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_j5l3

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    Comment #31855418

    Yeah, I wasn't spending $100/day because I'd buy cheap weed in bulk, look for deals and sales, etc. But if you buy 'irresonsibly' and just pick up like an average eighth from a dis…

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    Comment #31855393

    I can't even roll a joint. Just bong rips all day. And yeah, definitely not a sustainable or healthy habit...I'm ok now, but my career took a permanent hit. Oh well.

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    Comment #31853707

    https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic... > The research shows that genetically it is impossible to prove whether a cannabis plant is an Indica or Sativa. The…

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    Comment #31853355

    At the peak of my own usage, I smoked around an ounce every 3 days while (pretending to be) working from home. $40/eighth + taxes a pretty average price in the Bay Area, so that wo…

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    Comment #31853310

    Take a break before it becomes worse. Get a kSafe and lock all your stuff up for a week or two to shake your brain out. I spent my whole 20s severely addicted to it without even re…

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    Comment #31853274

    > If one more person tries to tell me it's strain It's like telling an alcoholic to try switching from vodka to tequila, because vodka makes you angry and depressed but tequila mak…

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    Comment #31659319

    > Furthermore it seems like anti-democratic behaviour is getting punished now, too, if you look over to Poland. They're saying anti -democratic behavior is being punished, which im…

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    Comment #31279200

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts%27_Associa... vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America Baden-Powell scouting is co-ed, non-religious, and founded i…

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    Comment #31278641

    > L3 to L4 is basically about writing good code on your own, and isn't really affected by promo culture I'm unsarcastically glad that you had a different experience at Google than …

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    Comment #31271646

    > result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work. We…

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    Comment #31264975

    At Google at least, if you stay low level for too long, you get fired. If your team is full of low level people maintaining a project that's stable, you need to invent work to just…

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    Comment #31264865

    > I guess you could switch the process to "promo after N years of not being fired at your current level" but that seems even worse. Ex googler here, and when I was there 4 years ag…

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    Comment #31160080

    > I had to learn this in college, many years ago. I majored in Computer Science and Physics. Which of these disciplines would mergers and acquisitions have been in? Should my algor…

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    Comment #30535674

    > You can just fire people. Not at Google, you can't. Firing someone who's performing abysmally still takes up to 6 months, between all the process and PIPs and paperwork and shit.…

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    Comment #27547860

    Go back to Blind.

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    Comment #24241182

    Former Palantir employee here (left 2016), your description is exactly what it was like when I left. No machine learning or AI phds, just gluing databases together and building a s…

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    Comment #17493536

    Finally, we've discovered the true value of blockchain: Making people learn about fiduciary policy.

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    Comment #8311159

    It's 4*the proportion of points that fall in the circle.

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    Comment #7461318

    It's 4.4% usage rate worldwide. China is 22%.

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    Comment #6923370

    It's not supposed to replace LESS/SASS, it's a supplement. That's why it's a postprocessor, not a preprocessor.

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    Comment #6923327

    I think the idea is that, instead of writing x other style language (SASS, LESS, etc.) that is turned into css, you write css that turns into different css. This means you can use …

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    Comment #6798451

    While I'm all for sticking it to the man, isn't this a legally dangerous thing to do?

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    Comment #6710106

    I'm the same way. I've never understood people who work all day and, at 11pm, casually mention that they haven't eaten since last night. If I even skip breakfast I can't get any wo…