ikeyany

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by ikeyany 6y ago
You read it correctly. It's natural to not want some device between you and the human being you're working with for a good chunk of your week.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
But they lose their power over you.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
We should certainly scrutinize certain industries more than others, such as the auto industry or those who otherwise benefit from having the masses commutes.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Someone can strongly think "I don't want to interact with others via webcam and screens all day" without having ulterior motives.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
"I got mine, fuck everyone else".
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by ikeyany 6y ago
If you were told that gerrymandering has a demonstrably larger effect on an election's legitimacy than mail-in voting, would you be as vocal against gerrymandering as you are against mail-in voting? If it is really about election legit
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Our cities and rural areas aren't exactly in a great state either. I would imagine the average resident of a dense city does not know the names of all of their next door neighbors.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Mail-in ballots have existed for decades in elections all across the country and no one has questioned their legitimacy. If you accept the results of elections that have occurred prior to today, then there is no basis for the argument that
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by ikeyany 6y ago
You are mistaking Duck Dynasty with either DuckTales, Quack Pack, or Mighty Ducks.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Please do not spead false information on HN. The tweet in question is: > "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent." Twitter labeled it as unsubstantiated, and provided a
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Even then, older people are less inclined to need an excuse to go home and do other things like hobbies; they're more likely to value work-life balance in general.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Not only are younger people cheaper ("We can't pay your bonus with money, but we can pay you in warm labels like rockstar and ninja ."), they make less noise when you squeeze them. If you pull a fast one on a younger perso
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by ikeyany 6y ago
The holiday weekends in the United States are MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day. This past weekend was Memorial Day for those in the United States.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I think we are collectively underestimating the number of people who never really thought of remote work as an option. But I also hope to be proven wrong here. It also makes sense that although you may be biased towards remote work, you wou
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by ikeyany 6y ago
He was competing with the worldwide applicant pool that was willing to work remotely . That pool just increased in size, considerably.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
> London is dirtier and just as inflicted with "undesirables" Are we talking about the same London and the same SF? I went a whole week in London riding the subway several times a day without seeing anything gross.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Now the industry has access to talent from across the entire world, so perhaps the outsourcing model will come back. And these "suckers" are just applying for the best job they can land with their skills.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Having stayed at that hotel last year, those elevators seriously need an upgrade.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Agile encourages developers to "stay in their lane". It's intertwined with American culture at this point.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
A lot of people mean "underrepresented and underprivileged people", which has a less racial implication than "minority". In that case, regardless of race, they would look at your parents' income, or the kind of scho
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by ikeyany 6y ago
> In my public elementary school my principal deceived state officials to try to put me into special ed. She was admonished after it was revealed she hid my Iowa standardized test scores from state officials. I think a student talking ab
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I'm still not convinced. And it wouldn't be hard to prove either: there must be data for how much empty roads affects reckless driving during non-pandemic times. So if today's empty roads are causing reckless driving at a sim
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by ikeyany 6y ago
My question is not "are empty streets safer?" My question is "how do we know the amount of reckless behavior isn't influenced by a once-in-a-lifetime event (pandemic)?"
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by ikeyany 6y ago
If that were true, one would expect reckless driving to scale indirectly with density.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Owning up channels of communication and then making them monetized walled gardens has been proven to work, unfortunately.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Are empty roads causing people to drive recklessly? Or are the isolation and disruption to people's lifestyles causing it?
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Exactly. Calico Labs for example is under Alphabet and devoted to researching aging and longevity: https://www.calicolabs.com/
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I'm picturing a notepad with the names of the attractive women in your office and a tally for each kind of gaffe next to their name with a subnote describing the gaffe. It's not a very flattering picture.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Elizabeth Warren's campaign focused on tempering the powers of Facebook and other tech giants. However her campaign failed to gain serious traction, for various reasons.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
But these are the extreme outliers. Here is a list of schools in Tennessee as an example [0]. How many of them have a big time football program? Maybe 4 or 5 out of the 53 schools? [0] - https://www.universityreview.org/tenn

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