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by battlebot 10y ago
Compliance cost.
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by battlebot 10y ago
We citizens have very little say in the machinery. That is the biggest problem we face these days. Regular people have no agency at all and there is a sneering elite that runs things from the coasts who believe everyone else is a sheep to
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by battlebot 10y ago
This reads like a Faustian bargain. I've seen this sort of stuff happen over and over to my colleagues, it was worst in the late '90s and early '00s. As much as I wanted to work for a startup once in my life, I learned that
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by battlebot 10y ago
Costco pays $17/hr. vs. Sam's what? I don't even know. < $15/hr. Maybe $14/hr? Okay, it was in the article, $11.52!
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by battlebot 10y ago
It would help considerably if every business school in the nation wasn't following the exact same idiotic playbook.
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by battlebot 10y ago
You know what's even worse at trying to surface? When you saved your company millions of dollars! I'm not talking theoretical dollars here, I'm talking about last year X cost $Million, and this year due to my finding out
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by battlebot 10y ago
The biggest thing the US needs is a management overhaul.
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by battlebot 10y ago
Don't hold your breath. Even superstars are fungible these days.
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by battlebot 10y ago
And yet isn't it just slightly odd how software consulting rates were the same 17 years ago as they are now? And there was all that inflation in the interim...hmmm...
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by battlebot 10y ago
No, they're not, it is highly effective--I saw it firsthand during the run up to the Gulf War in 2003. I was on a message board and suddenly there would be all these "pro war" type members showing up posting basically propag
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by battlebot 10y ago
Or maybe you're just reading fake news.
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by battlebot 10y ago
I bet taking a few months off from work would also lead to most of those things.
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by battlebot 10y ago
I pretty much just ignore all of these reports and articles because of everything you just said. And I hate to change the subject, but studies done in every other subject are the exact same way. I'm in no way impugning the research a
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by battlebot 10y ago
Oh, so I am without the ability to reason? Hardly.
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by battlebot 10y ago
You can't prove a negative "we don't have any evidence" is a fallacy. Ask yourself: Why are there no conservative voices in the climate science field? Why is only one certain type of political class so obsessed with it
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by battlebot 10y ago
My biggest concern about data science is that a lot of people who lack basic skills at doing science are racing into the field. My other concern is that this happened because an article said that there would be a huge demand for data scien
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by battlebot 10y ago
Well said. I would add that journalistic ethics have reached a new low. Astoundingly new low. On the other hand, I was not alive in the 1890s during the era of "yellow journalism" where everyone with a printing press was turnin
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by battlebot 10y ago
No it doesn't. Smart people are among the easiest to fool. You simply appeal to their intellect and flatter them.
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by battlebot 10y ago
Like Climate Science? I have never seen so much bullshit and bullshit artists in one place except for DC, which is all bullshit all the time. Academia is the same, almost 100% bullshit these days--not much real science going on outside o
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by battlebot 10y ago
Convenience is how they get to you. Just say no to convenience.
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by battlebot 10y ago
It has a cyberpunk ring to it.
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by battlebot 10y ago
I have witnessed that very thing more times than I like to admit. I fail to understand what, other than sheer greed, motivates tech people to help build these police states. It's going to come back at us in terrible ways. Technology
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by battlebot 10y ago
They can never achieve that without political reform that removes collectivism and replaces it with individualism and I'm not even sure that is possible with 1.5 Billion people or whatever they are up to now.
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by battlebot 10y ago
I wish at the very least that our tech companies would stop abetting these crimes against humanity. We should be trying to liberate these people, not use tech to forever enslave them. It's sick.
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by battlebot 10y ago
If that were so, then why is the majority the ones all in agreement? The people who are skeptics are few. Doesn't sound like any Catholic Church I am aware of.
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by battlebot 10y ago
My point was they don't have to pay off all those loans at one time, which is what accrual accounting assumes. It is a false argument, in other words. As far as inflation goes--you're making the original commenter's point ab
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by battlebot 10y ago
You think someone with a doctorate is a layman? We're educated people, we can form our own opinions, thanks.
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by battlebot 10y ago
Sorry you got downvoted to hell, but certain subjects are echo chamber religion with a lot of folks. It's just how it is. I don't know how some people can be so open-minded to scientific inquiry one the one hand, but when it com
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by battlebot 10y ago
Here's a question: Are you at all comfortable with the realization that a website as bad as Business Insider is carrying your story? Understanding, of course, that the grand majority of the stories on that site are out and out clickb
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by battlebot 10y ago
Not sure "exurb" is a real thing--most people living that far out have wells and leech fields and the density is pretty low. Practically every person who sits on our city council is involved with real estate--either sales or devel

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