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By discussing things with them like a regular human being and giving them opportunities to try things they are more comfortable with. Good management is not, ironically, rocket sci…

That's not the same at all, though. The prison is doing the same thing they would be doing, only on a different schedule. Tesla has demanded that firings be carried out at the same…

How would it be different if a hospital murdered X% of their worst-prognosis patients every January 1st, rather than letting X% die over the course of the year regardless of interv…

The counter to a move like this is trivial, but they are banking on surprise and that you won't have any Popper to actually pull it off in your evidence on-hand. (I haven't paid at…

On the other hand, focusing intensely on "critical thinking and argument" is detrimental to the purported goal of debate as a civic institution - rather than a high school sport - …

This is the exact opposite of my (now two decade old) experience. We had a team (honestly, one guy) who did the most ridiculous meta Ks and the LDers were almost scornful of it. Th…

> So essentially what they're saying is a woman would be chosen over a more highly qualified man simply because she has a vagina. I don't have any personal experience, but I've hea…

> Both of these practices are extremely unfair and should be eliminated. I realize this is Hacker News where everything must be rederived from first principles every single thread,…

> Most nurses are women, maybe we should favor men in the hiring process there? Ah yes, the inevitable "I didn't do any researching at all but WHAT ABOUT THE NURSES" post. Most are…

> Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UI's 90% Automated? It is, several times over. Using SQL or some other domain-specific query language against structured records? That's th…

"What kinds of questions do you propose these bigoted people are asking?"

If the US is any example, it is the worst-trained scaredy-pants who walk up to every traffic stop with their hand on the holster, and the cops most "up to the job" who are willing …

It's not a matter of when class war will break out in the US, but rather when enough of the working class will realize they've been losing it for decades.

> Why immediately turn this into a racial issue? Gun control in America has always been a racial issue. Black people have never been able to own guns as freely as white people, fro…

Unfortunately, it's not just the politicians. Key to the making the buyback work was that people were willing to sell. If you tried it in America you'd get white militias in stando…

I support the EU, but it's not clear to me that they are the primary entity responsible for peace in Europe between 1945 and 1991. And I think they have acted especially parochial …

Somewhat bizarrely, though, he is Basque and it's suggested he's wildly divergent genetically (though it's not clear if it's really suggesting that, or just Hel using it to rile hi…

"Moral revulsion" seems reasonable to feel at Kissinger's win. Obama's is meaningless, even if you believe he did contribute materially to international peace (he didn't) he hadn't…

It's already done in other countries. http://www.royalmail.com/personal/identity-verification https://www.deutschepost.de/en/p/postident.html (Deutsche Post also runs a consumer ba…

I can't speak for adnam but I would consider YC's cannabis-related investments questionable for reasons beyond just "it has to do with pot." If you are going to make your fortune s…

I felt like the GP's citation was probably enough - "pg and Jessica have written about YC's philosophy multiple times in greater detail over the years." (Graham is regularly quoted…

But that seems to be entirely driven by the current small size of the company, which is fundamentally anathema to YC's conception of a startup, which is a company that is growing a…

Also payday loans. Also, repeatedly, laundry services that fail to scale but shut down all local laundromats while they have the money to price below-cost. I would again recommend …

My bullseye metaphor was maybe a little off; the "target" I was talking about was not economic success, in which case YC hitting it is indisputable. It's the idea that this essay c…