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by mlac 5y ago
In hindsight the events may seem like low-stakes issues, but who knows their financial situation at the time and how they viewed the risk of missing the work issue. Maybe they genuinely were addicted to work, maybe they over-estimated the i
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by mlac 5y ago
Employee Assistance Program maybe?
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by mlac 5y ago
> But I don't know how to do home improvement things that kids might want to help out with either. You can learn any of this stuff and make a project out of it to learn together. Plumbing has a hard limit for sure, but swapping a li
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by mlac 5y ago
I’m replying to my own comment, because the responses to this all fall along the same line. I’d argue that YouTube should NOT contain this material. It shouldn’t be outright banned, but there should be sites where you can let your kids watc
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by mlac 5y ago
Doctors? Morons. Lawyers? Morons. Scientists? Morons. PhDs? Morons. Only Faangers, agile scrum masters, and engineering managers are those who are paid optimally, with flexible work arrangements. Does the world need another web dev proje
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by mlac 5y ago
> Gone are the days when you might stumble across an ISIS beheading video on youtube. Good? Do you want kids to accidentally watch one of those videos?
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by mlac 5y ago
With the heat death of the universe, sure.
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by mlac 5y ago
You’re not shadowbanned yet. Unless we both are together…
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by mlac 5y ago
So you’re telling me that AI invented cryptocurrency so that it could perform all of its calculations on powerful distributed systems. (I know this is Hollywood level interpretation, but it would make a cool movie…)
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by mlac 5y ago
The troubling part of this is that I genuinely cannot tell whether this is meant to be sarcastic or not…
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by mlac 5y ago
After skimming half the thread and only seeing one view (DO IT! It’s GREAT!), I’m going to throw this out there: - You will have heavy selection bias here (people who did not succeed might be working at a crappier job and unable to comment
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by mlac 5y ago
This seems costly in learning / addressing new situations. Mental models can help avoid a lot of pain or give you options to approach new situations that you might not otherwise consider without trial and error. Sometimes watching a Yo
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by mlac 5y ago
I do wonder if it will be durable… or they will just change it to something else in 30 years (when I can touch the money).
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah this would be bad for innovation as well. All things equal, the startups that emphasize security to the detriment of functionality will lose to those that get the product to market faster and secure it later. Not saying this is ideal (
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by mlac 5y ago
Fair points. For 1, I’d think this would be for use with one person so it would always be “with” them on the floor where they are. But It would be interesting to know if it would disengage to go down or up if needed (though you’d likely nee
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by mlac 5y ago
Actually the OP replied to another comment below, and I guess they did provide accommodations and it ultimately didn’t work out. Sincerely, I hope that this person gets the help they need.
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by mlac 5y ago
I didn’t even quote the most relevant part - “During September 28, 2020–May 22, 2021 in the United States, 1,675 (0.2%) of 818,939 respiratory specimens tested by U.S. clinical laboratories were positive for an influenza virus”. 0.2% compar
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by mlac 5y ago
It’s all about what you’re measuring… Ebola is less dangerous than the Flu in terms of deaths per year, but it’s disingenuous to measure it that way, and that’s what I think is frustrating people in this thread about the comparison to the F
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by mlac 5y ago
The common comparison is used to say “it’s not so bad - it’s just like the flu!”. You can compare anything you want (e.g. COVID and Cancer outcomes), but to say COVID isn’t so bad because lung cancer doesn’t kill that many people every year
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by mlac 5y ago
You’re completely discounting the whole economic shutdown, masking, and social distancing that took place with COVID? Even with that, it was 2.3-5.3 deadlier in your estimation. With those countermeasures, the flu season last year was “unus
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by mlac 5y ago
… and the security deposit and liability from the person absolutely trashing the place! Holy hell that’s a personal risk. I’m all for housing stability, but just blindly giving someone a place to stay without any additional support services
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by mlac 5y ago
It was really hard for me to be OK with being mediocre. In anything. And it’s not that I’m competitive with others - primarily I’m hard on myself and looking to beat my own performance. Realizing it was OK to suck and to do things for fun r
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by mlac 5y ago
Hunting and gathering. There may or may not be an animal when you Go out. Even if you track it, it still might get away. Animals may have made it to the berries before you did, so you need to keep looking to find the next patch.
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah, giving someone else the keys or password for locking down devices is weird but ideal if it’s a real problem.
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by mlac 5y ago
Read digital minimalism, install pihole on your network, use Tailscale for DNS to point it there, implement blocks on the offending websites and categories. Make your smart phone dumb so you are limited to what you can do, and get an offlin
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by mlac 5y ago
Both you and op make such convincing arguments, I have no idea what to do.
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by mlac 5y ago
What I don’t see folks mentioning is that you don’t have to get blackout blinds. It’s really optimal sleeping conditions. As long as air quality is healthy and filtered, it would make a great place to sleep or quietly study. Meals and all o
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by mlac 5y ago
Well, in theory increased supply will lower the rents in the surrounding area. No one will be forced to live there, but that location is a much better alternative than homeless or not.
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by mlac 5y ago
If you have an office and can put things on speaker phone, the Logitech BCC950 Conference Cam is well worth the money (it’s $164 on Amazon right now). The camera quality is good (a little short but can be put on a riser), the audio quality
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by mlac 5y ago
I searched that microphone, and you weren’t kidding about boxing ring style… If I got that I would likely start every meeting with “LET’S GET READY TO XXXXXXXXXXXX”, where X is some awful word like AGILE or IDEATE or BRAINSTORM.

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