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by mattm 6y ago
I did come across a study once which argued this. You feel more productive when tired and stressed but in reality you are less productive.
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by mattm 6y ago
It's not clinical grade but I got the Mi Band 3 and it seems to work surprisingly well for only $30. The account of rest I feel in the morning generally matches the account of deep sleep it says I got.
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by mattm 6y ago
They scrapped the feature so that's an action backing up his words.
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by mattm 6y ago
According to one of the CEO's replies in the other comment thread, one of the drivers to push forward was that they need to meet their sprint goal. I don't have any inside information but it seems that this could also be a case of
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by mattm 6y ago
> we in the US have probably a handful of people who understand When I moved to the US from Canada and HR was helping me setup my health insurance on the first day, I was overwhelmed trying to understand it and said "Sorry, I don&#x
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by mattm 6y ago
This seems more like Lyft trying to actually do the right thing. Training junior engineers remotely is incredibly difficult not to mention interns. From a purely business point of view, the economical thing would have been to just cancel t
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by mattm 6y ago
The future for the company looked worrisome even before this. Like another commenter said internships are "terrible productivity/$". Companies look at it as an investment to be able to hire later on. If there's low ch
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by mattm 6y ago
That's almost exactly the description of a scene from the 90s movie "Outbreak" where Dustin Hoffman follows a vent in a hospital to learn that the virus is airborne.
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by mattm 6y ago
In this environment there have been lots of reports of companies that have rescinded offers.
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by mattm 6y ago
> Our forefathers and foremothers built roads and trains, farms and factories Yes, and most of these were also built by slaves or people in slave-like conditions. It's incredibly easy to build things when you have nearly free labor
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by mattm 6y ago
I think a lot of Americans want to believe that there was no other choice and that every other country is in the same boat. The fact is that this was an utter failure. With better preparation, communication and leadership, there didn&#x27
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by mattm 6y ago
Actually a lot of large tech companies acted earlier and had already implemented work from home orders by the time the city acted.
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by mattm 6y ago
I also thought this as well reading the introduction. Canada has less than 1/2 the number of cases and deaths on a per capita basis than the US so they are doing twice as well as the US in handling this.
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by mattm 6y ago
> What they all have in common is that decisions are made by leadership which can act with the necessary degree of autonomy. No, what they have in common is that they've been through this experience before with SARS, learned from it
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by mattm 7y ago
Isn't this basically the waterfall methodology?
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by mattm 7y ago
And who will want to travel if you know you have to self-isolate for 2 weeks after you return?
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by mattm 7y ago
It's probably a US thing. Canada has a stronger EI program so the hardship of unemployment is handled by society rather than falling solely on the hands of the employer.
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by mattm 7y ago
My wife was a nurse in Japan (a big mask-wearing culture) and I was always skeptical of it but from reading some articles of late, I've changed my stance on it and do believe that masks help. Here's some articles I've read l
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by mattm 7y ago
If you're in the Bay Area, you can get them used on CL in that range. That's how I got mine.
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by mattm 7y ago
Or "/dnd XXmin" from the input bar in any channel
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by mattm 7y ago
It is true. If you do have a high-margin business, eventually other people will notice and start to compete which will bring the margins down.
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by mattm 7y ago
My wife was a palliative care nurse. She has seen hundreds of patients in the late stages of their lives. She has always told me she wants to go well before she reaches that stage and has a do not resuscitate order. I would imagine many o
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by mattm 7y ago
While I don't agree with going overboard and burning yourself out, I do agree with the premise. So many people want to find their passion first and then they think they'll work hard once they find it. It's actually the other
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by mattm 7y ago
This article goes into pretty good detail of his takedown https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
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by mattm 7y ago
I'm part way through "The Credit Card Catastrophe" right now. It was written by the author of the article and is also worth a read.
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by mattm 7y ago
Friends of mine were hit with a 20% increase last year.
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by mattm 7y ago
Yes this is the main problem. People like the parent commentator look down on young students for being irresponsible when the other side of the deal is even more irresponsible. Lenders are incentivized to loan out as much as possible sinc
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by mattm 7y ago
I'm Canadian and my friend got PR within 3 months because of the points system (Masters, fluent English ability etc.) In comparison when I sponsored my wife for PR in Canada it took about 13 months. I'm now going through the Green
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by mattm 7y ago
Common misconception but not true at all. It's just slightly riskier.
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by mattm 7y ago
It didn't work for Google+

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