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by fragola 10y ago
I am speechless. Just in case anyone reads this and thinks having a C-section is painless: it's not. It's really not for the faint of heart, and it almost always happens after hours in labor anyway. Before leaping to insulting con
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by fragola 10y ago
Did you run into social adjustment issues?
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by fragola 10y ago
>I've yet to hear of a horror story of the kind that people tend to raise in the abstract First result on Google: >When Sufiah Yusof was 13 in 1997, she was accepted by Oxford University but left the school in 2001. Although she
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by fragola 10y ago
>Stanley convinced a dean at Johns Hopkins to let Bates, then 13, enrol[sic] as an undergraduate. >“I was shy and the social pressures of high school wouldn't have made it a good fit for me,” says Bates, now 60. “But at college,
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by fragola 10y ago
I am similarly put off by yoga, which as practiced currently is not an "ancient tradition" but a bizarre relic of 19th century Indian nationalism[0] Some people find the woo motivating, but I find it to be a distraction. I want my
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by fragola 10y ago
Agreed on the bullshit. I think this might have something to do with me growing up in a certain hippy town on the California coast, but I couldn't get through this article without a lot of eye-rolling. OK, let's just put the whole
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by fragola 10y ago
Except for the fact that Japan actually has a very low rate of workplace participation for women, I agree with your comment. Feminists actually talk about this a lot, using the term "emotional labor"[0] It is a bit like how the de
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Amazon launching TicketMaster competitor (UK)(tickets.amazon.co.uk)
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by fragola 10y ago
Too much! To me, it doesn't matter how short the meetings are, even a short meeting is disruptive. My new manager is really excellent, though. She has moved all our meetings to Mondays and it is now very manageable.
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by fragola 10y ago
It's not about the money: many of the people complaining are extremely wealthy. It's because they moved to California with an aesthetic in mind. They wanted rambling bungalow houses, palm trees, quiet boulevards, and sunshine. The
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by fragola 10y ago
I think this is basically a competitor to AWS API Gateway: https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
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by fragola 10y ago
This sounds terrible, really! Which makes sense because I do not like Twitch etc. :) The GP is getting downvoted, so I guess a lot of people do enjoy watching games be played instead of playing them. Thank you for providing an explanation.
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by fragola 10y ago
>Anti-psychotics (and benzodiazepines) are bad drugs that make people's mental problems worse. This is not true. Many people are able to live high functioning lives thanks to anti-psychotics, which are sophisticated drugs that are v
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by fragola 10y ago
I don't see how I misread at all. 4x as much time off for the mother vs the father still tips the calculus to the point where it makes sense for employers to discriminate. IMO it's premature to congratulate Sweden's supposed
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by fragola 10y ago
What exactly is wrong with a man wanting to stay at home with the kids? Even if the mom does it during infancy (when, due to breastfeeding and so on, she's arguably a better fit), the dad could take over later, maybe the second year. H
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by fragola 10y ago
Swedish mothers still take four times as much time off as Swedish fathers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.... Despite this, the NYT reports in the article that women&#x2
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by fragola 10y ago
I think a lot of it is that men are freeloading on childcare. Who takes leave when the baby is born? Women. Who is more likely to drop out of the workforce when they have kids? Women. So, as it stands, it's really a better economic dec
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by fragola 10y ago
I know this article is mostly about web development, but if you're interested in writing less Java code I encourage you to consider Lombok: https://projectlombok.org/
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by fragola 10y ago
I did the Alexa Skill tutorial[1] and hosted the skill on AWS Lambda. It was really easy, fun, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to mess around with Lambda. [1] https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/pos
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by fragola 10y ago
My parents believed in "radical unschooling", i.e. they didn't formally teach us anything at all. I had to ask to learn to read. I entered the public school system for high school and did not find myself at all behind. Much o
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by fragola 10y ago
It's a trade-off. There are a lot of reasons to duplicate (faster reads, etc.), with the big drawback being consistency. The duplications are basically caches, with similar pros and cons. I think a good solution is to use something lik
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by fragola 10y ago
>Personally, I would like to make it a requirement of my next job search that if the company does a standup, I'm not taking their offer. I think that's a bit extreme. My current team has a standup that is quite useful. It'
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by fragola 10y ago
I was on a team with tedious, competitive standups. It was horrible and I dreaded it every day. If I kept my contribution to about 1 minute (as it is supposed to be), I would be interrogated. Oh the memories.
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by fragola 10y ago
>One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum, and can end up drowning out the voices of the young. This is actually not true [0] [0] http://economix.blogs.nyt
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by fragola 10y ago
I'm assuming the "rare star with a strong brand" is someone famous outside of the PSO cottage industry (i.e. in films or something). The whole thing reads like someone trying to sell you on a shady MLM.
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by fragola 10y ago
Just talked to my friend who's a former PSO and she said this is a very confused article and, while she supported herself doing it for several years, no one she knew doing only PSO (i.e. without some other prostitution-related side job
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by fragola 10y ago
>Ads are a donation box, not a price tag Well, you're certainly entitled to your own opinion. But realistically, we all consume content that is ad-supported that we might be paying for otherwise. The fact that so many ad-or-pay serv
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by fragola 10y ago
Agreed. There are plenty of studies that attest to the well-being of children who go to daycare.[1] "Home grown tomatoes" may be best when grown by good gardeners (i.e. some people are just better with kids, including their own) a
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by fragola 10y ago
My parents unfortunately did this to my brother. Especially my mom: "oh you're SO handsome/smart/awesome, all the girls will love you, you should go to the best colleges" etc. He is an extremely unpleasant person no
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by fragola 10y ago
>"He will probably be caned" [citation needed] because it looks like they only cane about 2500 people a year, and can't cane people under 16 unless they get tried as adults. I feel like you are exaggerating -- like saying

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