My (somewhat limited) experience working at semi-large tech companies (several thousand employees) was that my team and closely related teams were mostly located close together (same floor, often same area of the floor). I imagine certain roles need to collaborate across a broader number of teams and so maybe they derived less value from being in the office together, but it seemed like for most of engineering we were mostly well situated for in-office collaboration.
Do really large companies tend to forgo locating related teams closely together?
Thank you - unfortunately I don't have access to the nytimes article (and am not willing to subscribe to get it). However, your comment did help me find other articles that seem relevant to this discussion.
In case it is of value to others, one such article is https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/10/26/why-the-aclu-is-rig... - it definitely has a pro-ACLU slant, but I thought it did a reasonable job of explaining the dynamics of the recent discussion/shifts within the ACLU with respect to free speech
While I can see why that tweet leads you to categorize them as "woke", I don't personally see how that has anything to do with their actions matching their stated stances, particularly as it relates to free speech.
Would you mind linking to a source about the ACLUs changing relationship to free speech? I just looked at their website and it seems like they are still centering free speech as one of their major issues and a list of actions they have taken in recent years includes support of e.g. the NRA and an anti-muslim group.
Something you may know, but I didn't before going through the home buying process: waiving inspection doesn't mean you can't get an inspection it means you don't get to do an inspection after making your offer and then use it to negotiate. It generally isn't a problem to get an inspection before making your offer and using that to inform whether you want to make an offer.
I like them both but disappointingly, they both insult people based on superficial traits. Seems like every time Stewart talked about Mitch McConnell he would do the turtle thing where he made fun of the way McConnell looks and speaks.
I would think in that case the solution should have been to talk with the manager about the junior engineer's performance (presumably well before the 60th time) rather than to take it out directly on the junior engineer.
I have also found vitamin D to be important for my mental health. In the past I found probiotics extremely helpful for my mood as well, though lately they haven't seemed to effect me much (seems to have changed after I had a course of antibiotics, so perhaps the reason they had been effective was related to an interaction with some bacteria?)
Not sure what your getting at here? The person you are commenting on wasn't talking about punishing people for having a head start they were saying that people's final grade should be based on what they are capable of at the end of the class, not at the start of it.
The ACA plans I had available were only slightly less expensive than my COBRA, but there was not a single ACA plan available that would cover any out of network expense like my COBRA plan did. I did switch to an ACA plan after COBRA expired and it was fine, but I slightly preferred my COBRA plan.
It is not feasible for consumers to be informed at that level about all of the goods they consume and for most of us there I doubt there is a practical way to be informed about these sorts of things for most products even if we were to try. Furthermore, even if we were informed for a particular product there may be no better behaved alternatives in the marketplace for something we consider to be a necessity.
With respect to the passing down of learned knowledge, I believe I read in the book 'Three Among the Wolves' that the author had observed a wolf pack teaching their young to be aware of and hide from small planes flying over (planes were dangerous to the wolves because hunters used them to hunt wolves in that area).
Building your own carries it's own set of risks. I can't afford the infosec, IT, devops, etc. that a large tech company has. Sure if I build my own and get hacked, I may have more ability to directly effect the situation, but I will likely have to spend much more of my time wrangling tech and may end up being more likely to be hacked overall.
If you don't have a background in plants and just learned about something from reading about it somewhere and decide to give it a try (might not even know there are poisonous plants that look somewhat alike), those sorts of details can be hard to notice and distinguish at first. Even as someone who has a pretty good background with plants at this point, I have occasionally been surprised at initially misidentifying something because the individual plant had an unusual presentation or was in a different growth stage than I was used to and I wasn't being super careful. I did spend some time learning about the poisonous plants in my area though and am extra careful with things that have other poisonous plants that look similar.
I agree, Ancillary Justice was one of my favorite books in recent years. I thought the world was really interesting, enjoyed the characters, and found the exploration of federated minds intriguing.
I agree with your general point, but not as a response to the gp. If the president and congressmen who were in power and were then running for re-election have no responsibility for the unrest than what was the point of them being re-elected to stop it? Either they can do something about it and didn't, or they can't do anything about it but for some reason are campaigning as though they can.
I think you misunderstood the point you were responding to. I don't think they were suggested there are right leaning sites with similar type of bias, I think they were suggesting Snopes may have articles with similar right-friendly bias.
iNaturalist is another good option for plant identification (and other forms of life as well). It has decent machine learning for suggesting IDs and is also backed by its community providing IDs. I've been using it a lot this year and have found it pretty helpful for IDs (though some regions and life forms are more likely to have good identifications than others), as well as for showing me what people are seeing in the area, and feeling like I'm contributing useful data.
No, the mind can have a significant effect on the body. For example this webmd article on placebo cites studies where what the participant was told about a pill (stimulant vs sleep aid) effected heart rate, blood pressure and reaction time in opposite directions. https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/what-is-the-placebo-ef...
- Colin Kaepernick
- They've been trying to cancel Planned Parenthood for as long as I can remember
- The tea party movement was a frequent practicer of cancelling other conservative voices (e.g. charges of being RINOs)
- Trump and his base have canceled many conservatives who did not like Trump
- It feels like the whole "fake news" thing is a form of cancel culture
I had RSI for years as well, ended up changing careers away from tech for many years because of it. For an unrelated issue I started taking probiotics and gradually noticed the RSI had improved. It took a while to realize it was the probiotics doing it because I had generally been avoiding doing things that triggered the RSI. After I noticed I could type regularly again though, I've had a couple of instances where the RSI flared up again when I had stopped taking the probiotics for a week or two - that's when I finally realized that was likely the change that made the difference.
Looking back I had had the onset of significant chronic digestive issues a month or two before the RSI started and I know believe that was not a coincidence.
It's interesting, looking at chimps and bonobos it appears that both of those general strategies is employable, with bonobos being stranger friendly and chimps being stranger averse: https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/bonobos-meal-sharing/. Not exactly the same as what is being talked about here, but doesn't seem far off - note the mention even of bonobos preferentially sharing with strangers over friends and family.
The links you provide for common core are not evidence of "considerable damage". The first is an opinion piece and the second is much worse - a blog post following up on an article whose argument against common core is based primarily on believing the claims in a satire article