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greatemployee
10y ago
There is a rational excuse for every bad decision in history. When the arguments for certain practices that are highly consequential become obvious, simple, predictable, perhaps even tautological, I usually take it as a sign that the whole
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greatemployee
10y ago
And (perhaps more reliably?) Vietnam... Like others have said, I'm skeptical as to how close these numbers are to reality.
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greatemployee
10y ago
More or less true. I think a lot of the early enthusiast web-places have either disappeared or are inactive. But this is predictable. When hordes of normal people come online, of course Facebooks, Tumblrs, Instagrams are the result. A lot o
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greatemployee
10y ago
> No, I mean "undertake the emotionally harrowing and deleterious task of yet again... (actual content)... Nah, you mean recounting negative events. And people have been recounting negative events throughout history until you people
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greatemployee
10y ago
Is that all you took away from this? I'm skeptical that you actually read it all. I think more attention is paid to CIA involvement and the sketchy activities of Tor leadership than to J. Applebaum. But I agree that the best strategy,
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greatemployee
10y ago
I think by "relive" you mean "recount." People seemed to be capable of recounting negative events before the rise of safe spaces and micro-aggression and whatever hog crap liberal infants have cooked up lately. Yeah, how
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10y ago
I see this sort of argument a lot and I don't know how true it is. Is it /really/ true that the best contributors are so sensitive? In my experience, these days it's actually the worst contributors or those who contribut
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greatemployee
10y ago
The best way to know for sure is to have someone who is not you, and who is not a potential employer, call each of your references and pretend to be reference-checking.
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10y ago
I sympathize with the author. I have been through this as well. I'm still going through this, really. I've been rejected many times. And every time, I come away from the process annoyed and disappointed, but certain that I would h