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Re:In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are e... by Kalium on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:26PM (#22014381)
> OTOH, the actual engineers see through all the external signaling, which I've also discovered :) :P Or rather, the external signaling can work in the opposite direction with engineers.

I think it's important to disambiguate the two. People often believe themselves to be the former, when they have frequently fallen into the trap of the latter. Adopting counter-cultural signaling is not the same as being above signaling, but it's an easy thing to confuse.

Especially when confusing the two is a sop to the ego.

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Re:In Silicon Valley, some men say cosmetic procedures are e... by yters on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:39PM (#22014544)
Yes, each social group has their own brand of social signaling, some defined by the social signaling of another group, even mutually so. Career minded ladder climbers try to disambiguate themselves from the worker bees, and visa versa.
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