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I share your apprehension about its legitimacy as a news outlet. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/menstrual-blood-magic
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The moral and educational formation of children is the right of parents. Your authoritarian attack on the family isn't representative of most people's views. And if everyone pulled their kids out of public school, virtually all o
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Your interview process is a wreck, anyway. It optimizes for people who spend a month or two grinding leetcode and rehearsing their Leadership Principle stories. If you think that this effort is demonstrative of their ability to translate n
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How is this conceptually any different from InfoPath + SPD Workflows? And if it's not conceptually different, what's going to make it work this time? Aside - it's probably been discussed ad nauseam, but the Teams vs. Slack gr
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If your design is so detailed that any code monkey can implement it without screwing it up, then you've probably spent more time writing design documents than you would have spent just building it. And if your code isn't expressiv
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LOL. I feel for you. It's the same way in a lot of places. Your seniors should definitely be thought leaders, but when they get "too senior" or "too important" to write code, the company is done innovating. That&
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This is a very old model, and it's as dumb today as it was in the 1990s. The seniors used to be called "architects," and the "driving projects/design" used to be called RUP.
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What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
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Well, don't take it from me. Take it from Hopkins: > A typical vaccine development timeline takes 5 to 10 years, and sometimes longer https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline Or how about from New York St
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Two hours from your office? Is this hyperbole? If you live two hours from your office and go in for three days per week, that's 2h per leg * 2 legs per day * 3 days per week = 12 hours per week on the road. You were spending more than
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There are times when collaboration is useful. But nothing distinguishes a junior and a senior more than the ability to work independently.
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> My company wants to go 2 days home and 3 days office. I've said I'd do it the other way around. Mine is pushing some similar nonsense. I don't think anyone thought about it too hard: 1. I still have to live within a rea
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> Me and my teammates also become more efficient when we work together in the same physical space than remotely (we've tried bunch of things like perpetual video calls, among other things) What do you do? Constant talk and interrupt
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> I'd wager that the average American anti Covid fanatic (the sort: Masks are fascism! It's like what the nazis did with the jews!) is not really the kind of person travelling the world. You'd be wrong. I've received
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So, AI is scary because China ? How about we focus on Big Tech's attempts to subvert democracy before attempting to export what remains of American democracy?
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> The purpose of wealth is freedom; it’s nothing more than that. It’s not to buy fur coats, or to drive Ferraris, or to sail yachts, or to jet around the world in a Gulf Stream. That stuff gets really boring and stupid, really fast. It’s
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You're right about how the role ends up being implemented, but it shouldn't be this way.
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There's a lack of self-awareness about language ability deficiencies in certain countries where a coarse, pidgin-like "English" has developed without feedback from the rest of the English-speaking world.
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Stop canonizing the criminals "murdered" by police. Easy fix. As soon as Ben Crump shows up on the scene, you know the person wasn't innocent.
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> Thousands of unlicensed mining farms have subsequently been identified and shut down - including in mosques, which receive free electricity. So...if I open a mosque and mine Ethereum instead of Bitcoin, can I still get some of that fre
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Do you really want that? When a streaming service reboots a classic, you end up with: 1. The plot is pretty thin and always involves a twist. That the twist happens is predictable, and so the contents of the twist become more and more r
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I can't count the number of times I've stopped reading a Medium article because it contained information that wasn't just objectionable but was actually downright false. Many Medium articles are even stolen verbatim from othe
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The evidence of Roundup/glyphosate's carcinogenicity is playing out in courtrooms around the world. And it ain't looking good for Bayer.
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Are you from the Agvocate "Tough Conversations" team?
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> Using personnel and analytics data from over 10,000 skilled professionals at a large Asian IT services company So, which one? TCS, Wipro, Infosys, IBM, Capgemini? I want to know so that I can avoid it, not because of the study results
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Taking it off and letting it dry out can prevent the bacterial growth and undesirable consequences associated with wearing one for long periods, mask mouth being the most obvious example, with various forms of upper and lower respiratory in
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I have long suspected that masking is a political identity symbol, especially when it's seen so frequently in situations where it doesn't make sense: Driving alone in one's car, walking in an area where one wouldn't enc
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I bought her a diamond ring, and we got married.
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If this is some kind of weird incel troll humor, I'm not getting the joke. Going around and telling parents that they didn't need to have their children is inflammatory. You'll have a much better time if you learn not to say
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Having travelled, gone to grad school, and had kids, I can assure you that kids are more challenging and more rewarding than either of the other two. Describing the decision to have a family as "another experience to be consumed"

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