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No, I am not, and I don't see how you came to believe that I might be

This seems an extreme solution to media investigation of a small number of people losing their jobs

Perhaps instead, in these situations, employers could provide, at the discretion of the dismissed, information gathered while performing due diligence leading up to the dismissal

> what does it take to fire them without the entire world playing the race card on you?

A workplace that isn't hostile to people of color and evidence of the cause of dismissal

It seems that the message is that once everyone has the luxury computer experience, it’s not cool to have the luxury computer

I think it’s pretty cool. I’m glad more people can have better computing experiences at the cost of a select few not getting to feel superior

This seems much less about being casual or being a polymath and more about those who overestimate the value of their own input

I’m leaving this comment only because I most often do not overestimate the value of my input and therefor don’t leave comments, but this seems the perfect place to deviate

This is a horrific example of perseverance porn

These people were exploited which is terrible. That the nation that exploited them was still more desirable to them than their former home is also terrible. That all they got in return for being exploited was what they were initially promised but decades later is terrible

Everything presented here is terrible

I’ve recently gotten my shit together by deciding to stop making new habits and worrying about what I do or don’t accomplish

It’s been incredibly freeing to not worry so much about hitting these arbitrary KPIs and instead just see what I feel like doing in any given moment

You’ll struggle to find any blog posts about this perspective though... we’re all too busy enjoying life

Switch to an ortholinear keyboard like [the Preonic from OLKB][1]

These designs reduce motion (speed) and are uniformly laid out (accuracy) which is crucial because typing faster alone is not enough

[1]: https://drop.com/buy/preonic-mechanical-keyboard

The post negligently omits reference to Octavia E Butler for prior art

Her works are the best place to start

ribbonfarm - a longform blog devoted to unusual takes on both familiar and new themes. What we call “refactored perception.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/

meaningness - Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value. https://meaningness.com/

Whereas sites like SSC and LessWrong are rationalist, both of these suggestions are predominately post-rationalist, but perhaps you’re like I was – reading the rationalist sites because I didn’t know there were post-rationalist sites

Here’s the link https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

I don’t know what your work-sample looks like, but unless it’s time actually working with your team on a real project, it gave you no indication of whether or not someone was “capable of delivering”

You may think you filtered out people who failed your test, but you have no indication that that’s the case – you could just as easily have filtered out people who don’t like tests or people who don’t test well

I trust you’ve found some decent hires, but I’d suspect you passed on many as well

And, I don’t know about your work environment, but I’d prefer someone who can have a friendly conversation and do good work... I’m surprised you bothered giving your work-sample test to people who didn’t pass the earlier test

I was thinking the same thing in regard to interfacing with the Health app. Wouldn't a simple Siri for Health opt-in fix this?

I've got a bad case of Apple lock in – Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, MacBooks. Saying, to my phone, "Play The Walking Dead on the TV" brings up TWD in the TV app (iOS 10.2, I haven't been paying attention, this is possibly beta track) which prompts me to start watching it... but it then plays on the phone. I can cast it to the TV, but I can't hand it off to the TV.

Maybe that's precisely how most people would expect and want it to work, but it seems unintuitive to me.

I would like to be able to tell any digital assistant enabled device in my home to "play latest episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on the living room TV" and have it work. I feel like that's a very simple, minimal viable product, sort of request. Siri responds with "Hmm, I'm not finding anything for that."

I'd also like to be able to ask "How many steps have I taken today?" Siri responds with "I can't answer that on your iPhone but you can find it in the Health app: Open the Health app"

This may feel like a big ask considering the majority of the basics aren't covered on the platform I'm using, but compound questions would be wonderful – "show me the thirty largest US cities" "remove any that do not have a moderate climate" "which one has the lowest cost of living?"

If platforms already provide these services and I'm simply using the wrong one – oops.