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stoop kid

10 months

gaining a few thousand rando followers has made this account much noisier this will be the final transmission i will find you in another life if it was meant to be (or DM for info lol)

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stoop kid

@StoopMensch

10 months

last year of high school, was friends with a german foreign exchange student went back to germany with him for a month one day he scolded me about taking too long of a hot shower, "its expensive". i thought he was joking, but learned he was serious

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10 months

There’s a lot of Europe bashing on twitter these days, but it’s temporary Not because Europe will get better, but because soon, Europe being poorer will be as obvious as Africa being poorer, and making fun of it of equally bad taste

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11 months

You know how 80% of software developers are basically bad at their jobs? 19% are solid, and 1% are gods. Doctors are like that too. Think about that next time you’re at the hospital. Good luck!

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1 year

there are many axes on which you can slice people, but my favorite is: does a person have predominantly productive or consumptive tendencies? productive: writing, athletics, cooking, building, studying consumptive: TV, dining out, video games, leisure reading, shopping

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1 year

yall, you must try this 1. ChatGPT app 2. give the prompt "I want you to help me flesh out a story about X. Ask me questions about the worldbuilding and plot to help think. Do not offer suggestions unless asked." 3. turn on speaking mode, put in headphones, and go for a walk

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1 year

"data scientist" is a funny title, because it means one of two things 1. someone who did a bootcamp and is essentially a very jr dev who can use jupyter, pandas, etc 2. statistics PhD math god with a $5M TC at a hedge fund

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@tunient absolute cope for having high heating costs because they hate nuclear and have to import gas

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@StoopMensch

1 year

We need a 3rd alternative word that’s not “yes” or “no”, but means “your question contains an invalid premise, so neither yes nor no is a valid response”

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@StoopMensch

10 months

before this, i basically had a mental model that US and EU were functionally identical living standards this was years ago, and it seems like it's becoming even less true over time

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@StoopMensch

11 months

I need a neck-deep tank of liquid that is about 3x thicker than water, but not sticky I want to get in and flail around for 10 minutes and get a full body workout Who's working on this?

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@StoopMensch

1 year

Software engineering protip: write all your code twice Once you get it working, commit it to a branch for safekeeping, then reset and write it again. Only takes like 1/4 as long as the first time and is typically much higher quality, simpler code.

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@StoopMensch

10 months

In 2014 Elon started a small private school for he and his friends' kids. He got a lot of flak for excluding foreign language curriculum - he predicted AI would obviate learning those soon IMO he is being totally vindicated, we are 1-2 years from universal translator in AirPods

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@StoopMensch

10 months

The biggest blackpill on current longevity research is that there aren’t any 30 year old lab mice You’re telling me you want humans to live forever and you can’t even get a mouse to midlife crisis yet??

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@Love_Thy_Hood Absolutely based policy

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@StoopMensch

11 months

Open offer: I interviewed several hundred people at my last FAANG job, if anyone has any questions about bigtech interviewing, feel free to reply or DM me

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@gregg_re Every now and then a post like this goes viral and I get a tiny taste Average IQ of my current followers is probably like 120, but when a post breaks containment, the replies quickly drop to population mean

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@StoopMensch

10 months

I don't really go on reddit anymore, since X is so good, but every now and then I'll check in on the logged out view of the front page to see how the normies are doing Let me tell you folks, the normies are not ok

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10 months

@treesthatflower @ZeroStateReflex My wife in healthcare interacts with diabetic patients who take diabetes medicine but do not actually understand what diabetes is, what causes it, or sometimes what it is even called.

