taurath

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by taurath 6y ago
The alternative could maybe be something actually related to the job at hand. Like “I’ve got a database here and we need a view on this page - how would you approach this problem?” I guarantee you will find people who do the actual work. Co
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by taurath 6y ago
The interview process is somewhat akin to the “stress” gatekeeping in other industries, where people in charge say “I’ve gone through this, so it makes sense that others would have to also or else we risk getting worse people”. While not re
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by taurath 6y ago
And of course, for the rich there are “investment” visas for real estate purchase.
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by taurath 6y ago
Yea this. Being able to distill what a poor upper management sees as its actual end goals vs what they want in the moment is a huge skill. Depending on your background you can see this as being a good thing or a bad thing.
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by taurath 6y ago
When my grandpa used the word thug its absolutely racist. He would call literally any black person without chinos on a thug. That was and is common.
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by taurath 6y ago
Can you quantify how or why it’s worse? It seems like it could also just seem like it’s “worse” to you since it is something that could actually effect you.
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by taurath 6y ago
I think he posted a reasonable and thoughtful response - in it however be pretty much admits he could’ve said some very disparaging things. > I told him what I’d actually said in Peru. He said, “Donald, you sound exactly like my father.
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by taurath 6y ago
I’m paying attention, but my filter is different than yours. I am pretty liable to think that sheltered college students can be very overly sensitive to usages of words, but on the other hand the accusations (according to the daily beast ar
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by taurath 6y ago
From the article: > In the absence of a full accounting of this episode, I can’t make any firm judgment about the merits of McNeil’s departure. For all I know, he could have been acting unprofessionally for years, and it took a few teens
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by taurath 6y ago
From the daily beast - > McNeil repeatedly made racist and sexist remarks throughout the trip including, according to two complaints, using the “n-word.” I don’t understand how this is related to cancel culture, given it’s been corporate
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by taurath 6y ago
Do you have examples of the NYT cancelling someone for nonbigoted views?
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by taurath 6y ago
And laughed as 1/15 or more of a generation died from AIDS. The harm caused by the extreme right is astounding if you’re in one of the targeted groups. Someone being fired for bigoted comments when they work with minorities isn’t even
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by taurath 6y ago
Is it? Or are we all working off of anecdotes here. Do you have data to back that up? Further - it was pretty scary getting cancelled by my parents and community when I came out. I’m glad it wasn’t scary for you.
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by taurath 6y ago
I’d rather have them vigorously defending for their right to be a bigot than be a bigot actually with cultural power, having grown up during the latter. Free expression of contrary views is also important (though not ALL contrary views). Wh
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by taurath 6y ago
It feels like we do our best to make poverty “invisible”. I often think of how much land would be taken up by slums. The US still is reeling from the idea of the “projects” in LBJs war on poverty - mainstream politicians literally won’t eve
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by taurath 6y ago
It’s hard to find any decent car for under $3500 in many parts of the US, which is a lot to save while paying rent and taking the bus. Those cars you’re mentioning are popular, especially right now and that drives the price up. Then you hav
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by taurath 6y ago
Also people live in communities, not fortresses. Look at farmland villages in almost any country in the world and then see the US with sometimes literal miles between single houses. Suburbs are intended to keep other people out more than an
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by taurath 6y ago
I only think of it as “failure is understandable and doesn’t reflect on you as a person” - but you bring up a good point. I have no patience for people who say “because I made it everyone else can too” which is a really common attitude. Peo
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by taurath 6y ago
I bought a helio ocean keyboard phone over an iPhone because it had AIM MSN and YIM while the iPhone did not. I thought it was great.
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by taurath 6y ago
> Things do not have to be exactly synchronous -- people can get used to saying "over" at the end of a sentence and waiting a few seconds. As someone who has supported users of conference systems, nobody will do this, and on a
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by taurath 6y ago
In that time homeownership has gone down - those BUYING houses spend less of their income on it, but that’s a smaller and smaller piece.
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by taurath 6y ago
I think they’d say that inflation is in assets, not consumer goods, which to me rings a lot more true. It’s also true that for the average person on average wage housing has become greatly less affordable in the last 50 years but that’s bec
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by taurath 6y ago
Early 2000s here but yes it contributed so much to my feeling that it was an engineer/hackers paradise. Now it’s all consolidated so much it feels like it’s just corporate. Hoping I’ll get the chance to find that sort of feeling someti
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by taurath 6y ago
Cheap cheddar and mozzarella is everywhere here, but Brie, any hard cheese other than cheap Parmesan, meunster, Gouda, goat, chevre, anything smoked, fresh ricotta, glouchester, etc are all half price or less at Trader Joe’s compared to t
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by taurath 6y ago
Trader Joe’s makes me irrationally angry about cheese prices at other grocery stores, especially Safeway and Kroger.
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by taurath 6y ago
Ah weirdstuff is gone? I suppose the only businesses left along those lines are the startup graveyard furniture stores
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by taurath 6y ago
But of course businesses do treat it as a vocational course if they gatekeeper based on that degree. The actual value on the job is different than in the interview room, a fact that perpetuates inequality. I’m a counterpoint in that I’ve no
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by taurath 6y ago
Felt like it needed the starship troopers sort of treatment as a movie.
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by taurath 6y ago
I feel as though people looking joining such a group would have at the very first question “what is the scope of what we will be studying” or something similar. I don’t think people take jobs like that without having a decent answer to that
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by taurath 6y ago
You’re conflating the current person who was fired and did the public callouts with the person who has a Doctorate from Stanford and was fired or resigned because Google wouldn’t let her publish a research paper criticizing large language m

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