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by dfraser992 13y ago
I starting burning out about 34 - I'm 44 now - and I wish I had made the effort to start transitioning. But I'm very good at forcing myself to go on death marches... life got in the way and was distracting as well. The latest s
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by dfraser992 13y ago
"Drug Warriors and Their Prey" examines the process by which the WoSD started to corrode civil liberties and how those tactics paralleled those used in the rise of the Nazis. Co-opting the judiciary to ensure those with the appro
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by dfraser992 13y ago
I second the idea that this is all deliberate in order to get rid of you; that was the first thing I thought of. It sounds like you've tried to handle the situation the right way and your boundaries keep getting stepped on. I myself
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Shortly after the first Internet bubble broke, I quit my horrible job and went to film school. IT was no longer fulfilling, or was at least a headache, and I needed to do something different. After film school, I needed money to pay for fi
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Why is the global witch hunt against terrorists (excuse me, Muslims) acceptable, but bringing people like the bankers at HSBC, who enabled drug lords and the like for over a decade, not? HSBC's actions were far more detrimental to soc
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Isn't there a large body of existing knowledge on how to help the average Chines person get through the Great Firewall of China? Considering how relatively easy it is to get onto The Pirate Bay and other sites one way or another, desp
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Sociopaths are one of the fundamental threats facing humanity today. Such traits may have been beneficial in times past as group conflict was so prevalent, but if global issues like getting into space, climate change and the prevention of
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Edit: reading this a few hours later, obviously I need to spend some of the money I did make going to therapy. My anal retentive analytical powers, honed over years of programming, are getting in the way. Figure out how to let go and wal
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by dfraser992 13y ago
I've posted about my situation before, but the same general topic keeps coming up.... I was hired to build a website and somehow it turned into a B2B startup after 4 years - and I alone was 95% of the staff. "Cash flow problems&
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by dfraser992 13y ago
_please_ learn from my mistake. I spent a solid 4+ years working by myself (some remote help once in awhile) on a startup for a manipulative sociopath who kept telling me "cash flow issues" (so couldn't really hire another p
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by dfraser992 13y ago
I had a bit of trouble depositing money (my fault) and their customer service I thought was fine. Did you ask for any help?
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by dfraser992 13y ago
this guy is not doing something right, or the fact he lives in 10 different places around the world is a factor. I had no trouble at all, beyond waiting a few days for MtGox to verify me (when they were swamped at the time), and Bitstamp w
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by dfraser992 13y ago
I remember reading about a study that determined there was a biological difference in terms of how "introverts" and "extroverts" (using your definitions) processed information. The nervous system of the introverts proce
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by dfraser992 13y ago
The DSM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manu... ) was created by the psychiatric profession and psychiatry is quite different than the field of psychology. Disclaimer: I have a B.S. in psycho
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Yeah, I know. Even though there were 3 people in the company, including me, and I managed myself... It was a brute force lesson in office politics, it seems. At least I've graduated from the Clueless level now. This code of omerta i
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Based on this, I'm an a-hole. I did 90% of the IT work for this last client because I was 90% of the IT department. I literally begged upper management for help at one point. I kept pushing to give this part time contractor in Russia
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by dfraser992 13y ago
The Vietnam war was managed by technocrats - look how well that turned out. Libertarian ideals are a step removed from anarchy, and all fine in theory - but extremely naive because as one gets older, you (hopefully) begin to understand the
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by dfraser992 13y ago
Are you actually me? This sounds so familiar, I just had a flashback... Get a lawyer, like everyone else is saying. The fundamental fault I made was not enforcing my boundaries - this is the purpose of lawyers, to help you do this, but yo
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by dfraser992 13y ago
I was hired to build a website for someone, as a contractor, and somehow it turned into building --all-- the systems for a enterprise B2B company handling schedule processing for the shipping industry. It was my fault for getting caught up