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by _vertigo 5y ago
Let's say the guy did take her out of context and use the issue because it fits his hobby horse. Why is the appropriate response to someone taking you out of context opening an official inquiry into his behavior? Miscommunication happe
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I think most (entry to 5 years of experience at least) people who work at FAANG companies spend dedicated time studying for interviews. They also know exactly what their company is looking for - leadership principles for Amazon, for example
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They don't anymore! Candidates are scarce these days.
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A couple of years ago I applied with a similar resume, and even wrote a cover letter because I was worried that I would be auto-rejected if I didn’t include it. I spent far too long on the cover letter, I probably spent 2 or 3 hours on it,
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Why’s that?
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Yup, you nailed it. We have a lot of examples of complexity arising from a very simple set of initial conditions and rules. Why should evolution be any different?
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Sorry, wrong how?
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Sorry, what’s bad about that?
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I think there’s a difference between a company with enormous amounts of capital buying a bunch of houses to flip, intentionally trying to drive a trend of increasing home prices to profit, and a single homeowner improving a single house and
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In Mexico it's called fútbol not football
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Not comparable.
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No, but let's not pretend like they are the same degree of authoritarian.
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Yeah, can't agree more. The main thing stopping self driving taxi services is maintenance and cleaning.
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Is it possible that English ivy is worse than Mandarin ducks?
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Clearly sarcasm if you read beyond the 5th paragraph.
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Honest question here, do vaccines actually reduce the chance for covid to mutate? Spitballing, I would expect a vaccine to decrease the number of total mutations that can occur but also simultaneously increase the selective pressure on the
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Good luck!
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You don’t think that it’s the employer’s place to mandate something that makes the work environment at their company considerably safer?
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by _vertigo 5y ago
So, it's his fault for being part an institution that's judgmental of certain sexual preferences, but also you're, like, totally judging him for his sexual preferences?
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Many people, including myself, would be willing to make other concessions in order to keep my gas stove. Some people may not care about the difference but would prefer to keep eating a bit more red meat or something. Maybe we shouldn't
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That strikes me as extremely reductive. You're trying to narrow the avenues of acceptable discourse, and worse yet, you're putting your enemy in the driver's seat of that effort.
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She checked into a hospital because she was considering suicide..
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I think on the whole, stackoverflow has vastly improved overall global code quality. Even if you just limit it to people largely taking solutions wholesale from SO, I still think that it’s a good jumping off point. Of course it’s a mistake
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by _vertigo 5y ago
I make $150K not counting stock (which I am holding, not selling) in San Francisco. I don't feel poor. I live a comfortable lifestyle that makes me feel almost rich compared to others, I feel grateful and fortunate. Sure, I am a little
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by _vertigo 5y ago
I think the cat is out of the bag on this one already, regardless of whether "WFH" is here to stay or not. I can't help but feel a bit sad about it. The pay and perks were honestly obscene(ly good), but the best part was not
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His tone was objecting to the content of the article, not anything about commuting. It was a non sequitur.
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You can point out a problem without having a solution. Part of the reason why this issue feels unsolvable is that people don't really care enough to do anything. A piece of journalism that makes people care more is a step in the right
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This attitude is fundamentally incompatible with American (really, all Western) civic values. It goes against what our entire system of law is built on.
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No true Scottish engineer would have made that error!
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One would hope. But that is not what is going to happen. People do not talk over small networks because they are inconvenient due to their small size. It is more convenient to talk over large networks because there are more people to talk t

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