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by throwaway713 6y ago
> Minimizing menial tasks. Menial tasks really suck. I know everyone must hate doing these, but to put it into perspective, I would rather do 20 hours of really really hard work on a tough project than do 5 hours of menial tasks Interest
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> being liked by your coworkers (including your boss) is 10X more important than the amount of output you produce Is this really true? I can think of people I like very well as a person, but they are extremely unproductive and I would no
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> there was a man present who thought he could answer them as well That’s a funny way to characterize a bunch of male doctors ignoring my wife’s request for them to ask me simple questions instead of her because she was incapacitated wit
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by throwaway713 6y ago
There was a young anesthesiologist in training (resident?) who was administering the epidural while a more experienced anesthesiologist was supposed to be watching. The trainee put the epidural in the wrong spot three times and ended up gi
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by throwaway713 6y ago
My wife gave birth to our child this past year in Palo Alto. While at the hospital, my wife and I noticed that no questions at all were addressed to me (the husband), particularly questions that I could have answered while she was in pain
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> I'm not sure there are many people who are publicly abusive and privately kind Gordon Ramsay perhaps?
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by throwaway713 6y ago
You’re looking at the wrong pool of potential employees. On my team of ~40 people, I am the only one who was born in the U.S. They hire from all over the world and will pay what’s necessary to import top talent from other countries. Also,
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by throwaway713 6y ago
The author doesn’t consider Stripe prestigious? I work at one of the companies he lists as prestigious, and I think most of my co-workers consider Stripe to be a top company to work at and very competitive to get into. A lot have in fact le
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Bragging about salaries is always annoying; however, it was one of those braggy comments that led me to reconsider my own job so that I ended up working for a FANG company. I had previously just used Glassdoor to check salaries and did not
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by throwaway713 6y ago
The problem is the compensation ceiling in these cities. It’s not the Midwest, but when I was searching in Atlanta for tech jobs to stay closer to family, the upper limit was about $150k, which I think was at Square. There are other non-tec
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> The companies should allow people who need more time to handle things time off with benefits but no pay or reduced hours So how do you feel about maternity leave for pregnant women?
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> he just turned around and walked away > You’re an idiot That seems awfully rude of them. They don't sound like very pleasant people.
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Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue(theaircurrent.com)
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by throwaway713 6y ago
With sleep, I feel like you’re sort of still there since when you wake up you have the perception that time has passed. What’s truly unnerving is going under anesthesia, where it’s like that period of time just never existed at all.
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by throwaway713 6y ago
In articles like this, everyone crawls out of the woodwork to brag about how they don’t fear death. I don’t believe it for a minute. The number of people who could have a loaded gun staring them in the face and truly not feel the slightest
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by throwaway713 6y ago
One counterexample doesn’t make a point. I could list many people who are simultaneous experts in multiple fields and it wouldn’t help my argument either.
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Because intelligence is general and correlates well across fields, and intelligence has a loose causal link with a PhD in biology. So I wouldn’t say it "helps" with investment per se but there is a connection there.
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by throwaway713 6y ago
I’ve often thought that if I ran my own company I would have a ban on hiring new grads from certain schools, particularly those like Harvard. Between their racism of denying qualified Asian applicants to accepting giant bribes to let in the
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Except San Francisco has nature (and even more nature close by) which makes all the difference to me. The few times I’ve been in NYC, I found the sheer amount of gray concrete and steel to be unnerving and dystopian; I’m legitimately amazed
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by throwaway713 6y ago
I’m in tech, but I like the Bay Area for what it is. I plan on working remote to be near family, but also intend to use the lower cost of living to save up and purchase a house in SF at some point later in life, hopefully to retire to. It’s
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by throwaway713 6y ago
That always reminds me of this: https://i.redd.it/wwje449jjge21.jpg
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> only 0.65% ...
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Gamification of exercise does not work currently and probably never will. No matter how you dress it up, it’s still exercise and still requires physical exertion, and there seems to be people who can do it and those who can’t.
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by throwaway713 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised the rich take private jets as much as they do. They are about as dangerous as cars on a distance basis, and considering how far a trans-Atlantic flight is, I don't know... I'd be hesitant to do that much
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Do you mind sharing which town? Or which part of the world / U.S.? I’m just curious where you dislike so much...
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by throwaway713 6y ago
My way involves a lot more risk that nothing useful will be produced. I basically want a higher risk / reward than what working in this field as an employee would provide. I wouldn’t be able to try far out ideas if I wanted to keep my
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so
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by throwaway713 6y ago
I have become increasingly frustrated with the NYT's reporting practices. They are very hypocritical about criticizing tech while continuing to advertise heavily on the same services they criticize to promote their journalism. A lot o
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by throwaway713 6y ago
I always find it interesting how the people who are so strongly against the gentrification caused by the apparently bland and one dimensional tech workers are reluctant to move themselves to cheaper mid-sized cities that ostensibly have mor
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Whoa! I didn’t realize Leland Stanford was racist. And blatantly so. Makes you wonder if the university should be renamed.

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