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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I’m on the tail end of a 3 month break, returning to work on Tuesday. I worried I would not have enough to do, but id gladly take 3 more months right now.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
What you do all day influences your personality, and different professions tend to draw different personalities. It’s absolutely true that software engineers in general are more reserved and even more awkward than eg sales people. One spend
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It's unclear to me what you'd like the recruiter to have done differently. They don't work inside the company and have no more access to unbiased information about it than you do as a candidate. You identified some red flags
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The parent comment isn’t saying the food is bad or that they don’t like the buildings. They are making a human rights critique. A few days seeing the sights is pretty irrelevant at best in this context.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
To take one example of repurposing, amphitheaters turned out to make pretty good mini-fortresses, so in some cases the town simply moved inside!
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I’m currently wrapping up a trip touring many ancient monuments during winter (aka off-season), and nearly all of them were having some kind of renovation work being done. Usually it’s a combination of whatever ancient stone is left from an
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
In the long run, sure, but it takes years to train a nurse. It’s not hard to imagine that there are simply too few with the training able to do it.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The cable provider / content provider dispute playbook: 1. Cease broadcasting / licensing of content 2. Talk to media to patiently explain how your adversary is responsible for depriving you of your precious {sports team | Marvel
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Critiques of the bias of testing need to come with a defense of what replaces them. Can extra curriculars be gamed? Of course. What makes a good essay? That would depend on the eye of the evaluator. The dismay here is not due to a believe t
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Elite college entrance is a lifelong shortcut in the distribution system of money and power that the rest of us do not get to opt out of. The things you say about racial injustice are true, however if correcting this were truly the goal Har
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Are you sure your time is really best spent coding? Just because you are able to do it doesn’t mean it’s the best thing for your subordinates or company.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
If dollars are inflated relative to the services and goods they can actually purchase, yet demand for dollars remains high in Europe, would that imply inflation in Europe?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Your comment is overly dismissive and provides no better evidence than the comment you are responding to. Not everyone is a poor planner, but deadlines become firm when large marketing spends are deployed, as they are in the gaming industry
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I don’t know BioNTech, but J&J and AZ employ thousands of US scientists (AZ has 14k American employees as per their job site). Moderna is quite a large success to brush aside.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
But global money goes into the US exchanges. In reality those companies are global firms, and it doesn’t really make sense to credit any one country with their accomplishments.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
One of those old scares which seems a little quaint now, not because the fears were unfounded, but because the feared thing came to pass and is normal. Similar to old fears that family time would turn into TV time.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Every time a story like this comes up, the method of bad news delivery gets critiqued. Being laid off is bad news. It’s going to sting no matter what. Every method has its drawbacks and advantages. Personally, hearing the news “over zoom” s
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The cash cow is actually increasingly Cash App
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
If it’s to avoid the association with Xi Jinping, why not simply say so?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It’s a sensible decision wrapped in disingenuous spin. The stated reason was that it’s a common name, but it is apparently not. Giving this as the reason rather the abundantly obvious reason is cause for reasonable criticism.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Somewhat off topic, can anyone recommend a good HN content filter? These crypto scams topping the front page all the time have ceased to be amusing…
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I’m unsure what you mean by “no chargebacks” - chargebacks are provide the consumer recourse in the event of a dispute.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It all depends on what these interest free payments are competing with. If it is credit cards, you could tell the story that consumers see through the ruse of credit cards and are looking for a better deal.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The big questions I have are: why were they so secretive about this before, and why are they opening up now? Perhaps for the latter, they reason that the leaks kept the employee protest in the news more than it would have otherwise, and by
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I’m afraid 24 is not young in this context. Teens are what these companies seem to care about (judging by the ad budget in the hundreds of millions), and in that demographic Instagram is behind both Snapchat and TikTok. It would seem that s
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
They’ve certainly faced an onslaught from the press, which has decided they are Philip Morris 2.0. It’s very unclear if that is going to translate into actual legal trouble. If I was at FB I’d be more concerned with how young people are rej
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The value to Mark Zuckerberg is obvious, the question is what’s the value to users? Why is it fun? Why is it interesting?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Have those predictions come to pass?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
What is the employee sentiment towards Meta / metaverse products?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The mind numbing boringness is entirely the point. The real message is that there’s nothing to see here, everyone is on the same page, everyone loves the successor, if you’re an investor or an employee this is definitely not an event that s

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