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New comment by shreyansj in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

shreyansj — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:06:57 +0000

I think he meant - what's the interview process for a doctor while switching jobs.

New comment by shreyansj in "My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit"

shreyansj — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:00:10 +0000

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New comment by shreyansj in "TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z"

shreyansj — Tue, 11 May 2021 17:27:55 +0000

It's quite normal in a lot of countries to include a picture with the resume/CV. The "photogenic" bias could exist in the process as well, yeah?

New comment by shreyansj in "Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions?"

shreyansj — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:03:43 +0000

Sounds like removing trucks in the logistics chain as much as possible is the better option then? The trucks' parts and/or fuel (or crude) is also getting shipped using bunker oil fuel.

New comment by shreyansj in "Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills"

shreyansj — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:22:09 +0000

But generally the tips and taxes is something you know about if you are a US resident. And you might not be unconscious at the time of payment :) And restaurant staff getting paid a decent wage without relying on tips is also something that should get fixed sooner than later.

New comment by shreyansj in "Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate"

shreyansj — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:51:03 +0000

That sounds like a strawman argument. If you don't wear a helment while doing activity A, why wear it while doing activity B.

To answer your question, perhaps because the common factor in all of these activities is that I am moving relatively slowly and my surroundings are basically stationary. These factors are void if I am riding a bike (or a motorcycle), where I might be moving at a few mph and there could be vehicles around me that might be moving even faster.

New comment by shreyansj in "80% of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming"

shreyansj — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 22:35:36 +0000

I am curious if you have tried to learn a musical instrument or learn to sing? Learning to play a musical instrument (or sing) at a level were someone would want to pay you, is probably equally hard, if not harder.

New comment by shreyansj in "San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses"

shreyansj — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:18:29 +0000

Damn! Pretty sure that the rest of the Bay Area isn’t a dumpster fire either.

New comment by shreyansj in "There was a clear winner on election night: Marijuana"

shreyansj — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:41:32 +0000

While I am not an antisocial smoker myself, I disagree with complete ban on public smoking as the parent comment suggested. Designated areas for smoking, sure!

There are ways to make cars that don't make smoke cheaply (Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt etc) and the argument about "without any other negatives" is really debatable when compared with manufacturing process of any other car.

New comment by shreyansj in "There was a clear winner on election night: Marijuana"

shreyansj — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:20:28 +0000

Add gasoline/diesel powered automobiles to that list please.

New comment by shreyansj in "The technical interview is an ego trip"

shreyansj — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:24:38 +0000

And debugging off-by-one errors.

New comment by shreyansj in "First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail"

shreyansj — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:59:29 +0000

Honest question - what has stopped us from bringing extinct dinosaurs back to life? Which variable in the equation is unsolved?

New comment by shreyansj in "Air travel’s sudden collapse will reshape a trillion-dollar industry"

shreyansj — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 01:28:55 +0000

Can you give an example of your train trips that are shorter than the flights. It seems like a short flight between SFO-LAX is about ~1.5 hours of sitting-inside-the-tube. I am not aware of a train between these two cities that can do this trip in any significantly less time than that.

New comment by shreyansj in "Pending Postal Service Changes Could Delay Mail and Deliveries"

shreyansj — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:43:27 +0000

At this point UPS/Fedex should step in and offer free shipping for ballots. Voters can drop off in their stores or their delivery people/trucks can act as pick up spots too. If nothing else it might buy them some goodwill. Or conscience.

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:26:13 +0000

Here's the other side - How many deaths are acceptable? If death is a certainty for all, should we just get rid of the health care systems? Should we stop research into some of the diseases? Which ones? How many person-days/productivity has been lost because of preventable deaths?

We are talking about a 4/6/8 week lockdown, that's not long term, that's immediate term.

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:18:25 +0000

It's amazing to wonder whether any step, any inconvenience is worth saving even lives when the magnitude of that is in the thousands. Countries have literally been bombed over far fewer deaths.

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:16:22 +0000

Right, but the world could have refrained from partying on the beaches [1]

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/07/16/vacati...

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:33:39 +0000

But if everyone had stayed locked in for 6 weeks and if that had prevented 50000 deaths, how is that not worth it?

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:25:57 +0000

Which right is being violated in your opinion? And why is that more important than others' right to stay alive?

New comment by shreyansj in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

shreyansj — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:15:34 +0000

Different political leader - we don't know. A different political leader who was not divisive and dismissive of science - yes, it would have been better.