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by pmiller2 5y ago
I'm totally fine going the "average" route. At my last company, I was making around $225k TC, and that worked just fine for me. At that level, I'm making enough money put back a considerable amount for savings and inve
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I'm just gonna glom on to this for visibility, but I'd like to say I wish there was a good list of companies that don't do leetcode-style interviews. Frankly, I'm sick of leetcode, and I feel like it takes a lot of fun o
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Exactly. Some people need a structured environment to get that kind of work done at a decent pace. It also helps to have feedback from a teacher, just like a personal trainer helps you with form.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
This is not nationalistic at all. I'd say it about any country exhibiting this type of behavior.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Can you be any more vague? I can't even formulate a proper response to this.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Keep the aid, send the soldiers home.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Have the games scored by impartial evaluators who know the rules well. This should work well, provided the games are recorded on video anywhere.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
If "they're all human" is all you can come up with, I think that essentially proves my point. Cultural factors are likely to be difficult to detangle from the whole mess of what's going on. As far as abject suffering go
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Why does it seem strange to suggest one can't generalize across countries? What does the life of the average American have in common with the life of the average Saudi Arabian or Chinese person, for instance? As far as poverty goes, I
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Naively, I'd expect all letters to occur equally frequently. Do you know if this is the case?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Unfortunately, no. There seems to be a lack of general population-based longitudinal studies on suicide and suicidal ideation. Most studies take place in the US or Europe, and almost all seem to be focused on particular subgroups like tee
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by pmiller2 5y ago
What makes you think you can compare across countries? Why do you think "absolute" poverty is important? My buying power isn't materially reduced simply because another country might have a higher per capita income than the
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I could see a lot of people being unhappy because they're forced to live in a nursing home. But, when I think about the ways someone would commit suicide, and how many of them are available to a nursing home resident, it just doesn&#x
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Conversely, keeping extroverts at home and away from each other probably isn't doing them any good.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I do my sessions over Zoom. Although I don't like the lower bandwidth of remote sessions vs in person, I can't say I miss the 70 miles round trip.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
We almost certainly have not. I would expect at the very least an increase in PTSD cases. I might speculate there could be an increase in other anxiety disorders, for instance, social anxiety or mild agoraphobia. Although it isn't t
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Clearly, fewer people are succeeding at killing themselves than they were before. Exactly why would be a good research question, but, one could speculate that being at home all the time might have something to do with it. Maybe people are
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Or, maybe your preconception doesn't fit the facts? Suicidal ideation is up, which seems very likely to increase the number of suicides. How would you explain that?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
My guess would be that many of those excess overdoses are suicides.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
The part where you couldn't find and apply enough common sense to see there was a typo.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
If you think not wanting to work with someone who created a mysogynistic bro culture at his last company -- a company which he referred to as "Boober" -- and who got removed from said company for his bad behavior, is being an over
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Well, then we disagree. Making one of two bad choices doesn't make anyone a hero in my book. I don't believe most of the grocery store workers who continued to go to work amidst the danger of the pandemic without any idea that t
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by pmiller2 5y ago
See! They found me! Lol. Predictable. I guess the "marketplace of ideas" is inefficient these days.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Well, then, you could have communicated more clearly without being deliberately obtuse. Did you also communicate to the author that there were many typos in the survey? If not, you probably just deliberately skewed the survey for your own
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by pmiller2 5y ago
> Incidentally, I pretty quickly learned to guess the most unusual answer for questions I have no direct information about. I suspect that's a strategy many people who are both educated and intelligent would pick up on.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I agree. I would say intelligence is what you have naturally, education is what you acquire in school, and wisdom is what you acquire through experience. These are not interchangeable.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Google will easily convince you of the first two. The last one is speculation.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Maybe, but I suspect people who actually care that Travis K. is running the ship would at least google the company and end up finding out that way.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Exactly! And I know hardcore capitalist apologists who would say it was his free choice to agree to be legally bound. If you ask me, that’s some next level mental gymnastics, redefining the term “free choice.” But, there are those who disag
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by pmiller2 5y ago
It doesn't have the detail about the trade winds, but there is this article about how the Outer Banks was nearly chosen as a test site, based partly on the input of a meteorologist: https://www.pilotonline.com/life&#x2F

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