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That’s what your business phone is for.

OK, thank you.

Is it normal for 2-year-olds to watch television?

The point is that it’s not a compliment to call something the “chess.com”.

What’s the median among non-obese women?

It means rent the beach house.

No, because I broke up with Alphabet years ago.

Our healthcare system has very little to do with capitalism or free markets.

Individual passwords don’t have entropy.

> Affiliate Prof., Dept. of Physics and Biophysics at U. San Diego

Is this the quality of education I can expect from UCSD?

You’re thinking of the Federation.

Then what was there to redesign?

That’s certainly an interesting hobby.

You may regret that. The problem with Californians emigrating elsewhere is that they don’t stop voting like Californians.

The employees should do their jobs or resign. Accepting employment doesn’t give them veto power over someone else’s platform.

I’m pretty sure I can’t meet that standard.

He meant to say “fewer”.

Says the WHO.

> Which works great for Apple, because they don't have anything to spend the money on anyway

Not true. Apple spends boatloads of money on dividends and share repurchases. Apple doesn't pay taxes on that, but shareholders do.

A man after my own heart. I've long been saying that corporate tax rates should be zero, but all dividend and capital gains rates should be taxed at regular earned income rates. What we have now is this weird system where income earned through investments is taxed twice (first corporate, then dividend or cap gain) but each at a lower rate. Just normalize everything.

Numberphile isn't that great if you're already interested in math. They talk a lot about math words, but they hardly ever do any math. 3Blue1Brown is where the good math is.

Humans might be plenty dangerous to the rest of the galaxy. It remains to be seen.

pdfs literally include their actual size in metadata in the document itself. Most printers will complain at least a little bit if you try to print it on the wrong size paper.

This paper is :

215.9 × 279.4 mm (Letter, portrait)

I still don’t know what that word means. I looked it up, and it’s not in my dictionary (MW). I suppose I’m not the target audience.

You could multiply all of those together to get mass.

I think it exists already, but I make no claims as to the quality.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/

Yea, sort of. If, when I joined, the company had said upfront that they had open offices, I wouldn't have been quite so sore about it.

It feels like I agreed to work there under one set of circumstances and then the company unilaterally changed the agreement. It qualitatively felt like a bait-and-switch, but that's not quite the right analogy, because the two companies never said that the office situation wouldn't change. I just assumed, and that's on me.

I want to change the dynamic at the next job I take. And I am curious if anyone else here has made some think like that work.

You really think so? That doesn't match my experience. I have always felt the most bargaining power before accepting the position, where the company feels they have to sell themselves. In both companies I mentioned, they were quite happy to show me my (respectively private and shared) offices when I was considering joining. I just want to lock them into that attitude. After I've been there a while, there's a real personal cost to leaving, which hurts my bargaining position, and they know it.

The same as if I really cared about any other accommodation (like a salary). I wouldn't trust my salary to a handshake deal.

Edit: I'm not at either of those jobs anymore, but I think if I had tried to negotiate for a shared office after the company had moved to an open office plan, I would have been laughed out of the room.

In either one of those cases, it sounds like a company I don't want to work for anyways. Bullet dodged.

I would only really care about jeopardizing the offer if it's a company that wouldn't have an open office plan, anyways.

I think calling the companies toxic might be going a bit too far. For my next job search, having a private office or office shared with a small number of people will be for all intents and purposes a requirement for me. I am currently thinking that it's better to be upfront about it and get expectations in writing.