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mystes posted:This is probably a reasonable take in this situation though. Lol this specific argument is like 10% of all thread derails in the pos
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May 26, 2021 22:25
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It's at least on topic for the article it's a comment on which is more than anyone can say here.
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May 26, 2021 22:31
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mystes posted:It's at least on topic for the article it's a comment on which is more than anyone can say here. not really, its about this: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/5/23/lawsuit the current dispute is whether this guy presented himself as a professional engineer while his license had lapsed which has nothing to do with the "computer science isn't real engineering" stuff, everyone understands the phrase "professional engineer" means something specific
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May 26, 2021 22:52
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i think you greatly overestimate how much of "everyone" knows that (or cares).
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May 26, 2021 22:53
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Plorkyeran posted:yeah it predates jp's lobster poo poo Up until right now I thought it was just an HN mirror.
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May 26, 2021 23:20
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In the UK at least there is an engineering Council accrediting body for computer touching that can award titles, I know because they wouldn't let me claim chartered status because I couldn't show enough project management experience or something (this is pretty funny by itself imo) so i got one level down and can legally put IEng after my name, I wind up my real engineer friends by telling them that idiots like me are devaluing the profession
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May 27, 2021 00:17
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HN discusses the homeless (again) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297971
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May 27, 2021 05:44
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if computer touchers are engineers why don't people go to jail for data breaches
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May 27, 2021 06:01
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fisting by many posted:if computer touchers are engineers why don't people go to jail for data breaches I’ve got some bad news about actual engineers
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May 27, 2021 06:07
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There's this article "How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech company" about this person raising VC money for her -- I poo poo you not -- dog antiaging medicine startup. What's funny is that dang actually has a comment whining about how too many HN users are flagging the article and threatening he'll take away flagging privileges from people for doing it: quote:dang 32 minutes ago [–] Also one part that's funny from the original article: quote:I targeted Silicon Valley + NYC tech & biotech VCs. While their biotech expertise is unparalleled, I did not talk to traditional East Coast biotech VCs as I don’t believe I fit their implicit founder thesis and their standard deals for pre-lead drug biotechs are generally very dilutive (think — selling 50–80% of your company! Although for much more money than I raised here.) mystes fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 28, 2021 |
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May 28, 2021 03:28
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speedrunning the theranos playbook is probably easier since there’s no FDA for dogs
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May 28, 2021 04:39
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it's a pretty solid scam all around people willing to buy mystery drugs to extend the life of their dogs probably spend enough money on their dogs that they will live longer than usual anyway even if they don't, it'll take the better part of a decade for anyone to notice the product doesn't loving work, and there's a 0% chance the founder and vcs will still be attached to this company and holding the bag in 10 years selling a tiger-repelling pebble, silicon valley moron edition Internet Janitor fucked around with this message at 05:03 on May 28, 2021 |
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May 28, 2021 04:56
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I think this is literally a Nasreddin parable except the animal in question is a donkey
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May 28, 2021 05:30
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quote:> any actually concerned consumer (any reasonable thinking consumer) will simply look at the nutrition label when making purchase decisions. what a weird turn of phras 
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hnlmorg 1 minute ago [–] The commute isn't always dead time though. For me, the 3hr round trip was spent playing computer games on my Nintendo Switch, or reading a book, or just letting my mind wander while listening to music. All of these are activities I don't get time to do at home because of the thousand other commitments I have at home. You'd think working from home would give people more free time, but that's not always the case, for example if you have small children. Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with my family, but the commute was the only "me time" I had in a given day and I miss that dearly. reply
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this is why men historically had a study.
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Internet Janitor posted:people willing to buy mystery drugs to extend the life of their dogs probably spend enough money on their dogs that they will live longer than usual anyway see also: every fad diet that requires people to think for the briefest of moments about what they eat
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narrator 30 minutes ago [–] One thing I actually like on Facebook are the ads. I am into some very niche interests and they always show me interesting new products in that niche instead of broadly targeted stuff I don't want or need. reply
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people really appreciate a targeted brand experience said no one ever
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i love to engage with my favorite brands
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Jun 1, 2021 21:33
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Sagebrush posted:i love to engage with my favorite brands the algorithm is very confused when if I turn off adblock, it shows me ads for quick setting concrete, industrial equipment for food processing, and animal castration tools.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:38
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it thinks ur a farmer are you a farmer?
