanol, yet you've likely consumed it in small quantities from what you would think of…

Yes, I want to be around those 20 year olds when I'm in my 40s. I want to be around a few 60 year olds as well. I don't want to just talk about diversity, I'd actually rather like …

Personal anecdote here, which may mean absolutely nothing in the bigger scheme of things. I had encountered, from time to time, a certain category of recruiters who seemed to be hu…

> Recruiters typically don't want to waste their time with folks who aren't going to get selected. My spam folder says otherwise. There are still enough bad recruiters out there (o…

> "Why not just build a faraday cage?" Then my very next thought is, "Who is going to notice my house-sized faraday cage, who are they going to tell, and what are those people goin…

For that exact reason, I am incredibly thankful my kid's interests are currently sufficiently geeky. Terrified for when those interests are dumped in favor of appeasing boys.

In my purely anecdotal observations, there hasn't been a great demand for entry-level work, especially so following the last recession. A college degree and no experience won't eve…

That's a perfect illustration of what I'm getting at. You can just keep redefining whatever 10x means to make your point. In your example, minus the the initial "Haha", this might …

The wonderful thing about 10x developers is that you can keep redefining what 10x means to make your point. The 10x developer is a mythical beast that changes with every retelling.…

- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?

The paper clarifies that this means being unable to reach a solution, as in, you can't figure it out. You've hit a brick wall. Perhaps your intellect is insufficient or maybe there…