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by leafboi 6y ago
He's not wrong you really need to go to China to see the truth. Your logic is as simplistic as a someone saying America is full of overweight white supremacists or rich people with Hollywood good looks. Both stereotypes gloss over a re
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by leafboi 6y ago
In the past yes, but that's not the case anymore.
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If it can be done without a degree and largely by self study than most of it can be packaged into a course or a book with practice problems and labs that anyone with dedication can finish can complete and come out competent. Maybe such a co
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by leafboi 6y ago
Crypto/security is cool and amazing, but it's also one the least flashy parts of Computer Science. Purely in terms of overall reputation I don't think people view crypto as "magic..." a more accurate analogy is &quo
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by leafboi 6y ago
>There are no novel ideas without a source. All sources are ideas in itself and If all "ideas" under your definition have a source, this means every source also has a source because they are ideas themselves. By induction this
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by leafboi 6y ago
The inception of every novel idea begins without a source; to enforce such a restriction is to ban the creation of ideas.
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by leafboi 6y ago
Why are Americans so obsessed with freedom? It's the catalyst for peoples freedom to not wear masks and go to the beach during a pandemic. Freedom has pros and cons. The historical foundations of Freedom in America is an idealistic not
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by leafboi 6y ago
>The racism I've seen against Asians from whites is primarily mistrust, not fear. A racist hiring manager is likely to look at you and think you'll do good work for the company, but they'll have to keep an eye on you. I th
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by leafboi 6y ago
As a male Asian American I have been attacked by the system from both a discrimination standpoint, a biased standpoint and a class elitism standpoint. Where I stand right now even my own race, asian females prefer to date white males over t
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by leafboi 6y ago
>The data is all garbage. I haven't even presented data, I just presented a hypothesis using a BBC article about India as an anecdotal example. The article is literally from the BBC. You are literally saying the BBC is completely wr
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by leafboi 6y ago
You got a point, but from a different angle is it ethical to hide your medical data from a company that may end up paying all your medical bills? It's almost like how people hide finances, you hide it because you want to do something u
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by leafboi 6y ago
I think it's hygiene related. I hypothesize that people living in countries with low hygiene have more exposure to diseases and thus better immunity. Examine India: In India, People throw trash everywhere, defecate everywhere, piss eve
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Finances are different right? People tend to hide their finances because of taxes and other illegal shit, and also to prevent jealousy. As for genetics, most of your genetics are on display every time you walk out the door. People look at y
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From an ethics standpoint their's something to talk about here... From an individual standpoint I really don't care about someone out in the public knowing my genome. It's not like I store my passwords on my genome, how is th
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by leafboi 6y ago
The mic dropper here is that environment influences behavior but so do genetics. BOTH are factors. The problem with society and you is that you choose to ignore the genetic factor and only choose to examine the environmental factor because
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by leafboi 6y ago
I wonder if the opposite is true. If your VO2 max is really high what does it say about the mortality risk of Covid?
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by leafboi 6y ago
If the results of this experiment are true part of winning the game may be taking some anti-anxiety drugs before the interview... I heard high blood pressure medicine works. Anybody have any first hand accounts on using drugs to calm anxiet
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by leafboi 6y ago
I don't think it's relevant. Her business is designed to get you to game and pass the interview regardless of whether or not the interview is effective. Therefore her business interests are orthogonal to her opinions on "inte
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by leafboi 6y ago
Our company consults in a variety of software related things. For example in our interviews we ask our candidates why are manhole covers round? We ask them this because, literally on the job our employees are suppose to program robots that
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by leafboi 6y ago
But they're not aware that the filter is just anxiety. Google is basically using anxiety to filter good candidates and eliminate false positives which works in a sense but is still highly illogical. Why not use a technical filter to fi
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by leafboi 6y ago
It's been known, but there are a lot of naysayers as shown by people who still conduct this type of interview. Science serves as definitive evidence which side is right or wrong.
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by leafboi 6y ago
You've been arrogant for years and you know what? So have I. I and many, many people in this industry have been doing this for years. What's different from you and many other people is that you admit and face your bias rather than
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by leafboi 6y ago
Yeah, devs that work for me also work in a critical environment such as yours. As soon as an issue is raised by our clients, they immediately kick off a 40 minute long timer and put a physical whiteboard in front of us asking us to solve th
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by leafboi 6y ago
I was actually warned by the HN administrator for saying something "True" and slightly negative about a race/culture. I threw a bit of "privilege" around because that race was basically my race. Perhaps it was also
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by leafboi 6y ago
joplin is similar.
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by leafboi 6y ago
You got a good point. My school is listed as a school that has grade inflation but anecdotally I feel my engineering department was pretty brutal. Average GPA was below 3 when I was there. It could be my personal situation was not represent
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by leafboi 6y ago
Unfortunate and unpleasant facts can apply to an entire country and culture. There is no physical law in the universe that prevents this from happening. In reality, for this specific topic, the canyon is not so wide as you believe and I don
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by leafboi 6y ago
The university I went to offered open book/note exams for almost all courses. It literally didn't even matter how much you memorized... open book tests didn't make anything easier. you need to understand or fail. I'm no
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by leafboi 6y ago
People always talk about this imposter syndrome thing for themselves. I think it's hard to look at yourself. You gotta look at other people. Do you think this is necessarily true? Do tons and tons of stupid people think they're sm
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by leafboi 6y ago
>"It only started a bit of a fire in this case" is obviously not a good argument, especially when the fire department showed up to contain it. You didn't contain anything. You didn't even respond to the subthread wher

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