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This article looks like a covert advertising of Dilbert.

If some consumers want to demand certification from their veterinarian - they are free to demand veterinarian certification [with their own dollars]. But why should all consumers b…

What did you do with that failing refactoring project?

> I’ve linked you to recent ones in other comments. I could not find any "placebo"-related links in your last 3 months of comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=critical…

How did you learn it was a blood disorder?

That Afghan corruption makes me wonder how much corruption was inside the US military that spent billions on Afghan personnel training that resulted in the immediate collapse. My g…

> We don't want to debate the relative importance of these two tasks. If we do then the interrupter wins You, probably, meant that "you lose [your current task mental context]". Th…

> lumber prices are up Lumber futures fell 2x from $1670.9 peak (in 2021-05-07) down to $884.3 (2021-06-23): https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/CME-LBSN2021/

> How exactly do you shorten trails You do not go all the way in. Or pick shorter trails. Or allow more time. > race courses? You may do less lapses. Or pick a different (shorter) …

1) You may "go places" by driving your car (that goes 50mph) closer to your target place. Then use your "unoptimized" bike to reach your target at shorter distance. 2) "shorten you…

> One extra MPH means a lot when you’re doing a multiple hour ride at an average of 10-15MPH. Why spend your effort on optimizing your bike performance by 8% if you can instead sim…

"Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets."

Did you consider FatFire? https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/

> reduce their outsized power on the political system Why do you want to take away decision-making power from people who know how to make [a lot of] money?

Multiple dentists found multiple "problems" with my teeths (without me ever complaining). Fortunately for me, their diagnoses did not overlap with other dentists. Several years lat…

> Never move to a different country unless you've spent significant time there and you know you enjoy it. It is not that hard to evaluate a country remotely. Back in 1999 I picked …

It is better not to put business logic into data model - in order to: 1) Keep your business logic simpler. 2) Keep your data model simpler. If you put both business logic and data …

> but our deaths seem to be ~1k per day 1) Most mild and asympthomatic Covid-19 cases were mostly ignored back in March 2020. Now more Covid cases are, actually, tested. That is wh…

'Not real' is a strawman fallacy argument. The real argument against wearking masks is that Covid-19 is similar to Influenza: a dangerous desease, but still not dangerous enough to…

> leverage the underdog position into a comeback story The comback story will need Intel to become more productive with CPU manufacturing R&D. Is there any reason why after such pr…

> the recruiting company started by a famous HN commenter around 2015 ... started by 2 famous HN commenters. Why did you chose not to name these HN commenters?

> Consensus seems to lean toward this being satire. I think "How to interview engineers" is a set of actual Slava Akhmechet's recommendations about hiring, sprincled with occasiona…

Minimum wage is a threshold for _not_ paying salary (if a candidate is not skillful enough to earn at least a minimum wage -- that worker cannot get a job). Minimum wage is bad for…