flente

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by flente 4y ago
The backlash actually started sooner than that, and largely due to the excesses of Tim Leary, et al. Michael Pollan's book "How To Change Your Mind" covers it in detail. A great shame, because psychedelic therapy has so much
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by flente 5y ago
Source?
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by flente 6y ago
I love Oslo! Are you Norwegian? If not, how is it living there as an immigrant/expat?
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by flente 8y ago
It is Didi's responsibility to police their platform. If the offending drivers had already been reported multiple times and Didi had not taken action, it clearly indicates passenger safety was not high on their list of concerns. If yo
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by flente 8y ago
If you got a phone screen from Amazon, et al, it means they saw your resume and thought your experience looked interesting. You were not filtered on the basis on your work history. When these companies rejected you, it was almost certainly
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by flente 9y ago
No, I work at one of the companies mentioned in the post. These are typical salaries for devs without exotic specializations.
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by flente 10y ago
I've worked with dozens of data scientists and only one had an MBA. He didn't think it helped him get or do his job, and considered it a poor investment. MS's and PhD's in stats, applied math, physics, computational bio
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by flente 10y ago
How can you know a seller is telling the truth RE: matters that are hard to validate in an inspection, e.g. terrible neighbors?
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by flente 12y ago
EVERYONE who suffers from RSI should read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951 I read it about a year ago, and it was probably the single most important article I've read in my entire life. Some backg
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by flente 12y ago
I worked at LivingSocial while Hungry Academy was happening. I believe there were about 15-20 students and they were promised jobs with the company if they successfully completed the program. Most of what I heard about it was second-hand,