HarryHirsch

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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
This is not the internet I want to live in Storytime! In a previous workplace a disagreement over fire safety with escalated into uncalled-for and unwelcome dominance behaviour from my supervisor. All attempts to deescalate were rebuffed,
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Is the guy's response really that far off? When you think about it, the candidate isn't even that wrong. Back then, at university, a certain professor would explain the oral exam to the candidate at the beginning. He would expla
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The purpose of an interview is not to root out a bullshitter but to find someone you can work with. If that guy doesn't know about TCP/IP, move on to the next topic. If the guy has poor attitude, be polite. Just don't waste t
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Like this one: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/07/27/ohreally/ Yes, that happens, and elsewhere she goes on about culture in tech.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You think it's a small bust of Lt Col David Shoemaker on the grounds of this or that VA hospital, who finally brought Elizabeth Holmes down because the rules of compliance must apply to everyone.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
that the water bottle he brought in "had a high concentration of vitamin D," not KCl That's very strange right there. Vitamin D is a hydrocarbon, it is completely insoluble in water. Vitamin D poisoning requires taking dose
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Can someone please explain how that stuff got past Internal Controls? In the US there is separation between Church and State. If the district had handed over 200 kUSD to a megachurch pastor there would be well-deserved outrage and an invest
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Check out the bio on her website, the lady has a degree from Harvard. She knows how to work her clientele, and besides that sort of extravagance is a Veblen good, it wouldn't move off the shelf unless the price is sufficiently high.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The study about the influence of the ultra-rich on policy in the US is 10 years old, and matters haven't gotten better since: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... It'd not wron
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The other problem is that the government is in on the joke. OSHA in my liberal state is about two people. Civil right claims are capped at 300 kUSD for a large employer. The existing laws are plainly insufficient to claim the rights that th
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
These things don't make sense even for young people because at a young age people tend not to have savings, and a medical emergency can totally wipe out your finances. Remember what they told you about burial insurance: it's a sca
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
And then you have phenomena like a restaurant being closed for deep cleaning because an outbreak of Hepatitis A was traced back to it - a sick employee dragged himself to work instead of being at home curing their disease. So you go and tak
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Nevermind the antisocial types with their tinted windows - it used to be that as a motorcyclist you could look over passenger cars and see what it happening ahead. Nowadays every other vehicle is a truck or SUV, and the behemoth has windo
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Try getting a conviction for drunk driving or vehicular manslaughter in US. The case will go to a jury, and the jury members will consider that none of them can drive either. So the perp will be let off. In EU you are looking at 5 - 8 years
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
There was a lengthy interview with Peter Thiel a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s It's interesting and worth watching, but it becomes apparent that Thiel is a financier, and science takes pla
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Looking at the webpage, she is now active in the diversity & inclusion space, which is still booming. She gets an endorsement from Sumana Harihareshwara, who turned the DEI up to 11 in Wikiland. The talks of the Women in Chemistry secti
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The bundle pricing is a problem, as is consolidation in the publishing market. The fact that that there are so few publishers nowadays really doesn't help with pricing. Another example why antitrust enforcement is needed.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Like Tetrahedron Letters, or the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry?
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Anyone who believes that the government is on their side needs to have their head examined.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
There is a theory that that has to do with endocrine disruptors, bisphenol A & suchlike. A related theory links the increase of hyperthyroidism in cats with the increasing popularity of canned cat food, it's chemicals from the can
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Could there be a misunderstanding? Any organization, Good or Bad, has the right to request materials from the government, and anyone has the right to impugn their motives. (Someone who shouts "ad hominem" in politics has, of cours
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That tactic is strongly recommended against. If there is an indication that someone is evading discovery by using their private email, then the private email becomes discoverable. Judges take avoidance antics very poorly, generally.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
This is politics, one is permitted to ask for motives. It's not a search for truth, it's a quest for power.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Hasn't Corelle been enshittified as well? It used to be tempered glass with milk glass in the middle, but now it's just milk glass?
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Does replacing the CISO actually make the system more secure? Counterintuitively, probably yes. Tone flows from the top down, and if you want to change the tone you need to start at the top. It's very difficult to try and build a coa
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That's the point, isn't it, no one would ride a bicycle through a crowd, and if they did they'd ride very slowly and with extreme caution. But no such convention exists for animated suitcases.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
You can only enforce the laws so much, once the tipping point is reached where there are too many people who can't or won't abide by the laws there's nothing to be done any more. At the end it's an economic problem, the
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Compare that to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack, where a Russian group disabled critical infrastructure by accident and the Russian government intervened. Crowdstrike on the other hand - national infrastructure is taken out and no wor
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That limit is likely intentional, given that even small gifts elicit positive feelings. Honni qui mal y pense.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
He is complaining about grading of fruit, so that the buyer doesn't have to inspect every single delivery but can instead order X fruit, grade Y, and it will conform to standard.

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