Psychosomatic illnesses are in fact quite serious, but they require psychological treatment, not lockdowns of society.
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(Real retpolines have a little more magic, naturally.)
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Not special interviews, but certainly different pieces of headcount. There are Googlers and there are Googlers. Being the second is a lot more work, but a lot more interesting.
Confiscate their cars, problem solved.
There is one dude who drives past my window on 6th Ave, every single morning, at 7 AM, with an engine so loud it rattles glass ten stories up. That should be 365.24 summons/year, _for that guy_.
Until the cops choose to enforce the laws, nothing will fucking change. I'm thrilled the government is claiming to care here, but until anyone chooses to have these people hanged from the yardarm^W^W^W^W nothing will fucking change.
By the way, did you know it is _illegal_ to honk your horn in NYC outside of an emergency? Neither do the the people honking constantly outside my window! Why doesn't the NYPD just fine all of these people every single day until it stops? They could fund the entire department! But they simply don't care.
Many of my friends dream happily of enforcing vigilante justice for the loud motorists. I personally would be thrilled if this guy:
>But Pennachio conceded he has modified four of the 11 cars he owns to enhance the rumbling of the engine, as a matter of pleasure, not safety. “Just to know you’re in a beefier man’s car,” he said.
was evicted from the city. He is a horrible person with no redeeming characteristics and doesn't deserve to live in society.
It's far below 10% now (thanks to the hard work of a lot of people), and Google actually gotten to the point where we chose to spend _more_ time in malloc to make overall efficiency higher.
In either case: send people who commit crime to those prisons. If they do it again, send them back.
In the meantime, imprison the people who do commit crimes, and if they do so again after they're out, imprison them again.
Unless we arrest, prosecute, and imprison them. Or punish them other ways; how about flogging? It's arguably both a better deterrent and more humane than prison.
Saying "Sure, go ahead!" is better for no one.
If so, then yes, let's lock them up. "Everyone steals" is not a good defense to stealing.
I'm not an alcoholic but I am an anxious wreck. Single best way to make me stop freaking out at a party? Two old fashioneds.
I'd prefer to be gregarious and unworried sober, but that's not an option. (Yes, there are other approaches. This works better than all of them.)
I was just remarking to a coworker Friday how happy this made me; you get to write nice, obvious, readable string expressions with the right substitions, for ~arbitrary types.
As I recall another colleague wrote the original version (I do not remember who.) I bitbashed and optimized it, and added the comments, mainly because I wanted to make sure I understood the reasons it was right.
I don't think that all in-person relationships are better. There are people I see in person ~regularly I loathe. (Obviously, most such people I try not to see anymore, but you can't always control your friends' friends, or your coworkers, or who goes to your gym, or...) But they're all more real.
It's hard!
My ex-girlfriend described herself this way to me once and I thought it was funny, but it's in fact true of people in general: if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. It's unfortunate but it's true: you are going to naturally think more about and have better feelings about the coworkers you see every day in person. No, VC doesn't count. I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum. (Even I notice myself doing this, and I'm definitely somewhere on that line.)
Given that, I want to be in the room with my coworkers. I want them to unconsciously think of me as part of their tribe, and I want to feel the same way about them; that means we need to be able to perform regular in-person social petting. This is doubly true of my bosses. It sucks, but there's no way around it.
(Also, while this is less universal, there are plenty of extroverts, even on HN. I'm one. It's ironic, in that I also suffer from pretty nasty social anxiety; large rooms of strangers scare me and choke me up. But lock me in a room by myself for a month and I go crazy. I am happier, by far, when I can be in the same room as people I like.)