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by kaitai 10y ago
Mention the topic. "Hey, I'm interested in your experiences adjusting to this startup environment after being at Microsoft. Coffee?" "Hey, I noticed you worked a lot with the devops folks at (place) and I want to learn a
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by kaitai 10y ago
One can't live one's whole life worried about this. When I (female) ask male colleagues etc for informational interviews, work coffee, other meetings, I face the same problem. All you can do is be clear in the first place and exit
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by kaitai 10y ago
I think it's totally ok to say, "Sorry if it didn't come across that way, but I'm really just interested in talking professionally." Many women have had previous bad experiences and react with that in mind. It'
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by kaitai 10y ago
I love federal student loans for many reasons, but I don't get why there are so many people in these comments talking about federal loans as if they're representative! The max you can get from the feds is $5,500 the first year, $6
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by kaitai 10y ago
Not all federal loans allow income-based repayment. For instance, parent PLUS loans aren't eligible, nor are other loans made to or through parents. Moreover, there are tons & tons of private loans (often with high interest rates)
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by kaitai 10y ago
You jumped immediately to an assumption of higher crime in the neighborhood, while the article pointed out the existence of white-collar crime in other neighborhoods. An interesting similar practical application was differential sentencing
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by kaitai 10y ago
Marjorie Rice, pentagonal tilings!
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by kaitai 10y ago
A reasonable strategy for what? If they're obsessed with the Riemann hypothesis and it brings them pleasure to think about it, sounds great. If they'd prefer to have the largest collection of salt and pepper shakers in the world,
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by kaitai 10y ago
That's what I don't get about the article, and some other comments address this as well. Fluid flow is everywhere, whether we have flush toilets or throw a bucket into a gutter somewhere! The statements "differential equation
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by kaitai 10y ago
While not denying that access to academic math is a privilege, we should also notice and be clear that math is used by many people without formal training. People manage their money, for instance, and often learn sophisticated methods for a
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by kaitai 10y ago
I can take 15 3rd-graders out on a walk and give them an interactive math lecture about symmetry, fractals, dimension, non-Euclidean geometries, and other mathematical topics on any day. To do this I’d walk them past a brick wall and some b
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by kaitai 10y ago
Tying together a few comments I'm seeing here (farms, meditation, electronic device & information overload), I'll bring out the importance of nature. Some ideas: if you like running, try trail running do find a friend with a f
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by kaitai 10y ago
I disagree with a lot of what you said (starting with the importance of janitorial services -- have you ever worked in a place with truly bad janitorial services?) but to stick to the factual side right now, male nurses earn more than fema
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by kaitai 10y ago
A tip that works for some: lips to say "oooo" (like an owl, or someone seeing something shiny for the first time), tongue to say "eeee". Well, worth a try.
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by kaitai 10y ago
Some people use walking meditation, kundalini yoga, chanting, or other methods that involve movement or action during the meditation. While the point of silent meditation is to get comfortable with just being, rather than doing, for some pe
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by kaitai 10y ago
Can you give some links where MRM people support women? Genuinely curious.
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by kaitai 10y ago
Courts are more favorable to women in some ways, but the economic consequences are generally worse for women. "Worse" and "better" all depends on what endpoint you're looking at, just like all those studies on chole
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by kaitai 10y ago
I find the correlation-causation discussion a bit troubling. What if, for instance, men who want a divorce manage to quit working/become involuntarily unemployed because they don't want their incomes going toward alimony for a spo
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by kaitai 10y ago
The interesting thing about the study you cite is that it only focuses on children and adolescents. You fail to mention that the majority of research has been carried out in college student populations and the findings are fairly robust. On
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by kaitai 10y ago
There are some interesting reports by trans people in tech: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/gender-bias-in-hiring-in... is one example. Ben Barres in biology also has some interesting stories (FTM).
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by kaitai 10y ago
Like Christian Ott of my alma mater? Seems to be doing fine!
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by kaitai 10y ago
A notable conversation with my mother: Why don't you call your female friends more? maybe sit & talk on the phone with them like you're supposed to? we're a little worried that you're a girl who just wants to read an
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by kaitai 10y ago
So over the four years since the study quoted was received for consideration for publication, we've totally overcorrected?
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by kaitai 10y ago
People look at my boobs and identify me as a woman -- I don't really have to do anything but exist. It's not really about my outlook.
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by kaitai 10y ago
That was a fun read :)
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by kaitai 10y ago
Sounds like you may be distracted by the body mod/sexy part. Other than the crazy ideas about body modification that I commented on elsewhere, I thought it was interesting that in China making original 3D-printed gifts was something sh
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by kaitai 10y ago
Magnetic implants. I have to say, I don't think about wearables or augmentation much -- I'm pretty old-fashioned although I read my early Neal Stephenson etc. On the one hand, magnetic body armor. On the other hand, do we really h
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by kaitai 10y ago
It's not doctors who provide the most trouble, it's rules and regs coming from your health insurance or your job. There are plenty of stories about guys in the Army who can meet all their physical requirements but are getting ding
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by kaitai 10y ago
Don't worry; Garrison is plenty attached to St. Paul, getting in spats with the neighbors, enjoying his lovely house. All his love affairs started in Minnesota and that's something. I don't think they all ended here though.
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by kaitai 10y ago
Both assertions there are false. There are lots of loan words (are those mistakes?), new words (like internet -- a mistake?), plain disagreements (I am strongly in favor of the Oxford comma yet apparently intelligent people disagree), and d

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