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As usual, another HN thread that perfectly exemplifies victim blaming and a collective burying of heads in the sand. There's a few people on here who seem to get it, but most don't. I'm sick of it. Goodbye, Hacker News.

It's all really hard work and a winery is likely even more work. You need to always be watching the grapes, you have to hire seasonal workers to pick the grapes (actually not much automation in this area) plus the unpredictability of the weather.

I think the whole website is lovely. I hope Calm does really well.

Agreed - if you swing a sword hard enough it just becomes a bat, not a cutting device. I feel like this armor empowers people who'd like the experience of just wailing on somebody with a stick, but it doesn't really simulate a real combat scenario.

That would be fine except Hershey's chocolate really isn't very good. They use way too much sugar and not enough cocoa to really make it respectable chocolate. The only reason it sells well is because of market dominance and that many Americans are deprived of exposure to good, high-quality chocolate.

When it comes to food we should remember that the Bay Area is a total bubble. Some of the finest food in the world is produced here and some very innovate and ground-breaking work in the various food movements came from here.

Sorry, but Hershey's gets me worked up.

It's true that "consumer chocolate" in America is pretty bad, i.e. anything made by Hershey's. Too much sugar and not enough cocoa.

Good stuff should be above 57% cocoa. If it's less than that, buy high-quality milk chocolate.

That said, other commenters on this thread are correct that it's not too hard to find good chocolate if you just know what to shop for.

My all time favorite is Valrhona. It's by far the best chocolate of them all. Obviously that's personal preference.

We're lucky that we have at least two awesome local brands in the Bay Area. Recchiuti chocolate is awesome, the only location I know of is in the ferry building. Tcho chocolate is the other one and I've been told that they do some interesting stuff with analytics to create the ultimate chocolately goodness.

I care little for Ghirardelli. I went to Ghirardelli Square as a kid and it was fun, but it's just not my thing now.

Imagine a scientific study that just said "Scientific justification for social oppression found." In a nutshell, I believe that's why.

It's not even that it's bad for there to be differences between the sexes; what's bad is that some people will inevitable take these studies as justification for their sexist views and attitudes.

Agreed - I have to mention necroscope86 on YouTube. By far my favorite LP'er. I think he had a snafu with his account that deleted a bunch of videos, but he had some very funny X-COM play throughs. It was more about his commentary and British accent that made it worth watching than the actual games themselves.

Well...there's that one operating system out there that got pretty popular after some guy in Finland posted it online. Name escapes me at the moment, though.

Funny enough, that attitude may make it more successful in the long term. History has shown many times that it's not always the 100% dead serious who make it, but those who are just, well...making it up as they go along.

That's the thing - my karma is high enough that I know what not to post. Generally speaking. Every once in a while though, I get tired of pretending that I don't also have a goofy sense of humor and stuff like this slips through. Oh well.

You know most people don't want to believe that dogecoin is a real virtual currency.

[EDIT: Apparently some people on HN have not seen 'Cool Runnings'.]

Perhaps the average man is less risk-averse than the average woman and therefore is more likely to enter a risky business venture.

I think the general assumption for women promoting these types of events is that while this statement may be true, it's not because of an inherent difference in women and men. The difference is due to social and cultural conditioning, not because of any biological difference.

Well, why don't we find some men and ask them why they don't seek out the advice of women founders already?

Nit: Michiganders.

Here's a simple example that most of us can probably relate to. I often read the Danish news outlets for coverage on "big" international stories. I read them a lot during the last Iraq war.

The example: when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, and US media were saying that the "alleged photos might not be possible to obtain" I saw them a full 3 days early on Danish media before I could find them anywhere on US news.

[EDIT: My UCSC roots will really show here - check out "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky for one perspective. And yes, it's Chomsky, so YMMV.]

It's interesting to consider that tax rates historically have been all over the place. In the United States, for example, the tax rate has been as high as 91% for the top bracket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...

I'm not sure I understand the point about reuse and decoupling being opposing forces.

