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Some are self-conscious to be bailed out even when they haven't "snitched". 4.

Which seems strange and perhaps self-conscious. Consider: "Mall traffic, for a number of years, has been slowing down.

So now you feel even worse, your boss is uncomfortable, and Steve is all self-conscious. Your boss has thought all this through, so he put that silly policy in place.

Some are self-conscious to be bailed out even when they haven't "snitched". There is also the fact that being teacher's pet generally invites more bullying.

It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things.

And if the EU is not going to do it, there are very self-conscious governments in Brazil, China, and India that might put pressure on Google & co. .

He has the ability to make people self-conscious about their own mistakes with the least effort, as he does nothing but listen. However, when it's time for him to talk, he talks little and observes the reactions.

You can't be self-conscious, you just have to get out of the way.' Because it is easier to write description and dialogue than tell a good story, very many contemporary novelists write bad plots...

Add to this the fact that people are self-conscious and can change their innate behavior. Sex is a very poor predictor of an individual's psychological traits.

> We use "I" more when we talk to someone with power because we're more self-conscious. Isn't it simply because you need to introduce yourself and provide a bit of context when you write an unsolicited email?

I find that it comes from young, self-conscious people posturing and picking on other people based on the way they look, the music they like, and other trivial things. It's cruel to pick on other people for something so utterly trivial.

He was a candidate who was self-conscious about the perception of Democrats as being "weak on security" and campaigned to avoid that label. And on his second go, he campaigned as "the guy that killed Osama."

That sounds pretty self-conscious and fake, like a teenager trying to dress like a nonconformist. Altered states of consciousness do exist, and extreme isolation is known to produce them.

As another person said below, my primary schoolteacher also suggested we use a paper to block out the bottom text when reading line by line, and this did help, but I think I was very self-conscious to actually do it all the time. You're on to something!

She won't find it interesting to talk about, and she may also be self-conscious that she didn't do it right, and would be inviting criticism. After all "I tried X and it didn't work" is, on some level, an admission of personal failure, and people aren't particularly prone to those.

This time around, the big tech companies are much more self-conscious regarding user base degradation, and the risks of having their core user experience compromised by out-of-network innovation. Consumers always lose this game.

Younger engineers need to not avoid hiring old people because of fear of being a culture misfit and older engineers need to stop being self-conscious of their age all the time. Both can be a little bit more flexible and learn more about what other people like and appreciate the diversity that different ages can bring the workspaces.

Mostly what I find in this generation of non-believer is not reflective, self-conscious atheism but rather an inherited, brittle and angry atheism that assumes the final triumph of reductionist materialist science has been accomplished. For these dogmatics the mere existence of faith or religion of any kind is really appalling and a cause for anger and aggression.

This isn't just a tech demo: It's a self-conscious reconstruction of a cultural artifact, and drags along with it other cultural references and context. Nobody these days is going to 'grow up' with an Apple ][ because of things like this, but, previously, the only way to experience that specific system was to either have been born in the narrow window of time where you had one when they were still at least vaguely mainstream, or to decide to run an emulator and likely get into emulation as a hobby.

Because I've been seeing more and more "weekend projects" showing up on HN that look like they took a small team a week to put together, and it's really making me feel self-conscious about taking several days to just to get a couple of JS frameworks up and running on a simple proof-of-concept web-app — to say nothing of CSS, UI, server stuff, QA, error handling, etc. etc.