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by extra88 5y ago
Polio isn’t airborne and is much less transmissible so the vaccine doesn’t need to be as effective to stop the spread. Vaccination programs were also very successful.
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by extra88 5y ago
I replied to someone else, with evidence, that the origin of the phrase is not prejudiced. I recalled I had access to the OED online and it also supports this. Furthermore, it says about the phrase "The theory that the origin of the ph
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by extra88 5y ago
We can't all be either Funk or Wagnalls. This is the first I've ever seen an origin explained. This [0] explanation describes a couple of definitions of "pale," a fence or a sort of political boundary with the Pale of Du
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by extra88 5y ago
Here, we speak American (/s). The earlier examples of using "racist" along these lines was long before 2010. > 2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic d
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by extra88 5y ago
FYI, a container queries implementation is in the Chrome testing browser. > Most users don't resize their windows on desktop all that much like we do. No, but their windows do start out at wildly different sizes. It's not like
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by extra88 5y ago
randompwd described "beyond the pale" as a racist slur and an example of anti-Irish racism. Sounds like they're calling Irish people a race to me. Or they're confused and think "racist" is synonymous with &quot
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by extra88 5y ago
> an environment tolerant of small things can eventually become tolerant of bigger things, and then much bigger things, and that's why it's important to pay attention to the small things. Huh, sounds like the "broken windo
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by extra88 5y ago
I'd expect lower or negative excess deaths in countries with very effective COVID responses because those responses can also prevent other causes of death. Masks, hand washing, social distancing also prevent the flu and other diseases.
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by extra88 5y ago
> dark mode is an accessibility feature The current interface has all kinds of accessibility problems, including insufficient color contrast, calling dark mode an accessibility feature isn't likely to be persuasive. While I'm s
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by extra88 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Part of my thinking assumes Bezos himself counts as an Amazon employee so all by himself he heavily affects the difference between average and median employee (he might be the only billionaire employee, Andy Ja
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by extra88 5y ago
I don't know what your point is. I was making a distinction between "average employee" which can be distorted by having vastly wealthier individuals amongst their number, and "median employee,' which is not. I hope
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by extra88 5y ago
I don't know about average but the median Amazon employee, including all those working in warehouses, driving trucks, etc. is unlikely to be wealthier.
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by extra88 5y ago
What kind of disclosure are you talking about? Harvard University publishes an annual financial report [0] every year which includes information about the performance and holdings of its endowment. Compared to 2005-06, the 2019-20 report ap
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by extra88 5y ago
Yes, it's a pretty minor downside and employers can share and emphasize benefits beyond salary to attract people for whom they are appealing. I work for a university and the job application system requires people to provide a desired s
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by extra88 5y ago
No problem. A possible downside for a potential employee is they could be a very qualified candidate who passes on applying for a position because the high end of the range isn't high enough but they didn't sufficiently factor in
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by extra88 5y ago
> Conversely, if they fail to grow into the role they might need to be let go to make room for someone more appropriate for the position. How many places fire people because they thought they might be a star performer but turn out to be
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by extra88 5y ago
A downside to an employer is it limits their options before they have all the information. They might be able to get a bargain on an employee who would have taken the job for less than the minimum. It can also be a bad starting point for a
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by extra88 6y ago
I have a shell script that runs at every boot and replaces the config change if it's missing.
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by extra88 6y ago
They probably won't deliver but I will. Here's a top hit "The Productivity–Pay Gap" [0], what I was talking about, from the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-worker, left-leaning think tank [1]. The top google hit for the
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by extra88 6y ago
I agree Bootstrap and Tailwind are very different, that’s what I was pointing out. Your problem is with tomc1985, not me.
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by extra88 6y ago
Bootstrap and the like don’t have one property per class name as Tailwind does.
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by extra88 6y ago
Yes, Disney is very large but CEO pay isn't proportional to employee count. If Elon Musk's compensation (almost $600m in 2019) was divided amongst Tesla's 70,000 employees, that would be ~$8,500/employee. If Sumit Singh&
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by extra88 6y ago
The workers that produce 10 times as much today (because of newer technologies, techniques, etc.) don't get paid 10 times as much. Worker productivity has continued to climb, decade after decade, but inflation-adjusted worker pay is b
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by extra88 6y ago
I agree that following web standards gets you a lot in terms of accessibility and is a part of good programming and design. There's a lot that automated checkers don't find. They can detect if an image lacks an alt attribute, they
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by extra88 6y ago
I disagree. Even if an SPA framework (or more likely a library add-on) does a good job of reinventing the wheels of traditional HTML requests (e.g. announcing the name of the new "page" when it loads and setting focus), there are
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by extra88 6y ago
Typically in disability lawsuits, the plaintiffs are seeking nothing more than the problem be corrected and coverage of their court costs, they don't seek damages. Unfortunately, in recent years, there's been a spate of lawsuit tr
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by extra88 6y ago
> billboard or newspaper ad also had to be distributed in braille. The law doesn't require fundamentally altering a product and it doesn't require unreasonable accommodations. The difference between an accessible and inaccessib
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by extra88 6y ago
I don't know how many additions are needed to standards but I'd like to see better support of the standards we have. It's way too common for browsers to implement standards wrong when building the accessibility tree. Also, th
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by extra88 6y ago
Thank you for being a conscientious practitioner of your craft.
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by extra88 6y ago
> web development is an industry with skilled workers It's an industry with some skilled workers but a lot that aren't. It's amazing to me, who watched the web develop as a non-professional, how many workers don't kno

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