GVIrish

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by GVIrish 10y ago
The problem the parent post is pointing at is that personalities differ among different groups of people. So that guy who may seem a bit taciturn and therefore, "not a good cultural fit" may actually be a great employee, it'
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> The FBI NSA CIA don't care about 99.99% of you. They never will. Can you guys stop thinking we're an election or two away from a fascist dystopia? Sure, but for the people who are actually abused by the government it is extre
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by GVIrish 11y ago
That's true in the abstract, but the big picture is that we're trying to avoid a much larger disaster with climate change. If wind+solar could fill the world's energy needs now, that is what we would be doing. But that is f
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by GVIrish 11y ago
The problem is that if there is a serious accident with a nuclear power plant, the damage is localized. If global warming gets to a point where sea level rises 2 or 3 feet, tens, maybe hundreds of millions of people are going to be affecte
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by GVIrish 11y ago
> The problem with greed is that it only takes a handful of players to ruin it for everyone. This is a classic case of tragedy of the commons. Bad actors in the advertising space rush to extract the most value out of internet ads by con
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by GVIrish 11y ago
The data shows correlation not causation. Maybe people in urban centers on a whole would be more happy if there was better public transit, and thus, less traffic congestion. Or maybe people in urban areas would be happier if there was a b
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by GVIrish 11y ago
I suspect that the idea that the costs of bad hires are huge comes from not identifying bad hires early. If you hire a jerk who makes poor coding decisions and fail to oust him for a year or more, the effect could be devastating. If said
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Happened with the NSA, it's appropriately called, "LOVEINT": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24... Note that most of the instances that the NSA 'found&q
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by GVIrish 11y ago
I wouldn't use that emergency fund money for something like a TV, because it's not really a necessity. Dipping into the emergency fund for indulgences leads to a depleted emergency fund. Now if your heater breaks and requires rep
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by GVIrish 11y ago
I don't think most people have a problem with the concept of ads, after all, every print magazine is filled with them. The problem is that ads on the web have become more and more obnoxious as click through rates have fallen. The ads
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by GVIrish 11y ago
> Why? It's a luxury purchase like any other. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as people know what theyre signing up for let them do their thing! If that's what people view it as, and they're ok with how much
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Sure there's a non-monetary component to the value of a college education. But if the monetary component is so low that you'll be paying off your college loans until you're retirement age, maybe that means you need to re-eval
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by GVIrish 11y ago
This project has struggled because the concept is fundamentally flawed, and when those fundamental flaws started causing problems the program kept cutting corners, ignoring reality, and making bigger and bigger bad bets. From the start ther
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Yeah I think a big component of the poor customer service with United is being beat down over years of cost-cutting. I've seen firsthand how they've drastically cut down the number of gate agents which leaves almost a skeleton cr
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by GVIrish 11y ago
I'm sure that's some of it, but I suspect the bigger factor is that some of the other international carriers put a bigger emphasis on customer service. I don't thing being young, college-educated, or female matters nearly as
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by GVIrish 11y ago
It certainly is conceivable that a superior and subordinate have a mutual relationship, but even in that case, as soon as they start a relationship they need to be separated from the direct report relationship. That said, what I'm gett
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by GVIrish 11y ago
It would take more than that. Bystanders also need to have it impressed upon them to speak up when they see inappropriate behavior as well. The onus shouldn't fall completely on the victim of harassment to report the behavior.
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by GVIrish 11y ago
There are certainly plenty of inattentive drivers but what I'm talking about is pedestrians who don't even look before walking into the street. They just assume that the driver(s) sees them and has time to stop. Growing up it was
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Yeah my rational mind tells me that with 600k people riding the Metro every day, the chances of me actually running into a dangerous incident are fairly small. However, the chances of me running into a lengthy delay are pretty high. The cr
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by GVIrish 11y ago
Count me as another DMV resident who now avoids the hot mess that is the Metro. For me, the scary thing is that the multitude of issues the Metro has almost weekly means that another fatal incident can happen any day now. After the 2009 cr
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by GVIrish 11y ago
>> Pedestrians and cyclists may also learn that they can freely cut off an AI car at anytime they please. Why wait for a walk signal? Why walk all the way to the intersection? Just saunter across anywhere you like, so long as you cros
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by GVIrish 11y ago
The other problem I think ESPN has is that they've dumbed down their content a bit, in an appeal to the masses. Now hardcore sports fans are moving to other venues to follow sports because ESPN isn't what it used to be. Sports su
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by GVIrish 11y ago
I've seen exactly the same phenomenon in racing/track day driving. Most of the crashes I've seen happen in that period between when someone has enough skill/experience to go fast, but not enough to recover from bad situ
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by GVIrish 11y ago
It's been interesting to watch the rise, peak, and fall of this irrational frenzy behind companies that have a terrible business model or no business model at all. It seems like the investment community is finally learning that yes you
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by GVIrish 11y ago
That may be one component, but I think it's more that the idea of 'treatment instead of punishment' has gotten more widespread in recent years. That and the fact that the drug war has been waged for over 40 years now and it
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by GVIrish 11y ago
The different attitudes now are certainly a result of a slow shift on attitudes about drug use. Some of that is a weariness with the failed drug war, some of it is that people are more educated about the effects of drugs, and some of it is
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by GVIrish 11y ago
> But we need to get rid of this idiotic notion that you need a gun to protect yourself in a civil society. Civilized and peaceful society is a great goal, but how are you actually achieving that if you set about confiscating 300 million
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> you can still check-in to an hotel. That's assuming that you can find a hotel with vacancy easily (not always the case, especially when special events are occurring), then find transportation to get there. That's not always
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Actually that's where the new Cadillac's are strong. The ATS and CTS tend to score at the top of their respective segments in handling and the V series versions of both cars typically win performance comparos. Where they fall dow
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by GVIrish 11y ago
"A lot of people are pissed because they didn't get in and feel it's google's fault for having a 'broken interview process'. " I think that's a mischaracterization of what people dislike about Google&

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