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by byoung2 6y ago
For me the appeal is being able to build things from scratch, and make big decisions before the stakes are too high. It also opens the possibility of growing into a larger role than if you join a big company.
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I get that your tone is facetious, but in my example, the institution responsible for the racism still exists today, and the racism was just one generation ago.
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That is correct. I am a Black student who was academically qualified and did not get into Princeton. This had nothing to do with race. But before 1946 Princeton specifically excluded Blacks as a matter of policy. Harvard and Yale did not. B
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And yet Black students are better represented than non-Jewish White students. Google "Princeton Basketball Team" or "Princeton Football Team" and you will see that Blacks are over-represented on these teams (27% to 30%
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Klainerman said that “to promote excellence in research and teaching, major American universities have to develop policies that are blind to considerations of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, socio-economic class and any other factor not re
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When my daughter was born I spent every hour either caring for her or for my wife. I couldn't imagine doing anything else on top of that. Diaper changes and feeding every 2 hours for the first 4-6 months at least.
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Unfortunately YouTube's algorithm is optimized to encourage the maximum amount of viewing time and ad views on the platform, not the most interesting videos for an individual. Symbology in level design does not encourage binge watching
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IT should have a system of roles and permissions that allows administrators to log in as other user if necessary to install updates or reset passwords. This access should be logged and ideally periodically audited by a 3rd party. Sharing a
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The greatest strength of Starbucks is also its greatest weakness: scale. Because Starbucks is everywhere, it has to be the same everywhere. Maybe the best coffee in West Hollywood is not the same as the best coffee in Midtown Manhattan, but
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Exactly...the 2 ingredients for a B2B startup is tech/expertise and the ability to talk to businesses. Trying to outsource that 2nd part might be a sign that B2B is not the right space for the founder. B2C it is possible to survive on
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Do you have a link?
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http://paperjs.org/about/ might be a good starting point
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I remember my first full-time job I fought hard for a raise and got it. I worked long hours, putting in extra work in the evenings when everyone else had gone home. Then maybe a month later a new hire came in and casually in a conversation
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I don't think the investors would care if you brought this to their attention. I am not a lawyer, but if you want to bring this forward speak to a legal professional about this. Definitely talk to a lawyer. Bad PR is poison to a star
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This debate has been going on since before the pandemic. Parents have always taken sick days to care for kids, or show up late to attend parent teacher conferences, or knave early to go to soccer games or school plays.
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I would imagine that at the beginning, the new AI would require compute resources beyond the reach of most individuals or small organizations. Similar to the recent GPT-3, it would probably be available as a paid service. The really interes
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He says he uses Gmail, which literally has a task list built in
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It has just one location within the city limits of Los Angeles Not true...there are at least 9 locations in Los Angeles city proper. It is understandable to miss the San Fernando Valley locations, since they use colloquial neighborhood na
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My current job has become more stressful over the last 6 months (not COVID-19 related). 1 point tickets easily balloon into 3 point tickets because requirements haven't been thought through. And during retro we constantly put it on the
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We have a bunch of slack bots for common tasks like resetting passwords and setting up dev environments. I can send a message to the slackbot and spin up a copy of the app with a specific branch running, for example. We also have read only
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I see...the problem is that a lot of these niche applications run on proprietary, often older software. I've run into this with trying to integrate hotel booking systems with websites, with financial institutions trying to add credit a
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From your link: This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [1]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. [1]Readers should therefore be aware that ar
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Everyone who had a positive test is counted as a “covid death”. Irregardless of the actual cause of death. This is not true. Or, more accurately, it is not more true about COVID-19 than other diseases. If someone tests positive for COVID-
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Hospitals aren’t full but rather empty. My wife is an ICU nurse. Her hospital on a regular day last year had 19 ICU beds, with half of them occupied at any given time. These are beds for patients who require level 2 or 3 support...basical
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What is their reason for not letting you do that? HIPAA compliance? Or do they offer a competing product?
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all of the "outward observations" are ultimately meant to advance human civilization That may be a flawed premise. In an increasingly capitalist society, many of these "outward observations" were done in the pursuit of
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I don't see that as ironic...the more time we spend looking outward, the less time we have to spend looking at ourselves. I'm not sure that human civilization will collapse out of a lack of understanding of human nature, but rath
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From the guidelines[1]: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
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One antipattern I've seen at a few companies is analysis paralysis, where there are endless meetings and strategy sessions to discuss a solution to a problem, but there is never an actual decision made. One company I worked for had a s
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Too many to count...I joined a FB group called Quarantine Culinary where people share amazing dishes they've cooked at home, often with limited supplies or ingredients. I bought a new griddle and I have been experimenting a lot on that

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