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  1. Comment on How have you changed over the course of your life? in ~talk

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    I grew up with a religious family, so I kind of got taught stuff like creationism, evolution is a hoax, some racist stuff, some homo/transphobia. I kind of bought into creationism, I don’t...

    I grew up with a religious family, so I kind of got taught stuff like creationism, evolution is a hoax, some racist stuff, some homo/transphobia.
    I kind of bought into creationism, I don’t remember ever believing the other stuff though...

    I moved away for some time when I was 19. I started thinking for myself more and I kind of came to terms with not agreeing with my family on an any of those values...
    I would party a lot, get drunk like 5 times a week (I was backpacking and my family was against alcohol and drugs). Later I smoked weed daily for a few months... after my backpacking trip I stopped smoking and I barely drank anymore. (I don’t think I ever had an issue with drinking, we were just backpacking so we partied often)
    Another huge change in my life was starting to study.
    Now I am 27 and I maybe had like 1 drink in the last year. And I smoked weed once since I was 21...

    I also grew up pretty poor, spending a lot of time to save some money, and now I spend much more money to save time, for what it’s worth..

    And another thing that changed my life in a huge way was going to same school from primary school till I was 15, getting bullied by my teacher, changing schools and becoming way more social than before.

    These are the first things that came to my mind when I read your question... I don’t know if i went into the right direction with my answer

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  2. Comment on Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - March 20 in ~health

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    Today is looking better, she still sometimes has stomach cramps, but other than that she seems much better. Temperature is lower again. And I seem to be fine so far.

    Today is looking better, she still sometimes has stomach cramps, but other than that she seems much better.
    Temperature is lower again. And I seem to be fine so far.

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  3. Comment on Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - March 20 in ~health

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    that's a lot of people. Wish you all the best

    that's a lot of people. Wish you all the best

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  4. Comment on Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - March 20 in ~health

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    anyone having any personal contacts with any illness? My gf has some flu symptoms right now. No fever yet but elevated temperature when measured orally. Hoping for the best.

    anyone having any personal contacts with any illness? My gf has some flu symptoms right now. No fever yet but elevated temperature when measured orally. Hoping for the best.

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  5. Comment on The Great Google Revolt: Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces. in ~tech

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    I did not. I did very well on the pre interview - online, but I did not get any personal interview.

    I did not. I did very well on the pre interview - online, but I did not get any personal interview.

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  6. Comment on The Great Google Revolt: Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces. in ~tech

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    Related, but obviously anecdotal: I applied for an internship at Google and had an online coding challenge with one hard and one easy question. A lot of people get follow up interviews, even when...

    Related, but obviously anecdotal:
    I applied for an internship at Google and had an online coding challenge with one hard and one easy question. A lot of people get follow up interviews, even when they only answer the easy question correctly and I am very sure I also answered the harder question in an optimal way (with a good runtime).
    The questions that you also got asked to see whether you are a good fit, were questions like:(paraphrasing) 'if my employer asks me to do something that I feel is unethical, I would still do it' -> I answered no.
    I mean I never felt that this was a cause, and there could be lot's of other reasons. Just figured people would be interested that this is part of the internship questionnaire

    8 votes