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by varelse 5y ago
For about 5-7 months or until a new variant emerges but let's not talk about that, right? I enthusiastically support your right to play Russian roulette with pretty good odds if only you support my right not to play. After all if you d
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by varelse 5y ago
Which is why some companies pivoted to "unlimited time off" so you never accrue any official PTO and it's up to you to make sure you take any time off whatsoever. And just like open office floor plans, they portrayed this cos
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by varelse 5y ago
The people trying to return to 2019 are suffocating fish on a dock slowly dying so one can understand why they might hallucinate a bit and think things are going back to what they were and everyone will be super peachy happy at our new doub
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by varelse 5y ago
Um, one is pretty safe outdoors so far. I'm living a pretty good life modulo I miss watching movies on the big screen, mostly addressed by procuring a cheap 70" flatscreen. What's not so safe is congregating in poorly ventila
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by varelse 5y ago
No, but you keep harping on it. What gives?
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by varelse 5y ago
The sorts that wish to require you to work in spaces like that are not worth working for under any circumstances. You can do better if you try, don't settle...
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by varelse 5y ago
Approximately known as red and blue states at this point, no?
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by varelse 5y ago
We're so confident we'll stop the zombie apocalypse that we require all our new employees to be bitten by zombies!
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by varelse 5y ago
2019 was raging inequality and toxic corporate politics. We have an opportunity to do something about both right now. A lot of people are realizing that starting their own businesses is just as profitable and no less stable than a myriad of
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by varelse 5y ago
The vaccines are great (And I'm boosted)! We agree on that. But I hope we agree that anti-vaxxers suck. And they are providing a pool for the virus to evolve past the vaccines (as Omicron seems to do). As for the risk of death. I know
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by varelse 5y ago
Also remember to consider the threat posed by dihydrogen monoxide but I digress...
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by varelse 5y ago
The secret is not hiring fungibles and instead hiring people you can trust. But also those sorts are in demand and your overlords will probably not give you the $$$ to hire them. So we're forced to make do with fungible talent and that
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by varelse 5y ago
Right up until our strong pool of unvaccinated folk provide the evolutionary opportunity to infect the vaccinated pool. Why that seems to be exactly what's happening right now with omicron. But since fatality rates are decoupled from v
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by varelse 5y ago
"We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living o
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by varelse 5y ago
You can't. The courts are blocking vaccine mandates. Ergo you are indeed being asked to take a risk on behalf of your employers in exchange for absolutely nothing. I thought by now we would at least have required electronically verifie
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by varelse 5y ago
Stand up for your needs. And deliver sufficiently that your manager prefers to keep you working. The one exception where I tried to work 100% in an open office led to me catching the flu and staying stick for 4 months. People complained abo
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by varelse 5y ago
Infections are natural and cool? OK! Help yourself to HIV, smallpox, polio, hantavirus, covid, measles, MERS, and Ebola. Can you feel that healthy natural immunity building now or what?
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by varelse 5y ago
Technically, the activity of lumbering golems constructed by unthinking strands of DNA seeking to make copies of themselves, and if it weren't for that meddling virus...
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by varelse 5y ago
Speak for yourself. I've been WFH mostly for over a quarter century. No fate but the one you make and all that stuff...
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by varelse 5y ago
I've had multiple physicals and my vitamin D level checked. I'm in great health with a resting pulse close to 40. I would love to find a root cause here and address it but I haven't found a doctor who has seen anything obviou
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by varelse 5y ago
When I catch an infection I tend to get pneumonia afterwards and I am sick for months. I already had a predilection for working from home because too many people who are sick insist on coming to the office despite what their company guidanc
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by varelse 5y ago
So are you seeing the red flags here or not? This doesn't seem like a winning effort. This seems more like the opening scene to The Stand or the French lab that spawned the zombie apocalypse. Not that I think this virus is the end of t
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by varelse 5y ago
Just like HR departments exist solely to protect corporations from lawsuits this agreement is there to protect corporations from idiotic lawsuits insinuating that the dumbass who went into the office unmasked and got covid somehow takes zer
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by varelse 5y ago
Sure, but I'm betting that an everybody does what they want to to the point that it doesn't endanger anyone else isn't even good enough for some people who feel the need to control the behavior of others. What is this obsessi
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by varelse 5y ago
If you don't see the value in delaying exposure to that virus until there is something close to a sterilizing vaccine that's your viewpoint and you are entitled to that viewpoint. I hope you realize others see things differently.
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by varelse 5y ago
If employers wish to give every single on-site worker their own individual independently ventilated office, I'm down for returning to the office. But that would cost money. As would daily rapid antigen tests for everyone coming into th
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by varelse 5y ago
So you are stating that the release of the "X is ours" email that started all this was deliberate corporate misconduct by the CEO? I don't even think the SEC insinuated that. And that the SEC finding a small accounting discre
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by varelse 5y ago
And I get why the UK is concerned. Their regulators caught flack for allowing foreign companies to buy Deepmind and ARM. But I don't get the United States government's motivation here yet. The story will come out in time. https:&
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by varelse 5y ago
Ironically, Nvidia restated earnings slightly upward as opposed to Enron overreporting by $600M. Not so sure whether that was "cooking the books" or just playing fast and loose with ambiguous accounting laws which is in my experie
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by varelse 5y ago
Fascinating... So many strange acquisitions and this is the one that triggers all the red flags. The story will come out eventually and I think it's going to be a doozy.

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