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by jgeada 6y ago
That is a brilliant take on middle management!
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That was not a protest. It was a planned and coordinated terrorist mob attack on the US Capitol, and successfully breached it. The first such successful attack since 1814. Trump and allies have been communicating the date and requesting thi
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You’re right, as I’m not aware of any of those telcos have any problem knowing the right person to bill. Odd that the knowledge for that part is perfect ...
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Call a spade a spade: how the police murdered Breonna Taylor. So frustrating that so many American's just accept that the police force here has become what the Judge Dredd comic satirized: judge, jury and executioners.
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Well, if all the people that actually produce the value (that is the workers) walk out on strike until the cat is belled, things would move. Of course, that requires that strikes be legal. In the USA, that is frequently not the case.
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Lets see: first they give themselves what they want. Only after, and only if there is any outcry, then they apologize without any consequences. Yeah, I think management learnt something /s. We're always going to keep getting more
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Nice jingoism, repetition of statements of faith (but not fact). This is clearly a waste of time. Nobody is arguing against freedom of speech, what every other country objects to is is unrestricted freedom of speech, meaning protection of
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Any trivial googling will show you. Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law https://www.rcmediafreedom.eu/Publications/Reports/Criminal-...
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There is no legitimate value in false speech, despite its mythological value in American psyche. People want the current American president censored because he's spewing lies and falsehoods about every time he opens his mouth. His lies
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The notion that the American notion of free speech is in any way universal or desired is false. No European country subscribes to this view and they remain viable and vibrant Democracies. I find it an interesting peculiarity that so many pe
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Most banks in the US either charge a fee, or waive it if you have enough money in your account(s). That too is a fee, as the interest they pay on your money is many basis points lower than the interest they charge for lending your money to
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It is the bank's job to be doing due diligence and validating identities and authentication and authorizations(1), that is why they charge us for the privilege of keeping our money. They just figured it is cheaper to skip that validati
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I assume this is related to the iCloud 'Find My Mac' feature: whenever a device wakes up one of the first few things it does is update its location on iCloud. Yes, it is both a security leak and a useful feature: it is useful to f
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It would be great if banks and other financial institutions had to follow libel laws. Why isn't a bank stating that you're dead when you're clearly not a clear case of libel? In a similar manner, most cases of what is called
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Btw, this article and associated discussion "If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444644 also provides another perspective why choos
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Great article, though I'd call it realistic more than cynical.
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Yes, I do want curating from most of my news sources. Nobody( a ) has the time do do full background checks on all the stories we read. That curation of relevancy and truth was one of the most important functions of newspapers and it is g
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Because Twitter, as a US corporation, has free speech rights. This allows to say whatever it wants and enforce whatever community standards it wants on the content in their network. In purely business terms, it is probably in their long-ter
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You missed /s at the end of that sentence.
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You do realize selective sabotage of physical voting locations also happens, right? It isn't as if we're not replete with examples of voting locations being removed or relocated somewhere inconvenient in battleground locations con
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You are severely underestimating the necessary level of manufacturing "culture", logistics and processes that were lost when we outsourced manufacturing. For many things, including probably making N95 masks, we can no longer just
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It is a meme that is largely self-fulfilling under the wrong organizational incentives: as managers control how and what information flows in an organization, managers in many organizations claim a lions share of credit for successes and de
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ICs largely wield informal power within organizations, managers have real formal power, codified in organizations charts, rules and regulations. Whenever there is conflict between the two, almost always formal power wins over informal. Not
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The reward system also prevents dead ends from being identified, publication of approaches that did not lead to the expected results or got nul results, publishing confirmations of prior papers, etc. Basically, the reward system is designed
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After many horror stories with APC UPSes: - failed battery caused APC to stop operating even with power (just as in the original post) - stopped charging battery even though battery was still good (blow electrolytic cap. When I into the cir
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Illegal fishing should be treated as an act of war against the human race. Illegal fishing boats should just be sunk.
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Why not? We seem to have no problem with infinite funding for Department of Defense and to bail out banks. The amount needed for science is paltry by comparison and typically has much better long term return on investment.
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I use an app called AdBlock https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id691121579?pt=425087... It creates a local VPN that sets up a local filtering DNS. I just added the following domains to the block list: fac
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Can confirm that blocking Facebook on my iPhone makes these crashes go away. All in all I might leave that block up permanently as nothing going to those addresses does me any good
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This same set of perceptual illusion is the cause of one of the more common motorcycle crashes, colloquially known as the SMIDSY (Sorry Mate I Didn't See You) accidents: https://motorbikewriter.com/smidsy-biggest-cause-

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