GVIrish

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by GVIrish 9y ago
Seems to me like the solution is to work on improving handoffs rather than trading the risk of handoffs for the risk introduced by sleep deprivation. From the medical professionals I know, handoff problems are partly because of missing&#x2F
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by GVIrish 9y ago
A couple of possibilities: *The customer service reps have to answer a huge volume of cases and they really don't take time to read the email *It's ingrained into the customer service reps to follow policy to a T. So if it
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by GVIrish 9y ago
But surely not all opinions are welcome in the workplace. If someone spread a document that said, 'we shouldn't hire muslims because we can't trust their loyalties', surely expressing that opinion would merit firing. An
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Yeah and maybe what needs to happen is people need to talk more about how 'the line' is moving so people can understand better where people are coming from. I agree that labeling people as racist or sexist for being caught out by
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by GVIrish 9y ago
The thing about pointing at the 5 factor psych model then applying it to something like gender disparity in tech, is that it's a pretty big leap to take scores from research studies to then draw conclusions about gender disparities in
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't know how much he was trying to find an answer but he does leave a good amount of qualifiers in there like, 'this may be the cause' or 'this could explain'. I could be wrong, but it seems like he was trying
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> In short, he said that biological differences (with citations) can explain in the aggregate (not in the total absolute of the population) different preferences, job options, etc., and even suggested ways to change the working environme
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> I don't understand why people keep repeating that statement. He said that biological differences explain the different ratios of men and women, NOT that women are not suited for tech jobs. He explicitely did not say (nor mean) tha
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When has that ever not been the case in the workplace? Every workplace has norms and values where someone who runs afoul of them may be fired. Norms change over time. There was a time when it would've been okay to use the 'n&#x2
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> I don't see how this is an unreasonable argument to make. There is a dearth of male kindergarten teachers, for instance. This doesn't mean the school is being "sexist". It might just mean that certain genders tend t
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> Now everyone at Google (and everyone in large tech companies, and everyone in academy) knows that they can be fired for expressing opinions that dissent from the party line. This is an example of people taking exactly the wrong lesson
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That's kinda whataboutism though. Yes there is a disparity in nursing, teaching, garbage collection, whatever. How is that relevant to tech? The issue in question is that women (and minorities) are underrepresented and sometimes expe
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> but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test NSA headquarters is in between Baltimore and Washington DC and there is a lot of other major government contracting work along that corridor. There is
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Except all of Scott Pruitt's actions to date indicate that it is not being done in good faith.
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> It's clear it is not about actual defense of the US, but about extracting as much wealth as possible from all of us; the tax payers. I wouldn't say that's what it's about. It's just that America's prevail
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by GVIrish 9y ago
It's not about whether someone is a contractor or a full time government employee. Contractors work on the government site just as much as FTE's, receive the same security training, and are indoctrinated into the same culture. Th
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My thing with BW3's is that watching sports at a sports bar kinda sucks. You can't hear the commentating and you can't really hear your friends either. We'll still order takeout on occasion but if we're gonna sit d
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Hell, inattention for less than 3 seconds at the wrong time can cause a huge accident. Then there's the issue of willfully bad driving when it comes to sports cars, bad weather, and drunk driving.
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Yeah Turo would be a bad choice for on demand usage because owners can be a bit flaky, difficult to reach, late, etc. Maybe as it gets more widespread one could lean on the service more but my experience led me to believe that I wouldn&#x27
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by GVIrish 9y ago
The thing with a car is that it can easily be badly damaged or totaled by simple driver error. A house can be destroyed by fire maybe but that's far less common than car accidents.
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't think the parent poster was trying to say 'but Obama was worse', he was just pointing at the fact that an Executive Order can be undone by a successor. Kind of a moot point IMO, given the current state of the GOP. Ha
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I don't think that would be the case at all. People choose hotels based on price, location, amenities, and reviews. Making it easier to compare vacancy listings isn't all of a sudden going to make the customer seeking a 4 star h
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by GVIrish 9y ago
What are you talking about? Kobe studying tape? Point is that even one of the best players of all time was not out there practicing for 12 hour days every day. Resting the body was key to having a long and successful career.
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by GVIrish 9y ago
One of the characteristics of a lot of Russia's attempts at exerting influence is that they don't particularly care if we know they did it. Part of Putin's goal is to bolster Russia's standing as a world power, so if pe
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Huh? I'm talking about illegal hacking by a hostile intelligence service interfering in our election. What you linked has nothing to do with any illegal activities, which is what the point of the whole thread is. Even from the articl
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Having a geopolitical adversary strategically hack political parties in order to change the outcome of an election to suit their interests is a HUGE problem. By selectively disclosing information a hostile nation can change the political l
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by GVIrish 9y ago
A lot of the reason HR departments behave the way they do, is because of who they report to. The people in the C-suite set the tone and if they create a culture of sweeping things under the rug or otherwise excusing bad behavior, HR will d
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> A lot of mediocre middleman managers in the typical company aren't capable of setting expectations and evaluating work results. This is one of the key problems. It's not that remote work doesn't work, it's that a b
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If Manning had only leaked the video in an attempt to bring light on what she perceived as a war crime, she would've had a case as a whistleblower. Indiscriminately leaking thousands of documents where she had no idea of the contents,
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Yeah I think we're far past the gold-plating stage and into platinum-plating territory. At least they've delivered playable content to backers but expanding the scope so dramatically also dramatically increases the chances of nev

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