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by ne0flex 5y ago
I'm a Carleton grad myself. Really interested in hearing what happened, if you can disclose.
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Fully agree. I have about a 15min walk away from my work place. Recently, my company has annoucned its re-entry plan and have decided on a hybrid work environment in order to "foster collaboration and increase productivity." My de
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Since I've started working I've been aggressively investing close to half my monthly paychecks into high-yield dividend stocks with the goal of attaining my own level of UBI. A few years ago, when I was unemployed for several mont
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Your skip level manager experience reminds me of an interaction with a diversity officer at my previous employer. The company had hired a diversity officer and she began an initiative that requierd all company employees take an optional cul
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Depends on your definition of luck. Some people define luck has having the skill to take advantage of opportunities you come across. Of course, the skill thresholds to take care of opportunities varies significantly case by case.
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by ne0flex 5y ago
I'm curious if you could share some of your stories. Since last year, I've stopped using social media like FB. When the summer came around, my friends were posting political stuff online and noticed I wasn't interacting with
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by ne0flex 5y ago
I had a professor in university that would often say, "follow your dream, keep following it into the convinience store because that's where you're going to end up." He was saying it in reference kids who would practice h
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by ne0flex 5y ago
I remember back in the early 2010s when employers started checking out the FaceBook profiles of prospects. There was an article about how people without Facebook profiles were deemed suspicious as though they were attempting to hide somethi
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Agree that the way an argument for privacy is framed determines the support from the average person. I've heard a number of times people saying that they have nothing to hide, yet would not give my unreserved access to their phone when
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Would be good to have this implemented in the curriculum in Canada & US. The amount of times I've been honked at because I was approaching a red light without hitting the gas, only to have the person behind me speed up and overtake
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by ne0flex 5y ago
A few years back I worked in a brokerage firm. A sales tactic we were taught was after making an ask, keep your mouth shut until the other person speaks even if there is an awkward silence, similar to how in the movie "Wolf of Wall Str
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Basically what loudtieblahblah said. Mainly: ・Avoid all plastics however possible. This includes food packaging, clothing, carpeting, etc. ・Buy fresh foods. Foods marked organic have been shown to have lesser amounts of contamination in th
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by ne0flex 5y ago
To your first point, you are correct. I think Miami, FL and Philadelphia, PA had some of the highest parts per trillion when it came to detecting forever chemicals, while Seattle, WA was on the lower end. Regarding your second point, I agre
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by ne0flex 5y ago
The article mentions to avoid greaseproof carryout food packaging, stain guards, waterproof clothing that uses PFAs, etc. but the problem is so much more than that. I wrote a paper last year regarding forever chemicals for my work. The US w
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by ne0flex 5y ago
Cognitive Behavior Therapies
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>Do you really think that if someone who's unsuccessful because of laziness that if only they hadn't heard about systemic racism they would have a better work ethic? In the case of that particular individual I'd say it&#x2
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by ne0flex 5y ago
I'd argue there's a lot more nuances to system racism than the general narrative that is currently being perpettuated. Looking into those nuances would be frowned upon because certain groups differ from other groups for reasons th
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My older brother is like this. He's a very extroverted person and is capable of connecting with people very easily, and the other party genuinly seems interested in the conversation. I'm the polar opposite in that I'm introve
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by ne0flex 6y ago
I agree that this is how it should be, but then we'll inevitably end up with a bunch morons who lost their money and then demand the government to right them. It's a lose-lose situation.
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New Coronavirus Stimulus Bill in Congress Creates U.S. Digital Dollar(forbes.com)
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by ne0flex 7y ago
>physiological effects I think you mean psychological.
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by ne0flex 7y ago
Unfortunately, there was an Executive Order[1] signed by Obama in 2015 that "Blocks the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities". Section 2 states: "I hereby determine that the m
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by ne0flex 7y ago
>Maybe I would be more on board if I felt the government could properly manage the additional funds this would generate. It's not like they have a great track record with what they already have. Whenever I hear someone saying we nee
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by ne0flex 7y ago
After looking into the case a little more, it appears that Hopkins actually survived [1]. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. [1] https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/public-safety/cedar-...
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by ne0flex 7y ago
My assumption is that Amazon will look to integrate home services (home cleaning, home cooking, etc.) once enough people have installed those surveillance devices. My idea of their pitch will be: "our home cleaners can access your home
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by ne0flex 7y ago
>New York, in 2001, became the first state to outlaw driver cellphone use. I live in Manhattan and walk to work. The amount of drivers I see using their cellphones while driving on during my daily commute is ridiculous. Sometimes the dri
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by ne0flex 7y ago
A friend of mine in Portland, Oregon once told me that a package turned up at his house. He noticed that the package wasn't addressed to him, but instead the return address on the package was his address. After taking the package insid
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by ne0flex 7y ago
Noticed that too. Whenever there's a headline along the lines of 'People are doing x' I view that as a red flag. Similar to articles with 'experts say' in the title.
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by ne0flex 7y ago
I think most people would be down for paying taxes, however their main gripe, in my opinion, is that the quality of services (infrastructure, tax dollars being used for NSA spying on citizens, etc.) we're getting back for our tax dolla