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by candybar 10mo ago
> It sounds like violently agree with everything other than my framing and wording choices. No, you previously implied that the discovery of this information is somehow leading to less judgment and blame and more of an effort to understa
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by candybar 10mo ago
I think you're misreading that last line. I'm pretty sure what the author is saying is: > the evening we found the love letters my mom said to me, "he wasted his entire life, his entire life, and mine as well." Also,
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by candybar 3y ago
Aggression and building rapport aren't mutually exclusive - a lot of this is subtle negotiation for relative status. Just because all parties are okay with these as a way to get to a reasonable common ground (and if done right, can le
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by candybar 3y ago
How are you defining groceries here? I suspect that some people are being fairly expansive and including everything that they'd buy at a grocery store, while others are being much more restrictive. Using a more expansive definition (
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by candybar 3y ago
Labor participation rates among women haven't changed drastically since the 80's. Also: https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/06/22/us-household... > In fact, this is also a period when the n
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by candybar 3y ago
If you find yourself having to hit the brakes hard frequently because a pedestrian stepped off the curb while being distracted, you probably also need to pay more attention while driving. My general experience is that in practice, in most a
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by candybar 3y ago
You're wildly off the mark here. From the study quoted: > In 2017, over 60% of 110,531 US veterinarians were female, and in 2016, approximately 80% of students enrolled at US veterinary medical colleges were female. > The PMRs f
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by candybar 3y ago
Sure, but at this point you're no longer talking about why vets are dying from suicide at a higher rate. We don't know if vets tend to deal with more "distress and hopelessness" than the general population.
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by candybar 3y ago
Yup, suicidal attempts are often impulsive, so any barrier (in this case literally) even if it's relatively easy to get around, reduces suicide rates. Here's another study, this time on firearms: https://med.stanford.ed
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by candybar 3y ago
We can talk about other negative aspects of being a vet, but the primary factor is that they know how: > But that reality of the job can also colour the way veterinarians view human lives – including their own – and for those already exp
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by candybar 3y ago
I think this is a good take - the legal theories mentioned in this thread (1st amendment, Section 230) seem mostly baseless, but this doesn't seem like appropriate legislation at the state-level either way. I don't know enough ab
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by candybar 3y ago
This is legally nonsensical - nothing about Section 230 precludes any further restriction on moderation by another entity. Section 230 is and has always been about the act of moderation not specifically creating liability for the carrier o
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by candybar 3y ago
This is content-free nonsense - it's easy to do the math, but those who are eligible for significant "credit boost" from Obama-era whatever plans are non-factors when it comes to influencing home prices in the bay area housin
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by candybar 3y ago
It's even worse than that - $44,356 is the median salary for high school graduates aged 25 or over with a full-time job (it's extrapolated from the median weekly wage of $853) in 2022: https://www.bls.gov/careerout
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by candybar 3y ago
I would go even further - it's complete nonsense. I'm going to guess the author never wondered why Americans feel uncomfortable asking for a discount at a store and would rather just not buy when they would've happily bought
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by candybar 3y ago
Btw, your message behind this is that you should work at a startup (maybe yours), is that correct? How do you plan to compensate individuals who do this type of work at your own startup?
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by candybar 3y ago
Sure but a lot of things don't happen without that one person pushing for it. If Alex is correct that he's the one who pushed for it to happen and created the momentum for this product feature to exist, despite many others active
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by candybar 3y ago
Sure, it's a privilege, but the privilege does not exist for the benefit of its employees. > What purpose an organization turns it's work to is up to the people who make the decisions, and varied. Just because they can do certa
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by candybar 3y ago
Banks don't know which of their borrowers are insolvent - in a credit crisis, the problem isn't merely that the banks aren't paid what they are owed, but that there's a systematic increase in the perceived default risk o
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by candybar 3y ago
> everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt I'm generally supportive of these types of measures especially in a financial crisis, but keep in mind that economically, this isn't too diffe
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by candybar 4y ago
Once again, this doesn't even make the slightest bit of economic sense and you're once again failing to understand extremely very basic points. No one is saying saying FAANG only competes against each other. It's just that
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by candybar 4y ago
> But it absolutely calls in question the notion these companies wouldn't do something just because they're "competing" against each other. This doesn't make any sense and you're misunderstanding the origina
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by candybar 4y ago
Sure but that collusion actually makes sense from their perspective and is literally the exact opposite of what's being alleged, which is that Big Tech is essentially keeping the cost of talent artificially high in order to hurt their
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by candybar 4y ago
I mean this is true in that large organizations are internally wasteful - a lot of people are just there to shuffle resources around and a lot of the decisions are bad, entire teams are working on worthless projects, etc. But what people fo
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by candybar 4y ago
This is and has always been nonsense. FAANGs (and more) all compete against each other and if they do not derive significant value from these hires, it doesn't make any strategic sense to bloat your headcount just to prevent your riva
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by candybar 4y ago
> First, companies want their stock price to go up. This is more important to them than profit margins, because the people making decisions (as are most employees) are renumerated largely in stock. Simply keeping a business profitable an
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by candybar 4y ago
One very easy way to disprove this is by looking at the experience of startup employees after acquisition. Now the product is no longer offered by a startup, but by a big company. Do things get easier now that they are at established comp
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by candybar 4y ago
You still need to aggregate and contextualize these in terms of overall business and product strategy. Yes, engineers can do that too and some percentage of engineers are good at this as well - and being able to understand and formulate pr
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by candybar 4y ago
I'm not making a grandiose claim that being at a startup is indescribably hard. There are lots of hard jobs. I've also had executive roles at startups, personally know tons of founders and tons of people that have worked in execu
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by candybar 4y ago
I'm not moving the goalpost, you are. You're not the only one with lived experience and having had a job and founded a couple of companies doesn't allow you to generalize to come to the conclusion that: > Being at a start

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