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by gpawl 9y ago
What are some external comparisons?
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by gpawl 9y ago
> FWIW, the physical constraints are big aspects preventing people organizing more. They are also big aspects of the value! When someone says "it sure is hard to get my friends together for a party", it's not completely h
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by gpawl 9y ago
Your boss almost certainly learned that trick from something like Dale Carnegie/Carnegey and practiced it. Oversharing with strangers (bragging about loving your children?!) is a classic manipulative tactic.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Have you tried a policy honesty and discretion? "OOO/WFH: be back Tuesday at 11am"
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by gpawl 9y ago
Is "asking a patient how much they sleep" the same as "watching them to measure how much they sleep"?
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by gpawl 9y ago
So? A disease (or injury) is what causes the pain. Why the specious distinction?
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by gpawl 9y ago
So employers need to be careful not to hire sickly people?
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by gpawl 9y ago
That's even worse than Amazon!
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by gpawl 9y ago
What's wrong with people taking 10 days off per year? Why is management so short-sighted as to make promotion decisions based on ~4days/yr of presence (<2% of productivity)? Why does it even matter why they take the time off? M
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by gpawl 9y ago
If users have to work around server errors, it's not a solution.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Kara Swisher's main career was been publishing leaked Silicon Valley documents (including Google's) while being married to a Google Vice President. (They are now separated and the VP is no longer at Google)
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by gpawl 9y ago
Are you married? I expect opposition to 1:1 dinners is higher among married couples.
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by gpawl 9y ago
From the NYT: > “If I couldn’t meet with my boss one on one, I don’t get that face time to show what I can do to get that next promotion” That's a fascinating perspective. > Any rule about avoiding meetings that applied only to o
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by gpawl 9y ago
Why do you say 10% is "only"? That's millions of people. Why do you assume there power imbalance was rare? Before recent years, marrying a boss or a professor was quite common. FWIW, among famous people in tech: Jeff Bezos ma
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by gpawl 9y ago
It's neither rocket science not common sense, or it is common sense, but common isn't innate: it's cultural expectations that need to be taught and reminded, so everyone can be their best self.
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by gpawl 9y ago
You confuse "slightly imperfect" with "useless"
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by gpawl 9y ago
Same reason that app stores charge a 30% commission instead of a flat fee. Prices are what the market will bear and prices are controlled by a cartel that runs the marketplace (the MLS members)
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by gpawl 9y ago
It's only exorbitant since the price of housing has skyrocketed in the past 20 years
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by gpawl 9y ago
It's still relative, though. You can't know your absolute speed, unless you are a photon and speed has no meaning to you at all.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Why are you spreading this FUD about blackballing people? Do you have any proof?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Snapchat has some useful popular features, but does it have a wide enough functionality it be where anyone "lives" online?
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by gpawl 9y ago
FYI, Mz has been here sharing her perspective on homelessness for several years: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+mz+ho...
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by gpawl 9y ago
It's strange to call Albert Einstein a "German citizen" in _1944_, since by 1943 all German Jews had been murdered or exiled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein > In 1901, after being state
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by gpawl 9y ago
We can't popularize pure mathematics because, by its definition, pure mathematics is not related even tenuously to every day life, so popularization requires that the audience do years of idiosyncratic study.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Almost none, considering that the dots are nearly invisible, and most of a printed page is visible ink
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by gpawl 9y ago
Are these not since 2015? http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-scandal-recap-2017-3/#fr...
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by gpawl 9y ago
Thank you. Mild-mannereds unite!
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by gpawl 9y ago
Thank you. People get distracted by the difference between "intentional discrimination" and "disparate impact". You are showing good leadership to your mild-mannered coworkers and also the ones who are better ad speaking
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by gpawl 9y ago
Come off it. You can't just disregard all the informed opinions of all the witness who disagree with your uninformed judgment
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by gpawl 9y ago
Why is it more important to you to prove it's "not sexism" than to be concerned that moderator did his job poorly regardless of the reason?

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