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4y ago
Totally. I might die tomorrow, i'm 35. I might retire at the end of the week if my lottery ticket hits the jackpot. I might just leave the company.
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> The word Karen in your post is an ageist and racist dog whistle and it is also incredibly insulting to people who happen to be named Karen. Karen is now an accepted and understood term referring to a very real phenomenon. Anyone with
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4y ago
laws have to be written with that in mind and have as limited a scope as possible.
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4y ago
but they had no suspicion that any abuse was occurring?
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4y ago
you would think someone would take a look at the allegation and determine that this was not necessary anyone with an ounce of sense knows that an 8 year old can walk half a mile on the street. Every parent within my hometown would be gettin
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4y ago
This is general work advice not just interview advice bad: I disagree with the way this is done/this is just bad. Lets do X! good: I see the motivation with the current approach and understand the goals but i wonder if we might be bett
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> But I also think all interviewers having a veto is the wrong approach It's based on people assuming that others will use that veto reasonably. Company i work for had a veto system but i don't think it was ever used. It was a
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4y ago
The cost of a lamp a tunable bulb and a fraction of an rpi is almost certainly lower than the cost of 2 lamps and 2 bulbs.
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4y ago
Blue blocking never helped me but dimming and warming the lights close to bedtime makes me sleep so much better
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4y ago
If you're putting the fridge in an alcove you need a built in friendly model which vents to the front.
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4y ago
> actually significantly less efficient It's less energy efficient. It's significantly more time efficient and ergonomic.
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4y ago
> unless you spend a lot of time at dock or have a big generator. Even full size residential fridges can be powered by the smallest portable generator.
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4y ago
> Low performers always 100% of the time get dropped during layoffs. This is totally not true. Usually they make jobs redundant not people. If there's a pool of people doing the same job and that headcount is reduced then it will of
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4y ago
can you game this system by moving to a worse area? If you're rich and give your child all the support they need they're almost bound to be in the top 10%.
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4y ago
> But my current hypothesis is that many (most) Americans actually believe it. I certainly believe that there is no rigid social class in America and it's definitely possible to move between income brackets with relatively little so
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4y ago
> conscious of class, parental income and geography. This is going to be a pain in the ass and you'll just lead to people gaming the system. How about we just aim to make a high quality collage available to all who want it and extre
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4y ago
Totally, however as somebody who knows quite a few adult content creators and sex workers I would say the standard for the industry is actually pretty high.
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4y ago
> So can women hired by pornography companies that are 18 but look younger and intentionally dress like school girls. I've yet to see an 18 year old that looks like an actual child regardless of how they're dressed however I&#x
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4y ago
> Kitchens are not a big deal for me when I travel. A fridge is nice but you get a small one you can use a lot of the time in hotels these days and minibars seem to have mostly gone out of fashion. For me this is true if I'm traveli
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4y ago
> Tourists are included in city planning The reason AirBnB exists is that tourists are not properly accounted for in city planning and not properly serviced by hotels. There's a huge demand for what AirBnB provides (Serviced and sho
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4y ago
i do the same thing work or not. Think. Right now i think about how to re-define technical processes and patterns to reduce CFR, increase deploys etc. When i was off work for a while i think about cooking, video games, restoring a car, emer
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> I think it’s basically that a lifetime of being told what to do with your time atrophied your ability to direct your time when you had control. I also think humans need to do nothing occasionally and that it's actually extremely
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4y ago
i likely have < 5% left. I moved internationally and have parents in their 70s i will likely see them less than 200 days in total.
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4y ago
Why not do both? I don't want to be here in 30 years time wishing we'd built reactors 30 years ago (which is where we are today)
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> Isn't this sort of how ministries work in the UK yes > you have a dedicated civil service that does most of the work and then a politician that may or may not know whats going on setting direction? this is the ministers and the
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4y ago
The nsa is a bit of an oddity. It has conflicting branches within it's own organization. Parts of it want to keep you (and the rest of government) secure and the other parts want backdoors into everything.
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4y ago
well, likely that they knew or reasonably should have known.
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nobody is buying something that's just going to capture roaches.
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I went through a particularly bad phase and was unable to sleep for about a week. I wasn't violent but to say i was a rational human being after 3 days would be a lie. I don't have a lot of memory but i remember thinking my leg ha
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4y ago
I mean we know he bit the guy. We don't know how hard.
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