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by arandr0x 8y ago
I wouldn't use these questions but they're usually coming from interviewers who are trying to have a sense of you as a person/get you out of your shell. (Except the "Where do you see yourself in 10 years" question.
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This is interesting to me, because I'm an avid reader in real life and usually lucid dream (though I don't train myself to). Most dreams to a degree feel like fiction to me and they're enjoyable in the same way reading a good
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You don't need equality of outcomes -- you just need neither group, and in fact, no person (even if they do not fit the group norm) to have objectively bad outcomes. For example, in an hypothetical world where women have a massive pref
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But, in some other cases where something is most likely a biological difference, but changing the culture could meaningfully change the outcome for a sub-population, we do tend to choose to resolve the biology part. For example, we medicate
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The idea is to have a conversation with someone who's read as much of the same things you have as possible? What do you learn from this?
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It looks to me like your hire messed up something about this guy's plans and he set out to minimize damage as fast as possible. Since he had contacts and you didn't, he won (they usually do). Look, when you start at a new place, e
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I moved to programming from biomedical R&D. It wasn't a decision based on economic concerns. I don't actually agree that "we could be further along in biotech if there were already a good number of us working on it",
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This is one thing I thought was nice about the US healthcare system, that it aligns the economic incentives of companies with having healthier employees relative to other companies. Maybe countries that have a more efficient single payer sy
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Does it matter who's diversity? If the argument is that a company with a non-diverse workforce can't deal with users from different walks of life, they don't have a diversity problem, they have an empathy problem. (Arguably m
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Yes! I thought parent wanted to get into experimental science but this is also a viable approach. There is a lot of data to be mined in biology and chemistry and a dearth of people making good models.
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I did drug discovery in grad school -- finding leads is generally not something suitable for small labs, but studying them is. A big source of compounds that actually work isn't high-throughput screening, it's isolating the active
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Yeah I can see the argument. I think this forum in general is too easily weighted towards considering money vs everything else in life though. I wanted to show numbers for a life that (considering the low CoL of the area) was perfectly good
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The salary is less of a problem if you're growing old there -- Montreal is a nice balance between the US and major European cities, where there is a pretty big social safety net. You don't need to pay for health insurance, childca
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They're getting 50-55k. OTOH their rent is 500 to 800 a month (including electricity and sometimes internet), and they can buy a house in the suburbs if they want for about 300 to 400k. (All prices CAD.) Montreal has a ton of startups
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by arandr0x 8y ago
What is your mathematics curriculum like?
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I work with a ton of people from Grandes Ecoles and while I think they're generally great coders, certainly as much so as if they'd spent their whole education madly typing as fast as humanly possible, as juniors they're not
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I am interested in the experience of your corner of the world. I'm a millenial who "can't afford a child" (but am making a lot more than a ton of households with children are in my area). Is there an email address I can
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The article's assumption that the core demographics (of men 20-34 let's say) are not foregoing their basic needs is flawed -- not only are most of them living in much smaller spaces than they were before, they are also less likely
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by arandr0x 8y ago
What do you recommend to the younger or ambitious devs who want to grow in their career -- do you send them to training or let them have a side project of some kind so that they still have a somewhat valuable resume, or is it more a questio
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What if feeding hungry people today is what it takes for them to feed themselves tomorrow? Africa currently has millions of entrepreneurs, and half the rare earth minerals in your computer's chips and a plurality of the beans for the d
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It's so regulated as to be effectively impossible for individuals to get into unless they have serious connections. I've seen the stocks on the TSX too. I was going by the meaning of the previous posters, which seemed to be saying
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Production is also largely illegal in Canada, with the exception in some of the province of very limited growing for personal use. Legalization is, of course, legalizing consumption, there will be a government monopoly on the parts of the c
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I tend to use "bored states" to do all my planning tasks. In "deep work" or even deep work-adjacent states I am usually too focused on a problem to go back and find things that should be getting done, or to consider the
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm starting to think maybe we should collectively subject the men who are using the correct wording/behavior to positive reinforcement. Such as if someone tells you "The intern is really hot, but I would never ask out an int
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My understanding is sexual harassment is aggressive, in a way that goes beyond confidence or assertiveness. I suppose it feels like being in a fight in a way. Most fights don't have lasting consequences, most fights occur in environmen
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What kind of job would you and the parent poster recommend jack-of-all-trades people who just want to get things done apply to? Sales in some environments is ideal for this but for introverts?
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I like the concept but I don't believe the diploma it grants "counts" in France for applying to e.g. master's and PhD programmes and most French smart people I knew had little interest in stopping with undergrad. In Fren
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I hope you're actually an American who doesn't like the NFL so you can tell me how well the analogy follows. The conversational equivalent using the NFL example would go something like this: "Why are there no Americans at my
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I'm sorry, I don't follow how your argument (which is valid) is a response to mine. I said people tend to object to being imposed an identity by people who do not share it ("all women hate programming", "all Yankees
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I see this argument a lot but your exposition is less inflammatory than most. Please note this: when you tell a mixed-gender group of people that all women are "wired" to not like programming, you are telling the women who do like

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