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by mbrameld 10y ago
> Things like multiple airfares and real estate broker fees sound like you have a sense of entitlement. Those shouldn't be covered in my opinion, those are the cost of leaving your home. I know you said those only apply to the bay a
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I've gotten 2 relocation packages in the last 5 years that were very different. Both were for senior developer positions, neither in any of the tech hubs. The first time I was given $2,500 to move from FL to AK to work for a small cons
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It's open source, you could always submit a patch.
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Ambition isn't only related to a career. You can focus the same ambition on fatherhood and strive to continually progress as a parent.
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Alaska does it relatively successfully with their PFD fund.
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You're focused so hard on the moon while everybody else has been talking about the stars the whole time. Pao sounds a lot like Mao. It would regardless of the race of the person with the name Pao. Mao was an oppressive dictator. The pe
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You're right, context matters. In the case of Pao, the fact that the names Mao and Pao are so similar is the more important context. If Ellen Pao was any other race she would have still been called Chairman Pao because the point of the
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Is it racist to compare a white male leader to Hitler?
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Would a small claims court suit be a reasonable way to get relief here?
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The person was also exhausted every day, by their own admission. I feel pity, not jealousy.
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You could have just said, '"I asked him what he was doing here," works better and saves us all the amateur reenactment.' and saved us all the amateur dramatization.
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What? I can be reasonably certain that when somebody reacts to or comments on something I have posted to FB that they have seen it.
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I think this is a case of not knowing what you don't know.
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> to have to move every 2 years to a different city for work when your company goes belly up or when your company realizes it can abuse you because there are no other employers around. You have a very warped view of the tech industry out
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Now research the current state of the fund, there is a bit of controversy going on right now. The governor has unilaterally limited the payout this year and a lot of folks aren't happy.
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Yeah, I thought the same thing when I joined as a 3C0x2 in 99. 10 years later I was still a 3C0x2 (3D0x4 by then I think, I got out shortly after the AFSC changed), but I was attached to an Army infantry unit (3-1 INF) in Afghanistan as par
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He's being hyperbolic, but once you cut out sugar long enough sweet things really do taste worse. Try it for yourself and see.
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It's a struggle in the same way not biting that nail is still a struggle 15 years after one quits biting their nails. Eating poorly and being sedentary are habits like any other.
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At a certain density a crowd of people starts behaving more like a fluid than a group of individuals.
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For #4, how does the act of using a drug recreationally and responsibly cause any suffering at all to one's family? If I drink a beer, have a coffee, or smoke a bowl, how does that affect, say, my mother who is 3,000 miles away? I have
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Because you've applied a different definition of public that doesn't fit the context. Public in the context in which it was used in this thread regarding git commits simply means commits you have pushed to a repo that another deve
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> patients' privacy and their data security are our top priority at PatientBank Is it really your top priority? Things like that always sound so disingenuous to me. Surely your top priority is building a profitable business, no? Oth
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I'm very familiar with Tesla from simply reading online. Mostly HN, but they are often mentioned on mainstream news sites too. I could recognize a Tesla car in the wild if I was able to read the word "Tesla" on it somewhere,
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Look for some of Gay Bernhardt's stuff, particularly the Destroy All Software screencasts[0]. He's a proficient Vim user, several of the screencasts are about using Vim specifically. 0: https://www.destroyallsoftware.co
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That isn't a result of Facebook, that's a result of inconsiderate friends. There are a couple friends in my group that aren't on Facebook, so we text them.
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How do you verify your assumptions?
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I think a better analogy would be income taxes. If I make a mistake that causes the government to give me more money than I'm due they take it back whether I want to give it back or not. It should be the same when the government makes
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In no way am I saying uBeam is legit, but there was a time when you had to buy a wireless adapter for each device you wanted to use with your Wi-Fi access point.
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You're confusing the way things are now with the way things must be, for some reason. Just because things are one way right now doesn't mean they won't be another way in the future. Especially if new technology comes along th
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Because the solution isn't to punish people who make mistakes, it's to improve processes to the point where mistakes are unable (or it at least takes more than a single doctor misreading a drug or miscalculating a dosage amount) t

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