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by awillen 6y ago
100% agree. If you read this entire thing, you don't end up with anything close to the skills needed to cook a meal. You could watch a five minute cooking tutorial or just make a simple recipe instead, and then you'd have somethin
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by awillen 6y ago
This is not good advice, it's just an attempt to cash in on Amazon affiliate links. If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them theory, like the different kinds of heat transfer (which this says you
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by awillen 6y ago
And all the members of the Trump administration bravely resigning in protest when they were going to be out of jobs in less than two weeks. Patriots, truly!
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by awillen 6y ago
Good for them for not bothering with the half-assed CYA nonsense Apple is doing. "Give us a moderation plan in 24 hours" is just such a ridiculously unmeetable demand (at least if they require that plan to be anything close to act
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by awillen 6y ago
Yeah I mean the key difference is if you get caught up in the actions of a mob of armed insurrectionists, that means you were in a crowd of armed insurrectionists in the first place.
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by awillen 6y ago
Former PM at a videoconferencing company here - this is a great great great idea. You should consider integrating with Blue Jeans (guess where I was a PM at), Zoom, etc. If it works well and you can get in touch with some folks at the compa
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by awillen 6y ago
I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly like this. At the moment I'm trying to find a digital ad agency, and it's all just "we'll hack your ads to supersize your growth!" Meanwhile I'm over here looking for s
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by awillen 6y ago
But if sending the incompetent American gets you a lifetime donor who pays for many houses to be built (assuming he would not have without the feeling of personal connection he got from his experience incompetently homebuilding), then isn&#
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by awillen 6y ago
Agreed - and FWIW even with what Trump has tried to do to give himself dictatorial powers (and the enablement of the Republicans to that end), our democracy has still held up pretty well.
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by awillen 6y ago
Yeah, agreed, definitely not back patting... it's just a soooooo much lesser of two evils situation.
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by awillen 6y ago
For everything that's wrong in the United States, it's just terrifying to think of what it's like to be in China/Russia/Saudi Arabia/etc., where the government has no qualms about poisoning, arresting or otherw
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by awillen 6y ago
I was really confused for a bit there, and I finally realized the comment I was responding to said "not just in science," not "just not in science" as I had originally read it. Whoops.
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by awillen 6y ago
That's just one article - it's not a unique point of view from Vox. https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on... https://ecrcommunity.plos.org/2019/11/18/livi
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by awillen 6y ago
I disagree - boring is critical in science. Good science means detailed record keeping and precise experimentation. It's good if the results are exciting, but the process of doing good science is typically quite boring when it's d
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by awillen 6y ago
But on the other hand, with a severe replication crisis in science ( https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21504366/science-replicat... ), isn't it a good thing that we have a bunch of boring papers that are close
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by awillen 6y ago
Interesting - thanks!
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by awillen 6y ago
I think it's brilliant advice to young people to not try to seem like an expert when they clearly aren't one. When you're dealing with people who are familiar with your subject, you can't fake it until you make it - you&
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by awillen 6y ago
So... who else has now burned hours on the incompatible food triad? Seriously, it's killing me. Some kind of fruit and chocolate and something??
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm curious about the place card one - you come up first on a Google search for "make place cards", which is great (congrats!). How much of that was because you saw an opportunity there from an SEO perspective (i.e. relativel
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by awillen 6y ago
This is nice in theory and wildly out of touch with reality. Should Grubhub pay drivers more? Yes. Yes they should. But we live in a world where Grubhub does not pay enough to drivers. That means as a consumer of the service, you should be
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by awillen 6y ago
I think this is overly cynical - the vast majority of people, particularly those interviewing for high-skill tech jobs, understand that the recruiter is the messenger when it comes to the actual decision.
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by awillen 6y ago
No, it's crazy to say that a very specific behavior in response to a very particular situation will just end up harassment and abuse. If that logic were true, then the fact that sites like Yelp exist would've led to us burning the
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by awillen 6y ago
My comments were about naming and shaming individuals. Ghosting is a behavior of individuals that is very rude of those individuals and very easy to solve by those individuals (all it takes is <30 seconds to send an email). I know plenty
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by awillen 6y ago
I've worked with enough salespeople and recruiters to be sympathetic to the pressure put on them. There are a lot of behaviors that salespeople engage in, like selling futures and other questionable things, that I don't like, but
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by awillen 6y ago
Yeah, I mean ultimately it's basically just Yelp for recruiters. I know people get mad about public shaming, but I think that a Yelp-esque site is useful in any competitive industry - shaming the bad ones means that the good ones get m
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by awillen 6y ago
Honestly, you're probably not what this is intended for. I don't consider it ghosting until I've sent more than one emails that have not been replied to (which thankfully has only happened to me once, after an interview with
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by awillen 6y ago
Ghosting people is bad form, too. "all it does is make people walk on egg shells in the future" - well that depends a lot on how it's done. Here, we're presented with a behavior by recruiters that is very rude, and on to
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by awillen 6y ago
It's a great problem that you're trying to solve, but this just isn't a great solution - it's no different than getting a throwaway email and sending a message yourself. Also, depending on the size of the company, the re
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by awillen 6y ago
"For your hardcore fleshy, a bloody slab of meat is all that's going to satiate them, so it misses that market too." I think you're really painting people who don't follow your thinking with a pretty aggressively ne
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by awillen 6y ago
This truly fascinates me... it's the potential for immense extension of human life that no one's talking about. If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend the book Lifespan by Dr. David Sinclair.

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