A simplistic example that comes to mind is a calculator module with a well-defined interface (interface in the Java sense of the term). Maybe there are a few different implementations of the interface available in the codebase.

Both implementations are reusable in the sense that I can plug one implementation in many places wherever the interface is supported. When I need something else, I plug in a different implementation. The module that has a dependency on the calculator module should be none the wiser since all it does is call out to a certain interface.

Am I missing something here? Maybe I didn't understand the OP's point well enough.

The offer is voluntary. Joe can either accept it or refuse it.

I feel like this point is really kind of secondary to the discussion, or at least, it seems like there's an assumption in here that I don't share. For some reason, I feel like maybe there's an assumption that Joe has other options? Maybe I'm missing something.

What is life in the village like? I'll admit my first reaction upon reading this is to think "that doesn't sound very pleasant" but maybe it's a lot better relative to where this person came from. Why are people moving to the city?

Also, this has pushed me further to the left, not to the right.

So...who will you work for then?

I've always considered myself "on the Blue team" but the past year has really pissed me off. NSA, Healthcare.gov, drone strikes, and the President trying everything he can muster to go to war with Syria. I walked into our Business Developer's office one day and I said enough was enough. I could not in good conscience do work for the Democratic Party because of these issues.

I really doubt any of this would have been different if we'd had a Republican for President. Granted, healthcare.gov wouldn't have happened, but I doubt any of the other items would have looked any different. All US presidents have done things that I consider unethical or illegal. So to castigate one party vs. the other seems shortsighted.

Unless, of course, he has a huge contract offer from the GOP. Then it makes sense. In politics, money is the great decider.

Heh...as a Danish person, I think part of that distinction also is that Denmark has a really bad service culture compared to the US. It does seem to be changing. But I feel like Danes are a pretty proud (and/or headstrong) folk with very strong (and sometimes misguided, see Janteloven) notions around class and equality.

I feel like many Danes who work in the service sector project this attitude that they're really above the work and that the customers are a complete imposition on their time and energy. That's why I'm always so impressed when I get a really nice waiter in CPH or just shopping at a grocery store like Irma.

I think you're right about the high-end places -- I've only been to one fancy place one (cause, yikes! the prices) and they did act very differently because it was so expensive. But by and large, yes, I agree, they tend to see it more as a "job" than "service."

If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all.

In a way, this sort of proves that not having a servant IS an option in India. If laws pass that push people not to hire help they can't afford, they will stop hiring. I know that's not the point you're trying to make, but it's worth considering.

That said, I'm curious: why you do you think people in India won't go without hired help? Is it a cultural/historical thing? Or something else? (I ask this not knowing your background).

I think what you may not be considering here is that there's a broader point being made about what constitutes a "living wage." Of course it's better to get some money rather than nothing. But if the money is below the minimum wage and/or below a living wage, it forces the "servant" to either live close to poverty or work multiple jobs.

Also, what's being touched on is a notion of entitlement. For instance, I hire somebody to periodically come and clean my house every few weeks. I pay well, way above what they asked for - both because they do a good job and because I know it's a hard way to make a living. When I made less money, I cleaned my house myself, and I never felt a sense of entitlement or right to that help.

One thing that may be happening (or start happening) here with these bus protests is that unrelated leftist groups from the Bay Area will seek to piggyback on to this and cause havoc. This is a definite trend if you follow political action in Northern California.

By far one of the most notorious offenders are the "Black Bloc" anarchist groups. One of their codewords during protests is "direct action" which means "break stuff, smash windows." I can't say anything about their political views, but it's a fact that they attract a greater and potentially more violent police presence.

"ftw - for the women/for the weed" - you're not off to a great start in terms of adopting the language of inclusion.

I'm not biased against someone without a degree, many of the best people I've worked with didn't have degrees. But if you don't have a degree, you have to have something else to show.

Even if it's not completely technically accurate, I think your explanation makes the most intuitive sense to me out of all the responses I read.

I was struck by this statement:

"There’s something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something."

Do others feel this way? I've played shooter games when I was a kid, but I don't know that I feel intrinsically rewarded by shooting at stuff.