MollyR

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If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice to other women developers. Take the money from silicon valley, then run to a cheaper place to live. Invest it well, and relax.

ex. Buy a duplex, and rent one part of it out to pay your bills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— Confucius

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Comment · 8 years ago
Passion is the biggest red flag from a company to me. It often means we want to work you to exhaustion.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't like how they buried what I consider the lede.

"For the authors of this article, each negative story is overshadowed by dozens of positive experiences, where someone went out of their way to offer support, provide opportunities, and encourage us."

I think this matters to encouraging both women and men. Yes, jerks exist. Sometimes its good people having bad days, some people are monsters hiding under a veneer (ex Hollywood's Weinstein).

We need to stop dehumanizing each other, and understand all humans have the full expanse of positive and negative emotions.

Most people in technology are not bros, sjws, ceos, and whatever.

They are just people trying to get by.

Comment · 8 years ago
Its for warlords.
Comment · 8 years ago
In our highly globalized world. A civil war in China, India, Europe, Russia, or America is almost guaranteed to spill out due vast amount of global resources already being fought over in light skirmishes, proxy wars, and shows of power at various borders.

In China's specific case, India and China are fighting over borders. China and the US (allies) are running into issues over resources in the South China Sea. Also Russia and the US both are increasingly their navy presence in the Pacific. It's a powder keg waiting to go off for sure.

Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe in the western cultures, but I've been hearing variations of the "nail that sticks out gets hammered down" from my korean family for a long time.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is quite true, and Facebook knows it. I thought it was the reason they bought Instagram.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think President Trump proved people are lying to pollsters more than ever. Also Americans lie about guns quite a bit. I've even meet some who don't consider handguns as real guns or call them baby guns.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm really hopeful for this and things like beyond meat, anything that will reduce of the misery and suffering of the animals we eat.
Comment · 8 years ago
My big fear is in our rush to optimize labor/workers for computer science we will make them obsolete soon like most of the other workers in the face of automation and ai.

I feel good about what technology can do, but not for the next generation of computer science or tech workers.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not advocating for random people with guns, but law enforcement officers.

>There are others where there have been plenty of armed security around, even police, and it's done nothing to stop things.

Just because a small number of bad cops haven't done their job, doesn't I mean I think we get should get rid of all cops.

Comment · 8 years ago
I gave a realistic solution for the united states, One that I have personally seen work.

You will not be able to do a gun grab without a civil war or extreme violence in the united states.

Comment · 8 years ago
It should be a 100%. They also need to get armed security.

My alma mater had its own police force, and it was really helped. It reduced not just shootings, but violent crime in general.

EDIT: Also the FBI needs to be investigated. Apparently they were warned several times about that Florida shooter. It's just utterly unbelievable, Wray should be fired, and a special counsel set up to investigate this unbelievable failure. Ex. The Fbi said it couldn't verify the shooter, who used his own name on youtube with death threats. Unbelievable!

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