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by dividefuel 9mo ago
When I think of times in which I've made friends, it usually has to do with being in a group of similar-ish peers for an extended period of time, ideally with a shared goal. School is the obvious example, but work can be too if your co
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by dividefuel 1y ago
My kid showed an allergic reaction the third time he had peanuts, at 6-7 months old. We hadn't lived in much of a bubble up to that point. You say they live in bubbles, but is that before or after discovering the allergy? After the all
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by dividefuel 1y ago
I do think some automation is useful. For example, being able to order a sandwich online is very convenient because the visual UX makes it easy to be specific and clear about what should and shouldn't go on the sandwich. Communicating
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by dividefuel 1y ago
It's interesting to compare Taco Bell (and many other chain fast food restaurants) with In-N-Out. At Taco Bell, a meal costs something like $15/person unless you're aggressive about saving money. They also only seem to have 2
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by dividefuel 1y ago
If you read forums of new parents (e.g. parenting subreddits), the common consensus is that being a stay at home parent is far harder than a job.
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by dividefuel 1y ago
I see three big reasons why people aren't having kids: #1: Raising kids is really hard. They're expensive. They eed constant attention when they're young, and in modern American society they need to be in a bunch of activitie
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by dividefuel 1y ago
Do you sense there's still a reluctance to serve foreign guests, and that it's largely done out of necessity but not out of innate desire?
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by dividefuel 1y ago
Isn't this what pricing is for? The "best" places can raise prices because of the high demand. Then the "pretty good" places in comparison wind up being a good value option.
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by dividefuel 1y ago
I've shared this before. In a lot of modern jobs, how hard you turn the crank of effort is almost completely disconnected from the outcomes that you see. Beyond a small minimum requirement, turning the crank more only leads to the expe
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by dividefuel 1y ago
Among average people, it seems there's widespread understanding that things are collectively getting worse. The next 50 years are more likely to bring turmoil than prosperity, with climate change, AI, and political instability all gett
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by dividefuel 2y ago
He's also in his 60s. What happens to the company when he passes away?
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by dividefuel 2y ago
At the same time, execs love to paint with a broad brush that everyone working from home is slacking off... while also not sharing any data about how many people are being lazy. Either your performance management can catch lazy employees
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I think there are a lot of reasons, and forced attrition is definitely something they see as a benefit. However, I do genuinely think that a lot of them truly believe that working together in an office, face-to-face, is important. RTO is
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by dividefuel 2y ago
This mirrors a lot of what I've suspected. Executives have a survivorship bias of a very work-focused life. It's hard for them to understand why anyone else would choose differently. This applies to both work location and number o
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by dividefuel 2y ago
Trying to understand the point of view of companies switching from 3 days to 5 days. Do they see absolutely zero benefit to working from home part of the time? I can understand -- even if I disagree with -- the idea that fully remote work h
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by dividefuel 2y ago
In a lot of modern corporate jobs, how hard you turn the crank of effort is almost completely disconnected from the outcomes that you see. Beyond a small minimum requirement, turning the crank more only leads to the expectation that you wil
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by dividefuel 2y ago
What GPU offers a good balance between cost and performance for running LLMs locally? I'd like to do more experimenting, and am due for a GPU upgrade from my 1080 anyway, but would like to spend less than $1600...
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I agree with this as the main factor (over cost) for the falling birth rate. The opportunity cost of having children has never been higher: you give up leisure, hobbies, rest, social life, and income. Whether or not children is worth this c
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I can't imagine that nursing's problems are just fundamentally housing. Tracing back rough work schedules, unreasonable administration expectations, and hostile patients to housing costs feels like a stretch.
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by dividefuel 2y ago
There seems to be a broad understanding among those in these fields that these jobs just keep getting worse, and so people are quitting. They may be getting worse for different reasons (worse conditions, less satisfaction, declining pay, mo
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by dividefuel 2y ago
Nursing seems like one where a feedback loop could happen. As others quit, your patient burden increases. The higher your patient burden, the more likely you are to make a mistake. Mistakes are often, as far as I understand, held against th
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by dividefuel 2y ago
Yes, I think there's a big distinction between "Execs think being in office is better for culture/productivity" VS "Execs have data that proves being in office is better for culture/productivity." I be
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I don't think revenge is the motivation, but it's hard to know what the actual motivation is. I think it's some mix of: - Execs truly believe that culture and productivity are better in office (i.e., what they actually say in
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by dividefuel 2y ago
This feels like a strawman. How many people are working multiple jobs? How many are doing it effectively enough to not get caught nor fired for poor performance? And, if they are able to somehow juggle multiple jobs without performance&#x2F
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by dividefuel 2y ago
It'll be interesting to see how soon the other big tech companies follow suit and do the same. Cynically, I wonder to what extent that forced RTO has been directly coordinated between these companies VS copycatting each other.
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I thought 3 days/week would settle as the equilibrium -- enough to maintain real estate value while still paying lip service to employee wishes, and still achieving the stealth layoff of blocking full remote work.
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by dividefuel 2y ago
I go with the flow. Usually I can't take the full workday off (meetings that I should be at, etc.), so I try to focus on doing a task that I don't feel friction towards. If I feel like I can't get started on something or that
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by dividefuel 2y ago
In my experience driving (in the US), I don't think I've ever seen an attentive driver going consistently 5-10% above the speed limit as a prime safety issue. Far more often the issues I see are (1) distracted drivers (e.g. on the
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by dividefuel 2y ago
If you've passed a car before, it feels pretty clear that minimizing your time spent in the same lane as oncoming traffic is a much bigger priority than minimizing how much you go over the speed limit.
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by dividefuel 2y ago
What are some changes that we could make that would discourage it?

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