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iamdbtoo

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    Comment #43700889

    > And this Chief Executive was elected by the majority of the country No, he was not. He was elected by ~30% of the possible voters in this country because most people chose no one…

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    Comment #43593022

    > The problem is that our industry clings to this bizarre ritual where we test for skills that are completely orthogonal to the actual job. I agree. And it's not a good sign for th…

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    Comment #43592956

    And you can say the same for employers that exploit their workers. No one is the villain in their own story.

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    Comment #43592913

    Or maybe it's defensive against an industry who has developed ridiculous hiring practices.

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    Comment #42992810

    I'm currently experiencing this with a Tauri-based app. Nix has been great for us for local dev and service builds, but building an application inside of Nix that needs to run outs…

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    Comment #42673380

    He's making the ecosystem generally unstable and there are a lot of businesses that depend on that stability.

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    Comment #42535360

    > My conclusion is that the market has gotten much worse for people with experience who don't hide being white and male. Really? Mine is that companies value experience less.

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    Comment #42198876

    They aren't censored, though. You can still read their intolerant posts they are just labeled as such. What people really have a problem with here is that they are called out for t…

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    Comment #42194775

    So the victim here is the Babylon Bee and not the trans person they are mocking?

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    Comment #41480541

    One of the defining aspects of addiction is the inability to stop doing the harmful act despite knowing it's harmful.

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    Comment #41115082

    The goal of those policies is to achieve equity, not equality.

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    Comment #40626297

    > The educational institutions meant well, but the students took the wrong message from their accommodations and assumed it was always the world's responsibility to bend to their p…

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    Comment #40052248

    > (who wouldn’t?) Folks who don't want to fund their state from the loss and despair of other people, for one.

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    Comment #39253309

    I think they are claiming the opposite and that autistic people don't lack theory of mind, but that the theory of mind claim is stemmed from their communication impaiarment. I am n…

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    Comment #39237896

    I'm pretty sure the studio is putting up the money for the movie. This seems to be the production budget and does not include whatever his profit participation was.

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    Comment #39113480

    They have to buy the debt in order to forgive it.

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    Comment #38842127

    Possibly. I'm in the US and UberEats is easily the worst offender on my phone. I get multiple notifications a day nudging me to order things.

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    Comment #38783595

    This is not true. There are not enough Scientologists with power in the industry for this to be a real thing.

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    Comment #38690678

    Sorry for the late response, but I don't have any more information about it as it's mostly anecdotal based on my experience. The best explanation I have come up with is the high bl…

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    Comment #38673171

    What's notable to me about this is that he clearly does believe he is sparing no expense because he's shelling out so much money on tech and everything, he just doesn't view human …

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    Comment #38525704

    This is very related to a theory I have that as my blood pressure has gotten higher over the years my ADHD also gets more difficult to manage. Guanfacine has also helped my symptom…

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    Comment #38356958

    I did my last resume in Typst and it was so much better than a Word/Google doc or Latex.

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    Comment #38349425

    > If you don’t like Meta or advertisers having data about you, don’t use Meta’s services! This isn't really practical when Meta collects information about people who don't even hav…

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    Comment #38335293

    > I'd guess that with unlimited vacation time, $0 is paid out. Yes and I believe this policy started at Netflix where they have (had?) higher relative salaries to compensate for th…

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    Comment #38328463

    > These companies have bottom-of-the-barrel moral standards and don't care what one person on Twitter is Tweeting. Advertisers have cared about placement for as long as advertising…