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No, please, I come to Hacker News to get away from platitudinous, short, vague LinkedIn advice.

Could you? Some elections only feature old candidates. This limit is a way of making sure there is at least one non-old choice.

The thing that's missing is living under a functional government.

Unlike the United States government, the Mexican government has been fighting, and maybe losing, a civil war against cartels for a long time. This episode is, if anything, a positi…

As far as I know the example you mention was the work of Andrea James, and not Conway, but Conway's continued collaboration with someone that cruel and unhinged is, I think, an asp…

"Most" is pretty hard, so I'll just pick one I think is good. I'm paraphrasing here, so errors are mine. Sea otters, which feed themselves through long dives to and from the ocean …

I mean, he certainly would have known exactly what he was doing at some point in his life, but skills and judgement do degrade with age.

If you're a layperson interested in these sensory questions, I highly recommend the book An Immense World by Ed Yong. It's a 400-something page tour through the many senses animals…

The Dunning-Kruger effect, and its many misspellings, might be the most overused term on this website.

A modern example is Dana Gioia, who switched from poetry grad school to business school, did that for ~15 years, and eventually went back to full-time writing, chaired the NEA, and…

Doesn't this kind of make sense? Stuff with high personal resonance, by virtue of being personal, has a specific audience. That sounds trite, but I at least tend to underrate how m…

My theory for Tokyo is that its relatively low housing costs come from lax enforcement of zoning and building regulations, and lax enforcement comes from a culture of trust that do…

+1 for The Death of Ivan Ilyich, it's a marvelous example of an author depicting something you (probably) haven't experienced and nonetheless convincing you that's what it's really…

Having this transactional a view of interactions doesn't sound fun. Is it something you're trying to change?

A somewhat rude answer may be that, despite being very old, University of Salamanca is not prestigious -- outside of the top 500 in all major global university rankings -- and is t…

> If you believe you have a moral duty to be the best person you can then passing up that opportunity in favour of the facsimiles is morally wrong Maybe a better statement would be…

I don't think strenholme is saying that those casual relationships are morally wrong, but that they're only facsimiles of the connection found in a deep and long relationship (espe…

> Can't be toxic culture if everyone wants to work there Some counterarguments: 1) this only works if information flows out of the organization, but OpenAI has used NDAs to suppres…

> You're either one of the few winners and get to live a comfortable life with a professional job, or you're off to WalMart or an Amazon warehouse, or Prison. The "kind of comforta…

Denmark values cultural homogeneity enough to mandate that children over the age of one in high-immigrant areas formally designated as ghettoes attend 25 hours per week of public d…

See, I don't like Sam Altman either, but this habit of criticizing people for their faces seems wrong-headed. Isn't it his behavior that we should be criticizing?

> Because they don't think about the consequences, and don't want to. This is a dangerous way of thinking about people who disagree with you, because once you decide somebody is st…

Sucks that he had to do it, but the notion of Tom Waits making Rain Dogs and then pivoting to spending a bunch of time thinking about Doritos must be one of the funnier quirks of m…