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hotdogscout
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About hotdogscout
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Comment #43758355
You helped me understand a position I never wrapped my head around before. Thank you! I've never made a decision on few points of information, often I know researchers or their out…
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Comment #43753382
Why is this the language they're familiar with? Serial dishonesty?
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Comment #43753342
>Makes it sound like you got fired or something, or that you don’t take it seriously. My background in academia colors me but the level of office politics some describe in the priv…
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Comment #43748566
Pass me the cyanide, these people are ghoulish.
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Comment #43748552
Why is this needed. Nobody acts like this in college, where do people pick up on the eldritch horrors of Corporate behaviour policing?
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Comment #43748535
Seriously why the silly insuffer theater, demonstrating willingness to perform ritualistic sodomy of your ego?
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Comment #43748525
Why are people at their jobs so fatally allergic to honesty?
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Comment #43748518
>“yeah and that job didn’t end very nicely…I’ll just leave it at that.” This is not a good thing to say in a job interview. Do you think this is helping you select better people? I…
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Comment #43134351
That user is talking about university, not grade school. It's undisputable he did badly in university and could not hold himself in academia because of this metric. https://ethz.ch…
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Comment #42647413
the TOS goes further and allows you to call gay people abnormal and mentally ill. "We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientati…
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Comment #40886943
I have a feeling people who love Le Guin love the idea of her and didn't actually read her books. Her style is impersonal, robotic and kind of boring. Look at her most famous quote…
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Comment #40857691
While public health officials may face criminal charges, Nature magazine editors and the team of researchers that were contacted by the Chinese government and lied walked away with…
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Comment #40856588
That doesn't read like science, it reads like an ideological statement. The current punishment for scientific fraud is non-existent and academia is full of it and ideologically dri…
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Comment #40675639
It's what I have, some people are poor. Obsessing over silly details like these can be deceptively tempting procrastination.
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Comment #40665837
It is a cliche antisemitic conspiracy theory, but as an insult it is not used at things that are Jewish but things that are woke. Didn't claim it wasn't antisemitic, it is, a lot!
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Comment #40651305
Degenerate was never used to describe people in a non-hateful context though, even before it became /pol/'s favorite word.
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Comment #40651289
"Goyslop" as an insult is less about anti-semitism and more about how Jews are allegedly injecting anti-white multiculturalism (ex: DEI) in entertainment. So things that are woke g…
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Comment #40648139
The attention market is filled with things that are fundamentally unworthy. It's Darwinism at play not an attempt at science.
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Comment #40648111
>the goal of presentation is not to surprise the audience, or have a clever twist. It's to be plain, open and honest. Sometimes it is. >you're probably being market pitched and wha…
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Comment #40647968
For one the hero's journey includes resenting the call to action. That makes the hero relatable but is not a strategy you can always easily include in a corporate technical talk. "…
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Comment #40641940
As others said, that video bored me and so did the blog post. The hero's journey is not good Framework for a technical talk. Be interesting, create a hook, what do you find interes…
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Comment #40641658
I bet it's the usual double standards the AI one percenters cater to. No sex because apparently it's harmful yet never explained why. No homophobia/transphobia if you're Christian …