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by topkai22 6y ago
You are assuming that people can increase thier income by working more hours. Most salaried employees can’t do so at all and hourly employees don’t often get overtime hours. It’s quite possible that commuting really is the only way to “earn
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’ve only ever been a people manager in a remote only world, but I’ve also successfully ramped up plenty new hires, most of home have been more successful than those who started on in person teams in the same cohort. I suspect the biggest
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by topkai22 6y ago
Mea culpa, I had the <1 numbers of flu in my head as the <10 number- I shouldn't have said "as badly". However, those charts aren't great- as someone else noted comparing estimated flu numbers with confirmed COVID
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by topkai22 6y ago
There are several other studies that are indicating that spread isn't as high among children as adults. See https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/children-over-age-... The article is arguing a point, but
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by topkai22 6y ago
I don’t get “the tyranny of employment”. I’ve had bad jobs before, but within a couple of months I got a new one- in my case always within the same company. My peers in tech have had incredibly dynamic careers as W2 employees. I’ve toyed wi
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by topkai22 6y ago
The author has agreed elsewhere in this thread that he’s basically writing about taking VC money. That being said, the advice applies elsewhere. My dad was a physician in US military and then decided to open up a private practice. He spent
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by topkai22 6y ago
I completely get where you are coming from. In college I had to almost all my papers and projects late at night to take advantage of the “tired effect.” I’ve thankfully been able to move beyond that a little bit. A large part has been getti
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by topkai22 6y ago
No, at this point we can be pretty certain that this disease doesn't affect young children as badly as flu. Plenty of kids have tested positive for COVID19, but almost none have died. This disease is so pervasive we'd see excess s
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by topkai22 6y ago
Come on, this obviously depends on where you are- the article is a New York city newspaper talking about new york and the northeast. You can't do outdoor classes in Texas in August, but by late September or October it becomes totally f
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by topkai22 6y ago
Possibly, but my great great grandparents were school aged in New York in the late 1800s. There were 10+ kids and 2 adults in the family. Mom might have been at home, but she was busy.
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by topkai22 6y ago
The limited data I've seen is that online learning wasn't effective compared to in person classes. Now admittedly that was an natural experiment conducted in the worst way possible, but it certainly matches my experience that youn
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by topkai22 6y ago
My prediction is that commercial real estate is in for a bad time. The shift to remote work appears to be sticking enough that plenty of businesses are going to be really questioning thier facilities budget, and I doubt food or personal ser
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by topkai22 6y ago
In my experience, people in lower density areas leave thier house less than people in major urban centers. Additionally, the densities aren't the same even indoors. Again ancedotally, but the average number of people packed into a che
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by topkai22 6y ago
2009 was near the bottom of the housing crisis in the US. You picked a really good time to build. While housing prices are likely overheated, it’s not where we were in 2007, at least adjusted for inflation. Prices are high because of stupid
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by topkai22 6y ago
We have some fairly big developments in my mostly suburban area that take years to build out. The building sites are already prepped and permitted, so they can increase the build rate somewhat dynamically. Since it looks like we are only
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm making some assumptions here, but the N. Vietnamese viewed the prisoners as political negotiating chips. They were very casually indifferent to their survival and indeed many died. Quite a few were killed. However, the N. Vietnames
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by topkai22 6y ago
I don’t think so, but the Northern Vietnamese generated a bunch of FUD about it. Gross simplification, but essentially committed anti-war activists or others opposed to the US campaign (including foreign powers) would sometimes accept the N
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yup- an 8" gun uses ~90 lbs of powder. That is a big blast and not all of it goes forward.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I've only seen 2-2.5% cited as a CFR (case fatality rate) for 1918 influenza in the US, not the IFR (infection fatality rate). I don't know if those are assumed to be equivalent for are assumed to be retrospective analysis, but th
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the last time the flu got anywhere near a 0.5% IFR rate was the 1918 pandemic, which also devested the economy and resulted in shutdowns. Covid-19 also is substantially more transmissible than flu. There is nothing sin
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by topkai22 6y ago
Exactly. If you want to be pedantic they do sell cloud services but not cloud infrastructure. A more dramatic comparison would be Apple putting android on some of thier devices.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Let me answer by way of another question- "Why can't Google move its cloud servers to AWS?" If a major company like that adopged a competitors product, huge numbers of customers would question why they are on the platform&#x2
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by topkai22 6y ago
I consult to a company that uses Notes to this day. It pains me every time in see it opened up.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I moved to Spotify in order to get my feeds synced across devices. It’s mostly been a better experience, but for some insane reason you can’t add a proper feed to Spotify.
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by topkai22 6y ago
I wonder if Bill Gates will up and keep that aspect of his one time friend's legacy alive.
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by topkai22 6y ago
My school districts budget book indicates total benefit costs are about 43% of total salary. ( https://www.washoeschools.net/Page/550 ) The published teacher pay schedule indicates that teachers are paid around $50k for
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by topkai22 6y ago
1) Alphabet needs to be broken up (at least YouTube, Google the search engine, and the ad business). Ideally, there would be a way to pull apart the hosting business, the “social”/channel/search business, and the ad delivery busin
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by topkai22 6y ago
My first response is: Why not, I've been doing it for years. My second thought is that that: uh-oh, you've got a culture problem, not a remote work problem. Remote work changes certain work patterns. Innovation bull sessions often
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by topkai22 6y ago
We have roughly this concept in my org (field consulting for a major cloud provider). I've been very involved on the training side and on having people directly on my team. Some notes from my experience 1) We still have a pretty intens
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by topkai22 6y ago
The most common payroll taxes (social security and Medicare) are paid jointly by the employer and employee. Just saying “it’s a payroll tax” does not imply it went won’t show up on a W2 or be paid by the employee.

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