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by b_t_s 5y ago
Many reasons, the first few I can think of are: 1) It's not a _few_ hundred, it happens to be exactly 100 in Nevada. 2) That was spread over many years vs a couple days of a war. 3) They were in a barren desert, the "safest&quo
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by b_t_s 5y ago
It's safe to say we know different demographics. I think this is more of an EU thing than a US thing. Also, likely an upper middle class or greater thing. I'm from the US and even pre-covid, most Americans in the bottom 80% of
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by b_t_s 5y ago
One of the best things about my job is that the CEO and other product owners genuinely understand and accept that when they change requirements and blow out X weeks/months of work the project will take that much longer. Not having tha
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by b_t_s 5y ago
If the ship was intact, they were probably fine with water. A large ship departing harbor without a few months of water onboard would be the most egregious incompetence on the part of the quartermaster. If they were low on water, then you c
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by b_t_s 6y ago
From an American perspective that's like giving the lion at the zoo a 24 hour leave to stroll around the city. It's so obviously absurd almost nobody would ever think of it unprompted. Many of the higher security prisons here are
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by b_t_s 6y ago
Borderline computer illiterate is a low bar(and probably an accurate assessment of average ability), but how are they supposed to clear that bar when they're fully computer illiterate and maybe, if they're lucky, can get occasiona
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by b_t_s 6y ago
We already have this in the form of child protective services. Social workers are plentiful and paid quite poorly for a degreed professional. Cops with GEDs and social workers with bachelors degrees make very comparable salaries. For an ex
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by b_t_s 6y ago
I would be shocked if the social workers riding around in vans are allowed to commit people. Social workers are kind of like nurses in that very few of them hold a PHD and they generally aren't allowed to diagnose or prescribe(varies
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by b_t_s 6y ago
Yea, this is an important distinction. The overwhelming silent majority of Atheists simply don't believe because they have no reason to, and they generally try to avoid the topic because it is unimportant to them and just causes confl
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by b_t_s 6y ago
If being an atheist required 100% certainty, then only the omniscient could be atheist(and presumably only a deity can be omniscient, making atheism a paradox). In practice, most of us draw the line somewhere around "highly unlikely&qu
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by b_t_s 6y ago
This is not a need that all of of us have. Nor is a commute an effective way for all of us to disconnect from work. It very much depends on both the person and workplace in question. Where it apparently is a serious need for you, I'd
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by b_t_s 6y ago
> commuting has significant mental-health benefits. My experience has been the exact opposite. I've been fortunate to have very reasonable commutes in all my jobs, but WFH is much better than my 25-30 minute commutes. I no longer g
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by b_t_s 6y ago
heck yea. There was no github or stack overflow, or the thousands of online forums and offline meetups we have now. Maybe it was better in silicone valley, but in the rest of he world it was pretty dreadful. My career doesn't go ba
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by b_t_s 6y ago
You could have a kid(assuming you're in that demographic). Then you'll be so short on time/energy that you can't possibly want to spend your evenings/weekends on moonshot coding projects. I'm being a bit face
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by b_t_s 6y ago
"Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?" You _would_ expect that post to be mostly failure stories.
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by b_t_s 6y ago
Well the fact that they took their own life shows that they didn't need assistance. And I'm not necessarily saying never under any circumstances, just that there should be some safeguards around assisted suicide for "generall
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by b_t_s 6y ago
> Did I understand this wrong? Yes, this is a misunderstanding "I think almost nobody would argue that depression should qualify you for assisted suicide".....because everybody would argue that you should see a psychologist,
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by b_t_s 6y ago
1/2) What's to allow? Anyone who is reasonably mobile always this option and needs no assistance. If they want a doctor to read the google results for "What's the best way to kill yourself" or write them a script :
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by b_t_s 6y ago
Bridge jumpers are self selected group of mostly physically healthy people suffering from the mostly temporary/treatable mental health issue of depression. I think almost nobody would argue that depression should qualify you for assis
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by b_t_s 6y ago
Totally agree. There is risk of death but also risk of failure(recession, medical issues, etc...) and the risk/reward analysis goes downhill fast as you age. I was on track for FIRE. Then the great recession happened and that became se
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by b_t_s 6y ago
As a counterpoint I would just point out that 6 years ago was a fine time to do this while now is a uniquely bad time. As someone who took gap year that that happened to end +/- 2 weeks from the start of the 07 global financial crisis
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by b_t_s 7y ago
It's a test of our healthcare systems that they can't possibly pass unless our government and society pass their tests. Any country that fails to get the general public sufficiently onboard to flatten the curve _will_ massively o
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by b_t_s 7y ago
"Daddy are you done work yet?" 2 minutes pass "Daddy are you done work yet? When will you be done?" closes the door 2 minutes pass door opens... It _is_ nice to be able to step away for 5 minutes and ask how their school
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by b_t_s 7y ago
My employer would rather pay 120% of Nowhereville for a dev in the eastern standard time zone than pay an Indian salary for that exact same dev working in India. And they'd even rather pay 120% of east coast major metro salary for that
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by b_t_s 7y ago
I am not a lawyer, and your scenario is getting into the gray zone where you really ought to consult a lawyer to get an even remotely reliable opinion. That said, my understanding is that: You shouldn't get convicted(no crime was commi
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by b_t_s 7y ago
Netflix is providing a service. It's on their computer. They are certainly entitled to terminate your access to it. Logging into someone else's AWS account and deleting their stuff is, in the eyes of the law, more akin to Netflix
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by b_t_s 7y ago
I think this depends a lot on the company and your personal ability to tune out noise. Also whether your company uses slack heavily. Office or remote I find 99% of my interruptions are from slack, but they're semi-async and mostly igno
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by b_t_s 7y ago
Yea, I'm not sold on the productivity thing either, at least not on an individual contributor level when everything is going perfectly. But high turnover and/or low headcount in the senior engineering ranks can really send your te
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by b_t_s 7y ago
+1 on retention. Once we had a second office, the benefits of retention started out weighting any down sides of having one more person on the other side of the video screen.
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by b_t_s 7y ago
Employee retention, continuity, and fewer disruptions. I'm not management but I am on the interview team, and I can tell you that hiring senior and architect level positions isn't easy in this job market. Loose one of those folks

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