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Equifax sells your salary data to employers so that they can negotiate against you. They use a subsidiary called The Work Number to keep this evil separated from their good name (ha). You can and should freeze your Work Number file: https:
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Sure. There's a balance somewhere in between idealized images and "Healthy at Every Size". But if a product is intended for weight loss, I would expect its ads to focus on weight loss...
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This doesn't make any sense without context and a citation. Edit: Seeing that response, I think your top-level comment is a victim of Poe's Law...
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> It's an expansion of our ad policies that have long prohibited body shaming Having a BMI* greater than 25 is a risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer. This move is guided by feelings, not facts. *Yes, everyone
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> IMO with how many they have it doesn’t make sense since you are bound to forget nearly all of them day-to-day. You won't forget them if you end up working there. They're used as rhetorical jabs when people want to win argume
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It is true of ICs, but a good recruiter will tell you that you don't need to have stories for all 14. There are really only about 8 or 10 that they expect SDEs to demonstrate.
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The culture will slowly rot as the company gets larger and as the real visionaries (good or bad) become increasingly disconnected from the boots on the ground. We're already seeing things like people getting hired and then PIPed within
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So I need to rehearse two more stories if I want to interview there? Sign me up for that!
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It certainly does change who a person is. It damages virtually every part of the brain and directly causes anxiety disorder, mood swings, and a whole host of other unpleasant psychiatric disorders (to say nothing of the physiological disor
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You are the kind of PM that I will gladly give estimates to. The others, not really.
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There's a browser-based adaptation of LORD: http://lotgd.net/home.php (not mine, no affiliation)
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Requiring someone to come in to the office when it's been promised all along that he would be WFH permanently? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
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> Political note: calls for nationalisation, in American politics, is a gift to the other side. Populism changes the equation. Populism blurs the left/right split. Populists of all political persuasions can get behind nationalizing
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Doesn't a company have to be at least slightly sexy to be called "tech"?
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> Right now there's a lot of recruiters trying to sell me on various nebulous hybrid positions (sounds like the companies don't really know or have committed to anything just yet, or are afraid to let potential hires know what
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I bet John Carmack hasn't even solved most Leetcode mediums.
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Those are small discounts against a large premium. A health insurance analogy would be: Customer A pays $100/mo because he gets an annual checkup and takes the medicines the doctor prescribes. Customer B pays $200/mo because he
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> $400-per-visit deductible $400 is pretty close to the cost of an office visit, physical exam, metabolic panel, lipid panel, and EKG, which is what a primary care doc is going to order annually on something like 90% of Americans after a
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You're right. But how often do you want to rewrite that code? It may be worth accepting a few -isms (and the associated performance hit) in order to be able to write something like this instead of having to bang out the imperative ve
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JSX isn't HTML. Is it truly less cognitive burden to have a language that looks like HTML but isn't? With properties changed because they're reserved words? And with control statements from other languages supported inline
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Browsers support HTML and JS (and a few other things not relevant to this point). Neither HTML or JS on its own will do what you're describing. HTML doesn't allow binding to a data source. JS doesn't allow you to write HTML
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Most of the web can and should be static HTML and CSS.
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Writing HTML programmatically or using JSX are both unfortunate React-isms. Not saying that Angular's banana box is ideologically superior, just that all JS frameworks have idiosyncrasies.
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The front page of their website proclaims Svelte to be "Cybernetically enhanced web apps", whatever that means. The "Rethinking" post gives a little more detail: > Instead, Svelte runs at build time, converting your c
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The most important line: > It's important to understand that virtual DOM isn't a feature. It's a means to an end, the end being declarative, state-driven UI development. Declarative, state-driven UI development is a valuab
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Marijuana users aren't littering San Francisco with used needles and feces. You are intentionally muddying the waters.
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American chocolate is probably a bad example because what makes it bad is the lack of cocoa. If we sold "American coffee" that was 99% chicory and 1% coffee, it'd also get a lot of hate.
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Literally any framework of moral reasoning. "Do what thou wilt" is not an ethical framework.
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Users are not prosecuted in a huge number of jurisdictions already, so you must mean making the chemicals themselves legal to produce and sell. Selling Fentanyl over the counter at Walgreens isn't going to get people off the streets. I
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Hate speech and name-calling aimed at anyone who supports a strong border shows how weak the argument for open borders really is.

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