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by kaitai 7y ago
This is very simplistic. Managers often expect employees to be able to prioritize a bit; many managers consider it to be an important trait. Moreover, many managers say things like, "Do you wanna do the TPS reports now?" while the
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by kaitai 7y ago
Trail running seems to be different than road running when it comes to gender differences.
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by kaitai 7y ago
Yes. I was initially a bit confused, actually, as in cross-country skiing they often just have a men's category and a women's category, and then it's easy to award the trophies. (As far as I know there is no non-binary modifi
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by kaitai 7y ago
It seems to me you're confusing the grammar. The people are not reprehensible: reprehensible refers to the situation, instead. The situation in which two-year-olds are left without proper medical care and parents are left without any s
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by kaitai 7y ago
"...these stories tell you that even if you can't change the world, you can still solve your own problems." I think part of the criticism is that this statement is false in many cases. The psychological benefit of such storie
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by kaitai 7y ago
Respectfully need to split a hair on the VA comment: once you're into the VA system, their access is incredible. If you can't get an appointment in less than 20 days, or if you need to drive more than 30 minutes, they'll pay
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by kaitai 7y ago
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. Could you elaborate? For instance, in Washington DC there is certainly a pipeline from public to private to high level to lobbying to etc., but I think what the +parent posters i
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by kaitai 7y ago
What's interesting is that the folks in the article who quit are about half on the 'right' and half on the 'left'. Does this mean Google is doing things well.... or not?
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by kaitai 7y ago
Where in the article does anyone say they're miserable, though?
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by kaitai 7y ago
I have to say, I think the article has a very poor title. Most of the people discussed said they really liked working at Google, most of the time. They felt their jobs were interesting, did important work, and had impact. The "misery&q
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by kaitai 7y ago
Lots of folks here are complaining there's no TL;DR, and I find that many of the comments (including my previous comment here) are essentially irrelevant to the article & simply rehashing the same old things we always talk about on
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by kaitai 7y ago
On the one hand, I'm a little impatient with the litany of complaint & dismissal of options like getting a degree... there's always something you can do... but on the other hand, making $35k vs $150k really is like being a p
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by kaitai 7y ago
A lot of folks are -- often justly -- saying that we should be training more Americans for some of these jobs. I worked for some time in a professional masters program that mostly has non-US enrollment, despite being in flyover land. To com
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by kaitai 7y ago
The O-1 is hard to get for mere PhDs. We are a dime a dozen in many fields.
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by kaitai 7y ago
To add to the chorus, I'm seeing that too. Work with a professional masters' program in a highly technical (non-software) field and all our non-US grads are getting hit with RFEs. It's making a lot of work for some of the fol
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by kaitai 7y ago
This is a very sensible reply. I live in flyover land and I don't want to move for a FAANG job. But I'm not going to take something for $90k: the amount I can contribute to my 401k is the same in SF or flyover land and the amount
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by kaitai 7y ago
I think it's petty crime that doesn't pay, indeed. Stealing a pack of smokes from the convenience store just doesn't pay; manipulating regulations to benefit from lax enforcement of environmental law or gain tax breaks or o
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by kaitai 7y ago
It's the genetic version of the prosperity gospel. If you're rich, that shows God loves you! Works for genetics too!
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by kaitai 7y ago
I think the argument is that if there's a low density of this economic integration, you won't have the screaming & rifle shooting. I'm not sure that's true.... but... 1) it's harder to hear the neighbors screami
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by kaitai 7y ago
This is exactly why local/micro-level expertise is so important. It's common in the US now for areas just on the city limits of bigger cities to be more mixed racially and socioeconomically than ever before; this is a temporal as
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by kaitai 7y ago
I have to say I love the meta-nature of this comment. Truly. I feel that the comment in the article about "performative erudition" does point to something -- something that I certainly do on HN!! -- that you are also doing in this
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by kaitai 7y ago
Yep. Microplastics are now being found even in well water, in low but increasing amounts. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
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by kaitai 7y ago
You're being downvoted, but I agree. If you search the word "intelligent" in this page, it is used as a reason not to eat things. It's fine if one makes this a foundation for one's ethics of death, but one must be c
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by kaitai 7y ago
Here's an interesting article looking at net decreases in yield of most of the top 10 staple food crops in the world. It includes sorghum and wheat and more, and has a bit more discussion of geographic shifts, for instance. https:&#x2
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by kaitai 7y ago
It is a massive win-win for rich countries to develop technologies to prevent pollution and transfer it to poorer countries at low or no cost. It's like cleaning your own house & then ensuring the neighbors don't dump trash in
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by kaitai 7y ago
While... blunt... your comment is exactly right. I don't mention the definition of degree of polynomial when I write an algebraic geometry paper. The knowledge that CO2 increases yields is universal among scientists reading this paper.
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by kaitai 7y ago
Yeah, I think it's an interesting read although I disagree with some of her remarks. She's right that in the past we just threw fertilizer at plants (more is better until you burn the ground), and she's right that increasingl
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by kaitai 7y ago
I think you & the parent probably agree; nutrition research has traditionally treated obesity and malnourishment as opposites as the combination has been rare in history but indeed there is not a contradiction.
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by kaitai 7y ago
Insurance companies have reinsurance, though -- they insure themselves against low-probability but high-stakes costs. Any insurance group that would be bankrupted by a single baby is just a clown college that would certainly be wiped out by
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by kaitai 7y ago
Downgrading someone's performance review because they're pregnant, though, is just classically illegal.

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