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by pound 11y ago
it's not just closure of mental-health institution. You may also say the roots of homelessness lie in liberal values. Here is a bit of context for often mentioned closure of mental hospitals/services: at first there was a decision
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by pound 11y ago
Google contacts plenty of people. Reaching out to yet another engineer (not even talking about this particular case) doesn't mean they really want someone particular. They just going through the pool of potential matches. Person who i
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by pound 11y ago
I use Lyft exclusively and it's not based on any features or advantages they have/don't have. It's just conscious decision not be be anywhere near Uber. Too much d-bagness in a company image (I know that many will praise
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by pound 11y ago
it's not that simple. For situation when you'll hear from management that they don't see you as engaged as others I guess your answer would be to just leave, it's that simple. Thing is not everyone can easily change jobs
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Uber Investor: The Bay Area Bubble Will Pop This Year(sfist.com)
9 points by pound 12y ago|1 comments
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by pound 12y ago
yes, it's expected that you'll never do or say anything bad about past jobs(/companies/environments/people). But other side of this status quo is enabling all the assholes to be assholes and just helping them to co
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by pound 12y ago
said who? also SV start-up ecosystem is full of snobbery, just slightly different context/values
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by pound 12y ago
there may be a need for clearance.
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by pound 12y ago
Universities are bureaucratic, yes. in the same time you can encounter "academic" people there, who are genuinely interested in doing research, even for crappy money. That what they are, that's their nature. In corporations i
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by pound 12y ago
Even saving a lot, not everyone has sufficient income for that in a first place (even considering saving for a long time).
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by pound 12y ago
plenty of captchas solved by presenting them to pron sites visitors
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by pound 12y ago
Peter Jackson is exactly that kind of directors. And he is consistent in that. Even before LoR/Hobbit, check out King Kong made by him. It's like watching Serious Sam, never-ending battle with CGI monsters, boring and pointless (a
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by pound 12y ago
SF City ID Card Date first issued January 15, 2009
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by pound 12y ago
"fortune of about $1.5 billion in !today’s! dollars."
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by pound 12y ago
Actually I do recall meeting some people in one "tourist's destination" place who answered "we're from San Francisco" to "where are you guys from?" and then later specified they from bay area not far
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by pound 12y ago
[nothing personal] by that logic (no one is around to correct you and also you don't give a shit) you can start making plenty of things up. Oh what a stories you should have about your travels and adventures!
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by pound 12y ago
red meat is high in iron and anemia is not nice. of course there are other sources of iron, i'm just saying that stopping eating meat should go with balancing diet.
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by pound 13y ago
What helped me was stopping drinking coffee. Even one cup in the morning. Two days of headache, two weeks of not being focused and suddenly I can actually fall asleep at 11pm. Before that my brain was too alert up to ~1am.