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by tolbish 5y ago
I found several reports on this after a simple search. Here is one such report: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-... Here is a noteworthy snippet from that article that you mig
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It is not a debilitating phrase in the modern world. My doctor does not show up at his clinic before 8am, and that is a good thing .
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Work-life balance is not a debilitating phrase.
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by tolbish 5y ago
> "If I am happy at home, I come into the office with tremendous energy," Bezos said. "And if I am happy at work, I come home with tremendous energy." Surely that same thinking goes the other way: if you are having a
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by tolbish 5y ago
> Sarah Bromma, Pinterest’s head of policy, said in an interview that the rule change prioritised Pinterest users’ “emotional and mental health and wellbeing, especially those directly impacted by eating disorders or diet culture or body
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Technical debt is technical debt.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Vets with 5+ years of specific subdomain experience within the company's ecosystem (along with experienced engineers who have experience from elsewhere) are much harder to replace.
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by tolbish 5y ago
Would "built" have sufficed?
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What did his parents do?
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by tolbish 5y ago
> Gates’s particular advantages were being smart and having access to computers in high school in his day That's a rather inaccurate description of his advantages.
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by tolbish 5y ago
> You can't stop something as pervasive as drugs no matter how many people you incarcerate or kill attempting to do so. Most countries do just this. Of course some will get through the cracks, but they're aiming to lower the nu
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I'm going to go off on a limb and say for at least 90% of kids, it is easier to obtain alcohol than heroin or meth. That is not a very controversial assumption.
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Heroin can be smoked, from what I hear.
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Your anecdote demonstrates how easy it is for kids obtain alcohol.
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Not to pull the "think of the children" card, but if it were as easy for kids to obtain heroin as it is for them to obtain alcohol...
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by tolbish 5y ago
Not really. LastPass doesn't need a copy of the key for this to be secure. Only the person you have authorized needs a copy.
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One of the arguments I'm surprised I don't hear more often is how much more inclusive remote work is. People who find driving intensely stressful can be accommodated. People who might not feel comfortable being themselves in physi
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That is precisely my point.
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But do they also control your healthcare? Your boss does.
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Ask HN: What would you change about the interview process?
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> If you intend by working 32 hours instead of 40 hours to deliver only 80% value to your org, you would be at a disadvantage. Well you would be delivering 100% of the possible value you could in 80% of the time. The same as someone who
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by tolbish 5y ago
Does "this" = low taxes on the wealthy? Or allowing lobbying?
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Would you agree then that those employees are systemically set up to be forced out?
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Do you suppose there is a "natural max" of connections one is primed to keep in touch with? That after that number, it becomes more or less a task rather than reaching out out of genuine interest.
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Can you elaborate?
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That just sounds like an inability of Google to aptly scale work.
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Thanks. I figured, otherwise it would defeat the purpose.
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> Most prefer to get 100% of the money though, especially since at review time you're judged on what you accomplished, not raw butt-in-the-seat time. Why aren't they being compared to 80% of the others' accomplishments? Th
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by tolbish 5y ago
Stay in touch with those that mean the most to you...by automating your interactions with them with AI! This is straight out of Silicon Valley.
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by tolbish 5y ago
It's striking how often you see adults who don't have friends they see regularly or even speak to their neighbors.

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