oreaway

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by oreaway 6y ago
I'd caution against memo culture, actually. I only have a sample size of 2, but in two organizations I've been in that tried to adopt something similar, this is what happened: In the first org, there was a lot of pressure that any
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by oreaway 6y ago
I know how HN works, but thanks for explaining it. New comments are only given the top spot for a small time period. My comment was at the top long after said time period, because it previously had more than enough upvotes to stay at the to
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by oreaway 6y ago
It's disingenuous to frame my comment as a "sneer", and censoring (via pushing this comment down, when it was previously the top comment of this thread) mentions of community self-introspection is doing this community a disse
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by oreaway 6y ago
Nice hypothesis, but incorrect. This is at a company that has always had a large remote workforce, and if you do want to work remote, it's always been an option, and there is an actual culture to support it (and in fact, all of our int
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by oreaway 6y ago
It's amusing reading all of the HN comments that insist that any attempts to not work remote must be some ploy by "the suits" and act like remote work is some panacea for all the problems in the world. My very large tech co
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by oreaway 6y ago
I understand what you're saying and I see the confusion. To be more clear, I agree with you and BMI is a terrible measure of "overweight"/"obesity". As someone who is 5'7" and 160 pounds, I'm con
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by oreaway 6y ago
You're completely missing the point. These studies don't give a damn about your adipose, or how much weight you need to lose. These studies are about whether or not you are classified as overwight, which is based solely on BMI, a
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by oreaway 6y ago
>But you’re talking as though such a person with a 31 inch waist should actually lose weight. No, I'm not. I never said such a thing and I have no idea why you're building such a strawman. Waist measure has nothing to do with t
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by oreaway 6y ago
30% of the population are obese , and another 30% are overweight . In total, more than 60% are overweight/obese.
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by oreaway 6y ago
People downplay it because even when presented with these stats, they picture "overweight/obese" as a stereotypical "fat person" wearing size 55 pants and using a scooter to get around the grocery store. And they th
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by oreaway 6y ago
What are you talking about? AWS has an absurd amount of government contracts, JEDI notwithstanding. A quick Google estimates that ~20% of AWS revenue comes from govcloud, and I don't think that even includes the secret contracts AWS su
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by oreaway 6y ago
I disagree completely. This is how you fight corruption. You don't just throw up your hands and say "welp the system is rigged, guess we will give up". Would you say the same thing in a civil rights case? Should we just give