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4y ago
Yeah, I wasn't spending $100/day because I'd buy cheap weed in bulk, look for deals and sales, etc. But if you buy 'irresonsibly' and just pick up like an average eighth from a dispensary, it can be pricey. I realiz
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4y ago
I can't even roll a joint. Just bong rips all day. And yeah, definitely not a sustainable or healthy habit...I'm ok now, but my career took a permanent hit. Oh well.
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4y ago
https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic... > The research shows that genetically it is impossible to prove whether a cannabis plant is an Indica or Sativa. There is no difference in the genes. > T
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4y ago
At the peak of my own usage, I smoked around an ounce every 3 days while (pretending to be) working from home. $40/eighth + taxes a pretty average price in the Bay Area, so that works out to almost exactly $100/day. That's pr
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4y ago
Take a break before it becomes worse. Get a kSafe and lock all your stuff up for a week or two to shake your brain out. I spent my whole 20s severely addicted to it without even realizing, and when I had to stop I felt like I was going craz
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4y ago
> If one more person tries to tell me it's strain It's like telling an alcoholic to try switching from vodka to tequila, because vodka makes you angry and depressed but tequila makes you a fun drunk. THC is THC, and any differe
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4y ago
> Furthermore it seems like anti-democratic behaviour is getting punished now, too, if you look over to Poland. They're saying anti -democratic behavior is being punished, which implies that Poland is pro-democracy.
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4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts%27_Associa... vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America Baden-Powell scouting is co-ed, non-religious, and founded in the 70s. Boy S
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4y ago
> L3 to L4 is basically about writing good code on your own, and isn't really affected by promo culture I'm unsarcastically glad that you had a different experience at Google than me. This was not my experience, nor the experie
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4y ago
> result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work. We didn't create our own, but we did migrate our codeb
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4y ago
At Google at least, if you stay low level for too long, you get fired. If your team is full of low level people maintaining a project that's stable, you need to invent work to justify your existence.
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4y ago
> I guess you could switch the process to "promo after N years of not being fired at your current level" but that seems even worse. Ex googler here, and when I was there 4 years ago this was true of L3 and L4. My entire team wa
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4y ago
> I had to learn this in college, many years ago. I majored in Computer Science and Physics. Which of these disciplines would mergers and acquisitions have been in? Should my algorithms class taught us about diluted stock and RSUs vs IS
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5y ago
> You can just fire people. Not at Google, you can't. Firing someone who's performing abysmally still takes up to 6 months, between all the process and PIPs and paperwork and shit.