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by lores 1y ago
"Incompetence is rampant" is enough. No, incompetent people do not get fired from the private sector either. The dumbest tech question I have ever heard from a tech manager ("why don't we do datamining in Flash?") w
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by lores 1y ago
"Only SE Asia" is you being modest here, SE Asia to Chengdu is like a quarter of all humans!
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by lores 1y ago
The Latin ship sailed 6 decades ago... There's no going back without pissing off everyone else, assuming it's indeed true new members would prefer Latin - if you have a source about that, I'd be really interested in reading i
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by lores 1y ago
That's not 5D chess at all. Very straightforward, in fact, and backed up by the documented strong-arming of law firms.
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by lores 1y ago
How so?
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by lores 1y ago
Blatant breach of the 1st Amendment, but hey, who cares anymore? The judiciary should summarily dismiss any case brought on by the Trump administration until they comply with court orders.
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by lores 1y ago
Someone here hazarded the hypothesis that Trump's tariffs are a stick aimed not towards other countries, but towards American corporations, who have to pledge fealty (and resources) to Trump in exchange for relief. I think it makes a l
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by lores 1y ago
Interesting that they identify mostly progressives as papabile. If they're right, Francis did an excellent job behind the scenes to set up the Church to do in the future what he could not in the present.
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by lores 1y ago
I misspoke - you would not be able to remortgage and would need to repay the loan when the term expires, or be repossessed. In the UK, most people are on a 2 or 5 years fixed-rate mortgage, after which you don't need to remortgage but
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by lores 1y ago
More houses in locations people want to live in, yes. In the end, even leaving house prices aside, a larger population needs more housing, and the UK has been underbuilding several tens of thousands of units a year for decades.
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by lores 1y ago
Let's say you buy a house at 500K with a 400K mortgage. House prices fall 50%, you owe 400K on a 250K house. Banks would repossess as the loan value can't be guaranteed by the asset. Separately, you could default on the loan if la
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by lores 1y ago
Humans aren't rabbits. Humans tend to have children in inverse proportion to the amount of grass, poorer people having more children than richer ones. Of course it's not a direct correlation, or a simple one, but the effect is the
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by lores 1y ago
Europe as a whole manages to hand over money for nothing to would-be students in need without any anti-education backlash. An anti-education stance is the cause of protesting education subsidies, not their consequence.
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by lores 1y ago
This is really starting to look like Numberwang.
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by lores 2y ago
And, as I'm saying, prestige, or probable future prestige, isn't a good proxy for a researcher's value or future value, even if it could be fairly guessed, which it can't. Nature is exhibit A, B and C, as it's the m
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by lores 2y ago
I've worked in academic publishing for a long while, and I can tell you from experience that: - "quantity of publications" is a problem and directly leads to bad science, so is on aggregate a measure of anti-quality - "q
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by lores 2y ago
It's iterative republic development. Release a republic, test it in the field, make improvements. Makes sense to me.
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by lores 2y ago
Violence is such a nebulous concept, though. There are forms of violence that aren't physical, even though the law typically only recognise those. Is publicly mocking people for having a different culture violence? Is calling for harm
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by lores 2y ago
It's well known that programmers don't wear suits in the office in the SV. It's less obvious they shouldn't wear one in the interview either, because that's not a regular work day. It's not obvious at all to so
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by lores 2y ago
From what I understand, all parmigiano is sold through a consortium/coop. The only dairy identifying mark is three digits stencilled onto the rind. https://www.parmigianoreggiano.com/product-guide-seals-and-m...
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by lores 2y ago
My point is that even knowing the work culture of SV does not mean that people necessarily believe it applies to interviews too, or that a suit will be a negative point, rather than good or neutral. There is a strong culture of looking smar
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by lores 2y ago
I remember reading an article linked here (which I can't find anymore) about a lawyer who converted to software engineering. He was contrasting tech interviews, with 3, 4, 6 rounds* and live coding and high-pressure testing with the ex
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by lores 2y ago
There is a big difference between being in a conference room for an interview where you are judged, and on a regular work day. There is for me, and I'm old and have done dozens and dozens of interviews, largely successfully. Don't
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by lores 2y ago
It's not unusual in Europe - but then Europeans tend to dress smarter than Americans in general too.
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by lores 2y ago
If it's so important, the interview invite should mention that casual wear is expected. Like it or not, most people take interviews seriously, and have been taught that you show you take the interview seriously by wearing a suit.
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by lores 2y ago
An interview is not a regular work day. If only things relevant to the job were required in an interview, no one would be talking about whiteboard exercises.
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by lores 2y ago
If they're young it can also be because that's what they've been told to do, if they're from a different culture (even an American one) it may be shockingly weird not to wear a suit to an interview, and there are even pe
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by lores 2y ago
Officers died at nearly twice the rate of other ranks in WW1. I don't see Musk being the self-sacrificing kind.
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by lores 2y ago
The UK will need a lot of time to be seen again as a grown-up, after electing a string of buffoons and cutting off its nose to spite its face. Even though Starmer looks more stable, a large part of that look is due to his opposition being i
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by lores 2y ago
I didn't know that, thanks

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