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unbroken··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)
Primarily interested in working for a product company, as opposed to consultancy work.

Location: San Juan, PR

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Angular, React, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Dapper, SQL Server

Résumé/CV: https://mooseburger.github.io/files/carlos_ramirez.pdf

Email: carlosfabianramirez@gmail.com

unbroken··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
The trick is to keep that going in the longterm. I did manage to lose that amount of weight in the same amount of time as well, but ended up gaining it back in under 5 years, which I hear is the fate of most people who lose weight.
unbroken··on Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
There's a nice substack I found that is precisely about this problem and wider variations of it, that is, the problem of figuring out numbers that actually tell you something about the universe:

https://desystemize.substack.com

unbroken··on OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]
I love The Darkness that Comes Before, where this observation is explored and exploited, in case you have not read it.
unbroken··on The Bullshit
You think there are "vast secret legions of domestic terrorists flashing one another the OK sign in shadowy parking lots behind Bass Pro Shops experiencing “temporary” inflation"?

> alt-right Yeah. I think the woke are done. No one actually likes or agrees with them, it's all just preference falsification.

unbroken··on How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success
I would argue you can just read this: https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakr...

Advaita Vedanta is rather similar to Taoism.

unbroken··on RPG.net bans posts in support of Trump
1. Conservatives and even Trump supporters don't want that. 2. Thanks for pushing normal people even further to the right.
unbroken··on RPG.net bans posts in support of Trump
The state of discourse online is such because of the Culture War, and the Culture War predates Trump, and possibly caused Trump to be elected in the first place. The current phase of the Culture War began with universities getting creative with their definitions of "bigotry", "white supremacy", "racism", and "sexism". The worldview promulgated there eventually percolated to the mainstream and is a massive driver of the ongoing cultural conflict.
unbroken··on Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'
> If I'm in a meeting and stop someone from ruling out a potential candidate because of skin color, did I harm their culture?

How could you possibly know the candidate is being ruled out for skin color?

unbroken··on Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'
As far as I can tell, unconscious bias has fallen victim to the replication crisis.

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-...