throwawaystale

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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Tenured professors who expect to be taken by the hand and told what to do? Bizarre. As a PhD student, I was told to go think of a dissertation-worthy project and come back with a draft...
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Game authors are welcome to do as they please, of course. But as someone who both likes video games and is quite bad at them, I've pretty much stopped buying them. Oh well...
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Sorry you're having a bad time. I'm old, but can still relate. On the codebase, yes, most are horrible, unfortunately. Try to think of it as your opportunity. If you can learn to comprehend and fix code like this, you'll a
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
I don't think someone that vicious has anything to tell us about the Internet. "I'm not embarrassed by any of those tweets."
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
1. Indeed, I'm only talking about is , not ought . Please do complain. Leave Trump out, though. Nothing he can do about it, and if he seriously tried, he'd wake up with a horse's head in his bed. 2. If you truly believ
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Let's just say I have a lot or respect for the possibilities I'm aware of, together with a general sense that there's a lot that I don't know. In any case, just because you usually get your laptop handed right back,
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Key takeaway: Over the last five years, hiring of white males for tech roles has declined from 47.5% to 33.3% (of total tech hires). Somewhat surprisingly, hiring of white females and all non-Asian minorities has barely budged. The major
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
He's saying he was targeted because he's known to disapprove of the Trump administration? Please. If anything, it was considerably worse prior to 2016. A better question would be why someone technically knowledgeable would be ca
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
It's arguably unethical. It's also arguably unethical for you not to host a number of poor people in your house or apartment. And more fundamentally, it's arguably unethical for your not to spend most of your money trying to
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
It's quite obvious that that's what they're referring to. Article titles necessarily require brevity. Anyway, flagged in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Is there any reason to think desirable men have a differing distribution of libidos (vs the not desirable men)? A simpler explanation would be that they have more sex because they have more opportunity, no?
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
It would be nice if we could all start laughing about this stuff again.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
> if men and women want sex roughly as many times, or if women want more, In my experience, this is counterfactual. Also, I have a hottie buddie who has a lot of sex with a lot of women. Suspect he can easily keep ten women satisfie
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
If it was an April 1 gag, they'd have included weight verification...
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Perhaps a worthy cause, but that website is first-degree eye slaughter.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
See sibling replies, if you like.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
In my experience, there's no correlation between someone's kindness and their politics. People are individuals--watch what each individual does.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
It's a lot easier to criticize others than to create something yourself.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
The censors are ultimately scrubbing history clean. If we can't know the history, how are we supposed to learn from it?
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
This is awful. But in the end, it takes two, and you can only control your side of the conversation. I had a similar experience in my last divorce, doing every possible thing to make the negotiations non-confrontational, win/win, etc.
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
I don't think that small minority is as small as you might think. Life is full of uninsurable disasters. The "good" news is that there are only a few years of retirement you really want to hang around for anyway (as opposed
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
It's sad, but I've simply accepted that this will be the future. Anyone who has unorthodox opinions on controversial opinions will get this treatment, and we'll slowly rip our society apart. Hopefully the next one will be be
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
I was told that I was rejected at final executive review, supposedly due to a general property of my resume that many might hear as a euphemism for "too old". Particularly annoying, since that property was in plain view from day
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
Both I and my wife are second generation immigrants. I have no issues with immigrants at all, and I've worked my entire career besides H-1Bs and other PRs. If you had asked me five years ago, I'd have expressed a (somewhat naive
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
My understanding is that there's a final "executive review", which is almost a rubber stamp, in that only one or a few percent are nixed at this level. In the early days, supposedly it was literally Sergei and Larry. These
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by throwawaystale 8y ago
A related effect is that almost all H-1B's count as "diverse" in HR statistics. If so, then currently there would be intense pressure to hire the H-1B candidate over a citizen, even if the former required a higher salary