Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505201

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Most social anxiety is not debilitating, and would not meet the diagnosis. This is why therapists receive so much training - you must encounter enough people with a truly debilitating fear that you know when to diagnose it.

- North enough that climate change will not affect it as much

- Inland so not at risk of sea level change

- Next to a large fresh water source

- Food security - weather suitable for all kinds of crops, even as temps rise

- A large enough group of people in a rich country that it will still be able to get resources as things get worse

- Because of the city/county split, the city crime rate is arbitrarily high despite being a safer metro than most. Means that housing prices are low. Places like Chicago are more at risk of becoming unaffordable as refugees crises get worse

- The region is one of the few that has been continuously settled from pre-colonial days, indicating some Lindy effect in play

It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite surveillance is less likely. This lab will 100% have a military research purpose.

I’m not sure this is a technical problem, I guess. Maybe a financial engineering problem but is the demand there?

If you just care about sites that are document based, of course you’d prefer the static content stuff! But he wouldn’t be working on a project you’d be visiting anyway, so who cares if you stop visiting?

Eh, I disagree that it's childish advice! It works out pretty well for everyone except the person being frozen out - no matter if you're a child or an adult.

If you must work with someone, or consider yourself to have an ethical obligation to follow this, this is good advice.

If you don't...

Just slowwwly remove your touchpoints with them. Freeze them out. Go through other channels. If you do this right, the person will feel like you have just gradually drifted apart, but won't be able to pinpoint a clear cause.

You don't have to try and get them fired, or anything (and that may backfire on you, so I don't recommend doing it.) But if enough people do this, then they will gradually be the most replaceable person on the team, and they may be let go regardless.

Pay a sysadmin to be up at night, then before your job is meant to run, have them log into the VSphere GUI, open devtools, click refresh to trigger a GET request, copy the cookie, paste the cookie into our custom software, and send it in the cookies of our API requests.

When we asked if there was an easier way, they said that we could probably use Selenium to automate that.

Needless to say, we did not sign the contract, and moved wholesale into AWS.

It's political suicide to entertain making things easy for China, particularly in auto manufacturing, where there are several big union voting blocs that will look very dimly on allowing their products entry.

I do not want the government to be the landing place for people who just want to coast. We could make a rubber-room department if we really need it, just pay this woman to make SQL reports on nothing to nobody if just getting her a salary is the goal.

But if we need real work done this woman is not our collective best option.