Zanneth

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by Zanneth 5y ago
Most of the studies I've seen that evaluate productivity are based on surveys given directly to the employees. I imagine workers have a lot of bias when asked to evaluate their own productivity, especially when there are significant pe
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Really sad that innocent people who have nothing at all to do with the regime are getting punished for this.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Can anyone provide a non-biased explanation about why this is happening? Why is Russia carrying out this attack?
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Piaget's water-level task[1] is an experiment where participants are shown a bottle with its water level marked and are asked where the water level should be in various rotations of the bottle. Female participants for some reason fail
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by Zanneth 5y ago
I've listened to both episodes of Lex Fridman's podcast where he interviewed Chris and he seems like an extremely humble and intelligent guy. No question he is one of the leading experts on compilers too, and has a lot of hardcore
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by Zanneth 5y ago
I take the blame for originally mentioning car accidents, but this is not really something you can compare to COVID especially when you are talking about government mandates. A serious car accident is deadly for anyone, including teenagers
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Canada would also have to be okay with completely closed borders for the rest of its existence. Either that or come up with some way to unilaterally enforce COVID countermeasures in every country on Earth simultaneously until it is complete
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Did I say that it wasn’t a big deal? Nobody is denying that. I cringe at the number of people who die every year due to smoking, car accidents, etc. But I certainly wouldn’t recommend mandating anything that gets in the way of people taking
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by Zanneth 5y ago
A vast majority of people who contract COVID recover without any treatment. Are you arguing that the minority who don't impose higher costs than locking down the entire country?
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Interesting that Canada has exceptions to their charter rights. Quite different from "inalienable rights" guaranteed by the US Constitution.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Maybe the better question you should be asking is whether a simple majority (50%) is enough to justify drastic and extreme countermeasures mandated by the government, two years into a pandemic, with no end in sight. You might think this is
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by Zanneth 5y ago
That is not true at all. The greatest burden on the economy was the lockdowns and extreme countermeasures. People choosing not to get vaccinated may have caused unnecessary burden on the healthcare system, but to blame them for the struggli
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by Zanneth 5y ago
A lot of smartphone users have IoT devices plugged in at home that, for better or for worse, have a persistent connection to the internet. It would be feasible and useful for these devices to act as personal servers for certain kinds of ser
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by Zanneth 5y ago
It’s not just for an interview. Remote work environments allow scammers like this to skate by for years while it’s a lot harder to bullshit in person.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
I visited Portland in late 2020 and I couldn’t believe how dystopian it became. It used to be such an amazing city.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
I disagree that it is rooted in selfishness. It's healthy to live in a society that has at least some degree of skepticism over public health claims that tend to optimize one variable at the cost of others. Since this article is about
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by Zanneth 5y ago
How much longer are you willing to live like that? Keep in mind that people who decided to move on are living happy and healthy lives without making as many sacrifices. You can call them "narcissistic" but the reality is that this
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by Zanneth 5y ago
Wearing masks and having to endure "constant QR scanning" doesn't sound like normal life to me.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
I think you are misunderestimating the value that bringing a new life into the world offers you as a parent, and your community. The world in general, and especially the United States, has never been more peaceful and prosperous as it is no
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by Zanneth 5y ago
A lot of people caught the virus and recovered from it. Those people have immunity that is actually stronger than that offered by the vaccines. In those cases getting the vaccine is some (albeit small) risk and almost no reward.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
That was a poor choice of words on my part. Instead of "pointless" I should have said "impractical." I think most of us agree that we wouldn't want to live in a world where kids are forced to wear N95 masks all day,
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by Zanneth 5y ago
It is the responsibility of public health to take all of these variables into account before mandating countermeasures. The fact that people are constantly placed in situations where mask effectiveness is reduced or in some cases completely
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by Zanneth 5y ago
At this point, the most vulnerable have a sophisticated arsenal of tools to prevent themselves from being seriously affected by the virus. Vaccines, antivirals, masks like N95 that work to protect the wearer, etc. In my opinion it is no lon
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by Zanneth 5y ago
"International students" are not an at-risk group.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
How is this reaction different from other respiratory illnesses? You wouldn't send your kids to a daycare with the flu either, right?
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by Zanneth 5y ago
One of the problems I noticed with people citing productivity statistics is that they always come from surveys of employees who are evaluating themselves. I don't know how many people are being completely honest about their own product
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by Zanneth 5y ago
They make high quality stuff. I have an OP-1 synthesizer. It's not just good looking, it's an amazingly innovative and fun device.
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So what should they have done? Paid him a $300k per year salary to do nothing?
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by Zanneth 5y ago
It's a really unethical thing to do, and you don't want unethical people working at your company.
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by Zanneth 5y ago
How would you feel as a working class citizen, when homeless drug addicts are given a place to live rent-free while you have to work hard every day just to stay afloat? How would you feel if you had children who lived in the same neighborho

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