mLuby

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by mLuby 5y ago
You're right, in a narrow sense. But there's a game of amplified telephone going on. Researcher publishes: "Survey finds that undergrad males with heterochromia are 12% less likely to be leaders of student orgs than their hom
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by mLuby 5y ago
Is that because it's more unusual, like being very anonymous in a little pond? Or maybe you mean something else.
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by mLuby 5y ago
As an English speaker I don't gender my speech about myself. But to use some emoji (e.g. facepalming) I must gender that speech, and therefore myself. I'd prefer not to have to do this, especially to relative strangers on the Inte
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Berkshire Hathaway recently remarked on the dynamism as seen in the top 20 companies in the world in 1990 vs today. 180-year-old 360,000-person company worth half a trillion dollars says what? (They might not be wrong, but they certa
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by mLuby 5y ago
Reminder that there are many forms of remote and in-office work (not just 2, 4, and 6): 1. work only possible in-office. (e.g. retail, hyper-secure jobs) 2. in-office 5 days a week (e.g. pre-pandemic office jobs) 3. in a remote of
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by mLuby 5y ago
Perhaps because until recently a "career" meant working for one company for 35 years, likely in the same city. With that kind of stability, long-term friendships can blossom. It's harder if you're changing companies ever
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by mLuby 5y ago
From another ICO page: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-... Are analytics cookies exempt? No. It is important to note that PECR does not distinguish between cookies used for ana
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by mLuby 5y ago
What if the user wants to cancel before the term is up? If that's allowed, there won't be discounts for annual plans. (Maybe not a bad thing, but maybe inefficient.)
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by mLuby 5y ago
Even worse! Now you don't have protection from your credit card company not redress through the courts. You already have the ability to "audit" the EULA/ToS/PP; it's that link you never click next to the "
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17 of BBC's 90 “strictly necessary cookies” are for “tracking” users(twitter.com)
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by mLuby 5y ago
Anyone know how the unusual consonant x was chosen to replace a and o rather than another vowel (like e)? To my untrained ear, les neen-yes sounds more in line with los neen-yos and las neen-yes than lecks neen-yecks (if that's how you
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by mLuby 5y ago
It'd be adorable if when Ingenuity gets cold, Perseverance rolls over to shelter the little helicopter and even warm it a little with that nuclear heater the rover uses for power.
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Google is trying to get a handle on how employees will react to so-called hybrid work. In July, the company asked workers how many days a week they would need to come to the office to be effective. The answers were divided evenly in a
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Marissa Maier had the unfortunate discovery that many of her remote workers were ghost workers. The key word is "discovery" not "remote." Measure and reward good workers, identify and help (or fire) bad workers. Is
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by mLuby 5y ago
Concentrated vs diffuse costs: Execs and managers have inherently social jobs, so not having everyone in the office is a concentrated pain point for them compared to it being a minor inconvenience for most individual contributors. C
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by mLuby 5y ago
Exactly right. Similar is "over 30% of group says or does controversial thing" (meaning the significant majority don't ). Also not a fan of practice of quoting a controversial phrase in the headline to get both the shock val
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by mLuby 5y ago
Agreed, but I'd replace "flexibility" with "choice." The "choice" is whether to work in the office, or remotely, or a few days of each. Everyone gets what they want! Flexibility in this context tends to me
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by mLuby 5y ago
Nobody has been experiencing normal remote work during the pandemic. Normal remote work lets you go out and do fun stuff with friends after hours (which you have more of with no commute), spend more time with your kids (who have been at s
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by mLuby 5y ago
Horror stimulates some brains and overstimulates others, just as Golf stimulates some brains and understimulates others.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Manipulation requires intent and action : "I believe they won't do B unless I do A, so I do A." "I believe they won't do B unless I do A" on its own is harmless—there's no action. "I do A&
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by mLuby 6y ago
Not quite: effective (AKA manipulative) advertisement would be fine if you can show the behavior the advertisement causes isn't detrimental. Advertising a new treatment for some disease is a net positive; advertising cigarettes is not.
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by mLuby 6y ago
A/B testing to the rescue! A (control): rate of purchases of the item WITHOUT the ad present. B (experiment): rate of purchases of the item WITH the ad present. If A and B differ significantly then by definition the ad man
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by mLuby 6y ago
A fun read! > Therefore, it might not be surprising to discover how often legendary bottomless holes have a demonstrated bottom that people simply chose to ignore. > Even Thoreau’s famous Walden Pond was rumored to be bottomless. He r
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by mLuby 6y ago
I've seen a majority of sources abandon the function keyword entirely in favor of const arrow declarations (and shorthand method syntax). FWIW I personally like the function keyword, since it's clear what it is to non-JS readers,
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by mLuby 6y ago
Has the author made purchasing decisions about bulk office furniture? Has the author even worked in a corporate office?
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by mLuby 6y ago
Right, this is the problem: how to protect normal people without giving large companies more power? And how to do it when the companies are the ones in the room with lawmakers? Non-transferable copyright/patents?
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by mLuby 6y ago
> I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. From [Libertarian Police Department]( https
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by mLuby 6y ago
Outlaw the sharing (and therefore resale) of all personally identifiable information. If companies want PII from their users, they should ask those users directly for permission. The legal test for a violation is straightforward: if a use
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by mLuby 6y ago
My submission and others' keep getting flagged, so I re-read the FAQ: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters,
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by mLuby 6y ago
How noble to vocally discard a thing you can't actually lose.

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