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by rpiguy 7y ago
I have no problem with table tennis, bean bags, and open offices. The worst export of Silicon Valley by far is the "work cult" where you have to pretend to love your company and every company is out to change the way we X, etc. If
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Same. I am most productive 10pm-2am (thankfully earlier than you so I can actually sometimes work in my productive time and get to bed early enough to be okay in the morning). Kids mess everything up in regard to sleep. It won't put yo
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If you are tired at all during the day, get an at home sleep study as soon as you can. Treatment makes a world of difference. I wasn't diagnosed until I was older, but I suspect it started mildly in my 20s after a long bout of tonsilli
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I think it is also generational. We now have in the workplace a few generations of workers who grew up being told their opinions mattered and that speaking up is a virtue. I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing. Us old-timers were
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Unions operate financially like churches. They depend on the dues (tithes) paid by their membership. The more members you have, the more influence and power you have. This incentivizes unions to never voluntarily reduce their numbers. The m
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The most fascinating thing to me about tech worker unionization is that it is less about working conditions and more about input on moral decisions made by company management. At Kickstarter the moral divide started with the Punch a Nazi in
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by rpiguy 7y ago
The most fascinating thing to me about tech worker unionization is that it is less about working conditions and more about input on moral decisions made by company management. At Kickstarter the moral divide started with the Punch a Nazi in
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I would be thrilled if that were the case!
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It’s incredibly difficult to present a dissenting opinion on certain topics here because of the downvoting system. It used to bother me to see points go down (upon reflection the upvote/downvote system really seems to reward groupthink
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Because all dissenting opinions are trolls? I genuinely dislike being preached to about climate change by mega-consumers like celebrities.
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Yes, absolutely. No argument there.
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I dislike gross displays of privilege. Being rich and advocating for everyone else to reduce consumption while maintaining your own lavish, polluting lifestyle simply because you have the money to “offset” it is obscene.
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I do not believe in climate change. I also do not believe in a ruling elite advocating reduced consumption by others while consuming and emitting all they want simply because they have the money to “offset” it. It is an obscene display of p
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No I find it unfair that many celebrity climate advocates preach limited consumption while consuming vast amounts of energy, carbon, etc. themselves.
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Obama did not understand the rule of law. DACA is completely unconstitutional. The President cannot change immigration law as written by congress. If you believe Obama had the right to create DACA then the same broad executive powers to rew
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Billionaire invests $10B dollars to virtue signal and control the behavior of the poor, while not changing his lifestyle at all. 165M dollar environmentally excessive mansion, private jets, and a rocket program that dumps carbon into the ai
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It absolutely is but it’s not sufficient if both sides have credible witnesses. All we have now is an unverified claim in a biography. I am not arguing that Trump didn’t say it, he may have. We just shouldn’t rush to judgement on anything l
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It is not evidence, it is hearsay. Even if Mattis testified that Trump said it Trump may have witnesses who’d say he didn’t say it. We don’t convict people in this country based on hearsay alone.
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I think it depends on the severity and nature of the bullying, the personality of the child in question, and the parents can be gentler in delivering the message. On the whole I agree with you. My parents were similarly tough on me (except
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by rpiguy 7y ago
I agree. I am less glib and more quiet now than when I was younger and get crowded out of meetings quite quickly. I used to just speak my mind, but now I prefer to mull things over. Reddit is also like Twitter. Karma has certainly evolved i
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People miss the quality of discussions on Usenet, but don't ever think about why the discussions were better. Biggest factor I think that made the discussions better is that folks were not connected all the time so discussions would sp
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Artists and scholars of the humanities are overwhelmingly left-wing, so when the right-wing is in charge they try to eliminate it. This dance has been going on for decades. I'd rather see the NEH and NEA be set up as actual endowments.
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Very few things will pay as well in the long run. Top level sys admins/Dev-ops. He will have to write a lot scripts, at least until he makes it to management. If he is good at math and enjoys it he can become a data scientist. Business
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by rpiguy 7y ago
UK, US, and Australia have similar work ethics. The Aussies, based on my anecdotal experiences, seem better at relaxing and do so less pretentiously than folks here in the US. Immigrating to the US is easy if you have an employer lined up,
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Funny how obesity accelerated with the decline of smoking. Sure lots of obese people smoke, but my anecdotal experience with my immediate family tells me that a decline in smoking is a factor. Everyone who quit smoking in my family replaced
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This could solve a lot of problems. A big barrier to allowing children to change identity/block pubertyl/etc. is that it’s impossible to tell which cases of gender disphoria are biological and which may just be an expression of de
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by rpiguy 7y ago
Could not agree more.
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I chuckled about the the fear that California whites were becoming too right wing in 1995. What a difference 25 years makes, lol. Privileged people live in bubbles. Was as true then as it is now.
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The article says that in Western Europe the rate at which men drop out is much lower than in the US. I only had the article as a frame of reference for my question, I did not have the Brookings institution study for additional color. Intere
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Another person commented below what I think is brilliant insight. "In America (USA) you ARE your job; it defines you. The American Way is to be hard working and self sufficient. If you can't do that, there are tremendous psycholog

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