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by stakkur 5y ago
I rarely have found 1-1s 'effective', and I've experienced them in four different companies. In stints as a manager, I never have them. First: like all management, their usefulness depends utterly on how effective the manage
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Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge(nytimes.com)
7 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
Everybody was 'new' to the web. I've noticed the same confusion, and finally gave up trying to explain. Today, it seems people say 'Internet' for everything and 'web' has become passe.
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by stakkur 5y ago
I remember the glory days of UNIX/Usenet/etc. in the 80s at college too. I had an email address at Compuserve in the mid-80s, though I mainly used it for talking to other Compuserve members (when we weren't using 'CB cha
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The control group is out of control (2014)(slatestarcodex.com)
184 points by stakkur 5y ago|174 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
It’s because of water access, and Ohio basically bent over backwards to give Intel anything they wanted, included long-term sabotage of its own tax base in exchange for promises of jobs and other benefits. Ohio was the lowest, most pliant b
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Nurses: We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It’s Greed(nytimes.com)
19 points by stakkur 5y ago|1 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
Last year, when we were without electricity for a week, we used hot water bottles to heat the beds and generally for warmth and comfort. They're cheap, stay warm for hours , and have many uses. I recommend getting several for your hom
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Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix: What Might Have Been(dailymaverick.co.za)
4 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
PHI is not the ‘raw data’ they’re referring to, and you know it.
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by stakkur 5y ago
“When Doctors Recommended Smoking As A Science-Based Health Practice” FTFY.
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by stakkur 5y ago
My father-in-law, a lifelong licensed civil engineer, would (and often did) say 'no'.
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by stakkur 5y ago
We create physical photo books, sometimes two copies. These are a (small, curated) subset of all the digital photos we have. We keep the digital photos backed up on an external SSD and on iCloud (auto-synced from several devices), too. Bott
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by stakkur 5y ago
You mean like Earthships, a modern idea decades old? https://www.earthshipglobal.com/ What I like about Earthships is they attempt a wholistic answer to the gnarly nexus of housing access, resource use, and self-sufficienc
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by stakkur 5y ago
the only reason to obfuscate salaries is to pay people as little as possible and maintain control. any other argument is trying to pit employees self interest against others.
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by stakkur 5y ago
On LinkedIn, I see an average of 60-70 applicants for every engineering job I look at there . I also hire. Anecdotally, I see plenty of candidates and plenty of applicants, and zero shortage of qualified ones.
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by stakkur 5y ago
Uber and Lyft execs: let’s take a 30% cut of every driver’s income while trying to classify them as contractors and avoid employee costs and other bothersome rules.
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by stakkur 5y ago
It depends on the industry and company/client size you want to work with. For better or worse, large institutional companies and slow-moving industries are still often on the 'Microsoft stack' top to bottom, from desktops to
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Creation of First Human-Monkey Embryos Sparks Concern(wsj.com)
3 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
This is the most English thread I’ve read all year.
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How NASA Does Software Testing and QA(functionize.com)
2 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
Ah yes, the young, childless, mortgageless life of 'quit your job and find yourself'. I appreciate a lot of the ideas the author has, but in these stories there's rarely acknowledgement of the elephant in the room--it's
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by stakkur 5y ago
> "Chorded typing allows the users to input several letters at the same time and have a computer program generate a predicted word. Instead of typing h e l l o, a chorded typer mashes h, e, l, and o to produce the word. With practic
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by stakkur 5y ago
We often believe the opposite is true, so…why not?
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by stakkur 5y ago
There's a reason, buried in the word's evolution: https://www.etymonline.com/word/debt#etymonline_v_832
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by stakkur 5y ago
What ‘data’ is he referring to? It’s not mentioned in the article, and for all sorts of reasons 40% for 18-64 sounds statistically fishy.
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Why I Live In a Shed(youtube.com)
19 points by stakkur 5y ago|4 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
>"But the risk for children getting sick at school and bringing it back to their parents very much not does not play out like the flu." I don't think this is true, and I'd be interested to see data that backs up that
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Children's Risk of Serious Illness from Covid-19 Is as Low as It Is for the Flu(npr.org)
105 points by stakkur 5y ago|101 comments
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by stakkur 5y ago
Yep. One of the worst disasters in school histories. The app autocorrected 'disaster' to 'shooting'. I edited my comment. But the point here is the inclusion of a disaster that killed hundreds of children, not my grammar

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