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by gyardley 7y ago
Positive, but every situation is unique. You're welcome to send me an email if you've got specific questions.
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by gyardley 7y ago
You're feeling what you're feeling because you're trying to treat your mental health issues yourself, and your mental health issues are interfering with your attempt at treatment. Instead of trying to self-treat, you really s
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by gyardley 7y ago
I've used https://www.usglobalmail.com/ for years. You could always forward your mail to a friend or relative, which I've also done, but whatever you do, get an address in a state without personal income tax. You
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by gyardley 8y ago
The problem that I have with scooters is that I can't push my baby's stroller down the street five blocks without running into one left flopped in the middle of the sidewalk. I can't imagine what people in wheelchairs are goi
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by gyardley 9y ago
I would spend all day every day hanging out with and taking care of my baby boy - pretty much what I do now, but with a lot more poignancy.
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by gyardley 9y ago
While good advice in general, I'm not sure this applies in the Portland restaurant market. Renard was pretty boring - good French food, but the same food you've eaten at a dozen other French restaurants - and that, for me, was i
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by gyardley 9y ago
I'm guessing you just don't follow local restaurant news (Renard's opening got quite of coverage because it was in St. Jack's old space) or live in that neighborhood. Portland's a pretty local place. I walk by where
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by gyardley 9y ago
Human behavior being what it is, I don't know why we'd be surprised when people who know the pain of rejection are happy to inflict that pain on others.
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by gyardley 9y ago
Reach out, either through a respected intermediary or directly, to CEOs of companies that are about to need executives but haven’t made a bunch of external executive hires yet. Get on their radar before they start their recruitment process.
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by gyardley 9y ago
It’s usually because not doing the task has very real negative consequences and due to the sexist nature of modern society the consequences fall most heavily on Alice, not on Bob. Don’t buy the nephews birthday cards? The relatives think ba
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by gyardley 9y ago
Judging by the remarks on this thread, not many of you are interested - but those of you who are may find this compiled PDF of a Metafilter thread valuable: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUta
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by gyardley 9y ago
In my experience communication happens again and again and again over a period of years until the woman gives up in exasperation and just seethes silently. It's hard to get someone to engage in emotional labor (or as I like to call it,
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by gyardley 9y ago
Differentiating hyperbole from actual Nazis is pretty trivial.
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by gyardley 9y ago
Slippery slope arguments like the one in the article are so tiresome. It's perfectly possible to deny service to Nazis without it snowballing into a problem for the rest of society. After all, plenty of nations have had anti-Nazi laws
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by gyardley 9y ago
Yes, it would be nice to see the raw data, but note that they've bucketed Level 1 through Level 6 employees, and have still found gender discrepancies. Are you suggesting that different jobs might occupy the same level but have widely
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by gyardley 9y ago
This entire thread is a great example of how many if not most Canadians will passionately defend any old goofy policy, as long as it's different from how the Americans do it. I've lived in a variety of American states as well as O
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by gyardley 9y ago
You know how sometimes when you're looking at an old codebase, where all the developers who've written it have moved on to other jobs, you see a little bit of code that doesn't seem to make sense? And then you remove that cod
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by gyardley 9y ago
As a Canadian citizen married to an American - would voluntarily abandoning your permanent residency (say, to live in your home or a third country for a few years) make it more difficult to re-obtain permanent residency in the future?
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by gyardley 9y ago
You also are smart enough to understand that socioeconomic disadvantages are orthogonal to racism and sexism and that your 'poor white dudes' would have an even harder time of things if they were, say, black women. Seriously, cut
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by gyardley 9y ago
Dude, come on. Pointing out that racism and sexism has made things harder for people that aren't white and male is not the same thing as being racist and sexist yourself. I know you are smart enough to be able to appreciate this differ
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by gyardley 9y ago
Hell, no. I know I've been lucky. I also know that while I was lucky, I wouldn't have been in a position to be lucky if I hadn't made some good decisions. I didn't just sit back and wait to be lucky. The way to maximize
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by gyardley 9y ago
Of course I'm not saying 'they should not be allowed to'. I'm not quite sure how you'd get that. I'm saying that their deep obsessiveness, and issues relating to being deeply obsessed, makes their organization
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by gyardley 9y ago
'Coding in your spare time' isn't quite as extreme as having no life outside of tech. Hey, I code a bit in my spare time too, so let me clarify. It's the people who don't do anything else but code that I've, in
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by gyardley 9y ago
No, it doesn't. It makes you one-dimensional and particularly poor at building products for others unlike yourself. The sooner the tech industry realizes that this sort of person is not an asset and that having too many of them around
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by gyardley 9y ago
The idea that you've got to be some sort of obsessive wretch with no life outside of tech in order to successfully fill a role at a tech company is nothing but a pernicious myth. So is the idea that you've got to be some ridiculou
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by gyardley 9y ago
You're not the intended audience for the article. There's plenty of people for whom it's not at all obvious - in particular, people who're being sold educational materials and courses so they can get those big tech salar
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by gyardley 10y ago
I felt exactly like you until my baby boy was born. Now Instacart and I are pals. In a while, when schlepping him around isn't such a production and I'm back to an appropriate amount of sleep, I'll probably start going to the
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by gyardley 10y ago
Just the one will suffice for Thiel. This is the guy, after all, who spent his time making "you can't take him literally" arguments about the same policies Trump is pushing forward in his very first week.
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by gyardley 10y ago
I'm having trouble seeing how your parents' net worth is relevant here. If you're interested in AI, you get a job with an AI company or you study AI in school, same as anybody else. I'm guessing that none of that sounds
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by gyardley 10y ago
Perhaps Google doesn't want to encourage this sort of behavior. The interview's supposed to, in theory, hint at future performance as an employee - too many intensive study guides used by too many candidates, and it'll just e

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