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by throwaway6532 4y ago
It's a combination of being loved and being hated at the same time, sometimes by different sets of people at the same time, sometimes by the same people at different times. I think hated is a bit of a strong word, but suffice to say it
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Kind of makes you wonder where all the assholes work?
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
The one time I've experienced assessing this type of thing it's very much something you have a natural feel for as you watch the events unfold. You can't really assess it in the abstract sense, it's all about the concret
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
I've evaluated one of these group exercises for a grad program before. One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was out of the four individuals there was one guy that continually derailed the group, and there was another guy who even
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
As "that guy" it's somewhat refreshing to hear this. I think the key is really self-awareness and understanding of group dynamics enough to help you get the balance of individuals right.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Yeah, in my experience this is really what it's all about. Thinking out loud helps them assess how you reason through trade-offs, potential ideas you run through, edge cases you catch, at what stage you catch them and how you go about
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Are you me?
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
These were my thoughts after reading this too.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Having a high IQ, being economically privileged, very good looking,is going to change the impact ADHD has on someone. In my case it meant staying out of jail, managing to graduate college and getting a career I could thrive in. Still...
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>The bearers of these traits are “taking one for the team” so to speak because they are preserving a genetic trait potentially useful for the future but may be painful in the present This is how I feel way too often.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
I'm kind of the same. The big problem is never being able to predict when the extreme rough patches will hit.
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
Playing drums thickens the corpus collosum apparently: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327279
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Saw some wacky shit on my Netflix DVD plan Killer Clowns From Outer Space
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>i feel like this may be my last coding job after 15 years, maybe i can do another 2-3 more. This is how I feel after only 7 years, and I need to do another 9 more :(
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
I feel ya man. This is exactly where I'm at. Left one job because the company burnt me out, but I was still a passionate engineer. Eight months in to my current company I feel the flame I once had for engineering is all but extinguishe
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>follow the dopamine :)
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
>Out of sight out of mind applies universally (sometimes good, sometimes bad) - I have the most success when I engineer my environments to put the things I need to focus on in front of me. 100% this aye. I had my bookshelf in my bedroom
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
I've found that I have no problem reading books, so long as they're exactly what I'm interested in right now and I have a copy available. I've found I absolutely struggle with reading books when I'm no longer as exc
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by throwaway6532 4y ago
I think you miss my point. My frame of reference is society has collapsed and the _people_ that keep nuclear safe are no longer around and this has the potential to cause a Beyond Design Basis Accident the likes of which could render large
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I'm just waiting for the day all of the humans required to keep a one of the older, less safe designs running all become unavailable and the people required for disaster management when it melts down are also unavailable and the world
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Accurate views tend to be depressing, so I know which way my vote goes. Source - slightly depressed person
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>That’s the cynic’s own delusion: that they are the realist and the world is full of pie in the sky idealists. It’s like the precocious 12 yr old that never matures. And that's the optimists delusion: that the cynic isn't a rea
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>The problems with water and sand are not physical limits. Like climate change and pollution generally they're just unpriced externalities. I'd say it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. They're d
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I mean I was going with drought, famine, civil unrest and the sea peoples, but sure.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
“Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Good luck replacing water. This perspective also assumes enough creativity and capital available to do this will always there. If you're going to need to develop potentially more complex and expensive technology it's going to need
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>I think we are plenty as is, and as for why bother to make the universe do our bidding - because there's great pleasure satisfaction and fulfillment in bending cold indifferent nature to our will... We're starting to wake up t
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>We closed a remarkable bit of that gap in the 19th and 20th centuries - the gaps remaining are getting really difficult to fill. This is the counterargument to innovation will solve all our problems. When you combine this with birth rat
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>but I see no issue with billions of people living in cities with easy access to pools, parks, schooling, jobs, and comfortable safe, warm/cool housing and living standards that are science fiction to their immediate ancestors So sa
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>As with the rest of the article, I'm really not sure if this is irony or hubris? If everybody had these conditions of living, we would either need a larger planet or a lot less people on it. If you had a lot less people on it, you

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