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I use a blank keycap keyboard. There are little raised dots on the F and J keys to find your placement without looking down.

Two reasons to use one: 1) security - slows down most people when “borrowing” your computer. 2) looking cool and being able to joke that it used to have keycaps but you type so much that they all wore off

Sure, but let's say you're on the other side of the milky way. You can travel at 1% the speed of light. Why would you come to Earth or anywhere near it? It takes 2 million years to get here, so unless you know something is there, that would be an insane trip to make.

Not sure I buy this argument... here are some random thoughts on why:

1) Someone has to be first. Let's say that there is no filter, and every species that doesn't destroy itself or get destroyed will eventually become technologically advanced to travel around meaningfully in space. There is a certain amount of time it will take for this to happen. Supposedly the universe is ~14B years old, and Earth is ~5B years old. It takes a certain amount of time for abiogenesis, a certain amount of time for life to evolve, and a species to emerge "victorious" long enough to start conquering the universe before the next extinction event. So we could be the "first", or the top 20% anyway, and it'll still take us a while for those top 20% to get anywhere where they can start detecting/traveling anywhere.

2) What is the maximum distance any extraterrestrial life could observe our technology/planet currently? Space is huge, like uncomprehendingly huge... even if we could go anywhere ourselves right now, would we go visit every single planet everywhere without a reason to? And how long would that take? Maybe there hasn't been enough time for a civilization to a) detect us from 100s of light years away and b) travel to us. Maybe detection of life from far away is impossible past a certain point, but traveling there isn't (since it just takes time).

So I guess my thought is, yeah, we might not find life in our solar system, but we might. But even if we do, I don't necessarily think we'll get filtered out either.

ex·tor·tion

noun

the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

Hmm, maybe I'm missing something, but the main argument for the Great Filter is that we haven't observed any extraterrestrial life. If we started observing that life, that might just mean that so far our observation technology has not been good enough previously.

I've heard from a lot of people at certain companies who know that if they want a certain salary bump, they need to leave for a year or two and come back. So if you're still interested in your first organization, don't discount going back there. Generally, it's way easier to get hired the second time as you're a known commodity, and assuming you can demonstrate your skill improvement over that time period, you can get a 20-40% bump from your current job.

Not only that, but people will need new stay at home entertainment more than ever for a while.

Architect. - currently no regularly scheduled meetings.

Sometimes I'll have a recurring meeting for a particular project, but even those end up being useless as we talk about the project all the time outside of the meetings, and we end up cancelling half of the recurring ones.

On average I'll have around 3 hours of non-recurring meetings per week (although some weeks have none).

That said, there's probably ~2 hours a day of impromptu conversing with colleagues on work topics that eats up a lot of time.

The rest of the company has the normal "waste half of the week" set of agile meetings that they attend.

Just an note, the article got the text wrong here.

The bulb actually reads: "Property of H.M. Government."

I don't think this is necessarily true. I've seen plenty of disagreeable people making it much further than their "nicer" counterparts over a longer period of time. In business, politics, etc.

the second "here" in the Canada sentence is referring to the USA, so the poster is saying it is a bad thing.

World of Warcraft just had a classic release, which I would hardly call stale.

https://www.newsweek.com/world-warcraft-subscriptions-triple...

  And with the benefit of hindsight, Waite says, Watson clearly doesn't deserve that C she gave him.

  "Goodness, he certainly proved he knew how to work the 
  Constitution and what it meant and how to be politically 
  active," she says. "So, yes, I think he deserves an A 
  after that effort — A-plus!"

  And that's exactly what happened.

  On March 1, Waite signed a form to officially change 
  Watson's grade. Thirty-five years after Gregory Watson 
  wrote his paper, he finally got his C changed to an A.

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-...

You need a big-ish city to find them with any frequency. They’re on the menu at my favorite restaurants in Vegas and San Diego. I also just recently saw them in Tallahassee. I’ve also had marrow delivered via crowd cow, a crowd funded butcher box service.

Which is why there are no murders in states with a death penalty.

According to the Wikipedia entry, in the initial incident they were just trimming the tree, not cutting it down.

I mean technically it's both threat OR to overcome active resistance.

It could be argued that he was actively resisting by not standing.

I'm an old man (38) playing video games, and I'm fairly successful.

I've played games back in the day with at least one person who has become a billionaire in software.

Everyone is different, your way is not the only way.

Now if you're addicted and don't see yourself moving forward, then sure, adjust it. But you should do that if you're addicted to anything.

The author basically just had a job for a while. They aren't charging 18K for a web page, they're charging 18K to commute/be there for 7 weeks.

A lot of big companies aren't paying for output, they're paying for butts in seats. Why they do this has been discussed somewhat already in these comments.

I've played Roblox with my kid. It's actually a bunch of different games, some of which are entertaining and complex.

Try experiencing what your kids experience and judge for yourself.

Really?

You can't imagine that it's easier to search for a new song on Spotify and play it immediately VS buying a physical disc, transferring the files to your computer, then transferring them again to each of your devices?

Just finding the physical discs is huge inconvenience

it's fun to drive

entertainment has value to some people

is it capitalism or the fundamental emptiness of life?

They didn't exactly turn a blind eye.

They tried prohibition in the US, it didn't work.

It was for a King, so potentially it was just ceremonial..

Companies do want all the requirements listed. They're just well aware they're probably not ever going to get them.

Unfortunately not everyone knows this, I've had many conversations with people looking for jobs who decline to apply because they don't feel they meet all the requirements. My advice to them is: "No one meets all the requirements, if you meet even 50% of them and want to learn the other ones, you should be applying. You don't have to be the perfect applicant, just the best person who happened to apply in the time-frame of the hiring pool."

-- having read the article now: I help write our job reqs, and I agree and use the author's "nice to have" section for non-critical "requirements".

The amount of alcohol you consume doesn't really matter.

It's the behavior that is punishable regardless of whether you were drinking or not.

rentals, leases

pretty easy

I don't think a smartwatch would help, you'd just change what you're looking at.

What I do if I need to not be distracted: - turn off all essential notifications on phone - put your phone on silent - place phone behind your view to the left or right, upside down

This way if your family needs to reach you, they'll call/message and you'll hear it vibrate and handle it. Otherwise you won't even see it. Just make sure they are only contacting you for real things, and not to say hi, at least when you're trying to concentrate.

it's not all bad, you still can :)