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by acituan 5y ago
Reminds me of the poor fellow who jumped off a Facebook building because their manager blocked their transfer. I bet you wouldn't tell them "they could have gone to a different company". Visa issues non-withstanding, a ration
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> Bonus, I don't think the parent comment was trying to represent his friend's actions as something to replicate. Fair point. I didn't intend to counter OP, but a general sentiment in tech. Could have made it clearer. >
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> I have a friend up in Seattle who is suffering, to the point of being hospitalized for mental health issues, but refuses to leave. I'll be blunt, I am not worried about your friend's mental health as much as I am worried abou
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by acituan 5y ago
> a weird sort of jihadi capitalism appear Fantastic analogy. The same fundamentalist narrow-mindedness only about "growth at all costs"; no regard to content of that growth. Just make the stock go up. Kind of like King Midas
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by acituan 5y ago
> Someone like you was probably saying the same thing about ABS on a BBS back in 1996. Someone like me said ABS is purely a competitive advantage feature despite the fact that its adoption in mainstream cars struggled? That person must b
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> When you need only 4 days of vacation to take one week off, 20 paid vacation days will let you go on vacation for 5 weeks per year, just like like a full-time employee with 25 vacation days. Sure, but it is contingent on using your vac
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by acituan 5y ago
> That nice collision avoidance/lane keeper and camera system? that was implemented as a countermeasure for increasing A and B pillar size after regulatory agencies decided too many americans were getting crushed to death in roll-ov
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by acituan 5y ago
> Compensation through stocks applies to a tiny proportion of workers in the US, and a miniscule proportion elsewhere. And to a substantial portion of the tech workers in the Bay Area.
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> There is a "risk" that bill Gates is actually an alien and has been putting microchips into the vaccine. Do those risks look proportional to you? > Pretty much all risks are identified within a short period, it's very
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> I've worked 4 days a week (for 20% less pay) for years now. It's without a question the biggest positive change in standard of living and life quality I could buy with this money I agree with the benefits of a 4 day workweek
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> He was also pointing out "risks" with the vaccine. Whoa whoa whoa. 1 year old mRNA vaccine's risks don't come with scare quotes. He often talks about the lack of long term data. mRNA covid vaccines might have been e
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by acituan 5y ago
I sympathize because when I was a junior engineer once I accidentally emptied the test email spool sending the entire company including upper management all sorts of fake test emails accumulated in the past years about hires and fires and w
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I would say lack of home internet could even be an advantage. Because the moment new demographics go online en masse, big internet corporations start salivating. Without home internet no distractions, no dopamine hijacks, no content control
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by acituan 5y ago
Alternatively, anti-positivist endeavors should find themselves another space to occupy and not piggy-back on an institutional adjacency to actual sciences to posture credibility, authority, attain public funding etc.
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by acituan 5y ago
> As a manager it seems to me that WFH externalises one of the most expensive costs to employees: office space. I would agree on principle but there is a circularity here. The cost of own housing used as office space is directly related
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by acituan 5y ago
> We didn't survive as a species thanks to life guiding philosophy or in general thanks to a conscious thinking process in which we tried to predict the future You couldn't be more wrong. Consciousness, inferential thinking, sy
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> The older I get the less wisdom I find in any philosophy that means to teach how we should live and particularly how to avoid pain and unhappiness. There are two limitations with this proposition. First; most of the useful "philos
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by acituan 5y ago
Drop the sarcasm, it's annoying and obfuscates the dialogue. WFH employees get paid too, we're talking about the differences between costs of WFH and WFO externalized to the employee, which are not trivial e.g. commute, access to
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by acituan 5y ago
That's asking for perfect foresight; the job market structure have drastically changed while they are in contract and WFH is now a competitive advantage in the labor market. That results in being shortchanged.
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> they are young and relatively inexperienced, and I want them to see how we work, how we solve problems, how their peers communicate and how we think about different aspects of the business. You basically want the seniors' suffer t
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by acituan 5y ago
> Whenever the topic of, as you call them "out-of-band" treatments arose, the look on their faces would silence the topic. So, if you feel adventurous, I would suggest to cross-check your opinion with someone in the field. Let&
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by acituan 5y ago
> But you can go ahead and keep doing X/Y/Z yourself; we'll turn a blind eye to that. Just do it quietly." This is not true; the only MD in the discussion mentions he was strong-armed out of his personal off-label use
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> Protocols have been developed to ensure that we actually gain knowledge, and not at the expense of the patients. If medicine could be reduced to protocols, we wouldn't need the doctors. You can rest assured right now many MDs are
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I'll start with your second question. > How do you reconcile what you say with the fact that people do have group identities - not as their complete identity, but part of it - and act as a group and treat others as members of groups
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by acituan 5y ago
Any alternative recommendations? I am OK with publications having biases (in fact, I don't think there could be one without any) as long as they tend to be upfront about it and I can find opponent views to balance things out.
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by acituan 5y ago
This is the same study that was on HN a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764 Economist's distillation is borderline disinformative, especially since it runs with overgeneralizations without qualifying
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by acituan 5y ago
> If there is a group that is a dominant political power, it's the same thing The problem is to assume that dominant political actors cohere to constitute a group, a conspiratorial evil one at that. Hypotheses of evil conspirators p
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by acituan 5y ago
My take is that we ought to be careful about framing biases. I don't think "men" is the most useful variable to formulate every problem with. Unless we have evidence that there is an essence to every man that manifests itself
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> Maybe men are just not inherently less suited to academic success Maybe. A strong essentialist proposition requires an equally strong evidence, though. Have you got any? > systematic discrimination in their favor isn’t preventing eq
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by acituan 5y ago
Allow me to correct the two logical distortions in your proposition. Distortion 1) You can't take the outliers of a flatter distribution and generalize that to the entire population. You can't even compare the averages of two se

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