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I actually spent a bit of time searching for a letter she sent with an ultimatum to her management. I've seen this referenced multiple places as "the email that got a Google resear…

I got that book based upon a HN recommendation. It's fascinating reading and made me think carefully about how much sleep I was getting. I used to think of sleep as something that …

No, the jump/push analogy is too contorted to be meaningful. Employers and employees have a relationship that has processes that have common meanings and names like "resigned" or "…

I agree that it could be viewed as firing language, but only if we had no context. However, we have context. We know that an ultimatum including a resignation threat was given. Acc…

I'm just going by the CNN article and her tweets, which include the response from some manager, Megan: As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. …

As someone who just learned about this kerfuffle a few minutes ago, that doesn't make sense to claim that she was fired. If you offer to resign if new conditions of employment aren…

Because this particular job does require a certain independence to do it properly Does it also require a certain intellectual integrity to do properly? Because claiming that you we…

There's a lot of truth in that, but it's not strictly true. And yet, rayiner's comment appeared faded-out from down-voting when I came upon it. And that's the real problem. He had …

Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office. Yes. Some people can, some people can't. Some people can, but they don't really need to in…

I know. If it were still a thing, I'd probably play it today. /C++

Efficacy is still tested with vaccines because there is a statistical expectation of contracting a given disease. If you give 40,000 people a random mix of placebo and vaccines and…

If you're not in one of the early target groups, I would assume that tens of millions will have received it before you - in the USA alone. We should have a lot of data to look at i…

I ignore all of the COVID vaccine messaging histrionics. The level of ignorance and political maneuvering out there is astounding. When I'm afforded the option to get the vaccine, …

Bolo was a cult phenomenon back in its heyday in the early-to-mid 1990s. It was a game with a great deal of tactical and strategic depth that it allowed a huge range of player abil…

Andrew Welch had an intense Bolo addiction for a while. It was in the latter part of my own Bolo addiction, but we played quite a few games together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I've been kind of astounded at the number of people I've seen who claim that they won't be taking the vaccine, no matter what.

Nice article. It manages to explain the uneasy feeling I've always had when people authoritatively talk about "decoupling HTML and CSS". The coupling is somewhere, and where it is …

The real puzzler is how they used both spellings in one headline.

You're right. That would be a counter-example because of non-biological second-order effects. But in this context, we're talking about first-order biological effects that aren't ac…

If it's a social construct, then it can't have a biological impact on the efficacy of a vaccine. You see the paradox?

Your scenarios depend upon narrowly assumed premises that fail as soon as you put real people in the mix. Sure, if we lived in a perfect world where your woodworking moderators kne…

If I, as a user of social media, want to belong to a community that removes misinformation around the election, government shouldn't ban such a platform from allowing to exist (sin…

The Republicans are pretty clearly wanting to remove legal protections of section 230 of the CDA for social media companies that are acting as quasi-publishers by suppressing the s…

If you watch the hearings, you'd know that both of your contentions are strawmen of what each side claims to want.

It happens. It's whimsical and seems often to be based upon media-generated hype. Important decision-makers like Comey and Clapper both lied to Congress in significant ways and nev…