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How does office culture help middle management more than online work? It seems to me like removing in-person interactions would only increase the ability to gatekeep.

Obesity is much more about eating too much than it is about exercising too little. A quick snack to reward yourself for going to the gym can easily contain more calories than the exercise burned.

> It's entirely possible that this will be bad for WFH in general, as many people will mentally conflate working from home with an unpleasant and scary time.

People are also experiencing unusually slow internet connections due to everyone being online all the time, which makes working from home a less pleasant experience than it was before.

I have auto update turned on and I'm still on 10.15.3.

You can't guarantee that for updates to the existing code either.

Not everyone has a bunch of free time right now. People working on software tend to be able to work from home.

Flow is good, and fun conversations are good. Either way, I'm having a good day and getting paid well.

I actually enjoy open office plans despite not liking group work/study.

I prefer being alone. I don't really see people other than my wife outside of work. Work is my only chance to socialize, which makes an open office plan ideal for me. It's very easy to start conversations with the people near me and have them turn into fun group discussions.

Once you give up on the idea of having long unbroken periods of productivity, the open office plan can be a lot of fun.

They're creative and interesting, but not that many of them are actually funny.

April Fools jokes rarely contain humor.

Single-issue voters don't vote straight party tickets. You have to learn about the individual candidates and only vote for the ones that support your pet issue.

The mayor in this story probably didn't care much either way about municipal broadband. They just don't see it as an issue worth the effort.

If there were a real chance that not supporting municipal broadband would hurt their re-election chances, they'd be more likely to support it. If not, perhaps their successor would see things differently.

None of those other numbers are doubling every three days.

It's easier to change the thing you're in charge of than it is to make a new company-wide policy.

A sanitary cordon is not a quarantine.

The Wikipedia article for cordon sanitaire [1] mentions quarantine as an alternative way to handle disease spread.

> Public health specialists have included cordon sanitaire along with quarantine and medical isolation as "nonpharmaceutical interventions" designed to prevent the transmission of microbial pathogens through social distancing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire

That protects them, but they're still spreading the virus door to door.

They send people door to door to interact face-to-face with known carriers? That sounds like a bad idea.

Thanks for the correction. You're right that quarantine does not require knowing whether people are actually infected. However, it's still about isolating specific people or things to protect the rest of the population and not about asking the whole population to change its behavior.

Is the term "social distancing" being used in other languages? I assumed they'd have appropriate translations.

Quarantine does not accurately describe what the WHO is asking people to do. Quarantine is when you take potentially infected people and isolate them from the rest of the population, allowing all the unexposed people to go about their days normally.

Edit: Updated to clarify that quarantine is about potential and not actual infection.

He's not rich enough to juice the world economy. We're currently debating spending a trillion dollars on stimulus for the American economy, and many people are concerned that this won't be enough to make a difference.

That's also how the smart speakers are supposed to work.

Cellphones with voice assistants are already in general public use, even if you don't have one. So if general public use is enough to justify warrantless surveillance, we're already there.

Most games are, but the exclusives tend to be very good.

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube don't have moderators hiding posts by fat or ugly people.

I don't think Reddit gives moderators instructions to remove content if it indicates that the poster has a list of undesirable characteristics like being fat or poor.

This isn't about content being low quality or not liked. It's about content containing specific things that TikTok moderators were told to look out for.

There is plenty of extremely high quality content made by people who appear fat, poor, old, disabled, ugly, etc in their videos.

This is not about low quality content getting automatically filtered out by an algorithm because people don't like it. This is about TikTok using human moderators to prevent users from ever seeing content made by people they don't like.

They've been pretty empty so far. It's probably the safest time to use the roads in the area right now.

That makes sense if we're talking about long-term changes and not temporary public health measures during a pandemic.

Higher prices may encourage hoarding, as people might see the higher prices as a sign of scarcity and want to buy as much as possible before prices increase further or stores run out.