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Why is it only when things go bad that people realize that human priorities are not the same as company priorities?

Do you also give all your information to a random caller that offers you a free cruise? I think you forgot that politicians are legally bribed to behave against the wishes and/or n…

Reading your comment made me realize that you're right, there really isn't such a hard rule even with physical exertion. Even putting some motivating music on might make you push f…

And yet we are bombarded with them. Thanks, market. You really gave us what we wanted. Oh wait -- that's not actually your objective!

It might be worth thinking about what it is that is being depleted, exactly. When I "run out of willpower" it doesn't really feel the same as when I "simply cannot do it anymore". …

If you compare the same pizzas restaurant vs. homemade then sure, but learning to do it well allows you to modify everything to suit your needs. A really nice thin crust can be mad…

I don't know what rock you've been living under, but licking the boot and bring patient leads you to be stuck in the same position because "you're too valuable right where you are"…

Your fear is as old as time. The act of writing was considered a threat to human memory capacity and therefore wisdom too.

Did you forget what site you're on? Tech people might be good debaters but they are rarely good at relating

The whole thing about fecal transplants is that the resulting changes in your microbiome make it so your pull to sugar is weakened. Your diet changes because your cravings change. …

Put yourself in the shoes of your average content moderator. Aren't they there for the paycheck like most people at their jobs? Why does everyone assume these people are first and …

What is the difference, from an employee's perspective, between an abusive employer, and one that would not hesitate to steamroll them in the name of profit. Sure one is intentiona…

You're right it's not greed itself, but the scale of its target that has grown. One person losing their job to corporate greed is a tragedy, and 10000 people losing their jobs is a…

Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me.

Not true. What stops this is the creation of another service that comes in to take that space...until they go public again OR They remain a private business that keeps that long te…

There is an understanding between shopper and shop owner about what is happening on said property. The shopper normally does not expect that the shop owner would instantly know you…

The cynicism is fueled by opinions like yours that present a false dichotomy of "western democracy (implied as the gold standard) or anything else (implied as garbage)". This is pu…

What is the objective in saying that the USG is the shiniest turd of the bunch? What is you told you that the USG has, over the course of its relatively short history, destabilized…

You're basically saying you think depression/anxiety/ADHD are disorders but autism is "part of who you are". Is a personality change indicative of whether something is a disorder o…

Adobe and Serif won't be around forever. The list of reasons why NOT to be on Linux in some form has been, and continues to, shrink as old proprietary software gives way to the new…

Thank you for giving me this perspective. I think it's hard to see it this way because of the emotional load money has due to its necessity for ones survival these days.

This is some fatalistic nonsense. There is a long way to go for an IT person to die of starvation. It would have to be intentional: wanting to die of starvation.

It's not a conscious design effort in the sense that the blueprints were designed and implemented this way. It's more that gradually with every political decision that is based on …

This is the million dollar question. I think there are cases where executives take this kind of aggression like it's tough love and so they argue with the warlike technical folks b…

I agree with you on your description of community inceldom but I don't agree with your "fight propaganda with propaganda". If something is true, then it should be shown as such. Ad…