Sure, you have a channel on #americanpolitics, but how do you handle it when one person claims to shoot guns at the range every weekend, then several others complain to HR how they now feel unsafe at work.
Basecamp's solution to political toxicity was to discourage such discussion at work. Asana doesn't say how they deal with toxicity. Sure, they have spaces for politics, but they still haven't say how you handle it when it bleeds over to work. world.hey.com/jason/changes-…
Asana could be having open and frank discussions about people who both support BLM and who oppose it.
Or, they could just be censoring half the conversation. HR complaints going to managers communicating to employees to not express certain ideas.
Sure, the CEO can be in his corner office believing there's vigorous debate, but he's probably not aware of all the complaints HR gets. Can he confirm that people are freely expressing disagreement with no repercussions?
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Apple created this wonderfuly privacy-protecting contact-tracing app technology. Few (in the U.S.) actually installed it.
Now they want privacy-destroying vaccine passport apps imposed on people to force political correctness rather than health.
Vaccine passports aren't about health, since the almost all the danger the unvaccinated have is toward other unvaccinated people. Thus, requiring vaccine passports to attend a concert is silly.
Vaccines aren't about personal protection or individual incidents of infecting others. Instead, they are about herd immune getting the number of infections down from 50k/day to 1k/day.
So I discovered that the 'ping' latency in Speedtest.net is a lie, at least for DOCSIS cable modems. It says 10ms, but it's closer to 40ms for most people. That's the minimum latency added by cable modem technology.
In the above speed test, I opened Wireshark to capture the session, then looked at the "TCP round-trip time". As you can see, I'm getting around 25ms round-trip. This is DOCSIS 3.1 w/ AQM. DOCIS 3.0 was giving me about 45ms to the same server.
This is a known issue of DOCSIS cable-modem technology, dealing with the fact that multiple customers can't transmit at the same time. When the cable is lightly utilized, it adds 10ms latency. When heavily loaded, it can go up to 100ms.
People: "You should listen to the CDC on masks"
Also people: <have no clue what the CDC says about masks>
That's demonstrated by the following story which is unaware that CDC has always recommended UNvaccinated people can jog or bike or hang out with household members outside.
Here's a page from March, for example. Outdoor activities like walking, running, and biking are safe for UNvaccinated people as long as you social distance from strangers.
Scroll down on that page and see the unmasked, unvaccinated people jogging and walking their dog.
Apparently the latest crazy conspiracy theory is that vaccinated individuals can harm the unvaccinated because they cough up evil proteins or something.
No, it's not how things work. The only animals with dangerous proteins are venomous snakes and spiders.
Why do we count the flu by calendar year, but the covid19 since 2019? Because the flu is endemic, happening every year. Outbreaks and pandemics are temporary, so treated as a single event even if it crosses multiple years.
Yes, yes, precise numbers are difficult because sometimes sometimes hospitals are encouraged to count things as covid19 related that may not be. But excess deaths gives us a solid numbers comparable across countries.