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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I hope this isn't too much too late! Disclaimer: I am not a historian, my knowledge of Rickover is probably wrong and probably low quality. I guess you're kind of asking how did Rickover maintain people's intrinsic motivation
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I think a union is a tool like a gun. A gun can be used to steal money. A gun can be used to keep your home safe. A gun can be used to protect your country from foreign invaders. The gun is amoral. How do you stop a bad guy with a gun? Iron
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> I think this is something everyone could get on board with. I don't think you've met very many Republicans, certainly not the ones I'm related to or have interacted with.
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Christian is a broad term, so I definitely have to concede the point that christian is a superset of fundamentalist christian, who are the real problem. Many protestant sects have become accepting of homosexuality and even the pope is begru
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Not to me. Sounds like hope as a strategy to me.
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> I really wish Boeing defense got spun off, them being under the same leadership is a threat to national security. Don't look at their board of directors unless you want to fully realize the magnitude of what you don't yet rea
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> All you'd need is a law... Start asking 5 whys here and see where it takes you. I'm pretty curious what your model of reality is that "5 whys" doesn't make you feel hopeless.
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panopticoflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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I've spent large amounts of time in other countries. America is an absolute embarrassment. There are countries you can go where it feels like the government actually cares about trying to help people have a better life. There are count
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Hoping for a magic responsible all powerful legal daddy to come enforce a just set of laws is pure fantasy. The people doing regulation and oversight have been bought and paid for by these "managers and board members." Citizens un
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Why don't Christians want to enter "christian unions" and cede control over the word "marriage" to the state as a legal construct? Alternatively, why does the state not abandon the idea of "marriage" altog
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For some context I find interesting, Taiwan was the first country in Asia to legalize same sex marriage using a similar method of courts declaring that it was illegal for same sex marriage to not be legal. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Here is another speech Admiral Rickover gave to congress: https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Articles/rickover.html > A preoccupation with the so-called bottom line of profit and loss statements, coupled with a lust fo
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Rickover is about as far from an MBA as you can get, truly. Here is another quote from his speech which agrees with your central point. > One must create the ability in his staff to generate clear, forceful arguments for opposing viewpoi
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Ah the exuberance of youth, I do not envy this person's impending descent into pure cynicism. That being said, these problems are not new. These specific things don't really matter. What matters is culture. Admiral Rickover, respo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons > Akerlof examines how the quality of goods traded in a market can degrade in the presence of information asymmetry between buyers and sellers, which ultimately le
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I remember being a naive college student and hearing about a "software engineer shortage." I was too young and dumb to understand that meant that the owners of companies that needed software engineers wanted cheaper labor and that
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I understand what you are saying in the rigorous sense, but I think what matters is a practical analysis. You are probably imagining things like Facebook and twitter being arms of Americas propaganda machine. Russia's machine successfu
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Is it? When you're saying that, I think you're imagining your neighbor, not your oligarch. When one country tries to cause chaos in another, they use a two pronged approach. (1) they offer a country's aristocracy the ability
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> the left is also known for lying, Democrats are known for lying for sure. Establishment democrats like Pelosi, definitely. If that's what "left" references OK, I don't really disagree. AOC and Bernie, Stewart, and
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I am a deeply liberal American. MSM is not a far right dog whistle in the US. Words are indirect references to ideas and don't have any meaning without a receiver. All of these words have to be contextualized based on the speaker and r
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Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Secondly, there will be those dedicated t
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
You don't need to re-quote yourself. Even though your comment was flagged (I flagged it, and I'm sure others did too), it has not been deleted. You can verify this for yourself by enabling showdead in your profile which will let y
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Are you surprised about the lack of curiosity on this sort of case? I don't think it's a matter of curiosity. If most of the comments in this thread were things like the history of corporate violence ( https://en.wi
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A comment with +40/-32 and a comment with +8/-0 are moderated differently despite both being +8. That's a good faith policy that makes sense if you don't want to promote highly divisive "fight provoking" conten
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> - most powerful propaganda machine (international and domestic) This is clearly false given the previous presidency. Russia's ability to project chaos and authoritarianism vastly exceeds our own. Additionally our rhetoric (rules b
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If anyone wants a fun quick summary of Hayek this throwback to the 2008 crisis is an easily consumed primer on Keynes vs Hayek: Keynes vs Hayek rap battle 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk Keynes vs Hayek rap b
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I think it's more like asking the angel to solve the halting problem. Solving the halting problem requires solving the halting problem's halting problem. Asking the best question requires the answer to what the best question is.
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I think it is a reference to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. > What is the ordered pair whose first member is the best question to ask, and whose second member is the answer to that question? Is isomorphic to: > What is the highe
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> What you really want... This is pure fantasy. What you have described is sets of people not doing what is in their best (short term selfish) interest. It is not in a politicians best interest to hold Boeing accountable because then Boe

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