Certainly not true in Italy - as a person who eats gluten free, it was an order of magnitude easier to find alternative options in many cities in Italy than it is in San Francisco.
I’ll add one piece here - it’s not just the big tech co’s and their employees that matter here. Tons of little companies are looking to big tech and will follow their lead on remote policies - wherever they go.
Yes, exactly! And it's all over the news. Google goes back to office. Amazon too. Netflix says remote work is a pure negative. So definitely there are smaller companies who follow that lead.
Luckily, there are other big co's who embrace remote, like Twitter who says: work remotely, permanently.
And I'm not saying that hey big co's, close your offices. I'm just saying that please give the option for your employees to decide themselves.
For me, it's about freedom, really.
But where's the freedom when Google says that you'll have to formally apply for up to 12 months of remote work in “the most exceptional circumstances."
And I feel that currently we still have the window open – remote work can come out of the niche into the mainstream as we just had the catalyst as a COVID outbreak.
Opportunity like this may never come again... or at least for a very long time.
This article has so many omitted words that it’s hard to follow, even if the content is decent. I’m left wondering - did the author ever actually read what they wrote, or did they just press send and hope for the best.
It seems obvious to me that even the meToo moments that lived in gray areas were still the result of failed romantic connections or overt sexual
comments or actions. No one is being fired or lambasted in the court of public opinion for being in the same private room and having adult conversations about work with a woman. This is not a nuanced issue - treat women professionally and like equals, don’t talk about politics or sex in the office and you’re golden. To make this more complicated than that let’s men off the hook and excuses unprofessional behavior in the workplace.
Also arguable if not a bit pedantic: is it really DIY if you have tens of thousands of dollars worth of machine shop tools to help you do the work? It’s more just fabrication at that point.
Would you consider a woodworking project DIY if they used a tablesaw? What about a router? Metalworking tools require skill and experience to use. DIY has never meant doing something with the absolute minimum tooling or expense, although that subset of DIY projects is interesting and worthwhille.
That said, if you go back through this channel’s archives, you’ll find they actually built the majority of the tools they’re using here.
Actually, if you're using your own skills and judgement, I think it's still "making". If the job was all done with CNC and robots, then there would be a strong case that it was not DIY any more.
I accept that this question (of whether personal skill and judgement is involved) might not really be the same as the question "is this really DIY?" but it's interesting all the same.
A little. The design in the video can be easily adapted to need <$100 in tools though.
If you are willing to bolt everything together, you only need a drill ($40 for a corded one), small number of drill bits ($20) and a hacksaw ($20). The curved metal can be approximated with 2-3 straight segments.
Most of the expensive tools come from the choice to weld and have fancy curved metal bits. A bunch of the other tools are just faster than using a hacksaw.
