jameane

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by jameane 8y ago
Exactly. My sister is type 1 because she doesn't have a pancreas. So no diet is going to change that.
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by jameane 8y ago
100% accurate - it is hard to see the head start you have if it is never acknowledged. Let's use that old adage about if you want to be a successful tech founder, drop out of Harvard. Let's unpack this a little: 1. Think about wha
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by jameane 8y ago
Streaming services have to create content these days to lock in users. Users won't switch if the stuff the watch (or listen to) is only available with a specific player. Just like TV/movies Podcasts won't remain 100% channel
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by jameane 8y ago
It's sad building a sustainable "lifestyle" business isn't good enough in go go go Silicon alley culture. At the end of the day, our communities do not need dozens of Amazons who grow too big to actually participate in a
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by jameane 8y ago
There are 3 for me: I agree about Freakanomics - it definitely got me thinking about how economics rules the world in one way or another. The New Jim Crow - this gave me a way to frame structural racism and its impact now, in today's s
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by jameane 8y ago
Why is it considered acceptable risk to deploy something that can't recognize large swaths of the population. If your FR fails in tests to recognize Oprah Winfrey - it's broken.
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by jameane 8y ago
I'm disappointed that a tools with a record of poor testing on women and non-white people is even allowed in "production" environment. We need to have a higher bar on what counts as commercial-ready for AI and facial recogni
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by jameane 8y ago
Totally. I hate browsing to my local news site - SFGATE because it is always crashing my browser. They have multiple videos autoplaying and even blocking the content on the page. So frustrating.
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by jameane 8y ago
I'm not sold on the hypothesis that Europe and Asia were way ahead technologically, because honestly (mostly Europeans) did all they could to eliminate any culture indigenous cultures in the Americans and Africa, ignored them and deval
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by jameane 8y ago
But the American prison system is wholly designed to punish certain people almost exclusively. There is a reason it is deemed the "new Jim Crow."
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by jameane 8y ago
Apple was really slow to the party on transit directions. And it doesn't have biking directions. For me driving trips are less than 20% of my trips so not having both transit and biking is a deal breaker. I do like the parking spot re
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by jameane 8y ago
On a somewhat related topic - the How I Built This episode with the Zumba founders is fascinating. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i... spoiler alert One of their biggest revenue st
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by jameane 8y ago
It depends. I have been penalized for negotiating as well as have been rewarded. I do remember distinctly irritating a hiring manager when I responded to her inquiry of "how much do you want to make" with "whatever is the pre
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by jameane 8y ago
One of my friends (white female) is a long time Oracle employee. Oracle systemically underpays "underrepresented people." She ended up finding out she was making 40-50% less than new interns were getting out of college. And was u
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by jameane 8y ago
Now I don't even post Glassdoor reviews until I have been gone for 6 months or more. And particularly with a small team, wait until there is significant turnover so my review won't be easily attributed to me. I have worked at a fe
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by jameane 8y ago
But do not disregard the other advantages you may have to help you pay off that debt in 3 years: being married so you can share costs access to well paying jobs presumably direct or indirect family support (e.g. being able to live with fami
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by jameane 8y ago
Interesting point about Broadway being disconnected from pop music coinciding with a decline...