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The backlash actually started sooner than that, and largely due to the excesses of Tim Leary, et al. Michael Pollan's book "How To Change Your Mind" covers it in detail.
A great shame, because psychedelic therapy has so much potential. Just a single data point, but my life was turned around by some formational experiences on LSD and Psilocybin. Glad to see research heating up in this area again.
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I love Oslo! Are you Norwegian? If not, how is it living there as an immigrant/expat?
It is Didi's responsibility to police their platform. If the offending drivers had already been reported multiple times and Didi had not taken action, it clearly indicates passenger safety was not high on their list of concerns.
If you are a predator, bring a driver affords you all kinds of opportunities to prey you people that you otherwise would not have. How often are you going to find a young woman walking in a dark park by herself late at night? Compare that to how easy it is to pick one up as an Didi/Uber driver.
At the end of the day, a ride sharing company's users literally entrust their lives to the company. It is the responsibility of the company to act on a way worthy of that trust. If they don't, it is definitely a reasonable response to #deleteDidi.
If you got a phone screen from Amazon, et al, it means they saw your resume and thought your experience looked interesting. You were not filtered on the basis on your work history.
When these companies rejected you, it was almost certainly because of your interview performance, not your experience. The good news is that you can practice for interviews. There are many resources online. Good luck!
No, I work at one of the companies mentioned in the post. These are typical salaries for devs without exotic specializations.
I've worked with dozens of data scientists and only one had an MBA. He didn't think it helped him get or do his job, and considered it a poor investment.
MS's and PhD's in stats, applied math, physics, computational bio/chem were far more common.
How can you know a seller is telling the truth RE: matters that are hard to validate in an inspection, e.g. terrible neighbors?
EVERYONE who suffers from RSI should read this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269951
I read it about a year ago, and it was probably the single most important article I've read in my entire life.
Some background: I've been using computers since I was a little kid. Used to play videos games a whole ton. Around the age of 15, I started having severe RSI-related pain in my hands. Even after I stopped gaming, I could never get away from the keyboard and mouse, because I was a technology professional.
Fast forward 15 years. I'd been dealing with constant pain every day for as long as I could remember. My hands hurt even when I wasn't typing. It was bad enough that I was considering changing my line of work.
I'd tried every type of medical remedy under the sun. I'd seen (many) doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, etc., but I couldn't find any sort of treatment that provided anything but temporary pain relief.
Through some stroke of incredible luck, I stumbled across this article randomly while looking for something else. I read it and found Aaron's experience closely mirrored mine in a lot of ways. I immediately bought the book he recommended, started reading it on my Kindle, and began following the advice contained within.
Two weeks later, I was almost entirely pain-free. Now a year out, I can type all day without even the slightest twinge of pain. Seem too good to be true? I probably would've said the same thing if it hadn't happened to me.
I will say one thing -- I've recommended this book to a number of people at this point, but not all of them have had the same kind of result I have. I've noticed the ones who really buy into it and become convinced that their pain has a psychosomatic basis see their pain disappear. The ones who still stick to the idea their pain is caused by an previous injury or old age -- those folks don't seem to get much benefit.
I worked at LivingSocial while Hungry Academy was happening. I believe there were about 15-20 students and they were promised jobs with the company if they successfully completed the program.
Most of what I heard about it was second-hand, so my information may not be entirely accurate. That said, I believe the outcome was pretty mixed. Some of the students did very well and ended up becoming respected members of the engineering org. Others were just OK. A few left for other companies shortly after completing the program -- pretty tacky stuff, since LivingSocial PAID them the entire time they were students. I also heard one or two of them didn't pan out at all and were eventually let go.
I think the primary reason LivingSocial chose not to continue the program was because they started running out of money. The first class finished around the time it became clear that daily deals were not going to be the cash cow that everyone expected. LivingSocial saw their valuation drop dramatically, and started being much more careful about how they were spending money.
I left the company about a year after Hungry Academy ended, so I have no idea where these folks are now.