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>* Freezing meat twice and eating it will make you sick Uh, every frozen meal I have ever seen has come with the printed warning not to freeze it again after it has melted? Freezin…

This piece of information just amplified my depression when I learned about it, because of past not-income-optimized life decisions (okay, probably even more because of limited abi…

Giving it another name ("homophobia", "insecure about their own sexuality") does not make the issue go away for the people who suffer from it. You don't magically grow more confide…

HN crowd is a quite special case. Elsewhere in the world, FB is assumed as to be the standard. My romantic life has been very disappointing, so some time ago I tried creating a Tin…

>Stop moralizing the behavior of companies. They aren't humans. That is true. Companies, however, consist of humans. Make the people making the decisions to be held responsible for…

>Yet somehow many of us approve when the victims are wealthy and higher status Of course we do. What does, exactly, the level of wealth and status we are talking about entail? Owne…

One fascinating question is which country should be responsible for nationalizing them. According to the Snowden leaks, the US government is already more than happy to cooperate wi…

>A corporation is a moral agent I otherwise agree, but I don't know if Apple is a moral agent - that discussion will into quite complex philosophical issues. But certainly each ind…

>I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits. There is difference between what we can realistically expe…

As many others commented elsewhere, moral relativism is not very robust ethical system in a global community. If you ever have kids, why would you teach them some morals over other…

Sure, if you are an US citizen, you can argue that it should be US government's job to represent your ideals in the wider world. But your government is not the only party responsib…

I thought "watching" anything (or even having a Netflix subscription in the first place) wasn't obligatory part of the activity "Netflix and chill".

On the contrary, the culture and the society very much influences how various mental issues develop and manifest and how they are interpreted. You can't explain writing emails impe…

>The guy is an active stalker. Let's stop making excuses for horrible behavior. He's not "confused". He's malicious. He's threatening. He's trying to destroy her livelihood. I did …

>You can do this fairly inexpensively via sites like https://www.indochino.com/ . Are there similar shops but EU-based?

Some things I consider quite glaringly fake / unrealistic. The maps that show the progress of the invasion in the Eastern Europe: the area taken by the advancing Russian army is sh…

But how do you start without the first set of friends and, so to speak, the base case of the induction fails?

10 pages a week might be fine and well in a mathematics course and related fields, as it's a field famously characterized by it's use of a concise notation. You can state lots of t…

Not much. Probably not. I don't know the particular instance because I don't follow US Twitter politics that closely. First time I heard about M. Y. was when he has blocked from gi…

I'm fine with buying a service for conveniently listening to music by a list of artists I like. If Spotify goes bust, it's not like that music disappears: it will be available on o…

I think it's remarkable that a recording of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode [1] printed on gold is on its way towards Gliese 445 [2]. [1] http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music…

>That seems pretty cyberpunk to me. The problem is that it does not rain all the time and the ads are not in Japanese. The visual direction is simply off. Also the soundtrack leave…

While the article is interesting, I think some of the more curious part of HN crowd might find it also worthwhile to look at the actual dataset available here: http://www.gss.norc.…

1. Averages don't work that way. 2. Congratulations, you might not be as representative sample of the population as you thought! This is one reason why advocate visualizing the who…

I'm pretty sure I have a Nokia 3310 in one cupboard or another, maybe I'll dig it out and swap my SIM to it...