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by kaitai 11y ago
I got somewhat comfortable with that (mostly) male-male framework through engineering college and math school. My experience was exactly yours: the sign of a good job is the absence of criticism, and you could always do better. I'm ove
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by kaitai 11y ago
I work with some colleagues who use this kind of conversation. Full disclosure: I am a female, they are also female. They wouldn't talk to you like that -- it's a female-female communication style with a lot of subtext, common in
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by kaitai 11y ago
Yep. Isn't it great that these kids could compete in robotics competitions and work to support their families in relative safety instead of being stuck in a corrupt and dangerous country in which a drug war has torn apart civil society
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by kaitai 11y ago
Exercise is shown in a number of clinical studies to benefit people who have ADHD, depression, anxiety, etc. You know one thing those studies do, though, that we don't on HN? Screen every participant to make sure they qualify. Those sc
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by kaitai 11y ago
For me, I got an inheritance that I didn't really remember from a relative who passed away years ago. It was put into a foreign bank account since this person wasn't a US citizen and passed away in the country of their birth, and
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by kaitai 11y ago
The US government, by contrast, didn't really help out any US citizens in Yemen.
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by kaitai 11y ago
Depends where you are and which ones you go to. One "flagship" farmer's market in town sells pastries and yellow strawberries and artisanal jam, while the other takes food stamps and sells rutabagas and bok choi and chinese b
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by kaitai 11y ago
One of those cases where it's not really the thought that counts in the end, either way.
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by kaitai 11y ago
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE! And you're allowed to demand a hell of a lot out of your career as long as you are willing to create it . No one will ever just give you an interesting career tailor-made for you. Find
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by kaitai 11y ago
The US: a mixture of economic fear, economic hope, and pseudo-Christian rhetoric that is stoked for gain by many. “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embar
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by kaitai 11y ago
Actually, many high school math teachers in the US did not major in math, minor in math, or receive any teaching certification in math. In high school it's not so bad -- only 28% of high school math didn't major in math, and only
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by kaitai 11y ago
To give people an idea of what someone else found most interesting or novel in the book: -- The "spark of joy" test (hold the object in your hand and ask yourself, does this thing give me a spark of joy? if not, get rid of it) --
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by kaitai 11y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-many... Survey says 53% of PhDs back in the 80s wanted to be profs. Also, this crazy idea comes from talking to all these fine young people who wan
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by kaitai 11y ago
Yes!
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by kaitai 11y ago
Most grad students get health care though!
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by kaitai 11y ago
Who is going to teach 18-year-olds sentence structure or remedial algebra at 11 in the morning for a fun side-gig? The independently wealthy? Adjuncting in law and business schools is a very different gig than the folks teaching English, hi
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by kaitai 11y ago
Unions are not for academic researchers. Unions are for adjuncts teaching composition, or calculus, or chem 101. If you don't think someone who is hired on a Tuesday to teach a semester-long class starting on a Wednesday is an intercha
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by kaitai 11y ago
Practically, one could: * wash hands, and frequently (but you don't need an antibacterial soap -- they're bad for fish) * use your well-seasoned wok/cast-iron skillet and not wash it with soap * eat your fermented foods (from
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by kaitai 11y ago
To answer a few of your points, 1) Math nerdery was indeed easily identifiable through classes. In addition, I went to schools with math teams, and was recruited in junior high/high school, because the team leaders wanted to win (and w
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by kaitai 11y ago
I grew up in a pretty different milieu -- no IBM employees, no friends into computers. My dad knew one woman who worked at Cray and I visited her office once. Very super cool. I never bought a computer until I was in grad school as I was ab
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by kaitai 11y ago
An article on the internet is "trying to change someone's mind by force"?
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by kaitai 11y ago
A lot of students don't care about critical thinking, but I think that really underestimates these students. What do we offer them, after all? All I had to do was advertise some research opportunities and 10+ students were interested i
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by kaitai 11y ago
A great contrast to another article currently trending on HN, with no discussion yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10815072 I read "Gettin’ bodied by Classics: the joys and challenges of public scholarship&quot
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by kaitai 11y ago
So the appearance of dedication and the platitudes mouthed are more important than the actual results? Saying something about "permission to fail" and then recovering & excelling < claiming repeatedly you're committed
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by kaitai 11y ago
One problem with hearing that your vendor is comprised of low-maintenance caffeine fueled super robots that keep their commitments with the stubbornness of a thousand donkeys is knowing that your vendor probably has some slick liar salesmen
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by kaitai 11y ago
It is true that it is easiest to provide transcripts of written conversations. How are you going to see such disparagement in the "real world" though? First, the women are all already using indirect rejection to head that off, or
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by kaitai 11y ago
What confuses me about your statement is that several commenters have provided evidence from studies that on average the girl will prefer blue, and yet you're insisting she'll prefer pink. I don't get it.
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by kaitai 11y ago
Please, buy chocolate. Froyo is demeaning.
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by kaitai 11y ago
Canada is nice. Teachers in the US make on average $58k or so, varying from state to state quite a lot. It's about $30k less than the average software developer in the US, and if you're not very senior as a teacher you might get f
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by kaitai 11y ago
Very interesting! and answers some questions in previous bee-centric discussions re: wild bees.

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