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fritz posted:narrator 30 minutes ago [–] First thing that came to my mind is that they really like those targeted shirts. "I'm a Capricorn born in 1984 who drives a forklift and enjoys Lynyrd Skynyrd. Got a problem?!?!"
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fritz posted:hnlmorg 1 minute ago [–] I deeply regret that WFH forces me to take on three hours of unpaid labour that would otherwise fall to my wife.
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fritz posted:hnlmorg 1 minute ago [–] this person makes me sad
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fritz posted:hnlmorg 1 minute ago [–] jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat
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dioxazine posted:jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat home workers can have a little commute, as a treat
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:home workers can have a little commute, as a treat they're sending me back to the office either two days a week or three days a week depending on what the c-suites want 
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dioxazine posted:jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat
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Noos 4 minutes ago [dead] | parent | flag | vouch | favorite | on: California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is A... Great, the hacker news psychedelic circlejerk is back in force. Dang, can we please ban these articles? There's zero point in even discussing them, because the mentality is completely one sided. There's no "curiosity" in drug legalization here, because its obvious everyone thinks its a 100% good unless its a low status drug like alcohol or meth.
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koheripbal 2 hours ago | parent [–] | on: Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it ... The source article actually provides no evidence of "hire-to-fire" practices. It simply states that there is a target URA of 6% and that's it. The article posted here is pure speculation. ...and having worked for other large companies, I've seen similar metrics being tracked. It doesn't mean any of them are hiring just to fire people. Frankly, I've noticed a LOT of poorly written anti-Amazon articles around, and I'm not clear if there's some effort to undermine the company. Is Amazon a political organization? reply
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DaTroof posted:this person makes me sad dioxazine posted:jade emperor in heaven, i don't know what to say if you can tolerate a 3 hour commute and act like it's a daily treat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4AoSBqY_GI
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WFH rules, that guy is a freak https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs1-bfiYFQ
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jaas 7 minutes ago [–] This is not a debate about whether anyone thinks the rat is being treated well. That is beside the point. The rat did not consent to this (because it can’t), so this is, factually, forced labor. Second, you can’t do something heroically if you either 1) don’t know what you are doing and what the risks are or 2) there are no risks. Take your pick, but either way it isn’t heroic. If I was given total control over your life and made you work for me, would you be ok with that so long as, according to me, I treated you well enough? I doubt it. Edit: To be clear, I think this story about the rat and what it did is cool, it makes me happy, but I do agree with OP that the language of the story misrepresents the reality of the situation. reply
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please tell me this is a post about ratatouille
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so YC has a private forum for “YC alumni” and someone—in March—talked about how they went to a low-income-and-underserved-community vaccine clinics in Oakland and got vaccinated and how other founders could too another YC “alumnus,” Paul Biggar, lambasted them for skipping the queue, since we’re in the middle of a global loving pandemic and making sure vaccines go to the right populations is kind of important then Paul tweeted about the incident—and that got him “kicked out” of YC (i.e. banned from the forum) look at how dang, a “Hacker” “News” admin, frames the discussion: dang 4 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator The submitted title was "Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet". That is inaccurate, so in keeping with the HN guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), I've replaced the title with the tweet text. That's the standard thing we do with titles, when people post Twitter links. Much as I'd love to, it's not my place to say why the original title was inaccurate, so I'll just remind you all that there are two or more sides to every story and not everything on Twitter is true. In keeping with the rule that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20less%20%22not%20more%22%20yc&sort=byDate&type=comment), I'm not doing anything else to the submission. Normally, of course, we'd downweight this sort of petty drama.
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the worst thing you can possibly do is not follow YC’s rules or talk poorly about Paul Graham for example, someone in that thread claimed it was bad that Sam Altman “bro’d up” YC, and this response got downvoted to the point I had difficulty finding it… geofft 5 hours ago [–] pg believes the Civil War wasn't actually about slavery (http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html), so I'm not sure that Sam actually made the place worse. lol Paul Graham is loving trash
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eschaton posted:dang 4 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator
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greenwich26 4 minutes ago [–] Why are governments allowed to collude like this? Isn't this the same idea as price fixing? Exploiting their monopoly (governments' monopoly on the right to do commerce) to unfairly raise prices (taxes)? The world needs at least somewhere where you can opt-out from Western neoliberalism and socialism. reply
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