RasputinsBro

> However, we all have our moments where we do dumb things. If you expect anyone to be perfect, you're in for a rude surprise. One has to look at the whole picture, and that incident was an anomaly.

"our moments"? Didn't he double down on it? Didn't he offer someone a bet, that it would eventually be discovered that the could was a pedophile?

It's in "these moments" that you can peer inside a person's mind. In normal times, anyone can put up a facade.

I know what the word "discount" means.

When I say "what do you mean by 'I'm discounting'?", is "What do you mean when you say that I'm regarding a possibility as being unworthy of consideration?" What possibility are you referring to that I'm regarding as being unworthy of consideration?

I'll ask again because you didn't actually answer my question. What do you mean by "discounted"?

What do you mean by discounting?

"pedo guy" was the thing that broke the camel's back for me.

When you have millions of followers and billions of airtime on you, it's absolutely inexcusable to call a random guy a pedo.

When he did that my view of him went from a "fake it till you make it" type, to a dishonest and malicious person.

No, science was not hype. It's not like the fashion is over and now we're gonna go back to making worse decisions based on less data.

Another instance of google propping up puppet competitors.

You haven't answered the question. What is your definition?

What do you mean by educated?

This is a person who is only able to entertain themselves by spending money. That doesn't sound educated to me.

"Entertainment", in the sense that it's commonly used, should really be called "paid entertainment". There's plenty of free entertainment. Read a book, good for a walk, or my favourite: learn something new that is complementary to your current skills and that might make you more econmically valuable. But he doesn't like these things, he just likes being with friends in the pub and playing FIFA. I promise you that I know a lot of educated people and their lives look nothing like that.

I'm a trader and we call it currency.

If the big boss happens to walk by for the 3 minutes you're taking a mental break and that is a problem, I would say the problem is the boss/culture, not the space.

Think about it. You just said that someone "catching you" taking a break is an issue and that in your mind that is a justification for keeping your screen hidden.

Again, I totally understand the "it's distracting" argument, I have made the same argument myself. I was pointing a finger at the "I don't like it when people can see my screen" argument.

> This smacks to me of an "If you have nothing to hide why do you care about your privacy?" argument. Which we should all know is a major fallacy.

The fallacy here is conflating the two. To me the most important argument in the usual privacy conversation (i.e. people vs government) is that people defending themselves from government surveillance is a very important part of keeping the balance of power from swinging too much in one direction.

This is nothing of the sort. If you work for a business and you don't like their open-plan offices, find one where they don't have open-plan offices. But saying that you don't like their open-plan offices because you're so productive without distractions, but then you're afraid that people see your screen seems dishonest. Also, if you're super productive but you need to take breaks to look at cat pictures during office hours, why are you afraid that someone will catch you looking at cat pictures? If you actually are as productive as you claim I'm sure people will respect your need for breaks: after all according to you we all need breaks, so "other people" will be doing the same thing. And if they don't respect _your_ need for breaks, then the problem isn't really the office style, but a lack of trust in colleagues. Again, the entire thing seems dishonest.

> We were already working from in open office, but at least I had a desk facing the wall behind me, so there was a modicum of privacy and psychological safety. Then management decided that it would “look better” if we went to circular desks where several of us would be sitting with our backs to the hallway, so everyone walking past would be looking at our screen as they passed.

This seems dishonest to me. Can some body explain if I'm missing something?

I understand the argument that open-plan offices increase distractions in general, and the damage that loud people do in particular. But if you really intend on being super focused and productive, I don't understand why it would bother you that someone would look at your screen.

I have worked in an open-plan office and the only times when I was embarrassed that someone saw my screen was because I was wasting my time on reddit/HN, which I shouldn't because that's not what they're paying me for... Once I managed to force upon myself the discipline of just don't open reddit/HN, I was happy to accept one of the desks with the back to the center of the room, because I no longer cared that someone was looking at my screen.

Am I missing something?