I'm fascinated that you were able to interview and in a few cases get hired by companies with a massively high bar and sophisticated screening. Someone let you in the door because they saw something in you. They wanted to give you a shot, that they DO NOT give to just anyone.
This almost certainly has to be a significant problem with mental health or social skills. You're just not fitting in, so you're getting ejected over and over.
Assuming mental health is something you've accepted may be the problem, my advice is:
1) Go to therapy and invest in it. If you're prescribed meds, take the meds. If they give you goofy homework do the homework. Double down on it. (this helped me)
2) Accept that even though you have talent, these bigger companies just may not be the right fit for you. There are many small tech businesses, including development and security consulting shops and agencies (think 100 people or less) that pay well and are staffed with talented misfits. They tend to be very nurturing places that let you carve out your role and find your place. Smaller businesses have health plans etc too. Be humble and have an open mind.
My teenage nephew got a RAT malware, that someone used to record him watching porn. Then they used that to blackmail him, saying that they would report him to the FBI for watching porn as minor or something. I believe looking for crypto as a payout.
My brother (his dad) caught wind of it and had some fun messing with the attacker. But for a moment my nephew was in some serious deep shit that he would have sneaked around to buy and send crypto to get out of.
So that's a scenario that could have happened, and would explain why he wouldn't want to tell the truth.
Alternatively - Ledger got hacked and a list of customers for the Nano S was stolen. So someone could use that for a targeted phishing attack. Perhaps the above would be a similar strategy
I had this same issue for years, had seen doctors and a psychologist. Was tested and learned I had ADHD. Meds, coping strategies and general self-awareness helped in a big way.
But I also had this specific issue on certain days lingering even with ADHD treatment. My doctor suggested I had sleep apnea. Possibly related to sleep habits and possibly a very soft lumpy mattress. My wife and I got a new firm mattress and it really did the trick.
I know this will be an unpopular comment, but I've had a long-held theory that past lives / reincarnation is a real phenomenon with a biological mechanism that is as-yet unknown.
The theory being that trauma at time of death is somehow encrypted for the next generation and passed on shortly after death, particularly if a corpse enters the water or food supply.
The basis for this is a little embarrassing.. I had memories of being a bridge engineer, frequent dreams of falling off a very specific truss bridge in my head in childhood. To this day I'm terrified of certain types of truss bridges, which are coincidentally quite common upriver of where my parents lived when I was born, and where our water came from.
This theory would also explain why river burial is commonly associated with reincarnation. Committing the tissue of a deceased person into a community water supply would increase transfer of memory.
It doesn't seem physically impossible, but this would mean "past lives" can only be from your direct ancestors.
But regardless, there's no evidence to support it and even this snail experiment is a far cry from proving memories can even be transferred to humans, let alone inherited.
Fun fact - the "border zone" in which your 4th amendment rights are suspended and you are subject to search, is 100 miles wide and overlaps where the majority of Americans live and work
> Searches within the 100-mile extended border zone, and outside of the immediate border-stop location, must meet three criteria: a person must have recently crossed a border; an agent should know that the object of a search hasn’t changed; and that “reasonable suspicion” of a criminal activity must exist, says the CRS
Every time I see this map (which, AFAIK, is a visualization by the ACLU and not based on an official government publication) I wonder why Chicago and the coastline of Lake Michigan is included. The border with Canada runs diagonally down the length of Lake Superior, clears the Straits of Mackinac by at least 40 miles, and then continues southeast along Lake Huron to Sarnia and Detroit.
The entirety of Lake Michigan is within the borders of the US, so while this entire "100-mile border zone" business is bizarre enough as it is, it's truly disingenuous to include the lower Lake Michigan coastline. It makes me wonder if this is an interpretational liberty taken solely by the ACLU, or if the government's demonstrated behavior truly justifies what is shown on the map.
and worse, it technically includes all ports. which could basically mean radii around every international airport.
when i first learned about this, I scared my lawyer girlfriend about it and she helped me look into the actual court cases. they have been somewhat difficult to hold up. usually because LO abuses the rules by not following the three terms listed above. and it still takes getting all the way to Supreme Court which is a massive drain on resources for those typically affected by this.
What? That doesn't make any sense. Constitutional rights don't apply anywhere outside the border as far as I know. In this context, the area can only extend inside. Or do I misunderstand your comment?
I always knew that the US considered a 100 mile radius outside of our borders (specifically marine regions) as part of our borders and that it's basically de-facto "US territory". This is only a dim memory from reading about various stories from the "drug war."
The thing is, the bill of rights doesnt say anything about that. It says "the government shall not", and it seems to me any sane interpretation would say it applies wherever the government is active and claiming jurisdiction.
So, for a casual traveler who may have a phone with conversations peppered with unfavorable political views throughout - what is the best security hygiene in this situation?
Anyone have tips or tricks that average people can use, things that maybe don't involve having a separate phone etc?
Personally I don't think these resources go far enough, and some of the methods recommended have obvious exploits, or are too complicated for the less tech literate. Lot's of work to be done in this area for sure
Trump's base right now are people who have never met an Iranian, and would probably be quite happy to see your coworkers sent to Guantanamo. Trump's policies will stand because his base stands by them, and because the GOP rank-and-file fear Trump, and his people in the midterm elections.
If you want to do something, use your political awakening to help change some minds. At both the top and bottom of the power chain, doesn't matter. Steer the conversation
I think that's a naive view of Trump "supporters". For instance, it seems like Iranian-Americans were split on Clinton v. Trump [0][1]. I've also talked to quite a few people who voted for Trump but do not agree with his stance on borders or immigration. Finally, depicting all the people who voted for Trump as ignorant rednecks is probably not conductive to dialogue.
