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by galdosdi 2y ago
Not a personal attack. There is nothing wrong with being a foreigner or having grown up in a bad school district.
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Ask HN: In this tougher job market, what specialties are in more demand?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Banking is actually a rare case where it makes sense because they legitimately need your TIN (taxpayer ID number). For businesses this is the same as their EIN (employee ID number) so no big deal. What's problematic that ought to be fi
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by galdosdi 2y ago
While I'm at it, the very attitude of "that's not my problem" reveals your foreignness (or if you are from here and very young, perhaps the sad fact that civic culture is dying everywhere but maybe new england) America h
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Incorrect. You must not be a US citizen (or else went to a poor quality K12 school that failed to teach the basic civics) States are NOT an administrative subdivision of the larger country. This is a common misconception. They are not at al
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Not for nothing and maybe you already know, but beware of cdiff. It can result from too many broad antibiotics and is scary as hell.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yes, that's why it's useful to set rules and consequences based on outcomes instead of effort sometimes it eliminates the possibility of making excuses. If they want to avoid the consequences they can learn to take more seriously
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by galdosdi 2y ago
This makes intuitive sense but I'd love research into quantifying to what extent the explanation is "better sleep makes loneliness more subjectively tolerable (because better sleep makes you more emotionally resilient to all hards
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Lol, and then they get grounded. They can't hack if they are taught to expect swift consequences for messing around
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by galdosdi 2y ago
In your whole country? Which one? I'm sad to hear it.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
These days to qualify as excellent you need good phone discipline. Eg, turn off the phone or turn off notifications, even vibrations. Or at least make a strict rule to ignore it while moving and only look while fully stopped, eg at a stopli
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yes, but switching back and forth multiple times? I admit to having done even this before too, but I certainly didn't feel proud of myself after. A really good human driver would avoid this kind of conduct by having a (just slight) bia
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by galdosdi 2y ago
When was the last time you worked in a public school then?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Well good for you, but some people couldn't get the fancy stuff and didn't mind and actually liked the "dirt weed" and are sad it can no longer be gotten for love or money. You can't even grow your own either becaus
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by galdosdi 2y ago
>> vape instead > Is there a source for this as well? Lol. Do you really doubt this? Have you been out in the world recently? It's become a major problem in the schools. It can be done discretely, much like nicotine vapes, in
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by galdosdi 2y ago
What? Why don't you just look at unit prices instead? That's the only price I ever look at and other than edge cases like trying new things or goods that you can't use up fast enough, there's no reason to look at anythin
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by galdosdi 2y ago
No, because the high potency stuff merely increases THC but does not increase and in fact often decreases other psychoactive compounds like CBD. It will not be the same.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Thank you. A big factor that excarbates this issue is that the legal cannabis industryha greedily amped up THC potency by an order of magnitude. 5% was typical in the 1990s. Today it's hard to find lower than 20%. And that's just
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Whoa. That's a really cool idea. Have as much wealth as you want, but past $100mil or something we recognize it's not really just yours and it has so much gravity it affects society around it and thus, we still let you fully contr
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by galdosdi 2y ago
This also happens to be shaky advice. Focusing on the big goal, when it will take thousands of steps, can be demoralizing, emphasizing the bigness of it. Focusing on just getting the task at hand done today and leavbing to faith that the bi
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I still remember the phone number of this girl I wanted to date in high school, 867-5309
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> Equally necessary doesn’t mean equally valuable. So there is that. But there's no objective way to measure valuable other than what the output is and what happens if the resource is removed. That's circular reasoning. You wan
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I thought EPIC was already kind of the defacto national healthcare patient software system, seems like every hospital uses them.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Between Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan, it seems as if both major powers and the minor power (US, China, Russia) are racing to burn off goodwill. Not sure what to make of it. I guess a uh, falling tide lowers all boats?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Me: I will write software to help salesman plan their route when they travel. MIT: the travelling salesman problem is NP-complete so your idea is impossible Stanford: you should build an MVP that just randomly sorts the destinations and see
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Look up what drivers licensing is like in Japan, for example. Much tougher, in the same way AP Calculus is tougher than Remedial Algebra. Couldn't even pass on an automatic transmission until a few years ago. Or hell, just compare one
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yes, agreed, healthcare is another great example alongside housing. Healthcare, housing, and education have famously gone up far faster than wages for decades, while gadgets and knickknacks and furniture, etc, have gone down. Hindsight is 2
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by galdosdi 2y ago
You're asking how it should be or how it actually is? If the latter, have you like, actually been in the workforce? Yeah, it's a combination of luckiest, most connected, and/or hardest working, depending on the company, depen
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by galdosdi 2y ago
This has been going on since the 1700s, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system And was criticized as indirect corporate welfare then too
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by galdosdi 2y ago
third option is dispose of them by letting whoever can't find a job fall into (if they're lucky) being NEETs at a relative's house, or (if unlucky) meth and fentanyl addiction in encampments, scrounging off scraps, essentiall

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