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by ritchiea 7y ago
I don't believe Harvard is choosing the wealthy kids and the legacies because they are most likely to succeed, I believe Harvard is choosing those people because they are most likely to have the highest ROI for the Harvard endowment &a
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As opposed to the current 1/3 legacy, unclear percentage propped up by wealthy parents, elite prep school system that consistently and efficiently finds the best students. There are still plenty of directionless Harvard kids that end u
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A professor in my social circle has taught at various schools across North America including Harvard, University of Toronto and a few prominent USA state schools. He says in his experience there's no difference between the intellect an
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I agree all that stuff was interesting and innovative. Maybe we just disagree on how far you have to push expectations to be avant-garde. When I think of avant-garde I think of creators trying to push toward a paradigm shift or break as man
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What was daring or avant-garde about Kojima? He makes incredibly popular mainstream games that had cool quirky gameplay mechanics and great attention to detail and had a focus on storytelling. When I think of "avant-garde" games,
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Credit card and predatory loan companies target low wage workers before they are even old enough to vote. They aim to get you in a cycle of debt and many of the targets for this type of lending do not have family support to help them avoid
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How much of that is because they are accruing credit card debt while simultaneously living without health insurance knowing a severe illness will leave them in even more crushing debt. While also feeling that they don't have real acces
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The distribution center is usually a nightmare to travel to. I've lived in NYC and Berlin and both systems are disasters in their own way. Here in Berlin someone is always posting a note in the stairwell that a package was delivered an
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And the distribution center in NYC is often in a far out place with no public transportation access.
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This is a good start. I would strongly recommend focusing on listening and asking questions when a friend comes to you with a problem or something on their mind. People universally want to be heard and understood. Offer emotional support, i
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> (with the possible exception of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison) no one else in America was writing at the same level I believe the greater literary community would flip that and say no one else was writing at the level of Morrison &
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Using your body for money isn’t normal? Using your body for money is the dominant form of labor. Manual work, factory work, mining, domestic labor, even most service jobs (you cook, you clean, you carry dishes). Undoubtedly sex work makes s
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Also for many major figures like Sontag their impact is hard to measure just by reading their work. Their impact is measured more by influence on their peers and intellectual ancestors. So if you're not familiar with an entire canon of
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This is absurd to me. Standups are quick and it is helpful to know what everyone is working on. And they can serve as a time when you are up front about being stuck on something and get some help from a teammate when maybe otherwise you mig
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What's the current state of Sails? I first heard about it 5 or 6 years ago but haven't heard much else about the project in ages.
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So not taking donations from a felon convicted of sex trafficking and not going to his dinner parties and showing concern for young women from poor countries he keeps around him is being a deranged mob now?
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Why are there inevitably people who want to do the mental gymnastics of assuming innocence for a man convicted of sex trafficking? I understand assuming innocence the first time someone is accused of anything unsavory because mistakes happe
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That might have worked but college students already used FB as a defacto dating app and facebook still grew to be a monopoly without that feature. Now that facebook is out of favor with young people this might be a good way to increase enga
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I Was Swallowed by a Hippo(theguardian.com)
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Ask HN: Are spam Apple calendar invites common? Do you receive them?
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Why are portions of the test suite closed source?
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I’ve failed technical tests because I found the interview process stressful, or felt nervous or uncomfortable in the moment or was having a bad day. I recently did a round of interviewing for jobs and realized the real key for me was handli
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SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) I am a senior web developer with 7+ years of experience building web apps & services. Most of my experience is in Ruby & Javascript with
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Ask HN: How to respond to “whats the biggest technical challenge you've solved?”
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I have been freelance for years, recently I did some interviews for full time positions and I can't agree with you more. Companies that need freelancers are primarily concerned with can you do the job, there's a deadline, there&#x
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Location: Berlin, Germany (English opportunities only please, I'm from the US & my German is improving but still sehr schlect) Remote: Possibly? Depends if I can reconcile that with my visa Willing to relocate: It depends (no SF) T
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SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable,
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by ritchiea 7y ago
More on my work background in my freelance posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20089657
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SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast) Full stack Ruby and Javascript developer with experience as a lead dev, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable,
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by ritchiea 7y ago
Location: Berlin, Germany (English opportunities only please, US-citizen) Remote: Possibly? Depends if I can reconcile that with my visa Willing to relocate: Not before April 2020 Technologies: Rails, Node, Bootstrap, Sass, Ruby, Javascript

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