kaitai

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by kaitai 6y ago
Does there exist a thing called "effective management" or not? Do you just give a free pass to all companies for all actions? Is there any evidence that can exist that supports bad management, given that complaining isn't evi
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I understand that people feel threatened by accusations of racism, but we should subject those feelings to the same scrutiny that fear of vaccines, fear of blood transfusions, fears of child kidnapping, fear of having our child trafficked f
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How 'bout comments talking about how to fix these problems proactively in other companies? Why not do something useful instead of just waste minutes and photons?
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Except for the Math 108 exam for which I had six hours and finished in 3 because I did not know the meaning of the remaining 2-3 questions. Ugh. I might change a few things. Caltech faculty were singularly unhelpful in getting me into grad
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by kaitai 6y ago
As sibling commenters have commented, yeah, the higher-security rooms used Medecos instead -- they had not only up * down for the pins but also directional slant (don't really know how to describe this, but pretty and much harder to co
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by kaitai 6y ago
Also, the intersection of people thinking (burnout at Caltech = tautology) and (reading HN is a good way to flick) is sufficiently large that I really think there will be no negative repercussions if you otherwise conduct yourself honorably
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Quitting your job because your spouse won't and someone's got to take care of the kids isn't "taking responsibility", exactly. It's just taking the short end of the stick, as we can play out the statistics and
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You're attacking women's right to enter the workforce, which does force a lot of your baggage on women. It's unwelcome.
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I really dislike projecting the adult trait of "manipulative" onto a baby. Adults manipulate by being underhanded when they have the option of being straightforward. The baby is being straightforward. What do you want the kid to d
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But this is part of the problem for Dems: it's perception of truth, not truth, that matters for the undecided voter. So even though a few miles from me it's the Aryan Cowboys and Boogaloo Bois who are being prosecuted for property
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by kaitai 6y ago
I feel like your answer is sort of in bad faith. I live in an urban area, and people are quite concerned about the dropout rate (and more to the point that I think you're trying to imply but are dancing around for your own reasons, the
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by kaitai 6y ago
I disagree with both you and the poster who talks about the high & low against the middle, though less with the other poster. I'm from flyover country, one of those three states that went Biden this year surrounded by a sea of red.
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Oh, but berry season lasts weeks and is wonderful. Berry season is to me truly the highlight of Finnish nature.
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Yeah, howlgarnish's comment had me chuckling too... shoveled a lot a couple weeks ago...
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My friend in graduate school (making $18k a year) had a baby who had some complications; the final bill was $1.5 million dollars. She was an immigrant from the Caribbean; her family there was reasonably paid by national standards there, but
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by kaitai 6y ago
My sibling commenter will be happy to know that Finland takes defense against Russia very seriously. Might be interested in this article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/15/finland-army-russia-lit...
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by kaitai 6y ago
1K per month = not a problem! hahahahaha! Ok, for a (male or lesbian, since you specify 'wife') Bay Area SWE, you're right. But do look at that election map and notice the scores of people living in the rest of the US, in lar
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Hey, when I was paying $14k/year for childcare... yep. Now I'm only paying like $8k/yr for childcare. If I had two-three kids, Finland would be an easy financial win. And just think about college there! My sib went there for
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by kaitai 6y ago
There is a temporal component here. As an ancestor commenter said, "you can't catch it again right away " (emphasis added). We do not know (because we cannot know) if reinfection is possible after two years, for instance, be
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by kaitai 6y ago
Unfortunately, your hope is unfounded. My spouse is a physician and when coughing (acute bronchitis) could not get a test without job consequences (being forced to take 10 days off and reschedule all patients regardless of the outcome of th
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think that conservative means "in support of a (certain kind of) status quo" in this case, rather than the American line-up of hot-button culture war issues. The upper middle-class wants stability, whatever it is, because of the
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And for all the folks who are saying "well that doesn't work" do look at for instance international pressure on South Africa near the end of apartheid. Internal and external pressure in concert can have effect.
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That analysis has been done, and there is a significant difference in that amount. You can back-of-the-envelope it yourself if you know that the average height of a woman in the US is 5'4" with a standard deviation of about 3.5&qu
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The heads of very small children are quite heavy relative to the child's size. The concern with a baby is not that they'll hit something, it's that the weight of their head relative to their body will result in spinal injurie
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This is quite misleading. Much testing is done in drive-up situations; you really don't need to expose yourself to risk for most testing. Source: spouse does COVID testing for part of job duties; works in COVID clinic.
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One of the difficulties is that the countries that have good, science-led national leadership have concentrated on stopping the spread (just thinking about Finland with its national health system for instance). Countries with chaotic and un
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I can manage to buy myself a three-course dinner with wine and dessert (spending a pretty $$) without going into a shop. I've managed to buy hundreds of dollars worth of books from my local bookstores without going into shops. I can li
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This seems to have huge geographic variation. Some places you've got to go to the doc & get a referral & they're screening people out of getting the test. Other places, they're having drive-through or walk-up testing
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I'm a religious person for utilitarian reasons and read my Bible weekly and go to church accordingly. But a whole lot of teen suicide and abortion is due to haters hating (I mean Christians being dogmatic) -- it's pretty well pro
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To be fully honest, I'm not so different -- I personally feel that I'm a woman 'cause that's the body I was born into and that's how I'm treated, and since I have no desire to transition, it's the hand I&#

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