dsajames

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by dsajames 8y ago
I don't know who gave that advice, but I'm ten years older than you and was frequently told that a history degree would get me little.
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by dsajames 8y ago
I was in scouting for many years. Why should they welcome anyone? I was permitted to join, onboarded, etc. Anyone else who joined was given the same treatment. The red carpet wasn't rolled out for anyone. It's religious only in
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by dsajames 8y ago
This doesn't describe the fast majority of out of shape people. Poverty has always been an issue, but obesity and poor health from a sedentary lifestyle is a very new issue.
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by dsajames 8y ago
I've heard it called bore-out
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by dsajames 8y ago
Bullshit. My large extended family is mostly "the rest of us" and doesn't like race being brought into a topic.
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by dsajames 8y ago
White women are far and away the primary benefitiary of affirmative action. The simple reason is that they are the wives, girlfriends, and daughters of white men and thus are closest to them and it's not a lose-lose for white men.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Soooo much more than web tech.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Half truths. Who cares if http was invented at cern so many years ago? NOW it's pretty dominant. Mobile? How are those Nordic countries doing? Seems to me it's Google and Apple.
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by dsajames 8y ago
450 is not required. For thousands of years nobody but the top .0001% had that kind of space. The biggest myth is that each kid needs their own room. The second is that you need a guestroom. Then you have kitchen + dining room, then huge g
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by dsajames 8y ago
The rate at which people die of black lung is nothing from the point of view of the population at large. It makes perfect financial sense to kill people and let them go while you get new people. The slave trade operated this way for years.
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by dsajames 8y ago
You don't have to code in high school to prove passion. I just ask about their favorite project.
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by dsajames 8y ago
What privileges do you have when interacting with people?
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by dsajames 8y ago
Exactly. NYC isn't middle school.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Maybe be "opposing forces matched in equilibrium" is more accurate than harmonious.
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by dsajames 8y ago
It's fraud, subject to jail just like other types of fraud.
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by dsajames 8y ago
That labor is not worth more on the open market. Nannies aren't rich. Not even close. My wife stayed at home and for time watched children. Without question I was the better deal.
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by dsajames 8y ago
I find that people who marry young grow together. The post about core values hits it right on the head in my years of experience. Nothing has come close to ruining my marriage as much as that.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Wow. Very well said. I have had years of unsettled conflicts because I didn't do this when I married.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Hardly midlife crisis. At 40, your kids might be getting old enough to require less time. You have a stable job, etc. Most importantly, the massive amount of information on hand, connectivity of the internet, and some creative organizers
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by dsajames 8y ago
You don't need a $1500 bike. I've seen people do with $400 bikes, and you might even be able to borrow one. Seriously, the marathon was originally a race done to copy the feat of an ancient Greek soldier who ran in what, sandals?
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by dsajames 8y ago
And yet the computer industry is the most innovative in history. Computers got faster and cheaper than any other product ever. The speed and price drop led directly to new uses every day. The ability to write your own software without a f
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by dsajames 8y ago
Not even close. Networks and relationships can be important. It's the friends of low level managers who get hired who sometimes have the least credentials.
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by dsajames 8y ago
A professor is not above a teacher. A professor doesn't tell a second grade teacher what to do. They have almost nothing in common.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Leadership is very teachable. The military and other large organizations that need leadership that can't be gotten off the street invest in it. Few orgs want to teach it because it costs money and the ROI is poor if the subject jumps
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by dsajames 8y ago
Good communication is a requirement of the job. If you can't communicate, you aren't likely to be efficient. Take some time to take classes and learn the language better. Try working in a Spanish-only environment as a pure Engli
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by dsajames 8y ago
"suck my dick" is considered more than mildly offensive. Go say it to a 20 year old girl at work and see what happens.
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by dsajames 8y ago
That's not what orthogonal means. It doesn't mean "opposite". Being a good person and being a high achieving person is very possible. Not necessary, not guaranteed. They just have nothing to do with each other.
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by dsajames 8y ago
What risk? Market pay, many startups have decent health insurance, and even if it blows up, it actually looks good, not bad on the resume.
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by dsajames 8y ago
Because it's such a massive percentage of the population?
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by dsajames 8y ago
Hahahaha. So I feel something and suddenly someone else has the job of kissing me and making me feel all better? Right.

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