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> How do “woke politics” prevent you from doing your job well? I’m a hiring manager and where I work we have an unwritten “understanding” that if your candidate recommendations don…

> They have zero avenue for support when they face abuse whether physical, sexual or emotional. That is not true at all. Singapore is a country of law and order. > visas in places …

> The whole experience is bizarre and inhuman and I don’t quite understand how many of my friends do it. Why is it bizarre and inhuman? A maid working in Singapore will earn 3-4x w…

> You just only hire people who already agree with you. You don't even have to do this consciously, it's the default human behavior. Exactly - our product uses angular because two …

> I don't know, I guess it's possible? Maybe you have a better idea for how it could be happening, but it just doesn't seem very likely at all. I’ve seen this kind of thought patte…

> Why would you want to? Because they catch more bugs than unit tests, are easier for our product team to understand, and rarely break when refactoring. Even a simple business flow…

> move somewhere else and have the significant monetary gain to compensate them for their trouble People don’t want to leave their homes and move away from family and friends just …

> Integration, E2E, and smoke tests are generally slow, flakey, hard to write. This is not really true anymore in a modern system. I can spin up an entire cluster to mirror prod - …

> which could prevent the vast majority of other crime. Could it? California is one of the richest places on earth and has an incredibly progressive population. So “we” have the de…

> “You just don't know how things used to be before the police", which I think really misses what people are asking for ie: redistribution of grossly overbudgeted police department…

> Does that mean white Americans and Black Americans were on economically equal after the civil war? Where are you going with this line of questioning? They aren’t economically equ…

> Slaves built a huge part of the economy for free and americans benefit from that work for which they were not compensated That’s almost certainly not the case. Any economic gains…

> Covid primarily spreads through droplets, which are largely stopped by regular surgical masks. Interestingly I don’t think that’s quite true. Droplets don’t explain almost any of…

> What "virtue" is being signalled? Care for others in your community?

> You have to explicitly optimise the city for public transit. Quite a lot of European cities do that. Even in those cities very few enjoy taking public transport - and would drive…

> This doesn't explain cities that have successful public transit systems... Do these cities simply have terrible private transit options? I don’t know anyone who would prefer to t…

> 75% of car trips in NYC are under 5 miles What % of people who work in NYC have a commute to work of under 5 miles?

> But certainly over the short run, it was very very high Was it very very high in the We know it is dangerous to the old and some cities did a horrendous job of looking after thei…

> You are just picking and choosing random data points to make very broad statements. Is the data random? Would it really cluster like that across countries? I don’t think your sta…

> Both the mortality rate and the long term impacts of COVID19 are both real and have not been overblown The mortality rate for healthy people is incredibly low. For example Singap…

> Usually their productivity dropped due to being sleep deprived High levels of sleep deprivation is only common for the first few months. > not having the time on nights and weeke…

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> Yet the Liberals threatening their own MPs with ending their careers if they vote their conscience wasn’t playing politics? Of course they were playing politics - why would you s…

> Being elite and overtraining are orthogonal. Not really - it can take a serious lifter weeks to recover from a competition deadlift whereas a new lifter can recover in 1-2 days.

> Yes, the left blocked holding a voluntary postal survey to enshrine basic civil rights because it’s dumb on its face Yes, the left did block enshrining basic civil rights in orde…