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by rifung 9y ago
> As part of her graduate program, she was required to take a programming class; because programming is an important tool that she needs to be able to use to do her research. But for students focusing in complexity, they may not need to
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by rifung 9y ago
> We are all responsible for evaluating the reasonableness of claims of being hurt by someone. Otherwise dishonest or mentally unwell people hold us all hostage to their arbitrary claims. If they are mentally unwell, it doesn't make
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by rifung 9y ago
I have but I can't quote anything because I wasn't offended. Other people were clearly hurt by it though and I don't believe I'm in a position where I should tell other people what they should or shouldn't feel.
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by rifung 9y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing that out!
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by rifung 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google I assume you're talking about when the Department of Labor asked for more information on employees? If so, I don't believe they actually found any gender pay gap; they were merely asking for more data
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by rifung 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point so please correct me if I misunderstand, but the person wasn't fired for having a different opinion. He was fired for saying things which were deeply hurtful for a large number of employees.
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by rifung 9y ago
> I find it amusing that I only have to concern myself with "respect for my coworkers" if my opinion is different from the liberal side on some cause célèbre I can see why you would think this because as far as I can tell a lar
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by rifung 9y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. I completely agree that affirmative action kind of backfires in some ways. I'm not entirely sure what the solution to that is. > I dread to think how uncomfortable I would be knowing that I w
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by rifung 9y ago
Perhaps I didn't express myself well but I certainly did not intend to confirm your statement. > Truth is, it's dangerous to not "keep it to yourself", so people don't talk about it. I meant people don't tal
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by rifung 9y ago
> Commenting on someone's bathing suit is not inherently sexual, because we do it in non-sexual contexts; for example, I complemented my nephiew's new swim trunks earlier this summer. The person wasn't commenting on the ba
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by rifung 9y ago
> A small minority of people takes victim mentality and makes it near religious internal dogma. The rest just go along with it due to fat paychecks and the lack of desire to get fired for not being PC enough. As a current Googler I am su
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by rifung 9y ago
> I don't see what's micro about losing your job for wrongthink. I admit this is my first time hearing the term "wrongthink" but I assume this means something along the lines of "thinking the wrong thing". I
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by rifung 9y ago
> Somehow, most of the women I know don't complain about harassment much. It does not seem productive to trivialize and disregard people's issues only because we haven't witnessed them ourselves. Indeed this attitude is ac
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by rifung 9y ago
> I was talking to coworker who recently transferred from China to the US. He told me that China is will dominate the US because diversity is the greatest US weakness. Has said coworker seen the research which suggests diversity increase
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by rifung 9y ago
I might just have misunderstood you because I thought we were talking about how Apple chose not to make their devices easy to repair? I don't see how making their devices easier to repair would have at all made them get more market sha
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by rifung 9y ago
Because not enough people would buy it to justify the expense in time/money required to offer selling it? They probably don't even want to recommend people fix their own devices because people will try, screw up, and then go to su
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by rifung 9y ago
Why do you say that? People seem to still be buying Apple products regardless. I'd argue the strategy seems to be working for them because now you're both paying for services and new devices.
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by rifung 9y ago
> I mean, everybody came out okay - Shkreli really made his investors a lot of money! Yeah, he lied, but he did some incredible work: typical fraudsters take your money and run - he doesn't fit that mold. I think it's nice ever
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by rifung 9y ago
Well I think there was no need to have separate accounts to begin with. YouTube and Gmail had different accounts because YouTube was a separate company. I work for Google but opinions are my own.
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by rifung 9y ago
We have diagnosticians? This is my first time hearing of them so they must be pretty rare.
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by rifung 9y ago
> People should not form opinions based on who other people work for, when they aren't speaking for their companies. This is precisely a type of bias we should be seeking to prevent. It adds no value to an intellectual discussion. I
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by rifung 9y ago
> They were arguing that instead of being upset that Google can now get your data, in addition to [$OTHERCORP, ...], privacy advocates should be upset that any corp is getting the data. Indeed when I said defending I didn't mean the
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by rifung 9y ago
I think the disclaimer would have been appropriate here just for transparency sake. As an employee and likely a shareholder, presumably people will be worried you have an ulterior motive in trying to get people to think of Google in a posit
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by rifung 9y ago
> I'd be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I'd consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs. If most companies are pa
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by rifung 9y ago
I believe the line of thinking is that assuming they would have the same yearly expenses of a younger person, they have less total expenses because they have, on average, less years left to live and thus spend money on.
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by rifung 9y ago
If you look at a reply to the comment you're replying to you'll see it previously in the title. It might have been posted between the change and your comment
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by rifung 9y ago
> In this case, judging you for using a broken system, akin to tax loopholes, may not be "good" - but it's certainly not the root of the problem Wouldn't the greed of man be the true root of the problem? It just so ha
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by rifung 9y ago
> It cost £33, so wasn't particularly cheap Not that I doubt your assessment of the knife but.. As far as kitchen knives go this is cheap, although you can still get very good and sharp knives for this price like the Tojiro DP Gyuto
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by rifung 9y ago
What bad things have come out of it?
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by rifung 9y ago
I don't think that success at work makes me all that happy because what success means at work is defined by someone else. Of course, other people might feel like it matters to them and if so then I don't think there's anythin

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