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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
While I agree that this conduct is improper and should lead to the loss of their chairs (and retractions, if any paid "research" ended up in scholarly journals), you're also missing something important about science when you
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
How is Jobs overrated because of Apple's marketing team? He was the CEO; it was his marketing team. Even if you want to argue that it was already great when he got (back) there, it's still to his credit that he built the company
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Personal experience reading filings. In most states (and certainly in California), there's no need to prove any particular or even general allegation in a filing. It's basically a license to rant about your soon-to-be ex. Most
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
No, I don't. My comments apply to any and all crimes; however, this particular crime and that particular agenda seem to be especially popular with the slanderists right now.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
But the essay, such as it is, was about usefulness or uselessness, not money. And in any case, there are hundreds of millions (more probably billions) of humans on this planet who neither have nor need money. Your concept of retirement is
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
There are modes of living other than just employment and idleness. Entrepreneurship is one, but even if you consider that employment by another name, it's not the only one.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Even more broadly, what do you want out of life? Are you just going to work every day because that's what people do, or do you have a goal? Your life's purpose is yours to define, and you need to figure out whether employment (w
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Yes, it's this way everywhere, or nearly so, and it's a peculiar disease of our place and time to imagine that it shouldn't be. The reason people work for others instead of living a preindustrial lifestyle is to get money to
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
There are two separate functions here. Recruiting is one, protecting the owners from the employees is another. Not every company assigns responsibility for recruiting to HR; some make it primarily the responsibility of the hiring team&#x2
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> "U.S. citizens everywhere should scuttle like rats through alleys and sewers." But sewers are where the Surgeon General tells me I'm at increased risk of contracting communicable diseases. And alleys are where the FBI t
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> Shameful. I want my government to be less afraid. It's not that they're afraid, it's that they want you to be afraid, so you'll either look the other way or cheer while they fuck you over some more in the name of
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
So if there are "worldwide alerts" all the time (which is true), and they're no big deal and you shouldn't do anything differently because of them, why have them at all?
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
It's not "perhaps higher", it is orders of magnitude higher. It's not even meaningful to talk about the two risks side by side, because side by side one of them is so small as to be utterly irrelevant. Paying attentio
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
No, it's the nature of an economic system in which the extension and maintenance of credit are considered both tools of social policy and an end in themselves. Most modern economies have this flaw, some to a greater degree than others
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
The author seems a bit focused on trolls and general obnoxiousness, but for me the real problem with such widespread, constant communication is something else. That lends itself to two of the most dominant features of current human culture
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I'm not sure why either Starboard or the reporter thinks this is newsworthy. After you read the background, at the very end of the article you come to this little nugget of obviousity that every reader was waiting for: "Many anal
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
If you never define something concretely, no one can say whether the thing exists or not. "Google+" was never any specific service or technology or product, so the term is just a label that Google management can apply to whatever
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> If this is the case, then it probably means that a majority of people find the less-dense layout easier to read. Maybe. But the service doesn't exist for the people using it to read, or to post either for that matter. They'
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
In fairness, it's probably the only way to get the coveted billion-dollar valuation. If that's your metric for success rather than operating margins or return on shareholders' equity, you don't really have much of a cho
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Such is the way of the world. 50,000 customers willing to pay $50 a month aren't worth the trouble, especially if they're even slightly demanding. Everyone wants the 50 million users willing to put up with ads that bring in $3 a
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
TLDR: This issue is way more complicated than you think, and the linked article is not very helpful in understanding it. It's fair to say that ZFS is as good as or better than anything else out there for any given storage topology and
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Mostly wrong. You pay taxes as a percentage of something, as of some time, after modifying that something in some way. Sometimes this means you pay more in taxes than you ever got from the thing you had, or sold, or bought, or whatever.
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Right, to me a useful demo has to have several attributes to prove the concept: 1. It has to take place in a real-world setting, perhaps a vacant hotel room or a coffee shop that has closed for the day. 2. It has to be monitored by independ
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
The article itself is typical TC: a credulous PR puff-piece, not journalism of any kind. The best way to prove that something works is a demo. This story is about documents that could as well be science fiction, not a live demonstration o
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Aye, that's the ticket, laddie!
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
I'm not dismissing it entirely, I'm opposing the manner in which it is used by clinicians, politicians, and the judiciary. A work of its nature should be used with the utmost caution and acceptance of its limitations, primarily b
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> typically, a set of related symptoms are identified and named, then later -- often many years later -- mechanisms that appear to occur with and likely generate the symptoms are identified and then later -- often many years later again
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
Stock buybacks by definition cannot by themselves reward shareholders. They are by their nature an enticement to become an ex-shareholder, and a reward to those ex-shareholders. The fact that remaining shareholders are, ceteris paribus, &q
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> part of why mental health is so terrible in the US is that we do a terrible job empathizing with people who suffer from it This isn't just a US problem, though it may be worse there in some ways. There's also the problem tha
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by fredkbloggs 11y ago
> That sounds like 'sour grapes'. Believe me, it isn't. I'm no trader and have no interest in speculation. I'm perfectly happy collecting my dividends (that profit "nonsense", as you put it) while you

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