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drapery | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Fatigue and Remote Work

Another thing I have noticed is that in a group meeting, you are not actually having 1 meeting with everyone in the group. But rather, you are having multiple individual meetings simultaneously. It is a weird meeting dynamic that is unnatural to the way we are use to in real life.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Voting misinformation flourishes on Facebook

Why is it that people default to a class in highschool as the solution to our societal problems?

Poor financial literacy = HS tax class

Misinformation on social media = HS propaganda class

Teens can't deal with their emotions = HS yoga class

Also we read Animal Farm and we talked about propaganda in history classes. Another class just for Facebook is not the solution.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep

I am not surprise about the findings that people are sleeping later and longer. The lack of stimuli from going to work, engaging face to face with colleagues, and coming home feels a like remote working induced fog.

This feeling reminds me of the Mars500 study where astronauts simulates the trip to Mars and stays in a capsule for 520 days. The study finds that as repetitive routine sets in, the crew's mood worsened, as a result, the crew slept later and longer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973648/

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Is It Time to Kill the Penny?

One time I was in Krogers and saw a man buying 6 onions with nickels, dimes, pennies. He took a long time but he bought his onions.

I personally don't care one way or another but those who miss the penny the most, won't likely get a voice.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide

I like this and explains the basic mechanics in a simple way for me to understand.

I want to highlight the What counts as revenue section because I think it is the most crucial. Deferred Revenue is well explained and very necessary for SaaS. I think it will also be good to highlight account receivables, where you have delivered the good but haven't received the cash. Even though this rarely occurs in a SaaS model, but it is important to state that account receivable is not revenue, which some awkward mistake can be easily made.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

I think a lot of users are missing the point. I don't see this tool as a final decision maker and it can never be one. The final decision has a lot of nuisances to that it is difficult to capture in one tool, so might as well just open a spreadsheet and bang it out.

I see this tool as a quick a simple way to eliminate all the tools that might look shiny and slick or save a few clicks, but doesn't actually save employee's time at all.

So the decision becomes, I like the way this new SaaS feels or looks than our current one, but is it really worth the additional cost?

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

Okay I really like the idea. I think the bottom line whether the SaaS is worth the cost with the premise is that the SaaS saves time. However, time saving (item 4) is pretty difficult to gauge. Therefore, I suggest having a version where time saving is the output.

So then the question become, I have to believe that this SaaS will save XXXmin per employee for me to consider buying it.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Noclip.website – Explore game maps in-browser

Hey I loaded the game and ran into a wall. After than I am can't get unstuck from the wall. Below are the error log from the console.

main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39 DataFetcherRequest: Received error l XMLHttpRequest ProgressEvent (anonymous) @ main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39 gznoclip1.b-cdn.net/HalfLife2/hl2_misc_000.vpk:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CACHE_OPERATION_NOT_SUPPORTED main-5b4da2e18d96589d9eb9.js:39 DataFetcherRequest: Received error l XMLHttpRequest ProgressEvent

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Bill Gates says Covid-19 drugs should go where needed, not ‘the highest bidder’

While there is no international organization and means to distribute the vaccine to the most needy, in the US, we have troves of census data that can pinpoint neighborhoods that are the most at risk - based on age, access to health care, and income.

With a government that actually cares about its people, the HHS can set up pilot sites to vaccinate in those most needy areas. Moreover, the US military has experience in setting up field hospitals for these purposes in Liberia against Ebola. So bottomline is that it is a matter of political will on how we distribute the COVID drugs.

drapery | 5 years ago | on: Healthy Self-Doubt

Imposter syndrome is very much an internal struggle and I think for some people who exhibit imposter syndrome wouldn't let other people let on. So, the fact that admitting self doubt in public shows a break from it.

I had imposter syndrome while in business school and boy o boy did I try hard to fit in. Only when I realized that there is more to life than external achievements did I outwardly express any self doubt and only then to my close circle of friends.

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