mvncleaninst

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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
You're making two assumptions that stick out to me: - job hoppers perform worse (as opposed to better) than people who stay put - layoffs are based on contribution level Two things that if believed in aggregate will make it easier for
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Why is trust the default here? If governments, ISPs, and other tech entities behave this way in a single instance, why assume that it's the only instance? Why not just migrate the infrastructure to a country like Belarus and strip away
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
why did you move back? I'm also from midwest, the move here was already hard enough frankly I think I'm just going to stay put for some time
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Sometimes I read nonsense in comment sections on places like teamblind where people say sv companies "hire the best and brightest", then I remember some PRs I reviewed the other day where the authors had no fucking clue what they
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
What does this have to do with job hopping?
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Honestly I don't feel super bothered by this, not because I'm content with settling for sub-par comp, but because (in California at least) the housing market and average comp are correlated At the end of the day, if the housing ma
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
This article feels like a fever dream, it's like 5 separate articles rolled into one (where the title is referring to the last one) Makes it kind of hard to digest, impressive as the material is
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
There are people who care. You aren't alone, there are other people who feel similarly. I've felt similarly (even today) When you're in a rough spot emotionally, it's easy to believe things that aren't true. Please
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I have no idea how people accept it either It's the one thing that's consistently sat in the back of my mind since age 5 and hasn't left The only response I have is this: the stress from thinking about dying makes life expect
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Too many young people think they can optimize something, and then they find they've spent a couple of years or more specializing in something that may not have been the right thing. And in the process they burn out, because they h
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> One Tokyo newspaper for grade schoolers declared last month, “Emergency! Fewer children,” warning that the national birth rate had halved in four decades. On a recent field trip to her workplace, elementary school students peppered Iwa
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> At a well-run seed stage startup, engineers will often describe the work experience as intoxicating. At a larger company, the best you get is "enjoyable". Why does this happen? Is it inevitable? Oh cool, I can work super hard
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> You start feeling better and then you start doing a thing (or more) you suddenly have time and energy for. But then, why even bother calling the feeling "better" in the first place if the cause is really something unknowable?
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> But if you have a good therapist, they’ll find a way to slowly but firmly explain to you what your subconscious is telling you over weeks and months and years. People are turning this into a religion and need to come clean about it. Th
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
That place sounds like a mismanaged hellhole, I hope you got the fuck out of there dude
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> "Woe is me. I lived as a night-walking member of the underworld, and although it was terrible I found it alluring, in a way". Yeah, everyone else who lived in that world justified it to themselves that way, too. You all deser
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
There are degrees to this, going up to some random person and photographing their face is more egregious than photographing a friend with the random person in the background
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> You have two entirely reasonable and important principles that are butting up against each other How exactly is being allowed to record someone else in public without their consent an "important principle"? Especially if the
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I kind of wish that some billionaire would just get mad, buy reddit, and run it into the ground. The world would be a much better place Or better yet, round the redditors up and send them to Siberia
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Those ring cameras are actually crazy. The fact that they are so normalized in the BA is kind of disturbing This lady just moved in next to me. Drives a leased luxury car. Doesn't interact with anyone, she just put up a ring camera (on
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Still, a blanket law against posting strangers without their consent would be draconian and unworkable. There are too many variables, too many circumstances, and simply too many cases. I disagree. If someone (who is a non public figure
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
More like: there's a "missing middle" with respect to BMI which is common irl but underrepresented in media
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> American culture is almost entirely based on English not European culture. France also had a pretty strong influence on the founding fathers apparently. From what I've heard English are much nicer than we are
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> separate the drama and direct it to those that can enact change I don't think it's just drama. You're saying that the way that they're handling this is immature and confrontational. It's hard to respond to some
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Metamorphosis was always particularly upsetting to read. Someone loses their ability to produce economic value and is portrayed as a literal insect It reminds me of a cousin of mine who was struggling through some drugs and mental issues, h
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Would disagree. Cults have some charismatic leader running the show, afaik the LDS (or regular organized religions more generally) aren't like this
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I don't think you can say that the dynamic is the same. With a cult, there's usually a single leader, there's usually a hierarchy Does society have those things, inherently? A touchy question Is there a cult that doesn't
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Feel the need to post this fantastic read: https://www.thecut.com/article/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-stud... > His primary conversational tactic is to overwhelm. He can go on 20-minute unbroken monologues, especially
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An abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later(washingtonpost.com)
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I mean, GP could just say "I'm LGBT" and shut down the thing you're referring to (or at least, make it imprudent for a coworker to discriminate on that basis)

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