mnhn1

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by mnhn1 4y ago
It sounds like you're skeptical about the business case, I was just pointing out that article did provide you with one. I don't know the answers to your questions. Though I agree the article doesn't back up the claim that lay
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by mnhn1 4y ago
Maybe we should read it and find out, I haven't, was just quoting the article.
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by mnhn1 4y ago
> The causality could easily be the other way around. Of course it could, though I've come to find this critique pretty weak when two people discuss a study that neither of them has read. You can say it about any topline conclusion
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by mnhn1 4y ago
> According to a McKinsey report, nurturing organizational diversity leads to higher profit margins. The most diverse companies outperform their less diverse peers by 36% in profitability. >"DEIB leads to employee retention, whic
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by mnhn1 4y ago
HR is not there to solve your problems. HR is there to protect the company. It's fine to be friendly with HR (some wonderful people work there), but remember who is paying them and whose interests they are supposed to look out for firs
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by mnhn1 4y ago
These contexts don't change the idea in rule 1, but they do change the definition of what is "necessary". There are words that "dilute" a message and are not necessary to convey the literal meaning. But usually we d
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by mnhn1 5y ago
People don't consume healthcare "all the time" the same way they do food, housing, water. Preventive healthcare is cheaper/less work than treating illnesses that have gotten more serious, leading to less total consumptio
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by mnhn1 5y ago
I don't think it's inconsistent. The people who advocate for free healthcare would probably also advocate for other parts of a social safety net, like food banks, food stamp programs, free access to water, temporary housing for th
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by mnhn1 5y ago
Johnathan Metzl explores it a bit in his book Dying of Whiteness[0]. Here's an example of something he described in an interview[1] about the book and his other work: >Now I will say that some of the individual stories—I mean, one s
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by mnhn1 5y ago
I'm using that to group all the things that are communicated through the musicality of the voice in addition to the words themselves. Like if a person is happy, upset, or surprised, in a way you can pick up from the tone of their voice
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by mnhn1 5y ago
Sure. There's also the converse situation where people who speak in tonal languages might not develop associations with melodic patterns in speech and any strong meta-meaning, since in those languages, pitch is actually carrying top-le
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by mnhn1 5y ago
> people never musicalize conversational speech I found this assertion confusing. Speech in say, English (just to narrow it down), is musical inherently. The pitch and rhythm of a speaking voice, especially how they change while an indiv