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by vxnul 5y ago
Absolutely, as an orphan with many different ideas and no safety net I was frequently put in places where I should have been a co-founder since I was technical and the idea was mine, but basically until I was 29 I had no leverage because I
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by vxnul 5y ago
"Bro" is a strange word, because it has gone through quite a bit of semantic shift. It used to refer to a certain type of entitled, right-wing young male associated with some college fraternities (not all frats are like that, but
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by vxnul 5y ago
Hacker News is less toxic than one might expect it to be, given the widespread historical association of Y Combinator with DVFs (a Bay Area acronym meaning "Domestic Violence Founder", referring to the high rate of DV issues invol
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by vxnul 5y ago
I come from the 2040s. Don't come here. In the parlance of your time, it fucking blows. Google is still around. It is a third-rate search engine but a first-rate reputation engine. Boomers (we still call them that, even though they hav
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by vxnul 5y ago
Disabled people tend to get fired preemptively, regardless of performance, when their disability is discovered. It's illegal but it happens all over the place: bosses see everyone with a medical problem as a potentially unrealiable tim
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by vxnul 5y ago
This is often an intentional design. A lot of HR people and bosses are evil and want to know not just where you worked and about how long, but what months you were there. Why? Because it's a way to figure out if you're disabled. A