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- Comment on DWP told to pay £50,000 to Deaf job-seeker after repeated failure to provide BSL interpreter 1 day ago:
What was said internally is absolutely brutal.
How many others lack the energy, strength, or (bs) “social skills” to work through this?
Might actually result in change.
My own lived experience is that the blind/deaf orgs who pursue these things should be a model for other orgs serving folks w/ other disabilities.
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 1 week ago:
On one hand, I’m a fan of the ESP32 as a challenge.
OTOH, sometimes you actually need a full fledged computer for your semi embedded task, and sometimes you just don’t want to (or can’t be seen to, from PR standpoint) support Beijing.
While arguments can be made either way about the prior para, from a biz POV, it’s pretty binary.
Would love to find similar platforms that don’t involve those concerns and might theoretically be commercializable by hackers, but I’m not aware of many.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 1 week ago:
Some of this - and I speak exclusively from a layman standpoint of having worked extensively with quite a few Indian colleagues - has to do with whether an education system (or culture) prioritizes rote memorization vs critical thinking. India tends towards the former, the West mostly tends towards the latter.
Much simpler to persist the practice across many years when the majority of folks are explicitly taught to accept what they are told and not to actually consider it.
Context, I’m an American working for a large public company whose execs appear to have actually realized they got too aggressive with offshoring in recent years and are actually reversing the practice to a relatively sensible degree.
There is shareholder value in workers who come from e.g., a caste system, but there is also a significant risk to shareholder value when too many levels of decision-making are sent to places where that mindset is common.
- Comment on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP 1 week ago:
I grind and have other issues, use CPAP, and use semi disposable mouthguards to help w the grinding at same time.
Invasive is a pretty strong term for this case, I would class neither one as such. The Inspire implant is “invasive,” by definition, given context.
OTOH, the mask was difficult to adjust to for me, and my wife’s “encouragement” and justifiable pushiness is big part of why I’m a reasonably successful mask wearer.
On my own, I would have tossed it out the window quickly! But I’d say the same thing re the disposable mouth guards, TBH. She intro’d me to them and I wasn’t a huge fan initially. But the difference it made after a few days was significant.
Ultimately, all three solutions exist because none are perfect for everyone.
Worth noting there are a handful of large dental practices shilling those mouthguards because $$$, but same is probably true for both the mask and the implant.
Incidentally, I’m currently in physical therapy recovering from an unrelated issue and it’s really made clear to me that for me, the mask is way better than implant. PT is a bitch, and that’s for an injury rather than surgery. But that’s me personally - it seems mildly disingenuous to throw around terms like “invasive” here, though CPAP is certainly a major adjustment and takes real work to get used to.
- Comment on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP 1 week ago:
Concur, and the objectivity is pretty critical here.
- Comment on Why don't I bruise? 4 months ago:
Also not a medic, but always understood alcohol to be a blood thinner. Not the cause of it’s direct negative effects afaik but would seem to explain difference in bruising while drunk vs sober.
- Comment on Returning to the office is 'wildly more expensive' today than in 2019—here's how much people are spending 7 months ago:
Hell, no. I was hired remote, the position was approved as remote, and remote is where I’m going to stay.
If I go job hunting, that’s my #1 criteria. I took less money because remote, and because health insurance. I stand by that decision today, and would do the same again.
- Comment on Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies US and Japan warn 7 months ago:
Don’t be Cisco, don’t be Cisco…
Fuck.