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by insightcheck 3y ago
I had the same fear too growing up. I found peace with it and stopped thinking about for many years until now, when I realized that practically it wouldn't affect my waking life if it actually did happen, if I had no memory of it at al
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How to spot cult leader personalities(sashachapin.substack.com)
61 points by insightcheck 3y ago|54 comments
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All editors have resigned over high publication fee, starting new journal [pdf](imaging-neuroscience.org)
4 points by insightcheck 3y ago|1 comments
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The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)(geekstravelinjapan.wordpress.com)
86 points by insightcheck 3y ago|97 comments
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by insightcheck 3y ago
I appreciated the quote from your article that: "Based on information from insiders, Google’s coding competitions engaged more than 300,000 software engineers external to Google, annually. These coding competitions assisted in the hiri
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The restaurant could lose out on sales from customers who are dissatisfied with a lack of a physical menu, especially many older people who are not as comfortable using technology or don't even have a data plan. The restaurant could al
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> The problem is that time value is extremely relevant. If it takes 10-20 years for consequences to catch up, the person is likely to have already built up an unassailable lead that the consequence barely dents. I largely agree with you:
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by insightcheck 4y ago
To add another piece of evidence, while previous poster noted that the initial response by police officers on January 6 seemed less violent than they could have been (though even then, one person was shot and killed), the US Department of J
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It sounds like this is a difference in personal values. You can certainly assess the morality of one’s work based on its methods, but it’s also valid to assess the morality based on outcomes. On outcomes: You framed building things and crea
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by insightcheck 4y ago
To the contrary, I think paulcole made a great point. It doesn’t need to be weapons. A programmer who makes a social media feed more addictive isn’t necessarily moral. But a salesperson/marketer can promote something generally seen as
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It looks like direct messages may also be buggy at present, according to a couple of anecdotes on r/Twitter at: https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/z1b4zc/cant_sendre...
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I sometimes wonder about whether personalised teaching as a young student is overall good or bad, for students who then move on to a university with very large, impersonal classes (e.g. with more than 1000 students per class). On the one ha
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I heard that if you studied math with applications to computer science, you can find great opportunities with technology too (if not moving to the US for places like Google, there are quantum computing startups like Xanadu in Canada, along
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I completely agree, but I think most people who arrive at this perspective only reach this view after spending time in industry or adjacent to people working there. A lot of the focus on tenure track jobs comes from professors and academics
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> “You give up salary for huge amounts of autonomy.” I heard otherwise from a staff scientist at a university in biological sciences, though I’m not sure how representative his view is. He said that non-professors lack research autonomy,
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by insightcheck 4y ago
I’m much more junior, but to exchange anecdotes, I think it’s difficult to accurately say that people in FAANG are less, equal, or more intelligent than people in aerospace. To define intelligent, I will use the everyday definition that mix
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by insightcheck 4y ago
People regularly get treated differently due to their race. Effects happen when applying to jobs and also interactions during traffic stops. From Canadian research for the first [1]: "Job applicants with English-sounding names have a g
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Thank you greatly for sharing and updating with examples and context, though I would like to gently suggest an alternative to one piece of wisdom. > “17. Self praise stinks! From my mother when I did my touchdown dance after building s
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by insightcheck 4y ago
This may not be an accurate worldview of mine, but I've actually completely given up trying to apply to jobs that have application portals/likely keyword filters (though I may be willing to if I search for public sector work in th
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by insightcheck 4y ago
But as I also wrote, at least one occurrence of this in a resume is still a good signal that the candidate understands what a hiring manager is looking for, and also signals that the candidate isn't totally junior. If a candidate is to
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "Experienced software architect with a proven track record of delivering high quality and performant blah blah blah" What's wrong with that? Each part of the phrase sounds like something an experienced developer should s
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Anonymous speech is important for anti-corruption. The Washington Post's Watergate investigation would not have taken place without the anonymous sourcing by "Deep Throat."
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Slack also lets users easily make a group chat. In my experience, backed up by [1], Discord requires you to "Friend" members of the group chat before it lets you create the chat (requiring the user to send out a friend request, th
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by insightcheck 4y ago
> "he will do things like deliberately spell some words British and others American to make it harder for peers to figure out who the paper is from." This is a good initiative, but a catch is that if he's the only person d
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Could be more different. In less tech-focused communities, the migration that follows a forum closure goes to Facebook groups instead of subreddits, and Slack channels instead of Discord.
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by insightcheck 4y ago
Haha, it's possible that the author was making a half-joke, with the self-awareness that nearly no one's weekend is truly like that. Though, if you do want a weekend like that at least once (hors d'œvre at least, maybe dancin
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by insightcheck 4y ago
This is just a guess, but probably various subreddits and Discord servers. It's probably not the same because the platforms are very different, but people will find new platforms even if the conversation changes due to different forum&
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by insightcheck 4y ago
The White House's official position is that the NBER's definition is the official one. From their website [1]: "What is a recession? While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession
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by insightcheck 4y ago
You can learn about this on a post on GitHub about much (but not all) of HN's undocumented behavior [1]: "All comments start with a score of 1 point (but in order to prevent bandwagoning, the comment score is not visible to users
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by insightcheck 4y ago
It doesn't seem that there are many software development positions (which is relevant for many users here) in the (assuming US) army or military in general.

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