Locusts ?
Nile turned to Blood again ?
The Wrong Type of Fire followed by the Wrong Type of Brimstone ?
Frogs blocked the way ?
Not enough sunlight for 3 days?
Family Bereavement.
Loss of Hebrew assistants
3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
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Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#22The great thing about being a senior is that you can use hungover as an excuse for missing meetings. I wouldn’t have dared that at the beginning of my career
This really just depends on where you work
My OP is obviously a bit of a joke, but if an employer expect their employees to be perfect and never ever screw up, I’d contend that they’re not worth working for.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#23I feel sorry for the poor guys who never missed a day of work and gave their all to building that damn pyramid, 3200 years later nobody even knows who they were.
I hope the parallel of SWEs working for Mega-Billionaires is not lost on the HN crowd.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#24Up too late reading Pharoah News
Lines like this always make me think HN needs a laugh reaction.
Heck, in this case, guffaw or snort spit-take.
(I am still chuckling each time I read it, and I've read it 5 times.)
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#25We really are the same people. No measurable difference in IQ (as well as that can be "measured"). Only knowledge (some gained for us; some lost, too) and context are different. The tablet is a cool reminder of this.
This is incorrect - iq has risen steadily with improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. It's mostly plateaued over the last 50 years, but it's evident that pre-industrial / pre-rnlightenment humans had a much harder life, including things that suppressed potential at an almost global scale. We may see additional gains if there are globally adopted pedagogical improvements in both childhood educa…
That's probably closer to the truth but doesn't seem like the whole story. Modern environments are very different but it seems a stretch to claim they're always (or even often) better.
We're usually comparing modern populations to industrialized populations that lived nothing like ancient populations.
It seems plausible that some ancient populations might've had sufficient nutrition (particularly Egypt at various times) and lower pollutants (less lead, for example), and maybe come out net ahead in terms of average general intelligence.
Would be fun to know if anyone has come close to answering these questions, but it seems like a challenging problem.
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#26> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god? Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?
True but it would be funny to actually use those terms in your time-off request.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#27Up too late reading Pharoah News
FTFY: "Phake News"
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#28We really are the same people. No measurable difference in IQ (as well as that can be "measured"). Only knowledge (some gained for us; some lost, too) and context are different. The tablet is a cool reminder of this.
This is incorrect - iq has risen steadily with improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. It's mostly plateaued over the last 50 years, but it's evident that pre-industrial / pre-rnlightenment humans had a much harder life, including things that suppressed potential at an almost global scale. We may see additional gains if there are globally adopted pedagogical improvements in both childhood educa…
> This is incorrect - iq has risen steadily
In particular, we recently invented this peculiar notion that one can boil intelligence down to a number :b
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#29Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#30I feel sorry for the poor guys who never missed a day of work and gave their all to building that damn pyramid, 3200 years later nobody even knows who they were.
I hope the parallel of SWEs working for Mega-Billionaires is not lost on the HN crowd.
Build software to ~harass~ track warehouse workers.
"Anyone can learn to code bruh"
170k base + 300k RSU "man I can't afford anything in [high COL area]"
"Therapy is really useful y'all"
- average SWE