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by blub 5y ago
It means that the employee is able to fulfill their tasks firstly according to industry and then company standards. Having a job or even launching a successful project does not mean that one is good enough - especially in software where ha
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by blub 5y ago
I don't know if the situation in the US is that bad to justify general vaccination of children, but at least in Europe it's explicitly not recommended by the appropriate decision body in several countries. Both the STIKO (German v
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by blub 5y ago
I asked about this specifically in Germany and they told me that they do not aspirate any more. According to the German vaccine advisory body, it’s done to avoid patient discomfort. This was originally discussed in Denmark in relation to th
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by blub 5y ago
I haven’t seen almost any comments on HN which can be qualified as anti-vaccine, so I find your assertion unjustified. But the real issue I have with such comments is that now apparently someone that does not want a specific medical treat
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by blub 5y ago
If this were an existential threat to society maybe that would justify mandatory vaccination, but it’s not even close to that. Even the most badly battered countries have not only managed to survive, but found a way to cope with the pandemi
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by blub 5y ago
Your premise that everything was "blocked off" from people's immune systems is wrong and the whole argument falls apart. This is incidentally also addressed explicitly in the article.
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by blub 5y ago
I didn't back in 2020 during the most strict lockdowns, but afterwards sure, plenty of colds. And I hate to brag, but I have a (light) cold right now. :-) For the record, there was nothing special about those after-lockdown-colds compa
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by blub 5y ago
The hustlers are winning against those that are loyal. It's sad, but that's how it is.
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by blub 5y ago
2008 was probably the pinnacle of web development. Everything else coming after that was a continuous line of decisions sacrificing usability and user friendliness for developer convenience.
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by blub 5y ago
Health care impact because of shifting infection wave timeframes. The immune system will continue to deal with the viruses as it normally does.
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by blub 5y ago
The researchers are failing to disclose their financial relationship with e.g. Google while publishing papers about e.g. Google. This is a clear cut conflict of interest which should get them banned from publishing.
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by blub 5y ago
In your anecdote, git wouldn’t even qualify as a tool, it would be the weird storage space with an over-inflated sense of importance.
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by blub 5y ago
Social diversity of opinion is also to be expected. No matter what the leadership decides, there will be people that criticize it and there will be people that are strongly against it. The reasons almost don’t matter. If the leadership does
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by blub 5y ago
I had discussions about vaccines with relatives and there I've tried to make a case where I think it would be beneficial for them. I've dropped the topic for those that don't want it, perhaps only jokingly bringing it up ever
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by blub 5y ago
My replies were throttled and someone beat me to the punch... :-) It's not that simple and a very important factor is what that something is. To give an extreme example, we don't call people that don't donate a kidney to he
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by blub 5y ago
There's nothing selfish about not wanting to undergo a medical procedure to help strangers . A vaccine is first and foremost a method for protecting oneself and one's family from disease. The only critical aspect of this situat
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by blub 5y ago
Two more options: * lobby for laws which forbid corporations from violating employee's privacy and mandate medical procedures. * move to a country which already does the above
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by blub 5y ago
It's not exactly the same, since the only mandatory vaccine I'm aware of is the one against measles, a very infectious disease which can kill kids and batter adults. It has sequelae which can appear years later. The vaccine has
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by blub 5y ago
Exactly because companies are typically not allowed to force employees to undergo certain procedures and treatments - and for very good reasons - no exception should be done in this case either.
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by blub 5y ago
These sort of unofficial background checks are unethical IMO, because there's often zero trace of them occurring. That person is essentially blacklisted without any hope of remedy. Unfortunately even where they're illegal they sti
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by blub 5y ago
You can try transferring to an EU office, it's unlikely that they can mandate vaccination there. :-)
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by blub 5y ago
This goes back to the generally weak worker protections in the US. Background checks are a pretty hostile approach for most jobs, since after all it is assumed that the person which was convicted paid their debt to society. Sure, for certai
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by blub 5y ago
Back then there were many browsers and many actors involved in developing web standards. It was justified to criticise laggards. Nowadays the Microsoft browser, Opera and others are just Chrome skins. Google is pushing various drafts and es
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by blub 5y ago
A virus with the flu's potential for damage and the SARS-2 level of infectivity even after a vaccine would be terrible for those getting sick, but even worse for healthcare.
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by blub 5y ago
I like to browse the catalogues of various publishers that I consider of good quality and look for interesting books. Another one that caught my eye was "Rust for Rustaceans" (still in development), which admittedly is a pure lang
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by blub 5y ago
I don't have enough interest in German politics to get into a deep discussion about it, but for the record I was referring to election lists and the "Mindestquotierung" where odd election list spots, including the first spot
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by blub 5y ago
Given that they've specifically said "advancement", the original poster must be referring to people which are already working for the stated company and will be skipped for promotion. I believe they would have grounds to sue
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by blub 5y ago
The sentence you quoted makes no such assumption. This kind of quota can either be fulfilled by hiring significantly more women, or by rejecting men and only hiring women. Since gitlab or any other company can't suddenly conjure female
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by blub 5y ago
Rooting for others to fail instead of one's own success is a recipe for always being miserable. In this case it's also logically dubious, because we have no idea how C++ would work in a Linux kernel - it was never tried.
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by blub 5y ago
That may be, however I'm not looking for experiences when learning software engineering topics. Instead I want something that fits together with my existing knowledge framework and delivers significant benefits. Programming languages a

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