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by beat 6y ago
I've actually been more productive since full-time wfh. Fewer interruptions and less micromanagement.
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by beat 6y ago
In practice, are the last 8 hours of a workweek as productive as the first 8 hours? Would employers actually be losing 20% of a worker's productivity in many cases? Or would it be more like 10%? Maybe even less, if productivity improve
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by beat 6y ago
That's why one place I really want a driving assist is automatically backing out of spaces in parking lots. Visibility is terrible for the driver. You need to be paying close attention in multiple directions at once, you often don&#x
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by beat 6y ago
The one time I was hit by a car as a pedestrian was a driver who wasn't paying attention. He was making a perfectly legal left turn at a green light, except for the pedestrians in the way (me and my girlfriend). The danger with an auto
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by beat 6y ago
Maybe not 50%, but there's certainly a strong bias in that data toward friday/saturday nights. Since the data resets at midnight rather than on bar hours, look at the difference in midnight-4am data on saturday and sunday mornings
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by beat 6y ago
Oh, I concur. I want it measured against skilled, sober, attentive drivers, not "bad" drivers.
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by beat 6y ago
I am a safe driver. (My measure: two moving violations in nearly 40 years of driving, the last one 16 years ago. No accidents in 19 years, no injury accidents ever. And I've driven daily for the whole time.) In the past couple of weeks
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by beat 6y ago
When a human kills someone with a car because they're drunk, or texting, I don't have much empathy for them. I read a statistic long ago - don't know how true it is, but it feels truthy - that half of all traffic fatalities h
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by beat 6y ago
I don't think you understand how "cause of death" reporting actually works.
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by beat 6y ago
My mother got her first vaccination shot yesterday. She's in a nursing home in Virginia. She's already had one COVID exposure (luckily she didn't get it), and it's just scary there.
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by beat 6y ago
Bucatini is the best pasta shape, though. Comedy always has that grain of truth in it. If you can somehow get past the great bucatini shortage of 2020, make some cacio e pepe with it. Trust me.
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by beat 6y ago
This is the gentrification problem. Make the community more desirable, and you make it increasingly more expensive for the existing residents. It's hard to balance these things. In the case of Minneapolis, the city committed to a plan
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by beat 6y ago
I can't. But I do find they're less likely to interrupt in chat than they are in a physical space. Also, it's a lot easier for me to finish what I'm doing before answering a chat than it is to finish what I'm doing
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by beat 6y ago
I'm one of those who probably cannot be convinced to go back to the office. Why would I want to go back to losing an hour and a half a day to commuting? What problem does this solve for me? I find most aspects of my job are actually ea
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by beat 6y ago
As a Minneapolis third precinct resident who saw what went down here, I saw the "looting" call in Chicago and immediately thought "Organized crime". Something that happened here, as the protests kicked up, was organized
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by beat 6y ago
Popular isn't the same as influential. For a good example of "unparalleled influence", look at the Velvet Underground. They hardly sold any copies of their first album, but as (I think) Brian Eno observed, "Everyone who
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by beat 6y ago
My spouse has a 2019 Honda HRV and I hate dealing with the touchscreen while driving. It's cognitively very difficult to do the degree of fine motor control and visual attention the touchscreen requires while also driving safely. It&
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by beat 6y ago
Yeah, I can see reason for the CDC to have daily press conferences now, not be routing it all through the White House. But that starts to lean toward political pressure from the White House silencing them to prevent mixed messages.
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by beat 6y ago
Do you know the CDC has been "silent", or have you just not seen anything about this before? Two weeks is pretty rapid to push through a decision like this, even in an emergency.
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by beat 6y ago
Well, there should be plenty of patients for studies soon. The timing actually makes some sense. Getting it into the field in a "can't hurt" way allows us to start studying its effectiveness quickly, before the medical system
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by beat 6y ago
If you want to play pedantic with the numbers, you need to be a lot more aggressive with the whys. Italy currently has a 7.2% mortality rate, but... they believe they are undercounting fatalities due to the virus, because the medical syst
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by beat 6y ago
She's back at home temporarily (broke up with a boyfriend that left her in a bad financial situation, moved back home to recuperate). She was planning to move out this summer and move in with friends who were buying a house, but buying
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by beat 6y ago
A mortality rate of 2-3% is "very high". And it's not just "very vulnerable populations". I'm 55, in generally good shape, but I have (medically controlled) hypertension. So my odds of dying are like 5%. My d
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by beat 6y ago
As the parent of adult children currently living at home... one of ours keeps going out to be with friends. I understand she needs to get out of the house sometimes, but it's unnerving, knowing the points of contact (she often goes to
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by beat 7y ago
I was in Minneapolis for Y2K... working release management/build engineering for a commercial ERP vendor, surrounded by Cray veterans (including my direct manager). The brainpower we put to Y2K was huge, but then again, we'd been
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by beat 7y ago
Other sports, too. My favorite, Formula 1 racing, is in trouble. The MacLaren team withdrew from sunday's first-in-season Australian GP after a team member tested positive for coronavirus, and there are unconfirmed rumors that the whol
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah, it's still not up at F1.com. But if the teams won't compete, there won't be a race, whether it's officially canceled or not.
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by beat 7y ago
And now, the entire Australian GP has been canceled. This does not bode well for the Bahrain GP on March 22, either.
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MacLaren withdraws from Australian GP due to coronavirus(formula1.com)
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by beat 7y ago
I actually feel more productive working from home, much of the time. Fewer distractions. Consider techniques like pomodoro, both to get you focused and to make sure you're taking necessary breaks. Have a way to exercise and walk around

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