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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Increasing rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis and STDs aren't due to farm animals. Do you have any evidence for that or is it just how you think adaptation transmission works; and do you have evidence that - if the former holds
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
In my experience, micromanagement is often a sign that you're managing by disaster. By that I mean you spend months, or sometimes years, not expecting your staff to make judgement calls for themselves, not communicating your intent, no
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Do they? I have seen hundreds of CVs that show no achievements of note - and tend to be more along the lines of describing the duties of the job and little else besides. I've also had hundreds of subsequent conversations with thos
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I've a few things going on. I'm being paid for 9-5. The rest of the time is mine, gloriously mine, to dispose of however I please. Full time work is a misnomer in common use. If companies wanted to control how I disposed of all my
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I only do email at 09:00 and 15:00 at the moment, I've never had anything bad come of it. Honestly, if something is time-sensitive high-impact, sending an email in a fire and forget manner is close to a firing offence. That's just
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> People know what pushes their buttons, too, and we have a name for it: interest. Not "manipulation". Certainly not "psychological warfare". The same argument can apply to people who stay in abusive relationships.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
UK: I found this sort of thing, can't remember if I used Anki specifically, incredibly useful for remembering dates and percentages and so on when taking my A Levels. There were something like a hundred different studies that you had t
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Looking to incorporate some rigor outside the development team Why? What's going on that you need a program to solve it?
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
What do court transcribers get? That's the standard I'd be inclined to use for very good.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The problem is that you do not occupy a privileged ontological position. You may seem mentally ill to someone in the future, who has a different set of morals. There are plenty of other people in the history of the world who have thought th
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Is there a reason that delusions of morality don't count as a mental health issue? It's a bit dangerous if you start defining deviations from group norms; which is what delusions of morality would look like from within a grou
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
We know that self driving cars will not solve all the world's problems, but one can reasonably expect there to be some improvement. Whether that improvement suffices for a satisfactory level of service is another matter and will depend
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> a flat system ends up being a battle for leadership which puts the smart and commanding at the top It ends up putting the person who's the least bother in that role compared to all the other roles they could occupy in charge. Peop
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
It shouldn't come as a surprise to them if you've been doing your job. You've worked with them for months (I assume some significant length of time anyway), you've presumably told them specific steps they need to take to
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I wonder what the price of entry is to that market. If they're doing something so obviously flawed and if the price of entry is low, it strikes me it'd be relatively easy to make something decent that isn't crippled and sell
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Depends on the words, the picture and the audience. I wouldn't attempt to understand your API's system contract via a picture of the computer. One of the concerns I have is that we may end up moving to a very image-oriented media
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The government should serve the people, and the scientists should serve the government. Disclosure, as far as is reasonably possible, should be the default and should be transitive down from the government through its various arms. The same
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The full quote has a slightly different tone though: "We built these freeways, and they’re not generating less trips, they’re generating more. More freedom. People want to live out away from the city and drive in to work, or they want
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
And the body counts in the school shootings, would they also be less than ten?
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Maybe. It's not clear to me how many people would go to the bother of unlocking their devices and then complain to Apple when something went wrong if there was some trivial roadblock. I'd also, on an ideological note, be inclined
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Let me have a switch and require me to do some trivial but scary sounding procedure to enable the functionality so that idiots don't run across it - flash the firmware or something. Void the warranty when I do so to discourage the caut
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I'm not convinced that there is much benefit in having a long discussion on this point, so I shall make a reply and then let things fall as they may: Bankruptcy protection (much abused at that) is generally only available to people or
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
If the primary way information flows between teams in your organisation is by throwing everyone in a room on a bi-weekly basis, you don't have much of an organisation. That's not professionalism, it's bad management under the
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
If I have a service level agreement with you, paid for up front, then wilfully violating that agreement strikes me as the sort of thing I could take you to court over and stand a decent chance of winning. You got the money earlier, allowing
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The difficulty with revolution, at least since the advent of professional armies that could easily defeat any peasant force, is that of target selection; people who won't line up for the Maxim guns. You can't kill them all, becaus
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Copyright and automated police force.... You go to jail forever for running an unlicensed bot.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I don't really disagree. For the strongest form of the author's argument; that no other system will suffice, ever; it has to be pathological. If I offered you a nice existence with entertaining leisure activities, would your respo
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Have you ever gone through something like this? Yeah. For me it wasn't worth it. I could make enough in other companies - where the opportunities for advancing were higher and where the work environment was nicer - to get what I w
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Poor approximations of heaven will suffice for poor approximations of infinite greed.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Community service, ten days in jail, and losing his law license. For wilfully sending an innocent man to jail for twenty five years - having resigned anyway. That's a fucking joke. "What's newsworthy and novel about today&#x2

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