jonwithoutanh

Yeah, if that was everyone's experience being bullied no one would care.

My bullies would tackle me, surround me, and kick me while I was down for minutes. Never less then 6 of them at a time. I had 3 concussions from being tackled and having my head smashed against the floor.

They would throw sand into my eyes. I remember not being able to see while being beat. I remember having to wear an eye patch for a week from the abrasions.

They would throw large sticks at me, I have numerous scars from being hit in the face.

They would break my things, I had multiple bikes smashed on the bike rack.

They would steal my things, if I had anything nice in my desk they would steal it when the teacher was out of the room.

They would shove dog shit in my face when they tackled me to the ground in their groups.

They would ostracize me from every other person at school, anyone I tried to talk to would have to ignore me for fear of being beaten up and treated the same. Even those that I was good friends with outside of school felt they couldn't let it be known in school.

I'd have my pants pulled down almost every single day while I was walking in crowds.

I stood up and fought for myself every single time. I never backed out. I always tried to fight back. I was larger then any of them individually. I had my dad take me to Taekwondo from the time I was in grade 2. I started lifting weights in grade 4.

My only recourse was to avoid them. From grade 2 to grade 11 I would pretend to be sick for weeks at a time in order to avoid going to school. Avoidance was my ONLY option, nothing else worked. I would use up every single sick day I could without getting expelled in high school. I'm not even sure about elementary school, they didn't have a max number of days, but I'm sure I missed at least half of every year.

Finally in grade 11 I managed to get the fight to stop by knocking four teeth out of my main bullies mouth and giving him 18 stitches. I was knocked out cold and barely remember the fight.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always work, everyone in this thread that thinks it does is extremely naive.

I'm glad that you punching your bully once solved the problem for you though.

Kinda like how it would be stupid for Russia to engage in a war with Ukraine. They'd never do something that dumb.

Stop simping for putin so hard, it's a bad look bud.

You mean this engagement?

"Ukrainian officials also reported that at least 95% of the city had been destroyed during the fighting, largely by Russian bombardments"

"The United Nations stated it had confirmed the deaths of 1,348 civilians, but said the true death toll was likely thousands higher, and added that 90% of the city's residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed"

I am an artist.

I want my fans to be able to come to my shows.

I sell my tickets at a reasonable price to allow my fans to come.

All the tickets get bought up and resold for prices a large majority of my fans can't afford.

The venue is still full of my fans, but only the wealthy ones, and I have no method to allow my less wealthy fans to be able to come to my shows.

I've also made notably less money that I would have if I sold my tickets at the scalper price.

I am no incentivized to sell at the scalper price permanently removing the ability for my less wealthy fans to attend my show.

You've got to be the most unhinged person I've ever seen write on these forums. Congratulations.

you should be banned

This is all fine and dandy but these people aren't protesting the correct part of the government that has authority to enact the changes they want. That is, if we are talking about mask, and vaccine mandates. They need to protest their provincial governments for those changes.

The Federal demands they have are for our democratic government to resign and instill a dictatorship made up of people of their choosing...

Why the fuck should anyone listen to these people?

Perhaps your technical questions are not adequate enough if someone can sound like a "rockstar" while not being able to program an if statement?

I've interviewed hundreds of people over my career and I've never had an interview where I couldn't figure out their technical abilities through a conversation.

I'll tell you what leetcode interviews do find you though, they find you people that have no idea how TCP/HTTP work, they have no idea how you would debug a distributed system. They've never deployed anything to a server. They probably have no idea how to even measure the amount of work being performed by a server. They've never thought about CI/CD/Deployment/Scalability. They've never used any cloud resources. They have potentially never been through a code review.

etc, etc, etc, etc.

Someone crushing a leetcode test tells me about 1% of the stuff I'd like to know about their knowledge and abilities.

While Canada as a whole has recently seen some small increases to the cost of housing on the back of increasing lumber and labour costs, the country has a whole has remained largely stagnant, even falling in some cases

Kelowna? Calgary? Halifax? Are those places being driven up by farmland demand?

Why not hang out in a video call and hash ideas out on your individual whiteboards? I've done it this way for over a decade and it's been fine for "breaking new ground".

