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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Fewer than 1% of Americans commute by bike.[1] For the vast majority of people the end of WFH will not be a relaxing meander of me time through the forest. [1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/05&#x
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The past year also saw a 50%+ spike in urban violent crime rates, and repeated riots in nearly every major city. Anecdotally most of the professional families I know who fled to the suburbs cited safety as the primary reason.
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Fair enough. But in Arizona, it's not like you're just turn off the AC completely and let the house bake in the 115 noonday heat. Maybe you bump your thermostat from 76 to 90 from 9-3 (gotta give it time to cool back down before y
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At least in Florida, my kids were never required to wear a mask to school.
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The academic research does not validate your gut assessment.[1] Remote work in 2020 was associated with a significant increase in worker productivity. [1] https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj
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This seems to be why senior executives are so out of touch on the issue. "I don't see what the big deal about commuting to the office is. Just buy a $12 million house in the middle of Palo Alto"
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> There are many people in the current working generation that avoided the soul-sucking suburban commute from the start. Very few of those people have kids. Unless you're making L8 comp, raising a few kids within bicycle commute the
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What I find really disconcerting is that the senior leaders in the tech industry have been talking for years about increasing gender inclusivity. Yet very few major tech companies seem to be wholeheartedly embracing full remote, despite it
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$150 extra from 40 hours of AC is insanely high. That's about what I pay total in the middle of summer in Florida for a decent-size SFH. Check the insulation on your house for a leak. Also maybe consider upgrading to a ductless heat
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The innovation argument is particularly frustrating. By far the most innovation in computing this century has occurred in open source software, which by its nature is completely distributed. People who work on the Linux kernel or Postgres o
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Older people drink significantly less than the young. By age 65, more than half Americans are teetotalers.
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It seems like calories would add up pretty quick, especially when you throw beer into the mix. Do you have any trouble with weight? Or is that you eat a lot less food to compensate? I suppose to some extent a cocktail in hand on the couch s
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There's a continuum of responses existing between "do nothing" and "drop missiles". For example, it'd probably be relatively easy for special forces to assassinate key personnel, even deep within enemy territor
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Even between the US and Western Europe, there's a significant gap in workforce quality. Researchers have found that American companies consistently achieve higher levels of IT productivity than their Western European counterparts.[1] [
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This presupposes that the wave of quitting has no significant impact on the employer side. I'd imagine that many companies who push office-first too hard will find themselves short staffed in a very tight labor market. The likely respo
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This presupposes that a hiring manager can perfectly judge the quality of candidates. There are a ton of great engineers in, say Romania. But unless you know how to find and discriminate, you will be stuck with the average Romanian engineer
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What I find really disconcerting is that the senior leaders in the tech industry have been talking for years about increasing gender inclusivity. Yet very few major tech companies seem to be wholeheartedly embracing full remote, despite it
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Not to mention that the notion that there's a huge global pool of talented devs is largely a myth. It's true that labor is cheaper in India or Russia, but research confirms that the average engineer is far less competent than thei
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One formula that works well for me is audiobooks + jogging. There's really no escape from the book for the next 30-45 minutes.
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The most precious resource by far is human ingenuity. Home Sapients are not like other organisms. Every additional person increases the rate of innovation across the entire species. Because of cultural transmission there are increasing retu
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This isn't true. Any promise is sufficient for consideration. Cash doesn't actually have to change hands for a contract to be in effect. If this wasn't the case then every single financial futures contract or swap would be
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Of course a lot of abuse happens in private enterprise. But typically, senior management is much much more proactive about it than department chairs and provosts. There's very few Fortune 500 companies where you could publicly get away
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Except the problem with Mendelian randomization is that genes that control circadian rhythm are also likely to affect mood.
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Proof-of-Chillness
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> someone else will move in who lives outside the city I don't really see this as a gotcha. Those would-be new arrivals to the city don't materialize out of thin air. Presumably they left some other place behind, and their migr
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You may not be interested in culture war, but culture war is interested in you.
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> one big way to prevent this downward trend in quality of life is to build more cheap housing One pedantic quibble. It's not necessary to build cheap housing specifically. It's perfectly fine simply to build more housing of an
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One possibility. But the original study carefully controlled for exercise and lifestyle factors. To corroborative the causal relationship, we also have extensive experimental evidence where UV and/or bright light on skin/eyes dire
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> Why not just tell people to supplement vitamin D instead? One very consistent pattern with vitamin D research is that association studies will find a major relationship between serum vitamin D and some health outcome.[1] But an RCT usi
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Medical doctors are no more trained to digest scientific evidence than anyone else. Especially when it comes to population epidemiology. Statistical illiteracy is widespread among medical doctors.[1] There's no reason to trust a doctor

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