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by baumy 8y ago
What? This comment seems ridiculous to me. They aren't a panacea and aren't right in all circumstances, but they have plenty of technical advantages. You can write code for different services in different languages / on diffe
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by baumy 8y ago
Former competitive basketball player here, still play pickup regularly. "Nobody who has ever played even semicompetitive organized basketball could mistake this for an honest performance" is blatant hyperbole. I could not possibly
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by baumy 8y ago
In case people don't realize, the linked site has one blog post per day going back the past ~2 weeks all about this protest. Some choice excerpts: > I am sure in the future Mr Bezos will be placed in one line with Adolf Hitler as an
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by baumy 8y ago
Adding some context since I suspect much of the HN crowd may be unfamiliar - this is being published by ESPN, who previously have suspended and fired employees for calling out the NFL and its commissioner [0][1]. Not saying there isn't
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by baumy 8y ago
I exclusively work for whoever is willing to pay me the most, at the least inconvenience to my current living situation. I would feel pretty comfortable wagering that I'm in the large majority there. I may be off base here so apologies
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by baumy 8y ago
This entire comment seems absurd to me, am I missing something? > You forget the effects of the "full reinvestment" policy. Amazon barely paid any tax at all Is there anything stopping other companies, Amazon competitors like W
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by baumy 8y ago
Please do not comment without reading the article. > Some provinces play a recorded message when someone tries to call a blacklisted debtor, informing the caller that the person they want to speak with has outstanding debts. And in May,
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by baumy 9y ago
> This reeks of whataboutism to me. Why are you trying to imply that we shouldn't be concerned about privacy? I don't think I've seen a single person use the term "whataboutism" correctly since November 2016. Peo
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by baumy 9y ago
I hope you can take a step back and realize that this is one of the most blatant examples of mental gymnastics / cognitive dissonance that I personally have ever seen. In the face of direct, first-hand evidence that the Obama campaign
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by baumy 9y ago
This comment is so odd I'm not sure where to begin. You would work more than 2x full time hours on any idea proposed by some VC for ~$2.25/hour? And you think there is an availability of competent "young and hungry" prog
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by baumy 9y ago
The claim that STEM degrees are not competitive with other degree paths in terms of professional success is obviously wrong. Skimming the linked paper, it seems to be exclusively discussing PhD programs. Not sure how relevant that is.
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by baumy 9y ago
I'm sorry, this statement is extraordinarily confusing to me. Why on earth is the null hypothesis that there is innate equivalence? This seems so precisely backward that I'm going to need you to justify it before I can agree. A li
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by baumy 9y ago
> Otherwise, please cite a video/audio source of him actually saying he wants to kick out all the legal immigrants. I am no Trump fan, but you have failed to do this. Temporarily (or indefinitely) curbing a specific subset of legal
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by baumy 9y ago
Even if that's 40% after tax and 401k withholding, you are either wildly underpaid or you live in very extravagant housing
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by baumy 9y ago
I would not go so far as to say they "prove" the negation of the biological argument, when there is so much evidence that points the other direction, and a practically infinte number of confounding variables are involved if all yo
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by baumy 9y ago
I am not particularly knowledgeable about that, so I don't have much to offer here. I'll take a stab, but I don't have anything to cite, and my opinions aren't well informed - For various reasons I don't want to go
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by baumy 9y ago
> Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs. Neuroticism is a precisely defined term in psych
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by baumy 9y ago
The author took great pain to distinguish between traits having a tendency to exist at higher rates within a group, and traits being exhibited by an individual. You don't seem to have comprehended his point. Barring diversity programs
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by baumy 11y ago
For large companies there are legal problems there. If you can't give every single candidate the same exact experience / ability to succeed in an interview, you are open to lawsuits. If candidate A got a laptop, but candidate B di
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by baumy 12y ago
As a general rule, never call yourself an expert in anything. For one thing, you're probably not. Just as importantly, don't say that you're an expert, demonstrate that you are. Experts don't have to tell other people th