disfavor

All sorts of factors can be used in sentencing, and they disfavor people from poor minority communities. Have a wife and child?

Pain and suffering is a zero sum game, and the increase of it does our whole species a disfavor. If you must find a direct release to your anger please aim it at those who seek to incite this kind of partisan behavior for their own good.

We routinely go so far as to intervene in international conflicts in order to tip the scales in disfavor of despotism. I don't see how running a surveillance state can be compatible with everything we proclaim to stand for.

If a policy term doesn't contribute to the bottom line, it's changed to disfavor the policy holder. If a deductible amount eats too much into corporate profits, it's changed to disfavor the policy holder.

I'd never thought to multiply the, potentially massive, cost of the candidate I disfavor getting elected, multiply it by the tiny chance my vote makes the difference, and compare the result to the amount of money I make in an hour. He admits his cost figures are fudged, but in principle, it works out.

If you start judging contributions to a field by politeness of "behavior in public" then you're doing the field a disfavor. The biggest scientist in some field could as well be a huge jerkoff -- for example, Djikstra was known for his passionate rants and snarky tone against everything he considered a bad practice.

Incentives also tend to disfavor "popular" work like blogging, but I think in parts of academia that is somewhat changing. May be changing less slowly with regard to experts in industry, some of whom also have confidentiality issues to worry about.

So the culture is more likely to disfavor steroid use, especially if used for secret advantage, or likely to set off a 'red queen race'. But when someone creates a lasting research result or piece of art -- that is not primarily understood as having displaced someone else's achievement, but rather setting some new absolute peak.

If you have not read, Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu then you are doing your self a disfavor if you are interested in performance. While its a bit old I guess, the Loki library is/was a wonderful C++ library with very interesting and useful techniques that give the programmer control while preserving things like type safety.

Just as complex derivatives disfavor the less sophisticated party to the transaction, so also do complex equity instruments. Liquidation seniority on preferred stock is fair, but I I've never been persuaded of a good reason for all the other complexities that find their way into term sheets and contracts.

When companies decide to get into personal matter of two unknown individuals which could have been easily went unnoticed, DO did a disfavor of putting them both on face of social media bringing bad words for both themselves and Travis Collins.