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This is what I do. Whether genetics or what, my ears get stopped to the point of deafness once or twice a year. Tried cleaning them out with just water and ended up with an ear inf…

You haven't reached the bottom yet. Keep going until you hit Borremans. It's not 4chan, but I'm not listening to these people on the subject of standards and practices.

No abuse that I've heard of. But very offensive. Look further (not at work). It's too gross to describe on HN. I'm pretty strong on free speech myself. But if you want to repress a…

It doesn't matter how many flunkies you have on staff. What matters is whether the stuff is effectively caught and removed (and probably reported to the authorities). Time will tel…

Agree. Ending up in a situation where suicide was not possible is probably one of my greatest fears.

The situation is a bit more complex than that, but in any case, that's a rather weak rationale for not committing suicide. Here is a better reason: You'll be dead quite soon in any…

Within my extended family and larger social orbit, I've watched maybe 20 kids grow up. The girls are uniformly successful and seem to have significant support from family, school, …

I doubt there's consensus on which "side" has stronger calls for violence. But it's not needed. We can just agree that calls to violence are virtually always wrong and deal with th…

These are hard cases, and you have my sympathy. (Same for sibling post.) Quite possibly I'd have done the same. This sounds very different than the case under discussion, which see…

In this case, we're talking about secret sabotage of someone else's Internet access. This falls outside of the common concept of intervention. In general, if you have to act secret…

Even if true, your first part is irrelevant to the question. As for the second part, there's a reason why we don't take on these responsibilities ourselves, for competent adults. I…

Thanks for the link. I think you should seriously contemplate this. If my kids did this to me, I'd ban them from my house, at a minimum. More abstractly, suppose your thinking is c…

This is perhaps scientifically interesting, but doing this to someone without their knowledge and consent is wildly unethical.

I think reasonable people will give allowance to the hiring loop taking a day or two to synchronize on their earnest opinion of a candidate. I'm not bothered by that at all. More d…

I've been at this for almost 40 years, and it's shocking to me how little urgency there is to hiring over the last 5-10 years. I have a sinecure but still interview from time to ti…

This is pretty relatable. Not sure I'd say "unworthy", as that's hard to measure. Instead, I'd just say that consciousness seems to lead directly and inevitably to misery. And foll…

Can you imagine if the resources allocated to "social justice" were allocated towards the poor and others in dire need?

Aside, perhaps amusing: A while ago, I used Tumblr as a modest blog of my tech adventures. Put a link to that on my LinkedIn page. A year or two passed, and while applying for jobs…

> there’s a video of him doing just that I believed that for years. It just sounds like the sort of oafish, lame humor I'd expect from him. But finally, I looked more deeply into i…

The strategic value to the US is that it completely removes the possibility that Germany will negotiate with Russia to turn the pipelines back on. Or, alternatively, it's a strateg…

The bad: This is what it means to be a man, a father. You are Atlas, and you will hold up your kid's world. No one will be on your side. Some will curse you. Even your kid will pro…