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heretogetout commented on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?    · Posted by u/_rzt9
CharlesW · 3 years ago
Have you tried async standups via something like Geekbot? https://geekbot.com/
heretogetout · 3 years ago
I haven't been in a position to proscribe process, I'm just a consumer. We have tried leaving messages in Slack but that process always ends in a matter of days from disinterest.
heretogetout commented on How Well Are European Sanctions Against Russia Working?   spiegel.de/international/... · Posted by u/Tomte
planarhobbit · 3 years ago
What id like to know is what happened to Russia retreating from Ukraine, as many sources originally said they would. They seem to have taken a good chunk of Ukraine just this past week, and there’s no news of this unless I dig into shady sources.

What the fuck is going on with our news?

heretogetout · 3 years ago
I think it's mainly that was is messy and hard to report on in the moment. There's propaganda coming in from all angles, of course, muddying the water further.

FWIW Washington Post reported on Russian success in Lysychansk just this morning.

heretogetout commented on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?    · Posted by u/_rzt9
kazinator · 3 years ago
Why would you do standups on Zoom if you have Slack? Is it because you're running into the 15 person limit and need video (so cannot use huddles)?
heretogetout · 3 years ago
Slack huddles have poor ergonomics what with their use of global keyboard shortcuts. I avoid them whenever possible.
heretogetout commented on Football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants   restofworld.org/2022/foot... · Posted by u/thm
harlanlewis · 3 years ago
There was an article investigating something similar about a month ago - The Economics of Stadium Names: Sell your stock in (most) companies that buy them https://axiomalpha.com/the-economics-of-stadium-names/
heretogetout · 3 years ago
It's too bad we don't know the names of the other companies that bid for the rights, not the amounts. They might be just as bad as the winners.
heretogetout commented on ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed   twitter.com/mikeburesh/st... · Posted by u/danso
jeroenhd · 3 years ago
Anthropomorphising automated systems also invokes certain other emotions. People are willing to forgive others for making honest mistakes, but ausomated systems should never be given such leniency because they will not learn from their mistakes.

The system didn't think anything, the system followed its programming as set out by the people who designed it. The system is either right or it simply doesn't work.

heretogetout · 3 years ago
Further, people are too quick to dismiss the culpability of engineers in the design and implementation of these technologies. It was programmed by software engineer; people like many of us on HN. This should serve as a cautionary tale for us and not just written off with the familiar "they were just doing their jobs" meme.
heretogetout commented on RadioShack reinvents itself as a crypto platform with wild tweets   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/thm
scifibestfi · 3 years ago
It sounds like they hired a 19 year old Twitter influencer to be their Chief Marketing Officer.
heretogetout · 3 years ago
To me it sounds like a 70 year old talking the way they think 19 year olds talk.
heretogetout commented on Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)   tedium.co/2019/06/04/used... · Posted by u/vmoore
zbrozek · 3 years ago
You might be in California?

The general rate cases for the next year-and-change are posted. The CPUC rubber stamps them, so we already know that there are upcoming rate hikes of around 16% within the next year.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/regu...

Soon your bill will be linked to how much you make. So if you're in the top half of income earners, then you'll be charged more.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/merrian-borgeson/cas-energy-tra...

heretogetout · 3 years ago
> Soon your bill will be linked to how much you make. So if you're in the top half of income earners, then you'll be charged more.

That's already the case where I'm at (not California). The electric bill often comes with inserts explaining how I could save money if my income is below some threshold. Same goes for my other utility bills.

heretogetout commented on How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public   khn.org/news/article/heal... · Posted by u/nojito
ars · 3 years ago
So many don't realize that this is entirely because Medicaid pays less than the cost of treatment. So hospitals make it up by charging other customers more.

If you actually wanted this then your taxes would go up because Medicaid expenses go up dramatically.

Maybe it's worth it - but at least be aware of what you are asking for.

heretogetout · 3 years ago
I'd be interested in reading more about this. A lot of the cost of medicine is overhead interfacing with insurance providers and all the layers of profit therein, but I don't know exactly how much.
heretogetout commented on New California law requires high schools to start later   apnews.com/5197d3c602b049... · Posted by u/thnaks
koolba · 3 years ago
If they do enough physical and mental labor during the day and turn off their smart phones at night, they’ll have no issue going to sleep early enough.

On the other hand if you do nothing mentally stimulating or physically tiring all day long, then of course you won’t be able to sleep till late.

heretogetout · 3 years ago
Have you read the relevant research on the subject?
heretogetout commented on If-im-gone – A cheat sheet for if I am somehow incapacitated   github.com/christophercal... · Posted by u/losfair
eckesicle · 3 years ago
My wife died unexpectedly a year ago. A little before that I had set her up with a 1Password account and she had diligently moved all her details into it. She shared her master password with me.

It was an incredible lifesaver in the first few months. Everything was really easy to get in order, and anything that wasn't well documented, I could find in her laptop or inbox.

I'm so glad that she did it, and it saved us so much headache.

Banking and such things are the easy bit, they've got streamlined and established bereavement processes. It's all the other small stuff that's hard, like loyalty cards, airmiles, gym memberships etc that causes the headaches.

heretogetout · 3 years ago
We're using Bitwarden for this, on the free two-person organization. It works pretty well when we remember to save passwords to shared folders.

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