BJones12

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by BJones12 2y ago
> They’re addicted to the next shiny thing—the new hire who “must be better” because they’re fresh talent. Here's another take: Job searching is painful for employees. Employees must be offered an incentive to go through it (more mo
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> I've seen it mentioned several times but have found it difficult to locate. It's famously difficult to buy. The author is an investing billionaire so he has little financial motivation to release an updated version and many d
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Well, right now the rich can afford personal care and the rest have to make do with nothing . AI might be better than nothing.
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Here's an example of that - https://thehustle.co/the-man-feeding-a-remote-alaska-town-wi...
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It is. The US defines a firearm as "Any weapon... which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive" and definitions in other countries are similar. Both a pistol and a sh
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> Brain’s complaint contained allegations of wrongdoing... regarding repurposing the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program meeting space to accommodate a new hire.. “What came back was a sickening nuclear bomb of retaliation the likes of whi
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Yes it is. It's the biggest wage theft in history.
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This article is much of what's wrong in discourse. First it calls its opponents silly and stupid ("inane"), then is labels the opposing side of spreading "anti-EV myths", and then it actually examines the arguments
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RIP J#
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A few Canadians can sneak in, depending on location.
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> I’ve also heard that it can sometimes be a questionable resume signal. Any thoughts? There are jobs that require a degree, and there are jobs that require a degree from MIT. This will get you in the first door, but not the second. Also
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It also worked for me. Whatever material you already know you can mostly skip (though you will get tested on it). Check out /r/WGU and /r/WGU_CompSci
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True, but 'church' is a mosaic of many different types of church. There are churches that are dropping fast, especially liberal ones. There are also a lot of large churches growing at 10%+ annually. I have friends that go to one t
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> the endless need for ever-increasing profits is what kills any creative profession. You see this in Hollywood with ... Companies will happily kill an industry to increase short-term profits. From my understanding Hollywood is being kil
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Bob Lefsetz [0] is certainly a man who understands the industry, but seems to also care about the art. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lefsetz
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> He says on a US made phone [no] and computer [no], visiting a US website [yes], using a currency tightly correlated to the US dollar [yes], in a country which imports most of its services from the US [no], and he works in the services
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There's a name collision with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
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> I'm just not sure if the world deserves this. As someone who is part of the non-USA world, I'm fine with it.
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1) Rich guy died 2) Crazy expensive luxury vehicle found to be secretly death trap 3) Millions/tens of millions of people are now familiar with luxury yachting thanks to the Below Deck TV shows 4) Undoubtedly some story of incompetence
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Sounds like your car is in better condition than mine.
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"Carcinogenic risk estimate for exposure to DCPA, HCB, and dioxin/furans through food were 3.5e-7, and 7e-8, respectively. All of these risk estimates are within the range (zero to 1e-6) generally considered to be negligible by th
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I think your example is accurate. I think there's another example around trans-vocabulary: The analog of the 1st half is "I'm not going to stop you from cutting off your man bits, but don't expect me to call you a '
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Yes. For example: "Is Alzheimer's disease a Type 3 Diabetes? A critical appraisal" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092544391...
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It was League, not DOTA. It's a MOBA, not an RTS. IIRC he was in the bottom 15% or so. That said, it's totally fine to play a videogame without any desire to be good at it. More importantly studies on chess show that a tiny amount
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He got hired by Jane Street, that's a very high bar.
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> software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.". Is that supposed to be a negative? Isn't that the point of any profession? Like are any of these analogs negative?: Medicine has accepted
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> If you thought non-ionizing radiation only coupled to the human body thermally, it could instead be trying gluten-free, or notroopics, or buying a lot of air filters, and if your illness went into remission after starting you wouldn&#x
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Etymonline [0] says 'tsar' comes from Caesar, which comes from the name Caius Julius Caesar. “šar” would therefore be unrelated. [0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/Caesar
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What the U.S. actually has is a group of people intent on keeping their doctor wages high by limiting supply through regulation and bottleneck creation.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818367 ?

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