scarby2

Totally.

I might die tomorrow, i'm 35.

I might retire at the end of the week if my lottery ticket hits the jackpot. I might just leave the company.

> The word Karen in your post is an ageist and racist dog whistle and it is also incredibly insulting to people who happen to be named Karen.

Karen is now an accepted and understood term referring to a very real phenomenon. Anyone with half a brain knows it's not aimed at people named Karen.

There's a huge difference between being named Karen and being a Karen...

laws have to be written with that in mind and have as limited a scope as possible.

but they had no suspicion that any abuse was occurring?

you would think someone would take a look at the allegation and determine that this was not necessary anyone with an ounce of sense knows that an 8 year old can walk half a mile on the street.

Every parent within my hometown would be getting arrested. And god forbid when these people learn that we were riding the public bus service to and from school at 10 years old...

This is general work advice not just interview advice

bad: I disagree with the way this is done/this is just bad. Lets do X!

good: I see the motivation with the current approach and understand the goals but i wonder if we might be better served by doing X instead. Usually this allows for Y benefits, but I'm open to discussion here.

Add some fluff to ensure nobody gets defensive and articulate your flexibility (even if you don't really have it)

> But I also think all interviewers having a veto is the wrong approach

It's based on people assuming that others will use that veto reasonably. Company i work for had a veto system but i don't think it was ever used. It was also essentially 3 level system "hire", "probably not" and "i object to this person ever working at this company"

I've heard the latter being expressed a few times but only with candidates that nobody was keen on.

The cost of a lamp a tunable bulb and a fraction of an rpi is almost certainly lower than the cost of 2 lamps and 2 bulbs.

Blue blocking never helped me but dimming and warming the lights close to bedtime makes me sleep so much better

If you're putting the fridge in an alcove you need a built in friendly model which vents to the front.

> actually significantly less efficient

It's less energy efficient. It's significantly more time efficient and ergonomic.

> unless you spend a lot of time at dock or have a big generator.

Even full size residential fridges can be powered by the smallest portable generator.

> Low performers always 100% of the time get dropped during layoffs.

This is totally not true. Usually they make jobs redundant not people. If there's a pool of people doing the same job and that headcount is reduced then it will often be the lowest performers that go however some places have done LIFO or cut the most expensive.

However if you're doing layoffs and you reduce your frontend team the it's likely low performers from the backend team get to stick around.

can you game this system by moving to a worse area? If you're rich and give your child all the support they need they're almost bound to be in the top 10%.

> But my current hypothesis is that many (most) Americans actually believe it.

I certainly believe that there is no rigid social class in America and it's definitely possible to move between income brackets with relatively little social stigma. In the UK for example no matter how much money a working class person makes they will never become upper class. Never be welcomed into the top social circles etc., they didn't go to the right schools (pre-college) or dont have the right accent...

I'm not as blind to believe that parental wealth doesn't matter hugely. I also wonder if it might be more difficult to move income brackets in the USA due to the extremely high cost of education.

> conscious of class, parental income and geography.

This is going to be a pain in the ass and you'll just lead to people gaming the system.

How about we just aim to make a high quality collage available to all who want it and extremely cheap and easy to finance so it's available to all?

Totally, however as somebody who knows quite a few adult content creators and sex workers I would say the standard for the industry is actually pretty high.

> So can women hired by pornography companies that are 18 but look younger and intentionally dress like school girls.

I've yet to see an 18 year old that looks like an actual child regardless of how they're dressed however I'm also not looking for this sort of thing so...

> Kitchens are not a big deal for me when I travel. A fridge is nice but you get a small one you can use a lot of the time in hotels these days and minibars seem to have mostly gone out of fashion.

For me this is true if I'm traveling for < 1 week If I'm gone for more than that i don't want to eat every meal out and want to have some food + drink stored in my accommodation.

> Tourists are included in city planning

The reason AirBnB exists is that tourists are not properly accounted for in city planning and not properly serviced by hotels. There's a huge demand for what AirBnB provides (Serviced and short term accommodation). Hotels are inadequate for longer stays or where you just want the comforts of home, a good middle ground is the "serviced apartment" concept found in some places (entire apartment blocks reserved for short term rentals) however there are times when you want an entire house, not an apartment.

i do the same thing work or not. Think.

Right now i think about how to re-define technical processes and patterns to reduce CFR, increase deploys etc.

When i was off work for a while i think about cooking, video games, restoring a car, emerging tech, how i can help others, refining social patterns etc.

There's not that long that I'm not thinking about something, just usually people pay me to think about something.

> I think it’s basically that a lifetime of being told what to do with your time atrophied your ability to direct your time when you had control.

I also think humans need to do nothing occasionally and that it's actually extremely valuable. If you look at the entirety of human history this whole 5 days of work 48 weeks of the year is very new. For most of human history we would have had intense bursts of activity (hunting, harvesting, planting etc.) followed by quite a bit of nothing. I think even as recently as the middle ages the average person was working about 150 days a year (though often in bursts from sun-up to sun-down 6 days a week until the work was done).

I took a year off of work, i traveled some, spent time with my now ex-wife, kept up on the latest skills and did a couple personal projects. But most of the time i rested, had a lie-in every morning, worked on my cooking skills, and played video games.

At some point i aim to do a similar thing again and spend a year slowly re-modeling a house (this has the dual benefit of being fun, gaining me new skills and not being anything close to a year of full time labor)

i likely have < 5% left. I moved internationally and have parents in their 70s i will likely see them less than 200 days in total.

Why not do both?

I don't want to be here in 30 years time wishing we'd built reactors 30 years ago (which is where we are today)

> Isn't this sort of how ministries work in the UK

yes

> you have a dedicated civil service that does most of the work and then a politician that may or may not know whats going on setting direction?

this is the ministers and their private secretary.

> have watched "The Think of It"

you should also watch "Yes Minister" i find it a bit more charming if a little dated, but also quite real.

The nsa is a bit of an oddity. It has conflicting branches within it's own organization. Parts of it want to keep you (and the rest of government) secure and the other parts want backdoors into everything.

well, likely that they knew or reasonably should have known.

nobody is buying something that's just going to capture roaches.

I went through a particularly bad phase and was unable to sleep for about a week. I wasn't violent but to say i was a rational human being after 3 days would be a lie. I don't have a lot of memory but i remember thinking my leg had been cut off and what would happen if i tried to wiggle my toes, only to realize that i still had my toes.

I mean we know he bit the guy. We don't know how hard.