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Reminds me of these microbes stuffed animal. Someone also made an STD version.

http://amzn.to/2BhW7kp

A mitigating factor is professional sports offer amazing retirement benefits.

https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/retirement-benefits-of-p...

Oh good, I'm just down 17% on my TWTR holdings now.

You can get rich on salary. I think a portion of us are making more than 200k, 300k, or even higher in income per year.

Can you please remove the word unsexy from the title? That would make it sound less click baity.

300k is a mind blowing amount of money to most people, but it's also considered nothing to a lot of people. Though I'm impressed someone can make principal consultant in their 20s.

>For instance, he said, simply increasing the salaries of all teachers in a high-need school district won’t have as much of an impact as identifying high-performing teachers and increasing their salaries.

Are there studies about this? What attracts more talent:

a) Pay increase for everyone in an industry. b) Larger pay increases, but limited to the best performers.

That's the beauty of Adams writing. It allows deniability by him and his fans.

haha, Scott Adams cracks me up. Adams blogged about persuasions and writing techniques for years. I learned a lot from reading those posts.

Then he uses the same techniques to promote Trump. Which is fine. People can support whichever candidate. But Adams adamantly denied his support.

The EEOC says the company is responsible for things that happen at company events and on the way to and from events. I'm not a lawyer but I hear lingering after the event qualifies.

I've signed something similar at other companies. Talking about sex work at a regular company is inappropriate. But discussing an article your co worker wrote about sex workers is okay because it's your job to cover vices.

The agreement protects Vice from being sued for the second scenario, but not the first. Though I've encountered employees who interpret it as "anything goes."

People who work on search engines, build family friendly filters, or categorize apps and movies have to deal with porn. But that doesn't mean employees are allowed to watch porn. One story I heard about Bing is that they go to a covered conference room whenever they need to view adult material. A good idea to not expose porn to bystanders.

Me too. I've heard the "he grabbed my hand and to put it on his crotch in public" story before. Did people learn this from porn? Was it done in some John Cusack movie?

Apparently penis in popcorn is a thing and it's from a movie.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=wZs-WoqmLIKOjwO435PoCQ&q=pe...

I wonder if this is the strongest deterrent the government can pass to prevent paying women differently.

I don't know if that's true. Do we have more transparency into Trump's income, businesses, or even taxes after he became president?

Interesting. Is Apple doing this primarily to appease the Chinese government or they care about us consumers?

I suspect Microsoft. I've heard more than one young white person complain they don't want to work with "old" people. I don't think this is a tech thing as much as an American society thing. We are too biased against older age groups.

> I've got 12 different messaging apps on my phone right now and it's not even close to a burden.

This might be a generational issue. I have older relatives who can't use more than one app. If at that. Maybe the people who complain about these things are just bad at discovering other apps and platforms.

It's funny how competing groups rally around terms that sound the same. Terms that carry positive connotations and share common words. "Pro choice" vs "pro life". And now we have "diversity and inclusion" vs "diversity of thought."

update: haha, there's a wikipedia section on this called political framing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_pro-choice_movem...

>Over 800 serial rapists, criminals who have struck 10-15 times without being stopped, were identified. 127 convictions have been made this far.

The definition of serial rapist is 10+ victims. That's a lot of them in one county. o_O

Has anyone seen the scene from SV where Jared is excited after they hired a woman engineer? And Jared expects her to be pals with Monica because both are female?

I feel some of us men behave that way. :(

link to clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY

Happened to me once and drove me nuts. And let me to fight with my housemates. Not worth it.

At my last job, the HR rep considered suing the company for discrimination. So HR isn't even there to help HR.

Microsoft lost a case a few years ago when a female manager made up allegation to get a male employee fired. One of the employees she tried to convince to lie testified. That case may have influenced their decision to extend an offer.

On second thought, more likely that companies just don't care about a single allegation.

I worked at Amazon as an intern in 2005 and recall a talk on fake reviews. There were groups of people who wrote fake positive reviews for each other's books. Today I have friends who sell on Amazon and they write fake reviews for each other's products.

Someone alert Sam Altman!

The "majority" that believe voter fraud is massive and the deep state is real. Have you seen the comments on Trump's facebook posts?

Harvey Weinstein is Jewish. Kevin Spacey is gay. Being X doesn't mean you automatically have empathy for Y. Or even X.

As for the second part, valley employees have gotten in trouble for criticizing "white". Wasn't there an outrage over Github?

Have you seen this clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYRkzznsc0

The man is an elected official in Alabama. Also an idiot and a bigot who think only Christians can be elected to Congress. It's okay to look down on him for being ignorant, but a lot of the comments attack his regional accent. That's not okay.

I'm okay with comedians writing bad jokes or telling them during open mic. Our society is somewhat tolerant of that. Al Franken did get elected after his rape joke was published. Though in hindsight that is an awful example.

But the unreasonable people saying "gay people are evil" are not even pretending to be joking. They have killed.

So I think Sam lacks empathy. Try this thought exercise. Replace the word "gay" in Sam's essay with "white" or whatever group you belong to. How does that make you feel? Would you want to work with that person? How well do you think that will go over in SF, HN, or America?

That's a good question. I live in Seattle and have heard many negatives about Bezos and Amazon culture. Especially from SWEs who have worked at both Amazon and other tech companies. I also have gotten offers from Amazon, and they are on the low end.

I haven't heard complaints about Target. So I could be wrong, but I hope competition includes competition for talent, which means better treatment of employees.

Yes please. I would love an amazon alternative, because I want to support a company that values its employees better. I started by letting my prime subscription expire.