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Monica is really awesome. And deserves to be listened to.

It's not just a good idea for HN. It's a good practice to apply in one's everyday life, generally.

The decision that Google has made is unacceptable and unintelligible to CNNIC, Standard language of the authoritarian mindset, everywhere.

In German: E-Mail, URL, CD-ROM, and Jeans are usually feminine, for example. Basically, whenever a noun (or the core of a compound noun) has a direct (or close) translation to a fr…

But does anybody use them?

Though its owners may sometimes crash there, it's not really a "residential" structure, per se. The primary purpose it serves is as a sophisticated portfolio diversification instru…

I totally agree about making price levels reflect true resource costs, ending bad incentivization systems, etc. (Meant to edit my first post to mention that, but got distracted).

So eating a single almond, grown in California, is like opening one of these ( https://hornstrafarms.com/product_images/large/monadnock_gal... ) and pouring it down the drain. It's…

Suddenly Dimon got quiet. He leaned back and slowly smiled. “So hit me with a fine. We can afford it.” In which Dimon lucidly articulates for us why fines will never be sufficient …

Interestingly, one of the key origin vectors[1] for the 10X meme appears to have been a 2005 blog post by Mr. FogCreek himself: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.htm…

But it's a good idea to go to parties. It seems you're plainly misreading what I was saying. Not only did I not say you shouldn't go to parties, I specifically said you should go t…

drink beer before its legal My own advice would be: don't bother with alcohol until you're well beyond drinking age. And definitely don't bother with heavy drinking of any sort, in…

Diversify (intellectually). It's great to have deep focus (especially if you're in science and tech), but all the other stuff -- especially any creative arts you can actually perfo…

as if Russia will attempt to take over Europe or something, which is laughable. As if this were anything other than straw man argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

It's funny/cool Or mental masturbation (not to mention an abuse of the dog's natural instincts), from another point of view.