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it's shocking that this division exists. liberty requires freedom from ANY institution, whether state, church, or corporation, from having too much power over your life.

HN has a lot of blindspots. This famous quote comes to mind. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton S…

>about: Google fanatic from your HN profile

most drivers in NY drive for multiple companies. Uber, Lyft, and Gett are the most common.

a permanent resident immigrant is definitely an American. it's important to distinguish between temporary guest workers and Americans who were born somewhere else.

you're already writing the test cases to ensure correct behavior with typical input, and predictable exceptional input. putting in one more assert for predictable exceptional input…

The type systems of Java and C/C++ are the most commonly encountered ones and by far the most widespread in industry programming (as opposed to academia/research) and they are actu…

I think you should be a lot more careful about throwing around terms like "extremely narcissistic", which both has a technical definition in psychology, and also an enormous amount…

No zero days is such good advice. Even a small, but concrete, goal to accomplish every day makes a huge difference. It requires self-compassion to set appropriate goals that match …

you may have a very idealistic idea of academia.

its not non-sense but it might be underspecified. the only jobs that care that you have, specifically, an English degree are jobs in academia. Corporate jobs will gladly hire an En…

this is the demogaphics page from the Harper's Bazaar media kit http://www.harpersbazaarmediakit.com/hotdata/publishers/harp... they push heavily that their target audience is affl…

it was a bad interview and Peterson's cantankerousness got the better of him during that segment. The second interview is more worthwhile, and the two of them have an interesting d…

was he right? he's one of the most historically examined leaders of all time and we still don't know. In the present we have the benefit of hindsight and can more easily see that w…

> In the 1850s US, there were pro-slavers and anti-slavers. Who was in the middle, and were they right? Abraham Lincoln

you're correct, there are many many different varieties of Buddhism. It's more correct to talk about Buddhisms since it's not just one thing. In the Chinese context though we're ge…

Trump is deliberately using the language and tactics of his political enemies against them in a kind of counter-trolling demagoguery. This is ugly stuff. The discourse has descende…

Romulans are emphatically not dark and barbaric, they're "evil" Vulcans, and aesthetically modeled on various European Imperial iconographies with lots of Eagle/raptor symbolism. A…

you just reflexively accused someone of being a sexist on no evidence

Chinese philosophical roots include both Confucianism and Taoism, as well as the imported schools of though associated with Buddhism, and more recently quite a lot of modern Wester…

that isn't what compensation means, and the amount of money it costs to improve your health outcomes is not much how much those improved outcomes are worth, it's how much you were …

kind of a bogus measure. if the nominal cost of health insurance coverage rises, and your employer continues to pay for it, your total compensation went up, but you didn't benefit …