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by octokatt 5y ago
I'm surprised I hadn't seen this in the list, but my money is on Response to Second-Wave Crisis. In the first wave of COVID-19, we saw which companies could handle the work-from-home crisis and which did poorly. Ultimately, thoug
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by octokatt 5y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/519/
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by octokatt 5y ago
Homeschooled here, agree with other posters, and want to point out this is the same thing that happens with remote working. Hobbies with structured meetings, book clubs for continued learning, social sports are all things that are added int
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by octokatt 5y ago
I hear you. Same for if you’re disabled, your partner has a medical condition… moving between jobs can be cost less for some, but changing jobs is not cost less universally. Which means in a given developer pool, there’s usually at least on
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by octokatt 5y ago
Is anyone else watching this series of laws get passed and wonder how many companies are going to pull out or stop investing in Texas? Houston was starting to look like a tech hub, but it seems like the brakes are being slammed so Texas st
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by octokatt 5y ago
For the sake of making a meaningful discussion, sources for the U.S. gender gap (as that’s the focus of the article) from the US Census [0], Pew Research [1], and a Harvard study showing why a gender gap between identical MBTA union workers
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by octokatt 5y ago
Which is the problem. Food stamps are seen as a moral failing, and the richer you get the easier dodging taxes becomes. I’d rather money flow more directly into pockets (higher wages) than indirectly (food stamps, Medicaid) so the market
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by octokatt 5y ago
Usually you can get the cost ratio of services jobs to other jobs to adjust by increasing the lowest wage, i.e. minimum wage. But… yes. I would like for non-service income (like mine) to be able to buy less services. I grew up poor and ma
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by octokatt 5y ago
I’m glad. I want services to cost more, I want restaurants to cost the dollar more a plate it takes to pay a living wage, I want for my purchases to stop being subsidized by people on food stamps working two jobs. Happy Labor Day.
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by octokatt 5y ago
https://archive.is/s19yZ
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https://archive.is/rd39e
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by octokatt 5y ago
I do. The nuclear family only works with a stay-at-home wife, a husband capable of always being employed with enough income to support four people (two adults, two kids, and a dog), and magically no one ever gets sick. If one of those two
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by octokatt 5y ago
I’m not looking to immediately move from the walled garden of Apple. I’m heavily bought in with an iPad, AirPods Max, MacBook… and I’m not looking to plunk down that much money. However, I have a planned depreciation cycle for all of my de
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by octokatt 5y ago
It’s an important thing to remember that Berlin had been the gay capital of Europe [0], and the majority of research into LGBT was started in Germany [1] (then summarily burned by Nazis). I’m astounded by how many people forget this part of
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by octokatt 5y ago
Article in Nature (which is indirectly mentioned) saying cats kill 1.3 to 4.0 billion birds a year: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
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by octokatt 5y ago
Perhaps we should structure life differently, to give more power to the worker, instead of reducing a vocation to an economic formula of parts to be sold.
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by octokatt 5y ago
It’s important to note that we’ve been working-from-pandemic, not quite working-from-home. In a normal WFH, you could go to a coffee shop, or a co-working space, and get more of the casual social encounters humans need. I agree with the id
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by octokatt 5y ago
I wonder why the author stayed out of the northwest, and a nice article about happy things in China was written [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
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by octokatt 5y ago
… I’m not sure why this is news anymore? People want to be able to work from home. Some people don’t, but some do, and consider it a prime benefit. Giving up voting to work from home is really the weirdest part of the poll; that upwards o
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by octokatt 5y ago
I’d add to the list of why partial automation isn’t worth it: it’s more satisfying to build a brick wall than babysit a bricklaying machine. Doing the physical labor is difficult. My father was a bricklayer from ten to fifty, when he fina
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by octokatt 5y ago
> There is a cost to working at home that goes beyond depression, disconnectedness and failing to bathe regularly: It can drain morale and diminish collegiality. This is about learning to lead and work in a remote environment, not that w
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by octokatt 5y ago
N=1, but I had my most successful group project ever with someone who was dealing with bipolar disorder. The solution? He was a master communicator. He would tell me when he was having a manic streak and took on more work. When he was go
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by octokatt 5y ago
Prevalence of smoking tobacco is also dramatically higher among schizophrenic people [0]. Before marijuana use is demonized for causing schizophrenia, it would be worthwhile to more robustly prove these results. [0] https://pubme
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by octokatt 5y ago
So… if an employe was immunocompromised, they would need to spend Will to adhere to safety guidelines? This seems poor. I really hope companies value remote-first, instead of gamification. Otherwise disabled folk are always going to be pl
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by octokatt 5y ago
If you're disabled and have money, the last year and a half has been awesome. The number of amenities that have sprung up like remote grocery orders and better remote work are game changing. I'm hoping this keeps going. I'd
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by octokatt 5y ago
... relevant user name above
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by octokatt 5y ago
So, this only looks at cotton, not hemp or other more environmentally fibers. That said, the crux is just reuse things. Yes, even after they get worn out and they’re not as cool or fast or fresh. In case anyone was still wondering. Use l
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by octokatt 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. Enough folk on here work in media, it’s important to remember why press is important. I hope we keep hearing about Myanmar. Silence will mean resistance has failed.
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by octokatt 6y ago
The trick to what happened in your example is that Dev2 was able to find someone in the office (Colleague) they trusted to talk about the situation. In some organizations I’ve been in, he could have talked to Dev3, who tells them to “not be
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by octokatt 6y ago
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

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