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by smeej 3y ago
I didn't "train for the test." There were no SAT books or training courses or anything like that. Sure, taking it a few times meant I knew what it felt like to take it. I knew what the books were like and how the proctors wou
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by smeej 3y ago
I think it also behooves these smart people just to realize that they're not "one company for the long haul" people. I'm one of the people who likes working in startups. My peers who like working in established companies
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by smeej 3y ago
I don't understand the complaint from the guy who has been there for 15 years and doesn't like that it's changed. Growing companies don't stay the same for 15 years. People who like working at young companies generally d
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by smeej 3y ago
I can guess a couple reasons for this: 1. Women tend to have stronger/closer "RNCs," or actual face-to-face communities. 2. Women have a good reason to be more wary of connecting with strangers under unexpected circumstances
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by smeej 3y ago
I've seen this episode of Black Mirror.
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by smeej 3y ago
We've changed to "blocklist" and "allowlist" to avoid giving offense. Is it really too much to ask people to come up with another word to use that hasn't been hurled at innocent people as an insult?
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by smeej 3y ago
> but it seems pretty likely to me that it wasn't the direct work ("persistence") that made the difference as much as the generic four more years of schooling and general maturity.
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by smeej 3y ago
I'm not, though. I'm terrible at taking anyone's word for anything, partially (not entirely) because I was told I knew more things than my peers. I'm also garbage at just doing what I'm told. Who's giving me th
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by smeej 3y ago
Are we maybe missing the forest for the trees here? Like, do the test scores or the academic achievement at Dartmouth actually matter? By sheer dumb luck, I am exactly the kind of intelligent schools and standardized tests measure for.
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by smeej 3y ago
I was playing with Google's new image generation tool just this week and it still had a problem with fingers. I'll admit I don't do much with image generation, but hands still seem to be a weak point, which is why I added a p
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by smeej 3y ago
In most cases, I'd agree with you, but my parents thought it would be a great idea to have me start taking the exams in 7th grade so that by the time it mattered, boy would I be ready. Over four years, I added 350 SAT (1200-1550) point
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by smeej 3y ago
The last word of your post is considered a slur by people other people historically used it to describe. Please don't use slurs here. There's no need for that.
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by smeej 3y ago
Any service that is only using "submit a photo of your ID" deserves to be compromised. It really doesn't take much to get to the "take a picture holding the ID" step, which can still be fooled but is much more d
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by smeej 3y ago
People are already selling their Worldcoin identities. It has already failed.
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by smeej 3y ago
Why embezzle from one company when you can steal from lots of them? This is an obvious and natural evolution of the kinds of attacks that have existed for years. It was bound to happen eventually. I think it's just sooner than people e
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by smeej 3y ago
My money had been on 3-5 years, but it was definitely coming, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised it's here.
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by smeej 3y ago
It's not the money. It's the time. Lots of companies move fast enough that a $25M deal won't wait as long as it takes to fly from HK to London.
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by smeej 3y ago
Regular minesweeper counts these too, but the different shapes definitely make it harder! I found it much harder to register two acute angles as "adjacent" than two right angles are.
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by smeej 3y ago
I can't even almost vomit without waking up. I was wondering how anyone could sleep through actually doing it!
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by smeej 3y ago
Are there other hallmarks of the condition that might help rule it in or out? They told us part of the heart muscle itself was dead, meaning there would have been no hope of resuscitation, but also that it showed signs of multiple infarcts.
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by smeej 3y ago
I think channelopathies are an exception to that general rule, so it would depend how specific the issue is that they're identifying.
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by smeej 3y ago
My sister had one of those "blank autopsies." Otherwise healthy 29-year-old women just don't normally experience sudden cardiac death, even when they are 8 months pregnant. The medical examiner's report even said that
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by smeej 3y ago
Putting on my conspiracy hat for a minute: They don't want to make it easy for you to authenticate anonymously. They obtain their surveillance data from the companies that tie you, individually, to your data. They'd be shooting th
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by smeej 3y ago
A dear friend of mine had 2.5yo twins when she found out she was expecting what she thought would be baby #3...but ended up being babies 3, 4, 5, and 6! Identical triplet girls and a fraternal boy led to six kids under the age of 4--and she
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by smeej 3y ago
It's a direct question for the parent commenter who's going on about how it shouldn't be OK to give individual people shares to convince them to come work for you. If you get six months into "working" on a project a
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by smeej 3y ago
This is like reading the early chapters of a fiction story about an alternate universe. What, to you, is the difference between these two situations? 1. One person decides to form a company and has all the shares. After six months, he reali
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by smeej 3y ago
I made a rule a long time ago not to lend money to friends or family. If I have the money and they need it, I'm usually willing to give them the money, and if they choose to give it back later, I'll be appreciative, but putting
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by smeej 3y ago
"Got around to" means "did alllllll the other things they thought might find a pet more quickly." There's nothing lackadaisical about it. It's just well down the list of things you try immediately after a pet i
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by smeej 3y ago
I think it's a safe assumption that by the time someone got around to putting up a sign, you're at least hours if not days after the fact. The "everybody go out and search" stage happens well before the "I guess we
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by smeej 3y ago
Chase requires more than just the SSN. Chase requires you to prove your identity matches the person whose SSN you submit. They require it as part of a larger picture, not in isolation. (Employers are supposed to verify ID too, but they&#x

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