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by distrill 5y ago
TBF that's not really all they have to do. They also have to use that new application, which means (further) diving their communications stream. And it means an additional onboarding step when they set up a new device. I understand the
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by distrill 5y ago
$300 is a barrier to plenty of people but it's really not a sticking point for a lot of the target demographic.
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by distrill 5y ago
Headsets today are not that expensive and they're getting cheaper.
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by distrill 5y ago
everyone I know is pretty excited
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by distrill 5y ago
I don't have a problem with any of this.
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by distrill 5y ago
yeah, big companies have a very favorable what-happens-if-i-get-hit-by-a-bus score
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by distrill 5y ago
some of them are still eng background but it's long enough ago that they're not really technical at all anymore. others are what you said, I guess for the most part. engineering and managing engineers are sort of similar, or at le
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by distrill 5y ago
it is also memed heavily. zuck with too much sunscreen, zuck in Congress drinking water, there are many
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by distrill 5y ago
I've been at Facebook for about a year and a half. Before this I was at startups in the marketing and financial industries. We've been under scrutiny for the whole time that I've been there, and the company is pretty unpopula
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by distrill 5y ago
which is probably an improvement if they're kept totally separate from facebook
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by distrill 5y ago
I don't think it's particularly sudden, although I am also confused by the laser focus.
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by distrill 5y ago
It's definitely intentional
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by distrill 5y ago
I'll wait for coffee or lunch. There are natural places throughout a work day to ask someone a question without interrupting their work time. I specifically said that I wouldn't interrupt someone's flow.
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by distrill 5y ago
What? I'll wait for coffee or lunch. There are natural places throughout a work day to ask someone a question without interrupting their work time. I specifically noted this too. I'm not advocating for instant response, I'm s
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by distrill 5y ago
Even for something quick, I will type up a question and then go over it a few times, make some edits, probably provide some links for context. It just feels like a bigger deal than just asking someone next to you. In person they can cut me
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by distrill 5y ago
yeah fair enough, i appreciate the social disconnect there
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by distrill 5y ago
are you intentionally straw manning me? i specifically acknowledged what you're claiming, and have been clear about how that doesn't make it comparable to something as fast acting as a virus. you're fighting a point that has
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by distrill 5y ago
it is a really bad metaphor. what fills up icu beds? obesity? not acutely, that will take years to infect another person. the vaccines are not great at stopping the spread of delta but they are great at preventing people who get it from goi
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by distrill 5y ago
sort of, but not quite. you've articulated a good argument for something like a fat tax, but being fat doesn't immediately make others around you fat. (yes, you can be a bad influence on someone, but that won't land them in t
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by distrill 5y ago
Unfortunately, people will be saying "we don't know what happens 10 years after getting vaccinated" for 10 years
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by distrill 5y ago
trust me bro
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by distrill 5y ago
I suppose I'm not presenting any data here, but of course? I mean anyone who publishes anything approaching dark humor is going to be closer to the line than something like a children's cartoon twitter account.
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by distrill 5y ago
Are you suggesting then that vaccines are totally ineffective?
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by distrill 5y ago
I 100% agree that we should have done and should still do more to prepare for this and future pandemics. But I still wonder how you're not getting this. The vaccine greatly reduces your chances of getting sick, and getting stuck in a h
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by distrill 5y ago
It's just unreasonable to me that we're 18 months into this, and they haven't heard the point articulated that it isn't to prevent their death specifically, but their neighbors death and the overwhelming of the healthcar
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by distrill 5y ago
I will also advocate for everyone to get vaccinated, but this isn't helpful at all.
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by distrill 5y ago
I am confused at how people are still asking questions like this, seemingly in good faith. The point of masks and vaccines and even staying home as needed, is not specifically to prevent healthy 18-50 year olds from dying. It's to limi
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by distrill 5y ago
> Vacation doesn't help. It just puts me farther behind. I didn't realize this until somewhat recently. The reason I don't take time off isn't because I don't want time off, or because I'm saving it for some
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by distrill 5y ago
I'm also not sure I agree that there are few good engineers. I think that's some rhetoric that we all say because we all think we're some of the few good ones. In my experience (FAANG, startups in the valley and startups out
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by distrill 5y ago
I hear you, but I'm suggesting that this trait is part of what differentiates a good engineer. If I'm hiring someone and they have a bunch of recent moves that are stemmed from reasons like "they wanted to use some process th

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