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Ask HN: Employer is requiring vaccine, but I have a medically documented issue
2 points by fridif 5y ago|7 comments
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by fridif 5y ago
I have experienced remote work from my bed for 2 years now and I can confirm that I do prefer working from my bed in every circumstance. But if push came to shove and these employers decided literally everyone must come back to the office
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by fridif 5y ago
I never understood why people don't like cubicles or just the office in general. The only thing I can't stand is the commute and area around the office, unless you are very fortunate to be working in a woodsy location with a lot o
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by fridif 5y ago
Which is why they "moderate the content on the platform", right? People get banned for posting their political opinions but media companies
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by fridif 5y ago
No because I don't have any. Thanks Java
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by fridif 5y ago
I second this comment 1000x. Amazon beat Barnes, and then Walmart, and then Jet tried to beat Amazon. If the average Joe was able to give it a shot instead of just the Harvard elite, then we'd have many more chances
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by fridif 5y ago
>"So aside from just stop buying from Amazon, what can we do?" Lower the barriers to entry for business. It is not easy to comply with regulations and reporting. A scrappy startup can replace Amazon if they can focus on things
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by fridif 5y ago
I think its important to highlight that the slap on the wrist is disbursed to a group of people who are essentially mercenaries that take the lion's share of the pie (proportionally compared to an individual claimant)
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by fridif 5y ago
And the class action firm 25 million ^.^
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by fridif 5y ago
Yeah I agree with this, I would feel hurt too. For some reason the word "passion" has this hidden connotation for me which makes me feel like the project isn't serious, isn't making money, isn't popular, and is just
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by fridif 5y ago
I suspect that Thibault is making money from it because he is actually deploying a web service, and the value there is coming from the network effects of its multiplayer user base. Even if I deployed his code tonight, there's no guaran
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by fridif 5y ago
Passion project? It is the sole source of his income.
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by fridif 5y ago
In my fantasy world, the developers are the ones who make promises to the users and thats it
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by fridif 5y ago
"I am super jacked to see progress being made in controlling the moral failings of certain humans, even if it has to be through banning the sale of alcohol nationwide."
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by fridif 5y ago
It feels wrong to ban the sale of a product on the basis that "it might be used on the electrical grid". There is nothing stopping me from buying a PC and running it on my own off grid solution. If the power companies don't l
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by fridif 5y ago
From the article: "Computer science is a difficult world". No, actually it is very easy. It turns out the real world is actually insanely complex, sometimes needlessly so. I suspect entrepreneurs are being held back by very comple
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by fridif 5y ago
An interesting choice in name for a company raising $100M on a dream. What happens when the no-code tool breaks? What happens when it doesn't do what I want it to do?
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by fridif 5y ago
Out of the literal billions upon billions of people who have walked this earth, you consider an age gap of 3 years to be an "extreme outlier"? We're not talking about a decade difference, really. I think there's better e
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by fridif 5y ago
But like, I'm not a good soccer player at all and I don't harbor a belief that I should be placed on a soccer team to the exclusion of others who are much better (as opposed to just marginally better).
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by fridif 5y ago
My high school GPA was very bad, my SAT was "good enough to get in", and my university GPA was excellent, showing that I was now an adult and taking things seriously. No SAT, no admission, I think would have been the case for me.
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by fridif 5y ago
Don't understand the hate for the SAT. Where I went to school, students would just beg their teachers for better grades and it literally worked. I did average on my SAT compared to my ex-gf in college (top 30 US school) but I ran a 3.8
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by fridif 5y ago
So the freight cost to send someone a laptop is under $25? That seems reasonable if of course the person is living in Kathmandu... The government tax on electronics is not good though. I'd have to paypal them extra money to cover it, i
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by fridif 5y ago
I do all of the above with my own jars I've written all by myself and I feel as if it was 10x faster than just scratching the surface of Kubernetes. Resume driven development is very real if people can't write their own load balan
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by fridif 5y ago
No problem, I'm used to the downvoting :) I think it is important to distinguish a couple of things. If there are businesses out there, like maybe McDonalds or Walmart, who are easily able to pay $20 per hour instead of $7.50, and are
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by fridif 5y ago
I reckon the jobs are not on offer because the restaurants only want to pay a small amount (they have razor thin margins and an employee costs more than just salary [workers comp, insurance, equipment, liability etc]). Previously people acc
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by fridif 5y ago
A seller's market created by a law in which if the buyer pays too low of a price, very bad things happen to them.
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by fridif 5y ago
There are probably 100s of articles that are tangentially related to physics, fluid dynamics, materials science etc... ... but none of them will teach you how to show up to a customer's house on time to install a toilet quickly, effici
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by fridif 5y ago
I bought a house in the burbs for my own happiness, I will never tolerate city living ever again.
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by fridif 5y ago
I have been tasked with developing a Textract tool at work and so far I have been impressed with the complete accuracy of it for non-handwritten, non-photocopied documents. I haven't seen it make any mistakes at all and responses take
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by fridif 5y ago
I'm just memeing what it sounded like in my head, nothing personal

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