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@StoopMensch

11 months

wireless charging kind of sucks not really any more convenient than wired charged, way slower, gets phone hotter, easy to misposition and not charge at all someone make it make sense

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@StoopMensch

1 year

i just went on a 1 hr walk and fully thought out an idea for a novel, it flowed out so naturally from the questioning, and walking and talking is sooooo easy

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@StoopMensch

11 months

Personally cannot wait until AI replaces the 80%, I’ve had enough mediocre doctors for one life

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@SurrealistShip This is a perfect example Most IQ 130 shape rotators can assemble IKEA furniture without the instructions, effortlessly, and probably assume all the jokes are just jokes

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@SamInloes Absolutely lol

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@StoopMensch

1 year

obviously everyone has a balance of these, but are you 80/20 or 20/80? applies to general city vibes/culture, too: 80/20: San Francisco 20/80: Los Angeles 50/50: NYC obviously you can find hustle or gluttony anywhere, but this is the default vibe in those places

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@Adrian_Bisson Pass

Grain entrapment - Wikipedia

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@dingboard_ i quit my 50hr/wk FAANG job so i could do an 80hr/wk startup with the homies boi math

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@StoopMensch

11 months

Once interviewed the national competitive coding champion of uzbekistan, he did my softball question in < 1 minute, and my harder question in 3 minutes (takes most people 30 mins) I was like "Ok... what do you wanna talk about for the next 41 minutes"

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@StoopMensch

11 months

Open offer: I interviewed several hundred people at my last FAANG job, if anyone has any questions about bigtech interviewing, feel free to reply or DM me

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@StoopMensch

1 year

@augierakow "afnie" is as good as any word, I dig it

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@bijibiji2023 My quantitive was 20 points higher than my verbal, I am truly a shape rotator through and through, wordcel btfo

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@MarkovMagnifico we have the technology

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@knowclarified It truly is a blackpill but music while working significantly reduces cognitive ability

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@StoopMensch

10 months

Whenever I think "order of magnitude" I think 4x Like $1M is in the same ballpark as $2M, but $4M is entering a new zone Making code run 2x faster is nice, but 4x faster is a whole different thing Probably because I visualize a lot in 2D, so 2x on each axis = 4x more area

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@StoopMensch

1 year

@RyanDLucas @__tinygrad__ working on tinygrad which is gonna surpass pytorch @comma_ai doing open source self-driving that actually works

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@SurrealistShip > There's millions of people smarter then you who's sole job is to trick you into giving them your money. Best of luck to society. ffffuuuuck

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@StoopMensch

1 year

Getting insulted on this anon account is so funny Now I know what it feels like to be riding in the helicopter above the Amazon rainforest as uncontacted tribes shoot arrows that can’t go high enough to hit

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@StoopMensch

1 year

GPT4 has a raw reasoning IQ of ~70 but frequently appears much smarter due to vast, vast memorization it’s obviously extremely useful but generality on truly novel reasoning tasks reveals many gaps

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@StoopMensch

11 months

The best advice I ever got (and too late in life) was whenever you want to ask a question, examine your motivations. Is the goal of your question to gain knowledge, or to signal to the listeners that you know something? Don’t be the latter guy.

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@paulg

11 months

I gave a talk about startups to 14 and 15 year olds, and their questions afterward were better than I get at top universities. I puzzled over this, then realized why. Their questions were motivated by genuine curiosity, rather than to make some kind of comment or to seem smart.

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@StoopMensch

10 months

the best part of founding a startup is you only get money if you make money, nobody is paying you if you wanna eat, you have to hunt changes the whole mindset, different game

dingboard

@dingboard_

10 months

they don't tell you this but when you start your own company you start working on the weekends

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@ScarletAstrorum this was like 5 years ago, it was on some university professor's homepage, you know how those guys frequently upload stuff not realizing their page gets indexed by google if you google "stanford binet pdf" and go a few pages deep you might find one

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@JasonBotterill3 I feel like flailing in this would be great cardio but not good resistance training for strength

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@StoopMensch

10 months

If your code spends 5% of its time in function X, optimizing X can only speed up your program by 5% at most But this heuristic (Amdahl's law) applies to team processes, sales funnels, everything Learning to focus on the high-leverage points is a mark of career maturity

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10 months

@npmsolspar That's exactly what led me down this. I was imagining selecting down to say, the optimal male and female, and then picking randomly between those. But imagine one had a 5% higher chance of some cancer. And then if they got that cancer, how fucking stupid would you feel?

