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by alaithea 2y ago
So, remove the checks and balances that were already put in place over decades to make sure employees are spending responsibly. Um, sure. With the employee cards, all the transactions are traceable and can be monitored with a minimum of red
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by alaithea 2y ago
Not exactly. They can be and are often used for larger provisional purchases. For example, when we wanted to get Slack or any SaaS, it was put on a charge card so we could start using it quickly, but that would start the clock ticking on an
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by alaithea 2y ago
Have you worked for the federal government? Employees literally have to fill out forms and follow a strict process to buy anything when they don't have these charge cards.
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by alaithea 2y ago
That sounds like more of a failure of management than of the employee charge card system. They should be screening those charges and periodically reviewing contracts anyway.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Many government offices had no free coffee already. This was the case in the mid-teens at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which houses the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where the federal CTO and CIO sit, and the
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by alaithea 2y ago
Government workers were already making do with a lot less than is generally accepted in the private sector, especially after the GSA conference scandal of somewhat over a decade ago.[1] During my time as a federal employee, many government
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by alaithea 2y ago
Sure, but it also has some correlation to body size. Larger animals generally live longer.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Dumbest change ever. The employee charge cards are there to get rid of red tape. Now workers will have to spend $100 of their time filling out forms to buy $50 worth of office supplies.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Dog aging is irrelevant. It's well-documented that dogs have a faster biological aging process due at least in part to the telomere caps on chromosomes which protect the DNA. Dogs lose these caps at a rate around ten times the human ra
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by alaithea 2y ago
A lot of folks have already given you good advice. One other thing I'd recommend is to really work on making your impact seen. When you see something that could be improved, start measuring it, even before you try to improve it. Write
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by alaithea 2y ago
> there not many books about failures! Any great recommendations? The Logic of Failure is a fantastic book about failures, including some famous examples of failure (e.g. Chernobyl). https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Failure-R
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by alaithea 2y ago
This makes me think of how my dog reacts very quickly, of course, for hard-wired "dog" behavior things, but when I use human language and gestures to communicate something to him, such as "go find Daddy", I can figurativ
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by alaithea 2y ago
Can someone explain what we're looking at here?
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by alaithea 2y ago
This is great. I started creating something like this almost twenty years ago, but didn't finish. You're living my dream. :) Kudos to you!
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by alaithea 2y ago
It's in the Wikipedia article. It was a device he invented to help himself get out of bed after having been disabled by polio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr .
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by alaithea 2y ago
What are the chances that this will reduce the seeming push, from every VC and Wall Street, for companies to have everyone in the world on a monthly payment plan? I would love to see that trend end. Most people cannot afford to have a month
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by alaithea 2y ago
It's already back up.
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by alaithea 2y ago
But the article says it was published in 2023.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Site's back up. Good info, but I felt nauseous by the end of the article. This was interesting: > Perhaps the most disconcerting feature of the zaps is the jumpy lateral eye movements. “People actually hear their eyes move when the
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by alaithea 2y ago
Thanks, my doc knows about it, but I get the feeling they don't know anything about it. I'll keep that in mind.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Would love to read this, but the site is down. I weaned myself off of Sertraline and pursued OTC options just because the brain zaps and the yawns/drowsiness were so bad. Didn't matter what time of day I took it, didn't matte
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by alaithea 2y ago
Truth. Sometimes the modern dance movements don’t even have names; it’s a wiggle in this direction or that, so you’re using either photo- or kinesthetic memory to mimic and remember if you’re able.
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by alaithea 2y ago
Sure. There’s a Wikipedia page on Chunking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology) Arrhythmia and trouble doing sequenced moves… that’s interesting. I can’t quite make the connection but wouldn’t be surpri
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by alaithea 2y ago
I've danced extensively, and tap can be brutal for the sheer number of steps you need to remember. Other dance disciplines, like ballet, tend to chunk sets of smaller movements into a larger, named one, so once you learn those sequence
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by alaithea 7y ago
tl;dr Australia moves north by about the speed your hair and fingernails grow.
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Phasing Out Cars Key to Paris Mayor’s Plans for 15-Minute City(forbes.com)
2 points by alaithea 7y ago|0 comments
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by alaithea 7y ago
I would love to know if the creator has plans to use different note forms. Sometimes reading only whole notes has a similar effect to reading all caps lettering... There's less signal coming from the overall shape. The direction of the
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by alaithea 7y ago
Was bothered by that myself, but found that going fullscreen gets rid of the hide keyboard button, making the experience much better on mobile.
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by alaithea 7y ago
I was surprised at how well it worked when I tried it again recently after a hiatus. Now I just wish they would get Docker-based environments working.
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by alaithea 7y ago
An honest answer to that question requires the employee having a high degree of trust in the team lead. If they won't answer, the lead can't fix it, and the employee may feel more stressed by having to gloss over their feelings. T

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