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by iateanapple 6y ago
> So your telling me that churches are value for money? Incredible value for money - 90% of the services provided by our local church are staffed by unpaid volunteers who go above and beyond.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I also suspect that if you do the simple calculation "excess mortality minus confirmed COVID deaths", this will be an overestimate, because many COVID deaths are misclassified as something else, e.g. pneumonia. I think it dep
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> But how do you know that the number is greater than the fraction of population killed by the coronavirus? You can measure it. For example you can look at excess mortality in the UK and then look at what fraction of that excess mortalit
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> And that the country was happy with a much higher death rate. Sweden has less than half the population of Australia and they have had 5,667 deaths and Australia has had 128. When Australia went into the first lockdown they had essentia
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> We're comparing lockdowns with what people actually do when you don't have a lockdown As long as we are comparing with what people actually do when there is a lockdown. This is what makes the data analysis so difficult - perh
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> First: I think we can agree that house parties alone don't create as much social contact as house parties AND restaurants, salons, gyms, nonessential retailers, hotels, etc. In places with much lighter lockdowns (or no lockdowns a
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> One is a statement made by a candidate that is at best insensitive to people of different races. It sounds like the parent thought the dev wouldn’t fit in with the other team members and so didn’t hire him. > The other is a poorly s
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Case in point, New Zealand is COVID free. Unlike NZ, the US can’t control its borders - as decades of uncontrolled illegal immigration has shown us.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> And I'm saying, if you don't lock down, distancing doesn't happen. First - our lockdowns were mostly unenforced (except against businesses). Bars were closed but house parties raged. Second - Sweden didn’t do lockdowns a
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Anecdotally, I was homeschooled and experienced all of these above Unfortunately they seem part of the “normal” teen experience.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
They seem the same to me? You are saying you wouldn’t hire them because they wouldn’t fit into your work culture right? Or are you saying you wouldn’t hire them because you don’t like their beliefs?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I expect them to be judged on their merits of the job, not their country of origin or visa status. So do I and so do the vast majority of people who want less immigration. > and rejecting them for that is not "McCarthyism"
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I've become less and less liberal the past three months, for multiple reasons, and at least in my liberal bubble, i did not face any backlash. A lot of people are becoming less liberal - your liberal bubble might be trending in th
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Am I a McCarthyist for rejecting him outright without hesitation? Yes. Why can’t he have an opposing view from you on immigration? I was on a visa and could still see the h1b program was being abused. We often have less than ideal expe
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> without addressing the issue of equal opportunity, which might be the biggest factor when designing education. Why would that be a factor at all?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> which can highlight some of the darker experiences, marked by extreme isolation, social anxiety, and depression There are high rates of social isolation, social anxiety, and depression among school kids. Close to 10% of teens have an a
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> The parent commenter says "I personally experienced X and it was not great for me" No. The parent commenter clearly mentioned “Never heard of this Unschool term”. The parent commenter then went on to talk about their experien
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Well if you put it that way, of course hiring a private tutor on every subject is in now way worse than school. I’m not sure what you are expecting? Most subjects I can learn well enough to teach and help out but there are some I don’t
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I know I couldn't educate my kids to university enrollment standard other than in physics, maths and such. Why not? And why would you have to? I got my kids an English tutor and an Arts tutor once a week to help where I couldn’t.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> But what is the real-life practical alternative? > But life is short and any art takes long to learn to sufficient depth that you can solve dynamic complex problems. In the time I spent playing DOTA my brother learned Chinese AND le
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Those are the only two options? Do you have another reason a developer 10x better than her peers isn’t promoted to senior, to principal, etc?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Where have you all been? The pressure on management to hire diverse candidates has increased 100 fold over the past decade.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> It stands to reason that there are going to be women (in particular) with the innate abilities you want Since when was hiring about innate abilities? > if you hire based on what people already did, not what you assess they can do in
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I have found they are literally 2x-10x better than their peers. So either your organisation is horribly sexist by not promoting these women or you are horribly sexist and think they are better because they are women.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> It boggles the mind that people can live with themselves and can carry on living with such guilt. Then again, maybe it’s my western sense of morality that tells me the perpetrator should feel guilt. Perhaps they don’t... The average we
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> No, the equivalent for a software engineer is actually coding, whether on the job or not. Practice and performance are not the same thing. The mindset is entirely different. Imagine a world where devs are told by their managers to stop
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Boxing for example Boxing isn’t a good example because it’s a combat sport which means there is far more training than competing. When I played football the ratio was close to 1:1 - games played to hours trained and something like 150-
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I don't know why you point out athletes so much, when top-level athletes actually practice very few hours a day. > trains a total of 4-5 hours daily, at most You are making the parents point for them. The average software devel
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Even with its core loyal employees Facebook can’t compete if they don’t retain skilled workers. There is an abundance of skilled workers who don’t care about this boycott. I personally know quite a few skilled devs who think Zuckerberg
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> There is (hopefully) enough space between "actively organizing genocide" and "conservatives, conspiracy theory pages, or even jokes" to allow room for a reasonable line. There is no trust to allow anything resemblin

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