jacalata

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by jacalata 11y ago
Journal writing. Spend ten (or 30) minutes each evening writing about what you learned that day. This will (a) get you in the habit of noticing things that you want to remember ("huh, must note that in my journal"), (b) have you s
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by jacalata 11y ago
There's some evidence that while producing cursive isnt useful, the process of learning and using it is useful: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/16/cognitive-be... If you're taking
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by jacalata 11y ago
Ha, you should see how badly it's received in the US for a real contrast.
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by jacalata 11y ago
I believe they meant the publisher market. I'm not aware of Amazon being accused of collusion in this matter at all.
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by jacalata 11y ago
It's totally a risk calculation - the risk of being found guilty in a trial and doing the longer sentence vs definitely being convicted now and getting a shorter sentence. If you know you're innocent and are being offered a year i
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by jacalata 11y ago
No, historically a surplus of men was created by running a polygamous hierarchical society where the richest x men get 100% of the women and the remaining men are now surplus (although some amount of them can be absorbed as low status labor
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by jacalata 11y ago
That's a weird lesson to learn from a story about a guy who spoke out and still carried that guilt. It seems more like a lesson of "win the argument or you will be traumatized"?
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by jacalata 11y ago
Yes, it's specifically for this purpose. Visa details: http://j1visa.state.gov/programs/intern/
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by jacalata 11y ago
Absolutely not. The previous employer has no role at all and does not even have to know it happened - you could apply for a H1b transfer, get it approved, decide you don't want the new job and continue working for your old employer wit
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by jacalata 11y ago
No, the H1B goes with the employee. They/you have to apply for a H1B transfer.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Because we are not operating in a vacuum of information with only this single article to go on?
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by jacalata 11y ago
It should be, but in America there is no requirement for it to be. Presumably that would come in with any change to make it mandatory.
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by jacalata 11y ago
> most interviewees, by shear numbers, can't possibly have seen before. yea, and in a huge coincidence, you're not going to hire most interviewees...
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by jacalata 11y ago
I don't think they were saying it introduced "foreignness" but rather the sci fi/political concepts it covers. It feels slow and clunky because none of those concepts need introducing any more, they could just go unmenti
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by jacalata 11y ago
Absolutely, but then a dozen people who don't even know what you're arguing will pop out of the woodwork to say "ad hominem fallacy!"
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by jacalata 11y ago
I have mostly been to them through word of mouth, heard through friends, colleagues, related meetup groups, Reddit, etc.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Netflix says they don't even collect vacation data, which means they can't be pressured into publishing it and nobody can prove that their employees don't take any.
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by jacalata 11y ago
You're not being treated like an employee, employees get paid. You're being treated like a useful idiot.
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by jacalata 11y ago
How do you define functional such that the only way to identify it is to work there?
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by jacalata 11y ago
>Sometimes teams are more efficient and innovative when truth wins over harmony If you have to pick, your team sucks.
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by jacalata 11y ago
"Aggressively being non-white in public". The dude probably showed up black to all his VC meetings too - playing the race card!
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by jacalata 11y ago
One is a systemic condition that requires changes from society, the other is a temporary condition caused mostly by factors under your control. Confusing the two encourages ineffective 'solutions' for poverty to be created like &#
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by jacalata 11y ago
Because people already use Signal and fragmentation of the secure messaging space makes it less useful.
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by jacalata 11y ago
It might be easier for you to do, but it seems like a worse end goal.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Non-wsj link: http://nasdaq.com/article/bank-of-americas-newest-mortgage-3...
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by jacalata 11y ago
So...60-70% of Type II patients don't take insulin? Sounds like "most" to me.
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by jacalata 11y ago
No, but I'd bet they used to be able to before it turned into a nice commuter suburb for lawyers. Which was the point of the post you responded to - that this used to be possible and isn't now, and you attempted to say that someth
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by jacalata 11y ago
Talia lived 30 miles from the center of San Francisco, which is more like Woking or Guildford.
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by jacalata 11y ago
You were fired for not understanding the background check form and making a 'mistake' that is functionally indistinguishable from a commonly-attempted lie. Based on the title, you appear not to understand this. Anyone attempting t
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by jacalata 11y ago
> But here I am, having survived my 20’s with some grace and a lot of humility. Looks like she lost both of those somewhere along the way.

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