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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by kelnos on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:02PM (#33678100)
It's more about the negatives of pervasive electronic surveillance. The marginal benefit to the business of catching employees taking a break (which, honestly... they're probably all overworked and should have more breaks anyway) does not outweigh the downsides of our inexorable slide toward being monitored as we do everything.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by drstewart on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:53AM (#33680233)
>which, honestly... they're probably all overworked and should have more breaks anyway

And your best solution to this is building automated lighting systems that omit functionality? That's your grand plan?

Reminds me of people that complain about seats being removed from buses to make more room for passengers because homeless people sleep on them.

When you're trying to solve things via tertiary order effects you should consider if that's the real issue at hand .

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