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Comment · 4 years ago
Verbiage is proof of work, and journalists need to make a living, just the same as planning-to-plan product managers.

You can train yourself to skim for maximal extraction per minute. I burned through the article in about 3-4 minutes. I tend to get bogged down by my software developer's close-reading instincts.

Comment · 4 years ago
tldr tl;dr

Our bodies self-correct to maintain a constant calorie expenditure. Marathoners and lean-mean bush people were found to burn as many calories daily as a middle aged woman from Chicago. Takeaway: eat less if you want to lose weight.

Comment · 4 years ago
You can hate the guilt, but you can't hate the pleasure -- that wouldn't make any sense.
Comment · 4 years ago
Lots of sour grapes rationalizing.

Every deprived addict, from the grounded Minecraft player to the imprisoned dope fiend, will tell you the deprivation was good for him, but as soon he's given a shot at another fix, he'll instantly take it.

I hate Slack's always-on nature. That I keep using it should tell me how I really feel about it.

Comment · 4 years ago
Automatic plug whenever I see this asked: nnhackernews.
Comment · 4 years ago
decent people with decent products just don't make it.

Which is why you need to make your product a little more than decent. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." So be less dumb, and you can stay just as good.

Comment · 4 years ago
The legal driving age for men should be raised to 40. Problem solved.
Comment · 4 years ago
You can always end the contract

Most people don't have the kind of eff-thou money, which is why OP asked his question conditioning on unionization.

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