Sentiments like yours do not help the current situation where everyone is talking past each other. Demonizing and labeling people like others is not the solution. Characterizing the motivations of 60+ million people as racist is the epitome of mental weakness. How do you expect to solve xenophobic behavior when you are employing the exact same mental processes? All you are doing is perpetuating the cycle of hatred.
Empathy takes time and effort, especially in an age where we don't have to exercise it at all. The easy path is to disregard those we disagree with in order to preserve our own sense of moral righteousness.
You make a noble point, but it will not change anything at this stage. I am human. As are all of us. My well of empathy for Trump's people has gone completely bone dry. I am past the tipping point.
They elected an egotistical reality TV star, backed by a hostile foreign government, to the White House and he's taking a wrecking ball to every institution of federal government exactly as one would have expected him to. Any assertion that tears should be shed or some level of respect should be offered to Trump's people or duped Republicans, is absurd nonsense. The only feeling I have left for these people is rage and it grows with every passing day.
No Republican was duped. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. Temporary ban on immigration, build a wall, take an axe to the bloated federal government, can the TPP, next week we should get our first conservative supreme court nominee. Even better it is driving leftists into a rage, showing everyone where the real bullying and violence comes from - the Left! I have never been more hopeful about the future!
> Temporary ban on immigration [...] I have never been more hopeful about the future!
I was curious about you -there are not many that support your positions in HN- and I checked your past comments. You seem to be an immigrant too, as you define yourself as a "Valley startup expat". If that's the case, how can you support a ban on immigration -even if it's temporary- being an immigrant yourself? Don't get offended, I'm genuinely curious.
I am not offended, no worries. A temporary ban on immigration for the purpose of security is a reasonable proposition to me. Every country has the right to secure itself and define who can and can't enter the country. It is fundamental to the concept of being a nation. India, China, Japan, Korea, even Mexico all have very restrictive immigration policies and I have yet to see anyone work themselves into a rage over it on Hackernews. India even started building a wall between itself and Bangladesh (I have no idea if they completed it honestly, but again I don't remember an outcry at the time).
Historically the US has gone through times of very low immigration and also times of very high immigration. It will swing back in twenty or thirty years.
Specifically in reference to this article, there are very few PhD seats for advanced physics in the US and the universities are so prestigious if someone is denied a visa from a temporarily banned country, another person of equal brilliance from another country will take that seat.
The pendulum swings both ways, and right now it is swinging faster and harder than ever before in this country. When it swings back, in a tsunami of the unrelenting rage and profound hatred for the other side, there will be blood. That is the future.
People have been racist throughout history. The majority of people. When did the majority suddenly stop? There's no mental weakness involved in describing things as they are.
In practice, this isn't the case. Racism just became something to be ashamed of, so now we can't discuss racism openly for fear of offending racists. At least the "rednecks" are honest about it.
And I hate to tell you, they're not interested in dialogue. They've got enough numbers, districting advantages and voter suppression laws that they don't care what you think.
So one of the things I've learned as time has progressed as a software engineer is that the more time I spend programming, the more I realize how incompetent I am. The amount which I do not know just seems to grow and grow and grow.
For me the same thing has come from politics. I've spent a lot of time reading and listening to not only NPR, the NY Times, The New Yorker, but also right leaning sites like Drudge, Instapundit, NRO and so on. The more I read both sides, the less I am absolutely certain of my view of reality and that my answers are necessarily the best answers. You really begin to appreciate just how much difference there can be with no intentional malice at all.
One commonality I see between both sides is a belief that neither side wants to listen. There is no shortage of idiots on either side, but you'd also be surprised how many thoughtful people on both sides exist. I've read a lot of right wing bloggers state that they have no problem with gay marriage, and yet they get lumped into the same barrel as fervent Christians. Same with Robert Spencer. I've seen a lot of resentment from writers who have attacked him but they're treated like they're all Nazis just because they are both "right wing".
I feel like the problem isn't racism so much as the problem is we've created linguistic weapons that were appropriate 30-40 years ago for a much different conflict. What I mean by that is the weight of calling someone a racist evokes thoughts of fire hoses and dogs and church burnings. But is that the right word for someone who flippantly calls an Asian person "Ling Ling"? Is it racially insensitive? Absolutely! But does it merit automatically going to the nines and unloading on someone with full abandon? Why do we take several malformed sentences as immediate evidence and license to publicly shame a stranger we know nothing about?
The internet has allowed so many people of different backgrounds and makeups to communicate with each other directly. But what I think this has shown is how bad we are at it. How many people in the Bay Area can say they actually know and communicate regularly and productively with a conservative? The problem in my minds is not right or left. It is that we haven't learned the right way to talk to each other that does not increase factionalism and strife. I'm worried it may do irreparable damage before long.
None of this is to say racism is a solved problem in America. Many people alive still remember what segregation truly meant. Those things don't just go away. I am not addressing actual racists either. There is however a large nebulous area where people may have ill formed beliefs, but not because of hatred. What I am saying is that I fully believe that most things that people attribute to malice come mostly from ignorance or fear. If our goal is to unite us all under the commonality of the US Flag, then assuming hostility is the worst way to go.
No one is immune to the words of others. Except sociopaths.
The thing a lot of conservatives miss here is that, for a lot of progressives, gay marriage is a moral imperative. Not caring isn't good enough if you're still happy to vote for someone like Mike Pence.
