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by ryanobjc 6y ago
There’s a reason why companies like google jumped on the covid thing earlier than most. Imagine an SRE group that got hit by a covid cluster. Now imagine that group handles... oh I dunno YouTube. Or search. Even for mild cases of covid, the
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Why? Why not do the pre-canvass prior to election day? What's wrong with verifying eligibility, via whatever legally mandated process, then holding the ballots. Or pre-tabulating them? The latter is what San Francisco does. The mail
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
yes i see, its hard to read these things which are trying to be as positive as possible
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To be clear the 'high quality' is still unlimited. Only the 'original quality' will be quotaed.
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
The headline here says it all really: https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-pro... A colleague moved to an office in boulder. Everyone there is senior, and not leaving. No space to get promoted. Al
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Don’t forget the worst of the delays this year we’re deliberately left in place by GOP legislatures. There was a massive shift to mail in voting yet no changes to how they’re processed. The pre-canvass part: opening mail in ballots, verifyi
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Yes exactly this so much. I’ve done poll clerk and the security of the process depends on security seals and armed guards and all sorts of things that are easy to understand.
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
As a non citizen who worked the polls as a clerk, there’s plenty of ballot secrecy. Many people don’t care. But there are procedures in place. Sometimes people do care and they can obscure it. Once the ballot is in the box, disassociated fr
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
This is what happens in many elections. The problem is mail in ballots, which were significantly more this year. When do you start processing them? In many states, the answer is: before election day. In other states, notably PA, the law s
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I've done election clerking, which I highly encourage everyone to do. Here in SF, it's an entirely paper election, and at every precinct there is a ballot scanner. As people fill out their ballots, it gets scanned, tabulated (ak
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I thought something similar... they referenced emacs, and they took away... customized coloring? And appearance? Really?
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Nearly all my colleagues and friends here in the Bay Area are from somewhere else. So this idea of a totally isolated bubble is a fiction made up on few facts to sell a story. And most people are fairly tolerant - except of the intolerable
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I read this article and I was “ok memorization, but is that learning??” And even after perusing the supermemo website, and so on I’m still not convinced that this isn’t anything more than memorization for exams. There’s a reason why this is
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Only a world where the feelings of the CEO are the most important thing in the entire company does this difference really matter. As CEO your job is (a) leadership and (b) communications. He failed at both, badly. Perhaps he should have r
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Good comment. The opposite of pridewashing is either a form of neutrality or hostility. Neither which are good. Yes it's "trendy", but there is REAL value in LGBTQ+ representation in media, goods, and more.
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I was on the fence about the backlash, but ultimately what sealed the deal for me is his response to the situation. As presumed-CEO and leader, he needs to have the confidence of his organization, and also the ability to address controversi
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I do. I was having anxiety attacks on dextroamphetamine. 5 mg a day. I was resigned to dealing with them sometimes. Then I by happenstance quit caffeine. And panic attacks went away. Sleep problems went away. The meds were potentiating the
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Adderall is so commonly prescribed but honestly for some people the better choice may be dextroamphetamine. I know it was for me. The levo-amphetamine in adderall causes what is known as peripheral side effects. Higher heart rate. And so on
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
You gotta realize that millions, tens of millions, of Americans are white supremicists, look at black people getting shot by the police and think “they must be criminals they got what they deserved.” We are having an (ongoing) argument in A
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Ah yes good point - it’s of concern to every FAIR MINDED member of the group. Lest we forget, there are many people who support the structural inequality.
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
It’s very brave if you, in the middle of a pandemic, to say that “sick days are private and have no impact on society at large.” You must have missed March and April when sick days at “essential work” (such as grocery stores, restaurants, c
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Right wing 'material' is often refused for inciting violence, targeted harassment, and more now explicit lies on matters of significant civic importance - such as when/where to vote, lying health info in the middle of a pande
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
I think he means postmodern in the common sense of the postmodern movement. Modernism was a architectural and philosophical trend that peaked in the 50s. It really got started a few decades earlier than that. Think of uniform apartment bloc
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
The Democratic Party legislates as if it represents all Americans. Which means compromise. Rarely has the Democratic Party held all three branches recently. Holding the senate is a huge win for the republicans - they can be as obstinate and
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Come on, new words are created all the time. What do you call the grade before “1” in old English? Didn’t exist. The word is a loan word from German. Language changes to suit the users of the language. Taking a hardline “you made words up s
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Plus when you land there, you won't be getting help or support. So toss all your support network for more space. For some that's reasonable, but for many it is not, and presuming that it's their own 'fault' for no
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
The headline is misleading. The original policy was the US Forest service - a federal agency. As for calfire and the state being reluctant to authorize controlled burns, well given the risk of wildfire and having controlled burns escape, we
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Well the better prices is just a theory. I don’t even see it planning out. The cheaper fees don’t even have to be passed on consumers - if you had a beat selling property, why would you discount? If epic wins, they’ll eventually raise price
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
This is hopelessly naive and overly credible. Companies with power and leverage won’t switch to an “open api” and generic ui. It’s better for them to offer their own proprietary experience and to be able to improve it. Even if what you desc
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by ryanobjc 6y ago
Deregulation of the power grid in California. Competition focuses on price with a presumption that quality won’t suffer because users will switch. Well that isn’t necessarily so, it’s a hope rather than a hard fact. There are many examples,

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