fileyfood

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by fileyfood 6y ago
I don't believe she's talking about gentrification as a good thing, just using it as a metric. For example, on a lower income, I wouldn't choose to look in a highly gentrified area for housing, because rent prices may be unaf
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by fileyfood 6y ago
It sounds like she's both socially and fiscally liberal, but doesn't identify with the mechanisms at play in the liberal sphere because they threaten individuals. In many states in the US, socially liberal policies like abortion,
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by fileyfood 6y ago
Former Carnegie Mellon student here. A couple students had a private argument over chat (facebook messenger) in which one student said some things that were not politically correct. The other student screenshot-ed the messages and posted th
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by fileyfood 6y ago
Agreed, engineering teams are effectively stable startups. You make your own decisions & get compete for funding (recs), while delivering products for other teams. If your team is unable to deliver for a customer team, they might make t
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by fileyfood 7y ago
"Hard Interviews, Happy Workers". This note near the end assumes correlation shows causation, which it does not. You could also argue that more workers want to work in certain jobs, creating more competition and leading the compan
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by fileyfood 7y ago
I agree, and I'd argue the potential confirmation bias presented by one side easily inspires skepticism from the other side
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by fileyfood 7y ago
Personally, I am more likely to trust sources that appear to think critically. A lot of reports are heavily one sided, and will provide a lot of evidence backing up a point, while appearing to hide the evidence of the opposition. I find tha