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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>I chose this trial because the I liked the fact that my own immune system was being boosted to fight my cancer. I work in biotech and a very successful CEO of mine once told me "When I'm evaluating new (bio)technologies, alway
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Nail salon opens with same services as the million nail salons before it. Big deal.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I don't know about that. My last job, awful awful company, flat out refused any semi-decent raises. 1.5% was a common yearly raise (only after we were bought out by an international pharma, prior 5% was pretty standard). I asked for a
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Do free work if you want to be employed! No thanks. Will my employer give money away to poor people just to show what good people they are?! STOP MAKING WORK ABOUT MORE THAN A BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Does making racist comments you don't believe make you a racist? Does giving compliments you don't believe make you a nice person? I seriously don't know. I want to say yes, but maybe not? I was thinking about this in another
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I have had the same thought about college-courses. Why have 100+ people paying 2k+ for a course being taught by a grad student. If you could cut out the middlemen (schools), we could probably get better "professors" (i.e. one of t
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Yes it is. But to me, I would look at a start-up full of Wharton, Stanford, and Harvard MBA's and would run! You need some business expertise for start-ups, but too much would be a huge red flag for me personally.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Lots of people in all sorts of awful companies/government positions normalize what they contribute to every day. And they go home and sleep fine. I'm sure there are dozens of people reading and agreeing with your comment right now
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Also, the two things that push most people towards entrepreneurship is money and autonomy in their work. If you can give employees these things, they will stick around longer.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
He's an inherit lots of money and talk about how awesome I am entrepreneur, I'm sure people like that will still be able to buy their way into the US. So half of SV should still be safe.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>longer wait times for non-emergency treatment I really want to see actual studies on this. We Americans LOVE to throw this in the face of the countries with single-payer, yet we conveniently gloss over the fact that many Americans PUT O
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
This is a thought that's been floating around in my head for too long and probably doesn't exactly fit here but oh well. Isn't language a bit of a proxy for what we are actually trying to communicate? As in the statement &quo
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
50 trust fund babies are moved to an island with nothing but access to their bank account. How much does the first person to do any work charge?
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
While true, the more women you get into tech the more than can end up at the top in tech. The more women at the top of a tech company or working in VC, the more diversity we have at the top which (hopefully) leads to the sexist men at the t
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Do you think this same phenomenon was partially responsible for the decline of content on things like the Histoey channe? There's gotta be more to those decisions beyond just number of eyeballs and purchasing power.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Everything I've said is civil. If expressing opinions outside the norm are not welcome here I am happy to be banned. If anything working for certain companies that VIOLATE human rights is the only uncivil thing going on here. Please br
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Sorry, that sucks. But introducing more sexism because you faced sexism isn't the answer. Also, there are lots of things you can do to make the world a better place on your way out. Please don't waste your life getting run over.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I bet it can, so let's get started! Here's a list of companies that Khosla ventures invested in: http://www.khoslaventures.com/portfolio/all-companies Is anyone who works for or owns these companies reading t
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Either way, I'd kill myself before I worked at Palanatir. And I've put myself in poverty before by quitting a multi-national pharma that bought my company out and I lived on my 10k savings over 15months while I found a new job. Pa
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>But there are lots and lots of doctors who's ethics say that steak dinners with drug reps are off limits. There are a lot more that think it's not their job to care about those things. They think they are only responsible for
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Could using printed fonts that look like hand-writing to advertise count as willful deception? You're trying to trick the consumer into thinking a human made the sign (and by extension the product as well), which was actually made my m
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>We were born into this world, as a species, with nothing. Some people are born with nothing, others are born with just about everything. Many laws, regulations, etc exist so that JUST existing with nothing is not feasible. It is nigh im
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I buy lunch most days and only eat 2 meals a day, my meals range from $6-11. I pay ~$50 for 5/14 meals a week. I'm happy with that. I also spend a grand total of 120/month on transportation costs (includes costs of car, maint
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>average housing size has more than doubled while average number of occupants has dropped I've read this many times, bigger houses have contributed a great deal to rising housing costs. But do we have any data on the cost of materia
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I don't even think it's that necessary to solve hard problems, at least in most fields. You can do a lot with general coding knowledge, however, I've found the CS fundamentals to be most useful for optimization.
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
>Do the people you talk to discuss their porn habits? I talk to friends about porn habits, have shared good links with friends before too. The reason I am inclined to believe that most porn is consumed alone is that in my anecdotal exper
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
I agree, but can we honestly put all the blame on those at the top. Many of of us in the middle and at the bottom are just as complicit. We go to work for companies we know make the world a worse place, we work under horrible people and han
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
If you're talking "big" Midwest cities, yea there's definitely segregation. But go out into the sticks a bit or 30 minutes outside any city and it's mostly white. I grew up in the suburbs of one of the largest citie
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
This is the bubble you live in. I grew up in the Midwest and my white middle class brothers spent some summers in strawberry fields picking and in corn fields detassling (not 110F, but mid 90's). There aren't many immigrants there
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by xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Are we really extracting from a talent pool of 7 billion? The problems we have in America are the same if not much worse in most of the world (except for Europe, I imagine). What % of children in China and India do not have access to decent

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