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by opo 6y ago
Unless they feel the need to yell, they are probably interrupting a small number of people and not hundred plus people. The difference in the open floor plan is that at least they aren't entering the private space of another team. Wh
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by opo 6y ago
>...Isn't that kind of the point of having team offices? Having each team in their own silo isn't necessarily a good thing. They may feel they are getting more done in their daily standup meetings, but long term innovation oft
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by opo 6y ago
>Yeah, I mean I'll leave pandemic out of the discussion simply because airco will make sure the virus is spread everywhere in the building, not just the team anyways. If the air con is recirculating the air like in the case of that
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by opo 6y ago
The best approach I have seen is individual offices with shared collaboration areas nearby. People can do deep work by closing their office door. People can pair-program, have someone look over their code, have a private conversation etc
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by opo 6y ago
>I'm not actually against open plan offices....at team level. Having now worked in one of these at a large company, we found those sorts of "team offices" hurt collaboration and innovation even more than open floor plans.
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by opo 6y ago
People can choose to do that, or they can choose to save and invest the money. Norway's oil fund is around 1 trillion dollars. >...The Government Pension Fund Global, also known as the Oil Fund, was established in 1990 to invest th
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by opo 6y ago
You are thinking of a Giffen good. A Veblen good: >...A higher price may make a product desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a posi
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by opo 6y ago
>...The goal is to maximize income, and the maximum you can get sustainably is 100% of your lesee's profits. If you hypothetically take 100% of the profits of the renter, they won't be in business long term. There likely will
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by opo 6y ago
Yes. There might be a state where someone holding a lien on a house can prevent a first mortgage holder from foreclosing, but I'd certainly recommend someone talking to an attorney before trying this.
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by opo 6y ago
The US population is generally considered one of the most generous in the world whether you consider the amounts given to charity as a percentage of GDP or time spent volunteering to help others: >...The United States is often considered
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by opo 6y ago
You are right, it looks like it tries to do the right thing on indent. Though if you try and use tabs to align anything after an indent it just treats them as spaces.
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by opo 7y ago
Do any code editors also treat a delete of one of these spaces as removing the tab width size? (I've never seen it, but maybe there are ones that do that.) What tends to happen is that yes, the tab enters the N spaces, but if you hav
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by opo 7y ago
>sampling bias debate reminds me of this stats legend from ww2: the USAF wanted to armor planes where the bullet holes were. statistician abe wald recommended armoring where the bullet holes weren't on the theory that those were the
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by opo 7y ago
Now that we have a volunteer army, there are differences between how the wars of today are fought compared to the Viet Nam war. The Viet Nam war had literally an order of magnitude more deaths than our current wars. Having a volunteer force
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by opo 7y ago
>...AFAIK the US does not insure anyone directly The government provides health insurance to many people. 44 million people are insured by Medicare. 74 million people are insured by Medicaid. Over 1 million veterans get their health ca
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by opo 7y ago
>Sure, but in all of those countries health care insurers are incredibly tightly controlled... Insurance companies in the US are also "incredibly tightly controlled". Regulations even specify amounts that can be spent on patie
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by opo 7y ago
>...There are tons of people out there who will handle these things for their communities without expecting an exorbitant amount of money. The article I linked too was the personal experience of an economist who was in Raleigh after a hu
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by opo 7y ago
This is a common misconception about health care. Most countries have a mix of private/public funding a mix of private/public run health care. Canada is almost all non-profit charity hospitals, but other OECD countries use for p
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by opo 7y ago
>...The first smile will be gentle and gracious, and the second will be of pure glee. What kind of smile is there when there is nothing to buy at any price? Before all these laws, in natural disasters there used to be marginal producers
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by opo 7y ago
>...An important point the article didn’t address is that high prices direct resources to more important uses. That is a good point. Another point is (as Paul Romer mentioned in an interview), high profits during a shortage mean that su
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by opo 7y ago
>...People have been saying we would have rolling brownouts once we got to 5% renewables. Who ever claimed that? >...We can do 90% renewable energy, and even 100%, with storage and curtailment. That would not be very difficult with cu
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by opo 7y ago
>Just remember that the Federal government ended up making money on the automaker ... The estimates I've read are that the federal government lost between 9 and 10 billion on the automaker bailouts. For example: >...In the end,
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by opo 7y ago
The usual cost argument for open floor plans is that by devoting less square feet to each employee, you save money on rent. (The costs to actually put in a door and some sheet rock walls is a one time expense that isn't very high in co
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by opo 7y ago
Having worked in one of these, we found those sorts of "team offices" hurt collaboration and innovation even more than open floor plans. Unless the company is pretty small, the random conversations between people from different t
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by opo 7y ago
>...I kind of hope it is 3. but occasionally feel like it is 1 or 2. Unfortunately #2 appears to be an issue for many doctors: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2014/11/12/doctors-dont-k...
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by opo 7y ago
>...Coal may kill more people, I don't think there can be any doubt about this.
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by opo 7y ago
Few people who support nuclear power are against renewables, they are against fossil fuels. Coal mining is dangerous/destructive, burning coal is poisoning the oceans and has killed many, many people. For example, even with the adva
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by opo 7y ago
This quote is brought up often but it should be taken with some skepticism. As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before: >...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he publis
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by opo 7y ago
>...housing is a durable good (people don’t buy it week to week nor does rent change with such frequency), Rent (and "owner occupied rents") are a part of the bundle used in calculating the CPI. The owner occupied rent is a cal
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by opo 7y ago
The usual cost argument for open floor plans is that by devoting less square feet to each employee, you save money on rent. (The costs to actually put in a door and some sheet rock walls is a one time expense that isn't very high in c

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