BaronVonSteuben

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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
Yep, absolutely. My doctor of 10+ years recently retired, leaving me in search of a new doc. I've been managing my pain for 15+ years just fine with 10mg Hydrocodone. In 15 years I only once asked to increase the dose, and it was on
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
Could not agree with you more. That's what bothered me the most about the article. I consider myself a leftist as well and power dynamics are one of the main things that makes me so. I have a big dislike for most traditional power s
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
Are you sure that interpreting/understanding other people's feelings can be taught? Having worked with many kids, I'm not so sure about that.
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
I don't disagree, but "the poor people who clean them" are doing that because it pays better than they could get elsewhere, otherwise they wouldn't do it (assuming no coercion on the billionaire's part, which woul
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
I find it remarkable that with all the focus the teachers put on the "power" held by the kids, they barely acknowledged their own position of privilege and power over the students. The students had no choice/option to &quo
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
It's definitely not "a casual question." What OP is suggesting is heresy in many places. In many people's view, it is discriminatory not to "compensate" for uneven starting points by advantaging based on
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
I totally agree with this, and this is what I try to do myself. However after being part of dozens of hiring panels I noticed a clear trend toward rating females/minorities hire on technical skills than they would give to a white male
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
If you say anything, it's possible that you would be ending your career. If you do, it is likely that you will be hunting for a new job (and your reputation as a bigot may follow you unless you move to a new industry, and even then de
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by BaronVonSteuben 5y ago
> It's mostly that they simply don't want to prosecute, Correct > nor have the resources to fully enforce all the laws. I don't think so. They have all the resources they need to enforce the law if they wanted to.
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
Well at least in our case the skill in the co-ed program is 0 because my son hated it and wanted to quit. I'm now helping him learn to code on his own. Scratch has been a god send. I'm glad Scratch is available for all genders.
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
I actually considered just enrolling him to see what would happen, but I didn't want my child to become a lightning rod for a political battle between adults. The description of the program specifically says, "for girls" and
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
What should I tell my son when he asks why he can't be in the "cool" group? What would you tell him? He is 10 currently.
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
> It's pretty difficult to make any real progress on issues of equal access if any targeted efforts to improve access for particular groups are going to be characterised as "giving others the shaft". If "equal acces
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
Could it be that girls get tons of encouragement, accolades, and praise when they do something, but when boys do they're told it's just their privilege that made them succeed? In our current school there are 3 STEM programs for gi
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
In a normal world I would agree with you completely. However, if you've offended some of the woke crowd then this may be worse than saying nothing at all. In your example, they would say you are rubbing salt in the wound with "I
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
That's a reasonable point, although if they hadn't helped make doctors more comfortable with using them, then I may not have ever gotten them in the first place as they would be stingy with them like they are now. Hard to know wh
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
I have used it extensively over the years but it doesn't work all that well for me and comes with really bad side effects (like making me super tired, which makes it really hard to work), making me insatiably hungry, etc. I've tr
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
I know everybody loves to hate on the Sacklers, but my life was dramatically better when I had access to opioids. Because of the "crisis" it has gotten really difficult to get them, even for people who need them. There are days
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
Maybe not helpful, but shout out to one of my famous apps, evince (default gnome PDF viewer). really well polished app. I use Xournal for editing PDFs. Would love if evince could do more than just annotations.
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by BaronVonSteuben 6y ago
I have noticed this as well, both as a worker and an interviewer. The number of unqualified people of Indian ethnicity that inundate job applications is staggering, and some perform embarrassingly bad in the interview. That said some of m
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by BaronVonSteuben 7y ago
Indeed, that is my thought as well. If I worked there I'd want to stay as far away from this guy as possible. Red Hat seems like a pretty big company tho, so probably the average person never interacts with the CEO. But still, the t
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by BaronVonSteuben 7y ago
As someone who is a big fan of Red Hat, it horrifies me to see the new CEO be described like that. He sounds like one of the worst people for Red Hat. I admit I despise power seekers and people with tempers, so that's coloring my vie
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by BaronVonSteuben 7y ago
My family had to switch to Slack because of this. Some of the family are "Apple everything" people, while the rest are not and typically go with lower end Android phones (like the Moto G). It bothered some of the iPhone users so
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Ask HN: What's the status of Stripe's Ruby type checker?
2 points by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago|1 comments
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
I totally agree with, "It seems 'non-compassionate' to me to reduce all of life-crippling addiction to 'making a bad decision or lacking self-control'." But I disagree that being prescribed opioids is a primary
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
There are surprisingly quite a few. In my case I have issues with discs in my spine and neck. Sometimes it can be an autoimmune condition like multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis. Sometimes it can be downright mysterious such as many
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
That is a very kind offer, thank you! I tried quite a few different strains of Cannabis but wasn't able to find anything that worked for me. Some high CBD strains did help a bit, but it was a mild help. It also wore off within an hour
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
To me this is essentially your argument: I have to suffer with excruciating pain because somebody else might make a bad decision or lack self-control, and my pain is worth it just in case it helps somebody else (evidence is lacking there a
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
As someone who has chronic pain and tried everything under the sun, but only found relief in opioids, it sucks to see this attack on pain doctors by people who largely aren't affected by it. I lost access to my medication because I mov
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by BaronVonSteuben 8y ago
Are you trying to "increase their wage" through generation of income or through salary?

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