unbending

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.

"Thats all there is to it."An unbending, absolute rigid belief?

So when the article mentions “sovereign power” and “unbending stance”, it is referring to that.

All that bending/unbending of the track and bed contributes to fatigue damage, and fatigue damage goes up as the cube of the load.

Interestingly, it seems to be all about bending some distribution and then unbending it again.

Their world views, technical aptitude, attitude, and intelligence end up frozen in time, unbending and ungrowing.

There is no room for unbending, unwavering principled stands in a startup--you'd completely lose your shirt and go bankrupt if you never changed your startup.

There's no surer way to break the "unbending arc of justice" than to tell the unfortunate/unlucky in your own country, "Yes, but have you seen what life is like in Indonesia?

What I wonder is if this impassive attitude to a relatively minor transgression, came about before or after the cultural "unbending"?

That should hardly be that surprising or unfamiliar here on HN. Epithets like 'sperglord' didn't come from nowhere - the rigid unbending nerd on a righteous self-destructive crusade on a selfish or minor point whose folly is obvious to anyone but themselves.

Good on the Lux team for making it optional, but this is yet another app that wouldn’t have needed to introduce a subscription model if Apple would just relent on its unbending services push and add a mechanism for paid upgrades to the App Store.