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Anyway, I consider fake reviews to be dishonest .. I consider this to be more like "putting a positive spin on it".
Ignore the marketingese and don’t let it bother you so much. The important thing is that they listened to their customers and created a better product as a result.
It's like the contestants on reality TV shows tend to not be ugly as well.
For some reason it _feels_ slimy but I am not sure why. Perhaps it is being confronted with the notion that the world isn't fair.
Imagine if our reaction to this disease, to prevent human death and suffering... will cause so much poverty, hardship, and social instability that the outcome is more human death and suffering, than if we had just let the virus run its course and had just gone about our daily lives accepting the losses.
I sure hope we are doing the right thing. Makes you wonder.
What you are suggesting is market timing. I am not very good at it, and I don't think most people are. You not only have to know when to sell, but you have to know when to buy back in. You have to get it right twice.
Now is not a good time to sell your stock holdings (at least not anymore). This smells of a panic right now.
I think a severe recession is all but guaranteed at this point. Let's hope we get through this with no more than that.
We do not need everyone to be Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi, or Michelangelo, or Bach or Einstein, or Shakespeare, or Newton or Galileo we just need to be smart enough to recognize when one of them is born amongst us. We've not always been good at that.. but we've been getting better at it.
The current administration is continuing to try to solve this problem without turning to global co-operation. If the vaccine is developed in Germany, or the UK or China, the U.S. would then need to license this technology, and it would reveal that the U.S does in fact need the world, and that global co-operation is, at the very least, needed in some situations. It would lose face. If on the other hand, the administration can claim "Look! We developed the vaccine here in the U.S. .. I told you we didn't need those other guys. We will take care of Americans first, and then we will help the others." then it would validate the "America first" narrative.
If the 2% fatality rate is accurate, compared to the flu’s 0.1%. That is 20x worse. The other scary part is that we don’t yet know if this virus is going to be seasonal like the flu.
https://ourworldindata.org/parents-losing-their-child
The human condition evolves.
Having said that, while I am supportive of UBI, I share your concerns over its impact on society. We do not understand the all what the knock on effects of such a program are. How it would be used/misused and how it would reshape incentives. We definitely need to dip our toe in the water before considering jumping in.
The big unknown is how many of those that are infected do not even seek medical attention (or were not administered the test). For instance, children appear to show either mild or no symptoms when infected.
Additionaly, speaking for myself, if I came down with something, with mild flu like symptoms, I wouldn't really be going to the hospital. I'd just take some over the counter medicine and power through. I would only seek medical attention if symptoms became severe. It stands to reason that this is how most people would be expected to behave. Therefore, people with severe symptoms would be much more likely to get medical attention, and therefore be tested, and to be hospitalized, or require emergency treatments.. making the stats look a lot worse than they are.
How about, a Sr. Software Engineer is someone who can work on, whatever technical problem your team is trying to solve, with little to no supervision. They can also be expected to occasionally provide technical direction/assistance to others on their team.
Within that title you can always set grades to allow for progression in salary and experience. Sr. Software Engineer II or III and so on.
Angelinos are paying the price for it in their time, their health and with their wallets. However, I think moving LA towards higher density development (similar to a New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin) is the correct approach.
Why are people spending 2 hours in traffic and commuting 50 miles each way, every day? It is because housing is un-affordable closer to the jobs. Even run down houses in crime ridden neighborhoods are ridiculously priced.
If you look at all the major cities of the world with good public transport infrastructure, they will all be densely populated. I don't think that is a coincidence.
I remember when I graduated college I interviewed and got a job and went to work at this company that in hindsight, had these awesome large high end cubicles, with wooden U shaped desks and tall partitions. Yet, I remember walking to my cubicle and feeling a pang of sadness. I could see this huge cubicle farm and I was being guided to my own "little" cubicle to go and sit in. Felt like a hamster in a cage - a small cog in a huge machine. Which I guess I was. All the managers had offices along the outsides of the farm, facing the windows.
But now that my expectations have been lowered further... I'd take that cubicle setup over an open plan office any day.
If space is at such a premium, the solution is to encourage more remote work. At this point, the industry, with its years of experience in outsourcing, offshoring and working with distributed teams has proven that remote work is an excellent and efficient model. At the very least, it should be far more mainstream than it is.
One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations -
1) The law enforcement agencies are choosing not to find her and track her down for some reason. 2) She is being kept hidden (willingly or unwillingly) by someone else who has the means and ability to do so. 3) She is already dead and her body will turn up at some point.
The thought there could be such types of 'cover ups' in the western democratic world is very scary. I was always certain this stuff only happened in the movies, now I am not as sure about that.
Within that folder I keep one note that acts as the ToDo list / Work Log that contains all the work items plus dates of completion. The rest of the notes are ad hoc and usually contain stuff like "Meeting notes - <subject> - <date>", "Follow ups", "Questions/Clarifications for later", and so on.
On a more serious note though. It is cool that there is a label for something like this, but to me it is just a polite way of de-escalation. You could be confrontational and say "I didn't do anything wrong, you're the one who is wrong to think what I did was wrong!" or you can say "I'm sorry you thought what I did was wrong, but my intention was not to wrong you or anyone.".
There is nothing wrong with being polite and tactful.
"Dear <user>, We apologize if you found the icon offensive. Please be assured that no offense was intended. Thank you for bringing up the issue so we could clear things up."
Was not a sufficient response and an end to the conversation? Leave the icon where it is. Now that the user knows that the icon wasn't meant as an offense, he can move on with his life.
If he finds the swastika offensive, he shouldn't visit India. Swastikas are everywhere. The context matters.
Often quoted as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
The world needs people like you to speak up, to keep people like them in check. Do it anonymously if it suits you, but please do it.
It isn't limited just to the outskirts either. For example, Rome itself has an amazing metro train system.
The problem isn't the age of the country. The problem is bureaucratic dysfunction.