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by jrgoff 4y ago
My (somewhat limited) experience working at semi-large tech companies (several thousand employees) was that my team and closely related teams were mostly located close together (same floor, often same area of the floor). I imagine certain r
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Thank you - unfortunately I don't have access to the nytimes article (and am not willing to subscribe to get it). However, your comment did help me find other articles that seem relevant to this discussion. In case it is of value to ot
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by jrgoff 4y ago
While I can see why that tweet leads you to categorize them as "woke", I don't personally see how that has anything to do with their actions matching their stated stances, particularly as it relates to free speech.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Would you mind linking to a source about the ACLUs changing relationship to free speech? I just looked at their website and it seems like they are still centering free speech as one of their major issues and a list of actions they have take
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by jrgoff 4y ago
Something you may know, but I didn't before going through the home buying process: waiving inspection doesn't mean you can't get an inspection it means you don't get to do an inspection after making your offer and then u
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by jrgoff 4y ago
On top of that, it's average amongst the group of people who self select into taking such a test.
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by jrgoff 4y ago
I like them both but disappointingly, they both insult people based on superficial traits. Seems like every time Stewart talked about Mitch McConnell he would do the turtle thing where he made fun of the way McConnell looks and speaks.
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I would think in that case the solution should have been to talk with the manager about the junior engineer's performance (presumably well before the 60th time) rather than to take it out directly on the junior engineer.
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I have also found vitamin D to be important for my mental health. In the past I found probiotics extremely helpful for my mood as well, though lately they haven't seemed to effect me much (seems to have changed after I had a course of
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by jrgoff 5y ago
Not sure what your getting at here? The person you are commenting on wasn't talking about punishing people for having a head start they were saying that people's final grade should be based on what they are capable of at the end o
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by jrgoff 5y ago
The ACA plans I had available were only slightly less expensive than my COBRA, but there was not a single ACA plan available that would cover any out of network expense like my COBRA plan did. I did switch to an ACA plan after COBRA expired
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by jrgoff 5y ago
It is not feasible for consumers to be informed at that level about all of the goods they consume and for most of us there I doubt there is a practical way to be informed about these sorts of things for most products even if we were to try.
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by jrgoff 5y ago
With respect to the passing down of learned knowledge, I believe I read in the book 'Three Among the Wolves' that the author had observed a wolf pack teaching their young to be aware of and hide from small planes flying over (plan
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by jrgoff 5y ago
Building your own carries it's own set of risks. I can't afford the infosec, IT, devops, etc. that a large tech company has. Sure if I build my own and get hacked, I may have more ability to directly effect the situation, but I wi
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by jrgoff 5y ago
If you don't have a background in plants and just learned about something from reading about it somewhere and decide to give it a try (might not even know there are poisonous plants that look somewhat alike), those sorts of details can
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I suspect part of it may also be an intentional effort on the judges parts to provide more exposure to good, lesser known works.
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I agree, Ancillary Justice was one of my favorite books in recent years. I thought the world was really interesting, enjoyed the characters, and found the exploration of federated minds intriguing.
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I agree with your general point, but not as a response to the gp. If the president and congressmen who were in power and were then running for re-election have no responsibility for the unrest than what was the point of them being re-electe
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by jrgoff 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the point you were responding to. I don't think they were suggested there are right leaning sites with similar type of bias, I think they were suggesting Snopes may have articles with similar right-friendly bi
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by jrgoff 5y ago
iNaturalist is another good option for plant identification (and other forms of life as well). It has decent machine learning for suggesting IDs and is also backed by its community providing IDs. I've been using it a lot this year and
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by jrgoff 6y ago
No, the mind can have a significant effect on the body. For example this webmd article on placebo cites studies where what the participant was told about a pill (stimulant vs sleep aid) effected heart rate, blood pressure and reaction time
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by jrgoff 6y ago
They do now have a family plan: https://www.dropbox.com/family
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by jrgoff 6y ago
- Colin Kaepernick - They've been trying to cancel Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember - The tea party movement was a frequent practicer of cancelling other conservative voices (e.g. charges of being RINOs) - Tr
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by jrgoff 7y ago
In case this is helpful for someone else: I had RSI for years as well, ended up changing careers away from tech for many years because of it. For an unrelated issue I started taking probiotics and gradually noticed the RSI had improved. I
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by jrgoff 7y ago
It's interesting, looking at chimps and bonobos it appears that both of those general strategies is employable, with bonobos being stranger friendly and chimps being stranger averse: https://www.sapiens.org/evolution&#x
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by jrgoff 7y ago
The links you provide for common core are not evidence of "considerable damage". The first is an opinion piece and the second is much worse - a blog post following up on an article whose argument against common core is based prim