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by iateanapple 6y ago
> How do “woke politics” prevent you from doing your job well? I’m a hiring manager and where I work we have an unwritten “understanding” that if your candidate recommendations don’t include any women you are a sexist. I just make sure I
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> They have zero avenue for support when they face abuse whether physical, sexual or emotional. That is not true at all. Singapore is a country of law and order. > visas in places like these ask you to leave immediately if you get qui
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> The whole experience is bizarre and inhuman and I don’t quite understand how many of my friends do it. Why is it bizarre and inhuman? A maid working in Singapore will earn 3-4x what she will make in Indonesia with generally better work
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You just only hire people who already agree with you. You don't even have to do this consciously, it's the default human behavior. Exactly - our product uses angular because two of our core engineers loved angular, helped peo
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I don't know, I guess it's possible? Maybe you have a better idea for how it could be happening, but it just doesn't seem very likely at all. I’ve seen this kind of thought pattern a few times and frankly the way you are
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Why would you want to? Because they catch more bugs than unit tests, are easier for our product team to understand, and rarely break when refactoring. Even a simple business flow like registering a new user will touch half a dozen syst
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> move somewhere else and have the significant monetary gain to compensate them for their trouble People don’t want to leave their homes and move away from family and friends just so a city can grow. Life isn’t just about money. I don’t
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Integration, E2E, and smoke tests are generally slow, flakey, hard to write. This is not really true anymore in a modern system. I can spin up an entire cluster to mirror prod - including databases and all - and run approx 10k integrat
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> which could prevent the vast majority of other crime. Could it? California is one of the richest places on earth and has an incredibly progressive population. So “we” have the desire and the money - and have for at least 20 years - and
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> “You just don't know how things used to be before the police", which I think really misses what people are asking for ie: redistribution of grossly overbudgeted police departments to preventative Or more likely they don’t thi
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Does that mean white Americans and Black Americans were on economically equal after the civil war? Where are you going with this line of questioning? They aren’t economically equal now in 2020.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Slaves built a huge part of the economy for free and americans benefit from that work for which they were not compensated That’s almost certainly not the case. Any economic gains from slavery were more than wiped out by the civil war.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Covid primarily spreads through droplets, which are largely stopped by regular surgical masks. Interestingly I don’t think that’s quite true. Droplets don’t explain almost any of the super spreader events. And it is the super spreader
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> What "virtue" is being signalled? Care for others in your community?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You have to explicitly optimise the city for public transit. Quite a lot of European cities do that. Even in those cities very few enjoy taking public transport - and would drive if they had free parking, didn’t have to pay tolls, didn
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> This doesn't explain cities that have successful public transit systems... Do these cities simply have terrible private transit options? I don’t know anyone who would prefer to take public transport except in cities with poor car
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> 75% of car trips in NYC are under 5 miles What % of people who work in NYC have a commute to work of under 5 miles?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> But certainly over the short run, it was very very high Was it very very high in the <65 not obese, not diabetic group? We know it is dangerous to the old and some cities did a horrendous job of looking after their elderly.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You are just picking and choosing random data points to make very broad statements. Is the data random? Would it really cluster like that across countries? I don’t think your statement makes a lot of sense.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Both the mortality rate and the long term impacts of COVID19 are both real and have not been overblown The mortality rate for healthy people is incredibly low. For example Singapore has had ~54,000 cases with a death count of only 27 s
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Usually their productivity dropped due to being sleep deprived High levels of sleep deprivation is only common for the first few months. > not having the time on nights and weekends to come up to speed on any new technology. This te
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Yet the Liberals threatening their own MPs with ending their careers if they vote their conscience wasn’t playing politics? Of course they were playing politics - why would you sacrifice party unity when you can shame your political op
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Being elite and overtraining are orthogonal. Not really - it can take a serious lifter weeks to recover from a competition deadlift whereas a new lifter can recover in 1-2 days.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Yes, the left blocked holding a voluntary postal survey to enshrine basic civil rights because it’s dumb on its face Yes, the left did block enshrining basic civil rights in order to play politics. > All the Liberals would have need
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> and skip the months of complaining from the Liberal Party It was clear the economic right faction of the Liberals wanted a mandate from the people so that they could push past the socially conservative faction. They were being blocked
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> For most people there just isn't a lot of obvious upside waiting for them if they work extra hard. Salaries are extremely compressed compared to the US Exactly! Even in a fairly well paid European country like Germany the salaries
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I have to imagine that's because people spend 10% of their income on the churches that you aren't accounting for. That is one part. However, it is naive to assume people would pay the same for community services. The other is
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I tend to agree, but women don't want to be home alone with kids. Historically, women would share duties with other women in the village so there was a lot more socializing and mentorship. Stay at home moms are always having get t
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Men want to be the breadwinner, so it's going to end up forcing women out of the workforce and back into the home. I’d love to send my wife out to work for the family. In fact I’d love to get multiple wives and send them all out t
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> If people need community, build community centers. There are other solutions that do not rely on continuing to provide tax exemptions to organizations Community centres are an order of magnitude more expensive than providing tax breaks

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