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decaffjoe commented on What I learned getting acquired by Google shreyans.org/google... · Posted by u/shreyans

asdfman123 · 2 years ago

The second passport thing is definitely true. When I'm abroad--even, recently, Buenos Aires--I have access to office space, free food, a gym, and even a music room where I can practice guitar and piano.

decaffjoe · 2 years ago

It's common for Google offices to have gyms and pianos?!

decaffjoe commented on Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/... · Posted by u/amadeuspagel

decaffjoe · 2 years ago

This topic misses the forest for the trees. Even if there is a cognitive difference in people who speak multiple languages, the magnitude of the advantage/disadvantage pales in comparison to the far more impactful difference in the understanding of the world that proficiency in another language gives you.

If you're a monolingual American born English speaker and you learn Chinese and go live in China for a year, you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people. Who cares if your IQ went up or down half a point on account of learning to speak mandarin- your understanding of the lives of billions of people just increased dramatically. That's why it's good to learn a language- culture, not cognition.

decaffjoe commented on How to communicate effectively as a developer karlsutt.com/articles/com... · Posted by u/karls

decaffjoe · 3 years ago

Always worth it to spend 2-3x the time authoring a message with explicit context since it's going to save every reader 2-3x the time figuring out what you're talking about.

decaffjoe commented on Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm nrk.no/sport/everyone-goi... · Posted by u/ingve

ghostDancer · 3 years ago

All the news about slavery and bad treatment of workers to build the infrastructures and silencing or minimizing by western press and now this. No surprise when you organize a thing like the Football World Cup in a dictatorship like Qatar in exchange for money this is you can expect. Just let's hope it does not get used as a backdoor by other with even worse intentions.

decaffjoe · 3 years ago

Just to emphasize your point, we're talking about a death toll of 6k+ people to build these stadiums. What a stain on fifa, football and worldwide respect for human rights to say the least.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...

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decaffjoe · 3 years ago

> It very much upset me that someone like Donald Trump got to be in office over Hillary Clinton (an opinion I now redact).

Well that just about says it all eh? Let's put everything else aside, how do you hold this opinion after January 6? And this article was written today?

decaffjoe commented on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at? · Posted by u/pr07ecH70r

ex-leper · 3 years ago

Deadlifts will hit most of the posterior chain, but to really grow thickness in the upper and mid back you'd need to add in heavy rows and/or pull-ups as OP mentioned.

decaffjoe · 3 years ago

Might as well chime in with the basic back-of-a-napkin strength program -> One movement for: (1) vertical push, (2) vertical pull, (3) horizontal push, (4) horizontal pull, (5) glutes/"back of your legs", (6) quadriceps/"front of your legs".

To beat the dead horse, deadlifts definitely involve pulling but it's primarily a glutes exercise. Adding in dedicated pulls like pullups and rows will give you a lot of bang for your buck.

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