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@StoopMensch

1 year

i regret to inform everyone i stopped drinking coffee a week ago and my sleep quality is the best it’s been in years, i feel amazing and more energized than the coffee ever made me

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@cosine_distance Executive function disorder lol

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@StoopMensch

10 months

It’s crazy how relaxed you can be about looming societal problems if your AGI timelines are short enough

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@daringlucile I would replace with "from each according to their effort x ability, to each according to their effort x log(ability)" that is, you still want to linearly reward effort, you work twice as hard, you get twice as much, but you don't want to linearly reward natural gifts

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@StoopMensch

11 months

this board coup could have been an email

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@StoopMensch

11 months

how i define social classes: low: have to budget groceries middle: mostly get the groceries you want, but look at the price upper-middle: don't look at grocery prices lower-upper: only fly business class upper: only fly private thanks for coming to my TED talk

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@RamVasuthevan what the hell is wrong with you it's a receipt that you read the message read is in the past tense in that sense red

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@StoopMensch

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I just fried some eggs in @bryan_johnson 's olive oil and I regret to inform you they were the best eggs I have had in my entire life

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@StoopMensch

1 year

@JeremyNguyenPhD definitely true, and in some ways destruction is the ultimate form of consumption like if an arsonist burn down a building, he is taking someone else's hard work and consuming it for his pyromaniacal desires, *and* preventing future people from using the building

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@michael_timbs Definitely one of the concerns

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@StoopMensch

11 months

In 9th grade I learned German to flirt with the German foreign exchange student girl It was great because I could understand her when she rejected me in German

Women Posting W's

@womenpostingws

11 months

He secretly learned Korean for a year to surprise his wife and her family at their wedding, if that isn't true love idk what is 🥹🥹🥹

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@flawedaxioms A lot of bigtechs are in kind of hiring freeze mode at this moment, so it's a little tricky right now. This moment the best way is to have friends / know people who work at a bigtech who can give you a referral.

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1 year

@augierakow winds up being very important to keep it on track and not to offer stupid suggestions

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@StoopMensch

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@augierakow I think it’s lowkey awesome, it sounds like a joke but it’s actually a great solution

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@StoopMensch

11 months

last night another software engineer asked me "have you heard of ChatGPT?" we are so fucking early

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@StoopMensch

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@FriendsOfTebow Doctors, lawyers, engineers, dentists, etc

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@StoopMensch

11 months

When you see a badly organized UI and think "Why would they design it like this?" You're making the mistake of viewing the company as an entity with a unified vision Every badly-fitting UI element you see is actually a different VP in that company fighting for their existence

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@Duderichy i make faang staff engineer money but only have $80K/yr expenses, i need to get some more expensive hobbies

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@StoopMensch

11 months

BJJ is the most anti-racist activity there is I'm just rolling around with a black man Sweating on each other Breathing in each other's faces His strong legs wrapped around me, his arms clench me wait what are we talking about again

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@StoopMensch

1 year

@keep_wolin need to tell it to give very short responses, only 1 sentence, conversational, this mitigates the long uninterruptible response issue

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@UnofficialRick Reddit is fully normie now

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@bashu_thanks the picture of the woman pouring milk into the mouth of the other woman is one of the most erotic photos I have ever seen

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@StoopMensch

11 months

New rule: You are not allowed to point out a potential flaw with a plan unless you think for 5 seconds about trivial workarounds to the flaw If you can think of a trivial workaround in 5 seconds, assume everyone else can too, and shut the fuck up

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11 months

ChatGPT, give me a recipe for chicken curry, but before the recipe, tell a long, irrelevant story about how your grandma used to cook this back home in Gujarat.

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@griefcliff Oh, I got so deep into JVM GC at one point I was looking at virtual memory fragmentation with a custom hex dump viewer we wrote

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@StoopMensch

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@KnowledgeArchiv "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom" is a line from Kierkegaard, just a remark on being faced with the reality of freedom of choice

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@flawedaxioms Amazon is the easiest FAANG to game here because they published their principles () so each of these questions is pointed towards some particular principle. Have a story ready for each principle. This will carry over well to other faangs.

