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by nend 6y ago
>FWIW, just like how companies can have different cultures around their physical spaces, they could have different practices/expectations set around the virtual space. That's true, and it's not like I would quit my job if
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by nend 6y ago
I had to think about it a bit, but I think in the end it's probably due to a couple bad experiences at startups. There's a lot of toxic, authoritarian company cultures out there that hide behind the idea that in order to be a good
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by nend 6y ago
If you read the founders comment, they mention a lot of other use cases in addition to offices/work. I would probably really dislike using this with coworkers or for "in the office." But I can imagine it being a good fit with
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by nend 6y ago
Apologies, I think my comment was unclear so I just edited it. What I meant was it's unclear to me why it's a good thing that corporations look out for their best interests instead of the best interests of society/customers&#
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by nend 6y ago
>They are looking out for their best interests, just as they should be. I'm struggling to understand why this should be the case. I understand this is how it works now, but this seems like a flaw, not a desirable aspect of life. Edi
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by nend 6y ago
Is it really? In my experience the overhead for salaried software developers working for contract shops is greater in both raw amount and percentage that that. This was 10 years ago but I knew developers making $60/hour in salary while
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by nend 6y ago
>The brain is for thinking, not for remembering. I mean, millions of years of evolution would disagree. Seems pretty shortsighted to declare memory useless.
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by nend 6y ago
Orchard bees are domesticated and used as pollinators. They're solitary bees, which I'm guessing prevents usage for mass pollination of crops. That being said there are lots of animals that can't be domesticated. Zebras are t
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by nend 6y ago
So it's basically a perpetual stew ice cream for 14 days? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew
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by nend 6y ago
I've seen this a lot in the US, and at least in the North East, it seems like a lot of companies are moving away from this model. It's a really difficult policy to even enforce without being discriminatory against men. At this poi
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by nend 6y ago
"Credible" means believable, plausible, reasonable. Dr. Fauci is clearly saying the reports coming from doctors and patients around the world shouldn't be dismissed, but should be taken seriously and investigated further.
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by nend 6y ago
>Nowhere in the article did it say that the directory of the NIH call the anecdotal reports "credible". Sounds like nitpicking to me. Dr. Fauci directly says it needs to be seriously looked at. >“Anecdotally, there’s no ques
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by nend 6y ago
The director of the NIH feels these anecdotal reports are credible, along with doctors in France, Hong Kong, and Italy (as the article mentions). So I don't mean to be rude about it but what exactly is your expertise that lends credenc
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by nend 6y ago
As an American, I doubt it's a main factor in the US as well. Xenophobia, racism, and war are deeply routed in the culture, and date far before 9/11. We're simply witnessing the culmination of the slow erosion of checks and b
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by nend 6y ago
That's because hn was modeled after it.
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by nend 6y ago
This article is the software version of telling people to reduce their carbon footprint, when the be 15 biggest ships produce more pollution than all cars combined. I mean the articles not wrong, we should try and reduce the energy we use.
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by nend 6y ago
That's not evidence of herd immunity thresholds being wrong though, that just opens up questions that need answers. Plus, the % positive rate doesn't seem to show a trend over the last 2 months, so I don't think your initial
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by nend 6y ago
Here's a source[1]. It also shows that in the US, yearly acreage burned is rising in addition to the intensity of fires. [1] - https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-change-and-wildfire... .
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by nend 6y ago
>Like large employers can dangle some pretty substantive carrots but I don't think courts would let them get away with any sticks. The courts already let them get away with it. There's nothing illegal about discriminating again
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by nend 6y ago
>Perhaps this hinges on how much chance vs skill is involved in the game It does. Arcade games are typically games of skill rather than games of chance (although that obviously varies). Additionally, in the end what it probably comes dow
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by nend 6y ago
>In a response to NBC News' inquiries, the company issued a statement saying its games are not gambling and should not be regulated as such. >"These games are not gambling because, among other reasons, they offer no opportun
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by nend 6y ago
Why would an employees commute be out of the hands of the employer? Companies already provide incentives to help employees with commutes: public transit benefits, wfh days, shuttle services. It seems especially obvious at the moment that co
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by nend 6y ago
I agree, asking 7 billion people to individually decide to change their habits is not an effective way to solve the problem. But regardless it is something you can currently do to help, even if in the end more will be needed.
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by nend 6y ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle - meaning recycling is the last option. It's better to not consume plastic in the first place, but if you must, find additional uses for it. It takes more of a lifestyle change though than to simply put your cans
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by nend 6y ago
Are any companies currently applying to be listed?
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by nend 6y ago
I think the argument is that space is better used by designing for people, not for cars. Sometimes that means population density, but sometimes it means open plazas, pedestrian only streets, parks, etc.
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by nend 6y ago
This is a really bad comparison. Making it easier to vote has a big affect on how many people vote. Requiring a hand delivered check vs wire transfer to buy house has a minimal effect on how many people buy a house. Plus, the US has electio
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by nend 6y ago
Well, science doesn't really operate by assuming what the truth is. If it did it wouldn't be science. And if it's so obvious that we should've known this 50 years ago, you could've gone down in history as the scient
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by nend 6y ago
>I've had coworkers who would put this before every method call, because...? When calling your own method, in your own class, that inherits/implements no other classes, why on earth would you decorate your own method call with
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by nend 6y ago
>You can’t make decisions based on unknowns. What? Of course you can. We know there's potential long term health effects in adults who get COVID-19, there's risk children face the same ones. We don't know how severe or how

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