brianary

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

A job is not a social club. You may need a mix of personality types, but if you lock yourself into a candidate pool from a tight geographic area, that'll be far more constraining.

You can't just make up a percentage based on anecdotal observation and expect anyone to take it seriously.

Generally, my online meetings work great. When there's lag, or for low-priority or asynchronous points, we use the text channel. No interruption. That's not really available in person. It also allows more input from thoughtful introverts, which typically get steamrolled and ignored in person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do you not know boingboing.net?

Anyway, that's not the source, but Rawstory doesn't allow ad-blockers, so I linked that synopsis.

https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/biden-debate-2668724330/

None of those, including my link, is accurate enough to really matter, especially this far from the election.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm not sure I'd put much stock in modern polling.

A study suggests the debate had very little impact, but even if it didn't, historically, changing candidates this late hasn't worked out.

https://boingboing.net/2024/07/10/impacts-of-the-presidential-debate-far-overestimated.html

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There is work like construction, transportation, and customer service that can't really be remote.

I'm not sure if there's a good argument for work that can be done remotely to insist on both in person and remote work. It doubles the amount of workstation resources required, or compromises on at least one of them.

Maybe teams benefit from in-person communication? That's probably simpler for some that haven't found comparable online versions of whiteboarding tools or whatever. Good tools do exist, but feel people that haven't adapted to them by now, it'll take some real demand to make it happen. This might not be a characteristic of a highly effective team, though.

Most frequently, hybrid insistence seems do be more about justifying middle management, based on my highly unscientific observations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

To be fair, that was the whole point of Civil War.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They see it as pragmatism, I think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's banning porn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That is circular reasoning, it's not the actual definition of "liberal", even if it is the functional definition of "Democrat".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Do you consider Kamala Harris a liberal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's a good punch-up. I'm in!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even with that, the scariest part of the Borg originally was that they were just this undifferentiated swarm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Criticism still needs to be based on something real in order for it to be valid.

And yet, in the end, yours only amounts to what you consider "likely".

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