BadassFractal

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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Is it unfair to voluntarily give another party leverage over you? Or is that a fair choice?
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Maybe this is an excessively callous view, but isn't all of this voluntary and self-imposed? Is the expectation for the reader to pity their condition? There is no totalitarian government that's relocating these people to a gulag
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
In general I'm also not a fan of changing definitions of words for the extra pathos and marketability. I also would be surprised if Rosenberg has any sort of malicious intent here in his choice of wording. Violence is, by definition, p
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
I don't think that's the assumption. The point I was making is that that even for non-neurodiverse people it's exceptionally difficult to communicate in a way that never leads to someone taking offense or being made feel unco
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
That's exactly it. As of today, if someone says something "inappropriate" to another employee, they either get a warning or get booted right away depending on the severity. Nobody's digging into whether this person is ac
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
It's a little more nuanced than that, and it does depend on the condition in question. Autism in SV has a reasonably benign reputation, but other mental "abnormalities" not so much. An SO of many years had bipolar disorder, a
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
I'm curious to see what's going to happen when an employee, secretly part of a neurodiversity hiring program, says something that makes someone uncomfortable and that gets reported to HR. Will someone's comfort levels take pr
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
It's somewhat reminiscent of Uber/Lyft vs taxis, minus the sketchy business practices. The convenience and personalization of streamed content is so far superior to the previous solution.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
I really wanted to have Firefox work for me on macOS, but if you use more than 1 OS user concurrently, Firefox regularly locks up when switching between them, or when the computer comes back from sleep. Having to constantly reboot the brows
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Never heard of Startpage before. How trustworthy is it compared to DDG?
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
It would be great if businesses decided to differentiate themselves from their competition by using biodegradable, environmentally friendly packaging. I wouldn't mind shopping with them instead, even at a slightly higher cost, just so
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Not sure much can be done here without global investment and adherence to never dumping plastics that are not biodegradable. The solution must be possible, but finding the will and the support to convince every country in the world to switc
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
How well does it work with hair? Hair is notoriously hard to select well in Photoshop for most retouchers, so it would be amazing if the automation somehow became better than professional humans doing the editing. There are a ton of manual
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Having gone to 2 of the top 5 US CS programs, I would have likely learned more about CS as an autodidact vs learning from researchers, barely speaking English, dragged kicking and screaming into doing lectures they visibly couldn't car
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Sure, I suppose you're right. I'm mentioning these top colleges because we're on HN, which is heavily oriented around the Bay Area tech ecosystem, which loves to dip into that pool.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
My point is that signaling works without any sort of coursework. The instant you make it into Stanford, you're a Stanford kid, which puts you into an elite group of desirable employees. And of course these colleges are special snowflak
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
> Researchers consistently find that most of education’s payoff comes from graduation, from crossing the academic finish line. Not even. Just being able to show that you "went" to Harvard is a powerful enough of a signal. You c
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
After reading all of the other posts here I'm shocked you're not making 2M at line 13. I don't know if there's a bias for the ultra-high earners to post their income here, albeit anonymously, skewing the perception of wh
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Wow! Curious what kind of hours you've had to work for that sort of increase.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Wow! What did you do that led to such a dramatic growth starting in 2013?
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Oh hey, as someone who's been on the "wrong" side of both the "Right's" 80s/90s family values moral panic (D&D, Marilyn Manson, violent videogames etc.) and the "Left's" progressive mora
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Metal music is cathartic the same way a movie, a videogame, a book or a theater performance are. You experience intensity, highs and lows, tension and release. You expose yourself to a harsh emotional rollercoaster, to digging deep into one
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
> The city of Vancouver is facing a crisis in housing affordability, with one bedroom units averaging about $1,730 per month. I'll take that any day over SF. That's a crisis I can sign up for.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Sure, and optimizing for those massive returns is the VC's problem, not the founder's problem. You're one out of dozens, if not hundreds of their investments. They'll be fine.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Your likelihood of being in the 500M+ valuation bracket is so infinitesimally slim, that optimizing for that case is almost pointless.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
As anecdata, I remember getting the same legal advice as well years ago: prenups get thrown out by the judge all the time, so you might as well not bother having one.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
> To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages. Is that actually true though? I remember reading / hearing in pod
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
I really want to like Firefox, but it has basic bugs that make it unusable for me. E.g. waking up macOS from sleep, or switching between two active users in macOS stalls Firefox regularly and requires restarting it.
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
Fake news, fake reviews, fake users, fake user groups.. How does one have a relationship with the Internet that is not as abusive as it is today? Can this network work without any trust?
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by BadassFractal 8y ago
How do we explain the vegans and the vegetarians who still get plenty of heart disease? If veganism were a silver bullet, I'd be the first one to jump on that bandwagon, today.

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