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901.
by jleyank 2y ago
So they wish the symmetric response “no treatment unless there is no risk of contagion from your child.”? Or do they want normal care without normal participation?
902.
by jleyank 2y ago
Also, each transaction seems to be independent - no history and no concern about the future. Thus, there's no "lose one to win two" kind of thinking. And as everything has to be a win-lose, the US will be a last-resort kind
903.
by jleyank 2y ago
Well, the US "took their losses" but made the US Dollar the reserve currency. If they toss this away, they'll not "lose trade action" but they'll pay more to finance their debt.
904.
by jleyank 2y ago
Well, the logical response is to do the same - make sure that any alternative to the US is examined first. Because working with the US will mean you're supposed to lose...
905.
by jleyank 2y ago
Well, just like any job-region, workers have to be willing to move there. WFH would eliminate this problem, but companies seem willing to restrict their hiring reach. Guess they have more candidates than they need.
906.
by jleyank 2y ago
Is that a criticism of Canadian border security, the rcmp, US border security, the fbi, …? Countries protect their own borders vs entry and their internal security. Who let them take flying lessons?
907.
by jleyank 2y ago
They can go ahead and shut down Canadian NORAD sites - move the defensive line to the Dakotas! Might have to build a few more ships to get things to/from Alaska but that'll just help the shipping industry, right?
908.
by jleyank 2y ago
How many IT workers trust IT leaders?
909.
by jleyank 2y ago
Computer clusters, chem or bio lab gear, staff and techs, …. Some of this isn’t cheap and it’s not safe to let the grad students and p-docs do it. And somebody has to TA all those pre-xx and other mid to advanced course students.
910.
by jleyank 2y ago
In life, you must spend some time to enjoy the path as you do not know how long it will be.
911.
by jleyank 2y ago
Move where you would like to retire to while you still have the time and resources to pay things off. Can’t carry large debts into retirement if you have a “typical” amount of resources.
912.
by jleyank 2y ago
Brought me back from hibernation it did… Go for it. Pull out of Europe and make them do it themselves. Don’t be surprised when nobody helps against China, or when competitive aerospace industries grow stronger, or when increased spending o
913.
by jleyank 3y ago
I assume that this rant refers to all equivalent “interruption technologies” that demand immediate attention? Video chats, instant messages, etc - any form of synchronous communication…. They’re all the same for me, making me do something
914.
by jleyank 3y ago
Hmm... I would probably have said "debugging", as that's when you have to deal with coding errors, misunderstandings, ... The design process is critical, but it has always been a flexible, analog process for me. Coding, mo
915.
by jleyank 3y ago
Yup. We'll all look like the chimney sweeps of Mary Poppins by Fall I guess.
916.
by jleyank 3y ago
Wow... Ottawa, again, had dialled the smog up to 11 according to Ontario's Air Quality folks. The fires still burn to the north and the wind's from the north again. Guess Canada will get blamed again if it reaches NYC. Hopefull
917.
by jleyank 3y ago
Yeah, but it's real easy to write code, be a radiologist, manage money, ... I really doubt that most of the HN readers would be able to deal with that fire or oil rig.
918.
by jleyank 3y ago
I didn't see the word "pregnant" when I searched this page so sorry if this is a dup. I would think WFH is great for women of child-bearing age as their ability to go to an office is a function of their "pregnancy safety
919.
by jleyank 3y ago
There are advantages working in an interpretive (scripting) language and there are several science applications that use Python as the top level control language and a c-like language as the heavy lifting code. This plays to the strength of
920.
by jleyank 3y ago
When the commute is a requirement of employment, yeah, people take unacceptable commutes. They move to undesirable places and impose undesired restrictions on their (potential) family. Eating and all that. WFH and other workplace-flexibil
921.
by jleyank 3y ago
I'm (mostly?) introverted, and I find remote work very rewarding. I can do what is necessary without most distractions and without spending time in a car/bus/train. Enforced collegiality is bearable in small quantities, but
922.
by jleyank 3y ago
People in the midst of WW II are not really representative of normal life. Yeah, there's a "trolley problem", but there's also a daily or weekly grind where people are ordered to their death on a treadmill (such as the
923.
by jleyank 3y ago
Are you an extrovert or introvert? If the former, then yeah, being in a crowd is a win. If the latter, however, you have a commute and a crowd, both of which take time and effort away from work. Unless your commute is on foot and your
924.
by jleyank 3y ago
If tha picture at the top of the article is a typical “office”, then I can see why people don’t want to go there. I think it’s illegal, certainly immoral, to put calves in pens that small. Man, I’m glad to be done with the career ride…
925.
by jleyank 3y ago
Not a valid comparison as their work can’t be transferred. This, to me, is arguing that software should be developed for a specific customer and not distributed further. Which probably isn’t what you’re arguing.
926.
by jleyank 3y ago
Software is a good, and like most goods you can sell it, you can trade it or you can give it away. It is not necessarily a physical good, but the cost of duplicating physical goods has greatly decreased with automation and robotics. The
927.
by jleyank 3y ago
Tech companies are getting a bit split-brained: “our collaboration tools are great!” - you have to work F2F in the office. “AI can generate code!” - you can’t include anything it provides in our code. Poor marketing, methinks.
928.
by jleyank 3y ago
I would think you’re “wealthy” when you can do what you want when you want to.
929.
by jleyank 3y ago
So they are celebrities then? Famous for being famous….
930.
by jleyank 3y ago
This is what I thought as well. There might be issues with angular momentum and inertia, and problems with windows (gravity would be perpendicular to the axis of rotation) but they could finesse this by having the living/exercise&#x2F

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