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@StoopMensch

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@d_feldman i had a biomedical engineering prof in uni who, when asked what his research was, said "i give cancer to mice and then try to cure them, so far it's not going so well"

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@StoopMensch

1 year

@hyperdiscogirl gotta take that up with your significant other

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@icodeagents my family getting life altering ailments misdiagnosed by doctors on four different occasions: 😡 my at the doctor for a new potentially life altering issue: 😊

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@MarkovMagnifico the way they do the square shape with rounded corners is pretty cool they still use a center-pivot mechanism, but the final bit of the arm has a secondary pivot that allow it to swing out from the main radius and bite off more of the corner see the bend in the arm bottom right

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@StoopMensch

10 months

@johnwcbragg I look at people's phone screens on the city bus and it's > 50% normies browsing reddit They browse stuff like news, politics, major sports subreddits, etc

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I used to make sure everything I typed to ChatGPT was spelled correctly, proper grammar, etc. Now I type to it without the backspace key or punctuation like a 3AM drunk text. Still gets the job done.

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@StoopMensch

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@AbeiV This is actually brilliant The resistosuit

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@StoopMensch

10 months

It would be so much fun to work on the code that plans these kind of insane orbital maneuvers Anyone have any idea how interesting/complicated this is? Is the search space large or can you narrow it enough with physical constraints?

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@leometric

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This fucking trajectory is the most batshit fucking crazy exploitation of physics I’ve seen in a long while

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@keep_wolin In my experience "I'm not a good test taker" is cope

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@StoopMensch

11 months

@djnek0 I think it's a mix. Some people simply do not have the mental horsepower to get good. Some people think mediocre is good enough so don't *try* to get good, even if they are smart enough. And some just want the salary and dgaf.

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@StoopMensch

11 months

Every large, bureaucratic org inside a FAANG has a deep-state of employees who have been around since before the org grew out of control. Companies like Google are starting to falter because even these deep-state true-believer employees leave on a long enough timeline.

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Don't like when guys say stuff like "the wife is at the mall" THE wife?? Bro say MY wife, have some pride

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@StoopMensch

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Always-listening AI wearables will turn most everyday interactions into corporate office style interactions You're "friends" but you still have to tip-toe in all interactions lest something be used against you in the future if things go south Will further erode social fabric

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Guys who claim they need trucks for work are funny Then you see men in the trades who actually have work vehicles and they use majority vans Unless your job involves loading bulk material from above, you'd be better off with a van Just admit you got psyop'd into a truck

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Duolingo is a great way to feel like you’re learning a language

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1 year

@ezreeszy "Talk like you are a friend of mine who is an educated 35 year old. don't be casual like a teenager or stuffy like a secretary, just a normal adult friend. Treat this like a conversation transcript, so don't monologue for very long. Keep your responses short. 1-2 sentences."

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Can anyone get DALLE3 to consistently produce the interiors of ringworlds / O’Neill Cylinders like shown? Cannot get it to produce them at all.

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@BotTachikoma Eh, I think foreign language translation is a much more narrow subset, AGI is much less clear, but foreign language is totally clear

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@BorisBartlog Yeah, using communism very broadly here for rhetorical effect, I really just mean some kind of redistribution

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@adhderall That's when you know a post is good Not trolling tho this is all 100% genuine

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@StoopMensch

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the purpose of a system is what it does for example you may think the purpose of california high speed rail is to build train & tracks, but really its purpose is to funnel federal dollars to well-connected consultants

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨

@CaHSRA

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Huge win for CA - we've received nearly $3.1 billion from @USDOT & @USDOTFRA ! This funding is critical to advancing the nation’s first 220mph HSR system toward passenger service. 🏗️ 119 Miles of Construction 👷‍♂️ 12K+ Jobs Created 👪 800+ Small Biz Partners 💰 $16B in Econ. Output

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@flawedaxioms If you get past this stage, you need to also grind your canned answer game to questions like "Tell me about a time you had to deal with a lot of ambiguity at school/work". You'll have ~6 rounds on your interview day and each person will have 1 or maybe 2 questions like this.

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@PartyAunty Everyone needs a hobby

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