falcongod082

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by falcongod082 7y ago
That would explain why the sammiches were cheaper. American companies despise competition.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Not really, in the end it comes down to the person who decides what price to put on the sammich.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
I'm reasonably sure that you aced the test.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
So you're high-strung and uncomfortable around people? I think that's an important thing for the hiring manager to know.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Can they use the carbon to self-replicate yet? That's when things get interesting.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
*as well as centralized?...sure it can, which means that it's centralized. What it cannot be is completely independent.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Didn't we already try the bread and circuses thing? Capitalism is exploitative by definition, civilizations lasted longer that it has existed so how "stabilizing" it is is certainly not a given, in fact there's evidence
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by falcongod082 7y ago
I don't think it's ethical to pay that little period, but I don't see Waffle House commercials talking about this either, so if the company isn't trying to profit off of it and the employees want to do it I'm all fo
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by falcongod082 7y ago
an organization is centralized by definition, it's just a matter of scope, the arbitrary place where you draw the line depends on your politics.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
What drives thinly veiled corporate propaganda?
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Nah, you're already a part of their spreadsheet, they don't need everyone as a customer, the profits still roll in.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
As with most things, it's a little of both, not binary. Your decisions effects others, others decisions effect you. You can spend your entire life not making a dent into how complicated that particular equation is..or...you can just
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by falcongod082 7y ago
welcome to capitalism
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by falcongod082 7y ago
So you think that the government should be able to set prices? I don't know why you don't like how business regulates prices.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
By that logic CEO pay does the same thing, along with every other cost.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Well that's interesting, so these are political certs?
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by falcongod082 7y ago
If you're working for profit, competition is awful. If you're not working for profit competition may or may not be good. Regardless, how you personally feel about competition isn't relevant here.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
You mean like Linux and Git, or do you mean like "blockchain brofedora authoritarian lulz"?
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by falcongod082 7y ago
We're not running out of space, we're running out of space that rich people don't already own and use to exploit labor.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
You can now tell the Queen of England to make you a Knight!
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by falcongod082 7y ago
It just occurred to me that some companies may dictate devtools which would make this question make more sense, as well as reinforce my negative opinion of business decisions.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Git for source control, jira for issue tracking, everything else nothing stands out.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
economics is a virtue-centered value system, in fact it chooses the definition of value based on the politics of the economist.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Ethics and profit motive are easy to balance, justification takes a few paragraphs.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
There are rarely if ever any "best" dev tools, there are plenty of terrible ones though.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
I can't wait for the days when my television won't work because Sony's servers go down.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Also they should read Karl Marx, it's a good overview of real world economics.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
One should always be grateful to their future overlords.
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by falcongod082 7y ago
Project management isn't trivial, but it isn't outrageously difficult either. What makes it difficult is when you need to spend hundreds of hours a week making up numbers that bear no relationship with reality in order for someon

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