> 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.…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> “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…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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…
> What "virtue" is being signalled? Care for others in your community?
> 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…
> 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…
> 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?
> 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…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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…
> I'm sure you're about to get flagged, but you know ISIS is a decidedly right wing group, right? The dividing line these days seems to be pro-western civilisation is right wing and anti-western civilisation is left…
> 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…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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.…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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,…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> “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…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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…
> What "virtue" is being signalled? Care for others in your community?
> 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…
> 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…
> 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?
> 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…
> 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.
> 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…
> 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…
> I'm sure you're about to get flagged, but you know ISIS is a decidedly right wing group, right? The dividing line these days seems to be pro-western civilisation is right wing and anti-western civilisation is left…
> 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…
> 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.
> 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…