TrueGeek

omg, that's disturbing. I would have assumed most people pull over and help a turtle finish crossing the road. I can't believe people, especially this many people, purposefully do this.

There is effectively no speed limit in many rural areas in the US as it's unmonitored that far from cities. It's not uncommon to get passed by a pickup, with a grill literally 6 feet in the air, going either 130 km/h or slowing to a near stop right before it passes you and then going as fast as it can and "rolling coal" [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

Yeah, it's fine for me as all my stuff is rechargeable and cordless anyway. But my wife needs her hairdryer. In the US any plugs that could get wet are GFCI [1] so you just wait for it to dry out and then push the reset button.

I've rarely had it happen in the bathroom, even with outlets right next to a sink. But I had an outlet at ground level outdoors that would trip during heavy storms sometimes. We fixed it by putting a physical cover over it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device

The Terminus building in Atlanta works like this. You select your floor as you walk in (it's possible to do mid stride) and then the screen says "ELEVATOR 4" so when you get there you just walk in to an elevator that has no buttons, just a screen that says "TODAYS WEATHER: JSON FEED NOT FOUND".

The difference really is night and day between a US and UK kettle.

The worst part of the British system though (although I don’t think this has anything to do with voltage, IDK) is there is nowhere to plug-in your razor, hair clippers, hair dryer, toothbrush, curling iron, etc. etc.

A lot of these comments are saying they get sick days. I’m a senior dev in the US and only one company I’ve worked at in 24 years has given me sick days. One company justified the combined bucket of vacation / sick days by saying it’s more fair to employees that have chronic illness because they don’t have to tell anyone. One company only gave 10 days total (vacation and sick) until you had been there 5 years.

My current company gives me 20 days (combined vacation and sick) but we only get 6 paid holidays.

We can’t staff for the current level of demand of our healthcare systems, how would we “scale up”?

Additionally, this article is about the UK where healthcare is paid through taxes. Are you suggesting the overweight pay higher taxes?

> I'm not sure visually-impaired individuals are the intended beneficiaries of this site...

I’m know you’re making a joke but I want to point out that only a small percentage of blind people have 0% vision and it’s important that we address accessibility on our sites for multiple types of users.

hey, this is Bill in sales. I’ve shared your prototype with a few of our customers. They love it! Can you add the follow features by EOW?

We bought a Rad Power City 4 bike and absolutely love it. But so much is proprietary on it. When a piece broke it was in the shop for over a month.

I'll give a data point as a parent with an older child.

When they're younger it's not so bad. You can simply say "only 1 hour of screen time a day" and the kids don't put up a fuss. I even went a year without a TV and they just think this is normal because they don't have any other experience to compare it too.

At the Jr. High / High School level though it became difficult. Even when my son wanted to meet up with his friends in person and suggested things like going to the city park / mall his friends would decline and say "Why? Let's just hang out on Xbox." It wasn't even about playing Xbox, that's just where they hang out now. We even went so far as to build a game room and outfit it with multiple Xboxen, network switches, large TVs, etc. The kids still just preferred hanging out at their own homes and talking over headsets.

The only thing that ended up helping was we set a rule that he had to join two clubs at school. He tried a few different clubs and found two he liked. At one of the clubs they just happened to have a tradition of going and getting Boba afterwards and hanging out. He now has a decent group of friends that hangs out, in person, just talking.

What about arranging IRL protests, union strikes, war zone evacuations? OP's statement of "Politics rots people's brains" is a very head-in-the-sand statement and ignores one of the truly good and powerful aspects of social media.

Maybe it’s for his own wall because he’s WFH and doesn’t have any other Amazon swag.

> EDIT: If everyone ditched their cars, the housing crisis that is currently happening in literally every city in the developed world, will only get much worse.

Or more funding will go towards public transportation. There will be more room left from parking for new housing. Less money will be spent on infrastructure maintenance. City planners can work on walkable cities instead of drivable cities. Cities will be quieter and safer.

That one didn't work for me, here is another: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...

A friend of mine switched from IT work (roll outs of retail systems) to driving a fork lift. He was able to stay with the same company and kept his seniority and vacation time (they give an extra week per 5 years so he’s up to 6 weeks PTO). He’s making less money of course, but he’s far happier. No more time on the road and he says he loves that when his shift ends, it ends.

One downside for me is we have to plan further ahead to hang out since he is almost always scheduled to work weekends. But between us we’ve got plenty of PTO to make it work. We’re doing a full week of bikepacking in July!

> Given a few years, every work from home job will be outsource to some country where the pay is less

I’ve been hearing this (and worrying about it) for longer then I’ve been working from home. Coming up on 18 years this December.

"the People's Republic of China is an adversary of the United States"

- sent from my iPhone

"encouraged to pay tithing before all other expenses" is an understatement

This ^ but it's an employee owned company. And since the company is doing so many things, like running schools and towns and pensions and scholarships, we should have some of the employees represent all of the others to make sure all the voices are heard. We could vote on those representatives and even have two different sets to keep them in check.

Either a portion of each employees pay could fund all of this or since the company is providing everything then we could just do without pay entirely. Not sure which method is best really.

I get your point, but your “17th century” example isn’t in the past yet

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-60046320

I find this true as well so I just subscribe to those specific subreddits via RSS and Newsblur. I also create a new Reddit account once a month so that I don't fall into a habit of letting my account share too much personal data or letting myself fall into the trap of caring about upvotes. It's worked very well for me. I read the posts that interest me and I don't just "scroll Reddit" out of boredom.

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What's your vantage point though? Are you a "normal" senior seeing salaries going up from $175k and GP is a FAANG seeing salaries going down from $400k?

note: I don't have data points for either, I'm genuinely curious

My experience has been the same. Take out is either cold or a long wait. The estimated time the app gives is WAY off and there are no notifications unlike other apps letting you know how it's progressing.

We've tried delivery three times. Every time resulted in a refund because they sent the wrong order.

I've been using Windows iCloud client to backup to a VPS. It works okay for files, but for photos it pegged disk usage even when there weren't any new photos to download and my VPS provider wasn't happy. So far my solution is Windows iCloud client for files, and then OneDrive on my iPhone for photo backup, with OneDrive again on the VPS.

I like how the backup is outside my house, but I'm about to add Yubikey to my iCloud account and I'm not sure the Windows iCloud client is going to like that.

From what I can see (my in-laws use them) if you are signed in to apps that rely on their SSO then you are good. If you need to login or if your token need to refresh then you’re screwed. If you are just watching broadcast you’re also good.

But we were trying to watch HGTV on Apple TV, got kicked out of an already logged in session, and now have no way to log back in. I can’t imagine they will have any choice but to issue at least some refunds if this goes much longer.

Dish Network has been down three weeks now...

Twice I’ve seen one of the higher ups add a private bathroom attached to their office. (in additional to the bathroom that the normal employees use by the elevators).

Once because of IBS and once because they liked taking mid-day showers.

Added bathrooms shouldn’t be a problem.

I’m super interested in this. I might have missed it but did the author never report on how it tasted? It sounded like she was in a room with a ton of samples.