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by javagram 6y ago
It’s likely these employees’ initial employment agreement was to work on-site in the Bay Area office. If they want to move away from the Bay Area and work 100% remote, they’re being offered that option - that’s a change in the contract itse
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by javagram 6y ago
> That is to say those figures did not promote public health opinions that undermined a global cooperative effort in a time of crisis. I think the figures running the Inquisition and the counter-reformation at the time of Galileo might h
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by javagram 6y ago
Considering the person in question hasn’t been giving detailed interviews she really can’t be described as a “credible accuser” anyway. We haven’t really gotten a description of what the accusation even might be. It would make far more sens
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by javagram 6y ago
From a comment on the linked page: > Well that’s a solid hit piece, considering she doesn’t actually have a criminal record; all of the cases that the author highlights were nolle prossed or no info’ed, and wouldn’t be admissible in any
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by javagram 6y ago
Users who get scammed or get spammed are usually unhappy, so that’s a big request right there. I’m not a fan personally that Facebook has extended their anti-spam infrastructure to block some sharing of other disfavored links in PMs (e.g. t
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by javagram 6y ago
Plenty of other car manufacturers were shut down too - Ford, GM, Toyota, basically all of Tesla’s competitors as I understand it across different states not just in California. For instance, here is a story about a Toyota plant in Texas bei
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by javagram 6y ago
> Yes there are consequences for unemployment since their job is available to them should they want to do it. This is by law, not Tesla's doing Except it was illegal for Tesla to be opening up early against health department orders,
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by javagram 6y ago
> Facebook argument is ‘we do not want to follow local laws because that increases cost and makes some business practices illegal in parts of the world. That mindset is destructive and fights agains society needs just to get higher profi
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by javagram 6y ago
> Again, being disingenuous. You specifically used the example of the revised IHME model of 60,000 deaths and not the one which they predicted before that where they predicted 510,000 deaths in G.B. and 2.2 million in the U.S. Wrong. The
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by javagram 6y ago
> So how exactly is Elon opening his factory consisting of young employees with easy social distancing worse than what Fauci says? It's much easier to stay at a distance and wear masks at a factory than on a cruise ship. He even sta
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by javagram 6y ago
It’s illegal to fire someone who refuses to violate the law. In California this is considered “ Wrongful Discharge in Violation of Public Policy” https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/2400/24
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by javagram 6y ago
> This was when Dr Fauci, WHO etc were all giving away wrong info. Why are you trusting them but not trusting Elon? Elon said on March 19 that cases would go to zero. WHO had declared a public health emergency in January and in February
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by javagram 6y ago
> without money, those workers are going to starve The workers should be getting Pandemic UI through the end of July 2020, so no starving would happen, the factory can stay closed for another two months (if solely considering the workers
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by javagram 6y ago
There is actually a classic Supreme Court case upholding states’ right to interfere in business operations for the sake of public health. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Francaise_de_Navigat... Courts have repe
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by javagram 6y ago
The governor’s own order: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.4.20-EO-... > Nothing in this Order shall be construed to limit the existing authority of local health officers to establi
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by javagram 6y ago
China used Test/Trace/Isolate (Quarantining persons who were exposed and isolating confirmed virus carriers) and a much more severe lockdown. The USA bragged about its western medical system, said the virus would miraculously disa
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by javagram 6y ago
Ok, but take the airline sector for example. Maybe one or more of the airlines will go bankrupt. Maybe they all somehow survive. The price of Delta, United, American etc. gets discounted because the risk of each individual stock being bankr
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by javagram 6y ago
> Companies don't even get the money from secondary stock purchases, so the invested money is doing absolutely nothing. But they can issue new stock at the inflated values to fund expansion, which itself allows the company to grow p
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by javagram 6y ago
> We've had SARS and MERS before (MERS is way more deadly, yet we didn't enter a global panic). There is something specific about this panic, and it's not the virus; it's a variant of something we've seen before.
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by javagram 6y ago
1. Many people don’t have masks. Cloth masks aren’t as effective as N95s anyway and we don’t have nearly enough N95s. New York serology survey shows FEWER health care workers have caught the virus than general population - because only heal
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by javagram 6y ago
Sure, but people also just used up what they had. I had a box of mini hand sanitizer in the closet i purchased 2-3 years ago, I brought it out at the beginning of march and began to use it. I ran out and there was no more to be found in any
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by javagram 6y ago
IMO, that’s a false choice. Economic distress could be solved by improvements to the rescue package (The USA is currently able to borrow money at about 1% interest rate over 20-year terms, which is a negative interest rate when accounting f
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by javagram 6y ago
If it’s true, it’s not misinformation. The articles I’ve seen talking about this usually explain that other severe illnesses can cause such symptoms. The unusual thing about the coronavirus is that it causes severe illness in so many - resu
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by javagram 6y ago
Their kids likely have grandparents.
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by javagram 6y ago
I’m pretty sure we actually did run low on hand sanitizer. Yes, there were some hoarders, but people also started buying and using a lot more sanitizer, the supply chain was overwhelmed. Companies didn’t have huge excess warehouses of the s
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by javagram 6y ago
Please be accurate. I just went to @paulg ‘s twitter feed and just 5 days ago he retweeted a @DrEricDing tweet that “Bifurcation. Reopening is not going to go well...” showing rising cases outside of NY. Elon Musk, on the other hand, has be
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by javagram 6y ago
Fear-mongering, or reporting the facts? Plenty of people wouldn’t know about that aspect of the disease, I’m quite happy the media isn’t trying to cover it up.
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by javagram 6y ago
South Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and other countries all used Test, Trace, and Isolate to contain the virus with few cases and deaths. You don’t actually need 300 million tests if you can stay on top of the virus, so I don’t think this
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by javagram 6y ago
> No one's saying it's not bad. At least I'm not. It's just a lot less bad than what we were told 3 months ago. Yet very few seem willing to admit that, because (I'm guessing) they think it might mean losing some
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by javagram 6y ago
Memory can be a tricky thing. The Vox Recode article was bad, but Vox also published this a week before it. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/6/21121303/coronav... “Don’t scold people for wo

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