The most productive person I've ever worked with, who was responsible for the biggest initiatives at a previous company worked solo in Hong Kong while the rest of the team was in North America. Never presented an issue. He came up with many innovative ideas in NLP and other ML techniques (not my area). All of his collaboration was over video calls, was never an issue.

Perhaps you are not being inclusive of your remote workers in your brainstorming sessions?

What I hear on HN a lot of the time is a naive belief that unions are an unalloyed good

Where do you read this? It seems to me that every thread about unions is filled with former union members that dislike unions but don't back up their dislike with any information.

I was part of Teamsters Canada for 10 years. I made $25/hr where similar positions at other companies were for $10-$12/hr. Overtime I worked was paid, always, that's literally never happened in software. If we were understaffed, management had to call in extra employees from a staffing firm to bring us to a minimum headcount, no working understaffed. We had guaranteed, mandatory to take, paid time off. When the managers were being idiots, we could tell them such without fear of being fired instantly, the union would back us when the managers were being idiots. Retirement benefits.

That's not to say it was all good though. The union never listened to our shops complaints. They didn't step in for months when things were terribly mismanaged. There was visible grifting by the leadership of the union. They could have done a better job.

That said, without the union, I would have made maybe 50% of the money I did make, the conditions would have been worse, and the chances of fixing things in the workplace would have been reduced.

How can you surrender if they shoot without warning?

All of your examples are of people stealing from richer people via ponzi schemes, echoing his point that you only go to jail for white collar crime if you stole from the real upper class.

I joined the Canadian military 9 years ago. Vaccinations were forced and not optional during TRAINING, let alone after you accept your commission.

When you join you know what you signed up for, you don't get the right to fuck over your unit because you are a dumb ass, too bad so sad.

Canada has had laws against hate speech before c-36, this extends those laws to the internet.

Canada does not have a concept of "free speech", the fuck are you talking about. Canada has a concept of freedom of expression, which has certain limits, such as Hate speech.

I'm so sorry you will no longer be able to call for a genocide against a group you hold prejudices against, boo fucking hoo.

In my experience this isn't a very good take, I've been woke up 50+ times in a 7 night span of on call, that fucking incentivized me to fix the issues. But that doesn't FUCK ALL to the product/sales people that actually direct where resources are spent. If the on call people ACTUALLY get to work on the on call issues, I think on call can work.

But in my experience, every single place I've worked, has had insane on call hours. And you were ALWAYS expected to do your normal work on top of the on call hours and you were NEVER given time to fix the issue that woke you up in the middle of the night.

Until the actually engineers/developers are in charge of their own schedules on call shifts will be fucking bullshit.

But that's not really true, for example reddit has a massive amount of porn and yet none of the reddit apps get banned.

It's not that simple. Epic provides a FHIR API but if you try and use it you'll see that they do not adhere to the spec at all. And each different EHR provider that I attempted to interface with through FHIR all had different, broken, implementations of the spec.

How would you suggest he press the people he's talking to that are outward lying to his face?

Would it be fair for cisgender woman to compete in strength sports against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janae_Kroc?

Do you truly believe that this person would have no advantage competing against cisgender woman? I think most people would be able to see the obvious advantage Janae gained from formerly being a male.

The article says a single fund spent $100,000. Where are you getting "tens of millions" from exactly?

I made a similar move in BC and went from ~60k CAD a year to ~170k CAD. It's tougher work for the American start up but the pay differential is too big to not take advantage of. I feel like I'm throwing years of my life away to work if I work for a Canadian company.

The work is remote, I still live in the same place, but I've increased my income by 3x, I don't see how I could justify staying with a Canadian company.

so no?

Nominated in November 1987 and confirmed in February 1988. The spot wasn't vacant for 18 months once a reasonable candidate was nominated.

But why should that return results for Venus Fly Traps? You are search verbattim for the sentence "What's the name of the plant that that eats flies?". I'd say it's a bug to return any result that doesn't have that specific sentence.

If you were searching that sentence without the quotations I could get behind it return Venus Fly Traps results, but if you are using the double quotes you are trying to search for that EXACT string.

You paint an incredibly unfair picture with your comment.

British Columbia shutdown hard and fast, controlled the disease well, and has daily case numbers in the single digits.

Ontario fucked everything up, had massive spread in their care homes, and still has hundreds of cases a day.

fucking racist.