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by Mz 9y ago
You are reading an awful lot in that is not in my comment.
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by Mz 9y ago
He was high up in a department I wanted a job in. I was not in the IT department, but I have a Certificate in GIS. He knew that and never wondered if I might be an asset to the IT department, nor if I might want to move to an IT position, w
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by Mz 9y ago
True. That's why I issued a challenge. I realize it is a difficult thing I am asking of people.
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by Mz 9y ago
Since it was originally addressed to me and you claim it is an honest question: Mostly not in work settings or work related settings, and much more carefully than in the past when dating norms hinged on the assumption that men were provider
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by Mz 9y ago
But it is a dupe of this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551968 And the submitter commented in that prior to submitting this. So it isn't an innocent mistake where they didn't know it had alread
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by Mz 9y ago
None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power. This is not true and it does not look good for him to say it: The legal and social u
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by Mz 9y ago
I actually consider this to be good news overall. We do need to keep an eye on structuring things such that gig workers have the ability to grow real careers and have positive experiences (wrt adequate income and quality of life in terms of
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by Mz 9y ago
Subtitled: Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation's oldest venture capital firm, tracing our roots back to the Carnegie Steel empire. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities
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Evidence Mounts: More Porn, Less Sexual Assault (2016)(psychologytoday.com)
7 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
I am totally and completely cool with male porn addiction as an alternative to rape: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201601/ev... Lesser evil and all that.
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by Mz 9y ago
The book Mayflower Madame did a reasonably decent profile of some of the inner workings of a call girl service. One thing that allows call girl services to operate is that they do not charge for sex. They charge by the hour for the woman&
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by Mz 9y ago
It has absolutely nothing at all to do with being the moral police and everything to do with living in fear of serious, potentially business-killing consequences for failing to comply with federal laws, rules and regulations.
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by Mz 9y ago
Fill out your profile here on Hacker News. It should give some idea of what you do, that you are available for remote work and some means to contact you. Then make sure you participate in a way that makes folks think well of you. Do the sam
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by Mz 9y ago
I didn't say most. And having a career choice in common is not at all comparable to something unchangeable like your race.
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by Mz 9y ago
Well, I don't think I am stereotyping. I am absolutely not saying "all IT people have terrible social skills" or anything like that. Just because the stereotype exists does not mean I am promoting it. Sorry if that is a sore
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by Mz 9y ago
I shall let you know when I get there. Like Merlin, I am growing younger as I get older. It has been awesome. ;-)
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by Mz 9y ago
I think you are missing my point. Which, you know, maybe doesn't belong on HN at all. But neither does name calling to begin with. The guidelines say so, more or less.
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by Mz 9y ago
I haven't gotten rid of my belly bloat, but it is vastly better. I used to look like six months pregnant. Now, I just look kind of pot bellied. Some random thoughts that may or may not help you: The single biggest breakthrough for me
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by Mz 9y ago
Re "idiots." Everyone is ignorant about something. Take brilliant IT professionals. For many of them, manners and social skills are one of their weak areas.
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TLDR: Actionable Content Marketing Tips(michelerebooted.blogspot.com)
1 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
I have been working on both my health issues and my income. I have seen improvements in both. To my mind, this is not terribly relevant to the issue I would like to see resolved. I have done all that. It hasn't exactly resulted in acco
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by Mz 9y ago
That isn't my position. I don't appreciate having it implied about me.
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by Mz 9y ago
I have done plenty of manning up. I paid down debt while improving my income while homeless. I also appear to be the only woman on the leaderboard of Hacker News, so I appear to get taken a helluva lot more seriously than most women. It sti
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by Mz 9y ago
That is not my assumption. That is my recollection of what I was told by a knowledgeable individual whose word I trust on the subject. It may be inaccurate. It is fine to share what you know. But, if you want to nitpick the hell out of
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by Mz 9y ago
I have personally met foreign nationals who were infantrymen. It is possible my statement is overly broad. But if being in the infantry, like my ex was, grants some degree of clearance, then I have personally known foreign nationals in the
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by Mz 9y ago
There were a few times I had to cover documents when people would come in and couldn't talk about certain projects Sounds like my old insurance job. You have to comply with both HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley in insurance. Confidential
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by Mz 9y ago
I don't really know the details. I just know my ex husband was career military and he once kind of hand waved off the importance of some security clearance label in, probably, some TV show with the factoid that basically, if you are in
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by Mz 9y ago
https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10977.htm#2 2. Do you have to be a U.S. citizen to receive a security clearance from the State Department? As outlined in Executive Order 12968, Access to Classified In
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by Mz 9y ago
I don't know the answer to your question about you in specific, but I have a genetic disorder that predisposes people to being super thin. One element of it is that fats are misprocessed. I have made some headway on dealing with it. Bu
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by Mz 9y ago
Former secular homeschooling parent. Sounds completely normal to me. --> "You have kids who don't do things like that? What planet are you from?"

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