sonjat

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by sonjat 2y ago
I think the thing that can't be talked about is that there are also different levels of grief. It is hard to talk about because any suggestion that one person's grief is worse than someone else's seems to trivialize their pai
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by sonjat 3y ago
I don't know enough about serious psychiatric disorders to comment on if the author is right or wrong, except that I think our society treats complex issues as if they can be solved with simple answers and I suspect that it is the same
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by sonjat 3y ago
I don't know, there's a lot of red flags on his site. "Slowed pace of aging by 31 years": How could one possibly quantify this accurately? Depending on his body weight, a bench press of 240lbs isn't particularly not
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by sonjat 3y ago
You can try working on the Linux kernel, perhaps with the kernel janitors project ( https://code.google.com/archive/p/kernel-janitors/ ). I recommend hanging out on the mailing list a little while to get some
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by sonjat 3y ago
The sad truth is that we just don't know how to treat addiction very well. We don't even define "success" well. Is it sober after 3 months? 6? 1 year? 5 years? 10? Does that still count if one has to continue to get trea
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by sonjat 4y ago
I think men and women just prioritize different things. Men might be willing to "marry down" in terms of finances but are probably less willing to do so in terms of attractiveness. And as a woman with a high-paying job, I would ar
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by sonjat 4y ago
I can't speak towards how other people, particularly minorities or the disabled think, but, as a woman, I hate the unintentional "othering" of people trying to do the right thing. I am typically the only woman at work, and pe
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by sonjat 4y ago
I think I am arguing for a "balance of probabilities". If (to spout off random hypothetical) the punishment is something like a banning of someone from EA conferences, then there definitely needs to be evidence of their misconduct
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by sonjat 4y ago
It's unclear if the issue is EA or how to handle misbehavior in organizations without formal structure or hierarchy. It isn't like a workplace, with reasonably well-defined boundaries, but something more akin to religion, where it
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by sonjat 4y ago
As a woman who finally gave up on twoxchromosomes because I felt is was a bit too toxic I somewhat disagree on it not being toxic. It seemed determined to paint women as perpetual victims of toxic men. Ironically it also seemed determined t
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by sonjat 4y ago
Really we need to start changing terminology. A great deal of these deaths are not overdoses in the sense that people took too much of a drug but poisonings in that people took something they did not intend to take. It might seem like a min
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by sonjat 4y ago
Although I think it is hard to get firm numbers on this, a lot of other drugs are being cut with Fentanyl or outright substituted, including comparatively benign drugs like Xanax. There is a growing movement to classify a lot of fentanyl dr
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by sonjat 4y ago
I think you are being overly negative. Being more concerned with problems we are most familiar with is natural and not at all a "character flaw". Caring more about people we personally know than strangers isn't any kind of mo
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by sonjat 4y ago
A wrapped squat is still a squat. Do heavy knee wraps allow you to squat more? Absolutely. But other than the weight being higher, you squat basically the same with or without wraps. So training in wraps will absolutely help your raw squat
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Ask HN: Developer jobs that help people?
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by sonjat 4y ago
I get that being passionate about a job, bringing all your skills and all you have to a cause you believe in can create a fire. And isn't that a goal of life? To have a fire, a purpose? So kudos to her for finding that. That being said
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by sonjat 4y ago
Part of growing as a software engineer is knowing when things really matter and when things don't. When I first started out, in my mind there was a "right" way to do things (my way of course) and a wrong way. Sure, the wrong
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by sonjat 5y ago
The cost in vaccines isn't just in getting them. One has to take off work (twice) to get them, have transportation to get them, and be able to handle being potentially stuck in bed for 1-2 days after the second vaccine. I believe the l