Afton

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by Afton 6y ago
You absolutely can. Managers will push back with "rules" that only apply if management doesn't want to pay you more. Or they will go to HR to get an exception if they think you are worth that exception (that is, if they are
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by Afton 6y ago
I don't understand the point of your first sentence. I absolutely answered. What I didn't give you was some bad thing to make up for the bad thing that they did. Because I think that is stupid. Notice that I think punishment is ge
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by Afton 6y ago
We change the laws making it harder for it to happen again. We restrict the actions of the individual to make them less able to do it again. We attempt to understand the circumstances that led to them engaging in this behaviour and attempt
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by Afton 6y ago
In addition to the nexus you point to, it's worth mentioning that for a lot of back pain, we have no idea what causes it, or why it goes away (if it does). I suspect a lot of it is pressure from individuals wanting their doctor to do
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by Afton 6y ago
My first 'real job' as a developer at MSFT. My manager would respond to any problem I was having with 'What have you tried'. Internalizing that question has made me a much better developer that gets 'stuck' muc
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by Afton 6y ago
Besides the obvious falsehood that being attractive is being 'born attractive', onlyfans and such sites are full of very attractive people who suck at marketing, customer engagement, etc, who essentially make beer money being nake
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by Afton 6y ago
If you're telling your skip level something that you haven't or wouldn't tell your direct manager, that is an indication that you are failing to communicate with your direct manager. That in itself is worth the skip level per
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by Afton 6y ago
Ooh, I get that with pepperoni, especially bad with the 'snack' type of pepperoni stick. Not other preserved meats, just pepperoni. I mentioned it to a doctor and they absolutely just sighed and said "Yeah, well, bodies are w
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by Afton 6y ago
I mean that everyone who wants to work remotely, now actually has the opportunity to do so, and since everyone is working remote, you are not at a disadvantage based on your remote status. That may change in the future, it may not. But righ
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by Afton 6y ago
I started a new job in April. Between when I interviewed and when I was started, offices shut down. It's been great. The fact that everyone is remote is actually a great 'leveler', since the company has a 'main office&#x
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by Afton 6y ago
I don't think this comment deserves the downvotes it got even though I disagree. Consider your example: If you pay a tradesperson to 'do a job' you should expect that they will cut every corner available to them that isn&#x27
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by Afton 6y ago
> It’s not impossible to make copies of and secure private keys if you have a plan I was 100% discussing my scenario. I would absolutely not have enacted a careful plan with multiple fall-backs. Which is it's own kind of self-indi
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by Afton 6y ago
One of the ways I don't feel bad about not making millions in BTC even though I was aware of it long ago is the absolute certainty that I would have simply lost the paper wallet, had a hard-drive failure, etc, etc. There is just no way
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by Afton 6y ago
Nah, you made a thing and put it on the internet! Thanks for doing that. The fact that I didn't find it a complete and exhaustive body of work on the topic absolutely shouldn't be interpreted as a criticism of the article.
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by Afton 6y ago
You can, but if you consider knives an uninteresting kitchen tool, then you have just given them a $300 knife that they will feel bad about every time they use it open a can of beans. btw: if you do know about knives, please hit me up at my
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by Afton 6y ago
"I suffered, so they should too". That's all I have to say about your fury. As for the other part: I was told, explicitly, that thinking about college as a jobs-training experience was the wrong approach. Learning how to thin
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by Afton 6y ago
Interesting that they didn't really touch on what I consider the hardest part of buying for someone: domain expertise. If I am known as 'into' something, then the likelihood that someone who isn't also into that same t
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by Afton 6y ago
What is your point? This seems pointlessly blame-y. Those who just graduated from high school and entered college have been told by figuratively-literally everyone that that is what they should do. Then they do it, and it turns out it is a
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by Afton 6y ago
Yup. My sibling spent some time working around prostitution related issues. When they were interviewed, words were literally put in their mouths as quotes, and what they actually said was ignored. You either fit the narrative that they&#x27
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by Afton 6y ago
Pollen, I believe, is that they're referring to.
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by Afton 6y ago
Trudeau's flip flop is an example of what I'm talking about, so i don't understand your use of the word "but" in the first sentence. Once in power, a party is interested in maintaining that power. Since the current
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by Afton 6y ago
In Canada, we say "electoral reform is always popular with the opposition party/parties".
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by Afton 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
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by Afton 6y ago
It's just a different convention. I don't see how that makes it a 'race to the bottom'.
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by Afton 6y ago
When I last had a 'man inside', the Vancouver office was only for a specific (set of?) teams. That may have changed in the last couple of years.
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by Afton 6y ago
My spouse has no relevant health complications, and has been knocked absolutely FLAT from this. We didn't have to go to the hospital, there were no ventilators involved. But now, almost 4 months later, and they struggle to walk 100 p
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by Afton 6y ago
Yes! It's also a failure of imagination of the American public. It's like a social safety net DURING A PANDEMIC is just too far outside the Overton window. It's crazy!
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by Afton 6y ago
... and who ought to be advocating for better social safety nets for everyone. I feel a lot of the "get back to normal" fighters are failing to imagine a sensible social safety net that might enable a lot more people to remain hom
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by Afton 6y ago
what an odd hill to die on...
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by Afton 6y ago
Nagel's essay is mentioned explicitly.

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