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by andrew_ 4y ago
There is much new speculation by historians and archeologists that psychedelics are widely responsible for giant leaps in civilization and "society." Your take is a puritanical, modern view without regard to history or nuance.
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Was it this one this one [1]? They don't know if he fell, jumped, or slipped. They only have released anecdotals that he ingested psilocybin. You don't know what kind of trip the young man had, you don't know if he had suicid
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by andrew_ 4y ago
"raining cats and dogs" also popular in the U.S.
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Was trying to find some reading material on these that addressed the question: what happens when large debris makes contact with the control arms for this? I've seen large chunks of ice that are dense enough and heavy enough to cause u
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by andrew_ 4y ago
This is an antiqued take for nearly all of the IT industry. Most of my peers are industry veterans without a degree. Some only completed high school.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
refusal to take a good look at GitHub, a shipped product, or portfolio is a red flag that indicates bad org health, and to avoid.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
imo falling back on those kinds of code challenges indicate a lack of imagination and creativity on the part of the hiring personnel. the industry has grown so much and there are so many new tools available, people work in so many new and c
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by andrew_ 4y ago
leetcode is a horrible proxy for evaluating critical thinking ability - it's simply performative measure of "preparation" and the ability to regurgitate on-demand. at least that's my take after a few decades in the game.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I was in school in 2002 and wrote a freeware app as a hobby. The app got the attention of a company that produced a paid version of the same kind of app, as it was apparently cutting into sales and they liked what I'd done. I was offer
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I grew up in a piping wholesale business in the midwest that's still going after 35 years. Orders could be ea. (each, single part) or cs. (case, which is arbitrary based on supplier). That industry is never arbitrary unit (e.g. per &qu
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by andrew_ 4y ago
bitbar can do the same. I currently use it to display time zones for the folks I work with. have used it in the past for reminders. a lot of what sindre makes isn't novel or unique - it's presented professionally, easy to work wit
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Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy(sciencedirect.com)
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by andrew_ 4y ago
> one of the few things we know for sure Objectively, with the rate of change and revelation surrounding the vaccine, I'm not sure how anyone can confidently assert that we know anything about it "for sure." We're lea
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by andrew_ 4y ago
We have direct evidence of federal pressure from multiple federal sources. We can see from what's been released that Twitter's leadership had concerns when pushing back even in the slightest. To assert that Twitter could have igno
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I suspect we could go around and around as to what constitutes moderation versus ideological censorship. I hope that we can agree that the feds putting pressure on the scales is wrong during any administration, and that transparency in mode
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by andrew_ 4y ago
"healthcare *advice" leaving that word out misrepresents the parent. I understand why people hold the same position you do, but I still believe it's wrong and shortsighted. It will be inevitably abused in a way you disagree w
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by andrew_ 4y ago
Ro Khanna, the Congressman representing S.V. has thoughts on using "nothingburger": > Here’s why I think the “nothingburger” argument is compounding the problem. https://www.thefp.com/p/ro-khanna-on-twitter
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by andrew_ 4y ago
It's what many of us thought was going on based on what we could see. It's nice to have it out in the open and verify/confirm what some of us were told was plain old paranoia.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I've taken some time to look at your other comments and don't have faith that any amount of information will sway you in the slightest. Your bias is very strong, and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, I don&#x2
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by andrew_ 4y ago
That's a very fair point. I'll remember that moving forward
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I'm not sure if this was asked in earnest, but you could look into the recent Canadian laws around preferred pronoun use, applications and enforcement in universities there, as an example. Googling "compelled speech 2022" wil
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by andrew_ 4y ago
they're too focused on compelling speech rather than protecting speech
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Making the Weather an Instrument of War(popsci.com)
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by andrew_ 4y ago
I donate yearly to the Purple Heart Foundation and they're quite respectful in communications.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
Same here. Donated once and had to setup filters for the subsequent flood of email. I'd be more inclined to ignore that annoyance if they could get a handle on activist editing, which exists across the entire political spectrum for pag
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by andrew_ 4y ago
> Developers are cheap bastards Am a developer and can confirm. I am a cheap bastard.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
> watching how someone solves a problem is just as important as the actual solution I've seen this misnomer hundreds of times over the course of a 20 year career. It's a comfort-falacy. If someone interviews well they're
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by andrew_ 4y ago
There's too much nuance in this discussion to toss out generalities. In some sectors, automation has played a huge role. Certainly not all. In some parts of tech the availability of abundant labor has played a role. Nuance is import
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by andrew_ 4y ago
Could be very beneficial in hiring a founding engineer/team. YC could be a leader is busting the mold that is a broken tech hiring cycle.
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by andrew_ 4y ago
Not at all surprised by this. I worked for a YC company. I've interviewed with over a dozen of them over the years. One thing that YC companies don't do very well is interview/hire. All but one (the one I worked for) went dow

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