I find this site more open to constructive debate than elsewhere.

Thanks for specifying which c word you meant, as the only one in the post you replied to was Chinese.

Did you miss the clause 'on a par with'?

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" The owners daughter would get all of her friends from college to write more and more positive reviews."

A cottage industry of liars. I was pretty naive in college and I still would have been skeptical about that.

That seems to support the point you replied to. You point to a group of people who opted out of monitoring and exhibited risky driving behavior, leaving leaving lower risk people in the monitored group

They all consented, initially. The insurance companies got the data they need.

The people who stay in the plan are the low risk group, obviously there will be some percentage of churn in the first year.

In the book he interviews several people who do almost nothing all day. That was my takeaway when I read it. It's not about jobs where the employee does not see their work as valuable to the organization.

> In the book he interviews several people who do almost nothing all day.

How horrifying, did he specify which terrible industries they were stuck in, and whether they were still hiring??

Cherry picking. Sure, a few of these jobs exist, but nowhere near the claimed scale. Do you know anyone in a job where they do literally nothing?

Anyone, feel free to comment if you do literally nothing at work :)

'promoted posts'. Not too intrusive so I never looked for a way to block them.

I know of one long-running message board site which is free of advertising and free for users. A number of users make regular donations and occasionally when funds are low they make an announcement and some other users make a one-off donation.

I am very doubtful their model would scale to Reddit's size, and certain they don't have any wish to.

I know it seems like it wouldn't scale merely because we haven't seen it happen, but I don't think it's economically impossible or even economically difficult. I don't think there's any reason to believe that your costs go up more quickly than your income from donations/ads. Instead, I think what happens is you just don't get many users in the first place because all their attention ends up acquired by people willing to operate non-sustainable businesses with the aim of extracting value in the future.

If by some crazy fluke there weren't any highly motivated money-brains in the social media space, I'm absolutely certain a sustainable non-profit open source solution would exist in place of reddit and facebook, and it would eventually accumulate nearly as many users as those sites have. Maybe not as quickly, and maybe while throwing up donations banners at the same rate as Wikipedia, but it would happen. But you need to get impossibly lucky for the entrepreneurs to ignore "the space" when you have 100k users, and by 1 million users the scent of "alpha" has drawn so many of the biggest, meanest, smartest of the bunch that you need to be an absolute juggernaut of momentum and name recognition (like craigslist and Wikipedia) to have any hope of competeing.

The one I have in mind has been going for decades. I don't think they ever wanted to scale up. The place feels like an independent bar that the owner has no interest in turning into a chain, he just likes running that one bar.

Metafilter? Something Awful?

Neither of those.

Medical staff regularly wearing N95s is a very new thing.

Edit: and whoever down voted doesn't work in healthcare

With emphasis on "regularly," I think you're right. Medical staff have joined the ranks of welders, carpenters, fire fighters, and many others who regularly wear N95s for their jobs.

Looks like they've been in use since 1972 and in use in Healthcare specifically since 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N95_respirator#History

It's not just N95s though, the above also mentioned disposable masks which is absolutely not a new thing in healthcare.

That's the grandparent, but he is talking to the parent and he is right to point out the error in the parent's post. It's a bit strange to think the parent would believe that masks are new to healthcare, consider the most plausible interpretation instead.

Afternoon deadzone might be related to what and when you eat.

For me, they totally are! Any big breakfast or lunch deadzones me, along with caffeine.

Light lunch and no caffeine? I've got a good slow burn of energy throughout the whole day.

Black African Americans seem to have that predisposition, but not all Black populations do. There is a theory that ability to retain salt improved your odds of surviving a slave ship journey.