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- dennisgorelik parentThis article looks like a covert advertising of Dilbert.
- If some consumers want to demand certification from their veterinarian - they are free to demand veterinarian certification [with their own dollars].
But why should all consumers be forced to overpay for licensed veterinarians?
- What did you do with that failing refactoring project?
- > I’ve linked you to recent ones in other comments.
I could not find any "placebo"-related links in your last 3 months of comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=criticaltinker
Why didn't you include an actual link into your comment instead of referring to your unspecified past comment?
- How did you learn it was a blood disorder?
- That Afghan corruption makes me wonder how much corruption was inside the US military that spent billions on Afghan personnel training that resulted in the immediate collapse.
My guess is that US military administration was over 90% corrupt in Afghanistan.
- > We don't want to debate the relative importance of these two tasks. If we do then the interrupter wins
You, probably, meant that "you lose [your current task mental context]".
The interrupter will not necessarily win from your loss.
- > lumber prices are up
Lumber futures fell 2x from $1670.9 peak (in 2021-05-07) down to $884.3 (2021-06-23):
- > How exactly do you shorten trails
You do not go all the way in.
Or pick shorter trails.
Or allow more time.
> race courses?
You may do less lapses.
Or pick a different (shorter) race.
- 1) You may "go places" by driving your car (that goes 50mph) closer to your target place. Then use your "unoptimized" bike to reach your target at shorter distance.
2) "shorten your distance to zero" is too extreme, because we need some physical exercise and want some enjoyable experience.
- > One extra MPH means a lot when you’re doing a multiple hour ride at an average of 10-15MPH.
Why spend your effort on optimizing your bike performance by 8% if you can instead simply shorten the distance by 8%?
- "Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets."
- Did you consider FatFire?
- > reduce their outsized power on the political system
Why do you want to take away decision-making power from people who know how to make [a lot of] money?
- Multiple dentists found multiple "problems" with my teeths (without me ever complaining).
Fortunately for me, their diagnoses did not overlap with other dentists.
Several years later of me doing nothing (except regular dental cleaning) - I am still comfortable with my teeth.
- > Never move to a different country unless you've spent significant time there and you know you enjoy it.
It is not that hard to evaluate a country remotely.
Back in 1999 I picked the US as my destination country.
I moved to the US back in 2003 (as soon as it became possible) - without ever visiting the US prior to that.
I am happy with my country choice and never exited the US since I entered it back in 2003.
- It is better not to put business logic into data model - in order to:
1) Keep your business logic simpler.
2) Keep your data model simpler.
If you put both business logic and data model in the same class, then:
- When you investigate data references pointing to your class -- you will see references noise from your business logic.
- When you investigate business logic references pointing to your class -- you will see references noise from your data model.
3) Combined "business logic + data model" class is much harder to refactor.
So, technically, you can combine business logic and data model in the same class.
But practically, such code combining will significantly complicate maintainability of your code.
- > but our deaths seem to be ~1k per day
1) Most mild and asympthomatic Covid-19 cases were mostly ignored back in March 2020.
Now more Covid cases are, actually, tested.
That is why "new cases" are significantly higher.
2) Big share of the population already has immunity against Covid-19 (because they were exposed to Covid earlier this year).
That is why deaths from Covid are much lower.
- 'Not real' is a strawman fallacy argument. The real argument against wearking masks is that Covid-19 is similar to Influenza: a dangerous desease, but still not dangerous enough to spend too much time on wearing masks/social distancing -- and keep living in fear.
The reasoning against wearing masks -- is that wearing masks and social distancing - hurts more than it helps.
- > leverage the underdog position into a comeback story
The comback story will need Intel to become more productive with CPU manufacturing R&D. Is there any reason why after such prolonged decline Intel may have a comback?
- > the recruiting company started by a famous HN commenter around 2015
... started by 2 famous HN commenters. Why did you chose not to name these HN commenters?
- > Consensus seems to lean toward this being satire.
I think "How to interview engineers" is a set of actual Slava Akhmechet's recommendations about hiring, sprincled with occasional satire about hiring games.
- Minimum wage is a threshold for _not_ paying salary (if a candidate is not skillful enough to earn at least a minimum wage -- that worker cannot get a job).
Minimum wage is bad for workers. Increasing minimum wage hurts low-skilled workers even more. Which is a cruel thing to do, especially for a programmer who earns significantly more and is not affected by minimum wage.
- > These kinds of articles have been detrimental to a lot of impressionable young people
This article is a satire, similar to Starship Troopers movie
~~~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)#Criti...
"too damn well-made for its own good" and said that it confused audiences and critics.
~~~
Similarly, "How to get promoted" may be confusing. But you may also use these "tips" to identify [and fire] employees which try to abuse your corporate promotion system.
- If you have several children - you get to play each level several times.
- > begging me to never say anything critical about his project in a Slack channel again
Because he discourages critical feedback - it leads to 2 major problems:
1) He does not improve [because of lack of feedback].
2) He discourages team around him from improving [because of lack of feedback].
Why not explain that to him (and then if he does not understand - fire him)?
- > 1/2 the undocumented workers would be out of a job
Unemployment is bad for unemployed, bad for people around unemployed and bad for the overall economy.
"Increase the minimum wage" recommendation is bad.
- > an on-site whiteboard style interview where they solved a subset of the problem in pair-programming fashion with us
Do you offer candidates a remote pair-programming interview?
E.g. screen-sharing session over Skype/Zoom?