tablespoonsruby

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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
I prefer office-based work but it's not the top thing on my list of priorities. I've found that a really high number of companies that otherwise have what I'm looking for are remote, so I've had to compromise.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
> It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys also work remote or not. But lots of remote-evangelists will say things like "If anybody is joining a meeting remotely, everybody needs
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
> I don’t want to force anyone to do anything. I want to find a team that has the same primary work mode that I do: in-person collaboration. I think of this the way I think of full-time pair programming: nobody should be forced to do it,
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Alice Dreger seems to be the go-to support/advice person for people in this situation--don't act entitled to her time but if you reach out respectfully she has helped a lot of people in this situation.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Do you have a source? Everything I've read gave me the impression that we only have strong evidence that outdoor time is a factor, and the light exposure explanation is just a hypothesis.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
ADD is an obsolete diagnosis; it's all ADHD now, with inattentive, hyperactive, and combined subtypes. (I think this is dumb--why have the H in the name if not everybody with the condition is hyperactive?--but that's what the DSM
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
It absolutely does provide a personal blog, you just have to pay $5/month.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms Micro.blog does this!
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookmarklet for 1-click subscribing, but the blog
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Not if you are an employee. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/th...
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
There's plenty more criticism out there: https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien... https://chemistscorner.com/3-reasons-the-ewg-is-dubious-reso...
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
EWG is a source of misinformation: https://www.theecowell.com/blog/a-case-against-the-ewg
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
There actually was a shortage--of residential TP, due to people spending more time at home instead of at work, where commercial TP is used.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Not to mention that plenty of people (men and women) just don't want kids.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
Nothing. There's a difference between all employers forbidding remote work, and only some of them doing so.
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
> I don't think it'd be too much of a stretch to also suggest that it'd be bad if all employers decided that their workers had to be butts-in-seats 40 hours (or more) per week, no exceptions. Well, yes. That's not hap
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
In the same way that most people don't want to pair program full time, but it's perfectly legitimate for a company to decide it wants to be a full-time pairing shop if they think it's important enough to limit their hiring po
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by tablespoonsruby 5y ago
It's easy to win an argument against a straw man.