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by jjk166 11mo ago
Thanks
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> If a manager is handling (almost) all disputes of all sorts, then they will fundamentally lack authority to enforce an outcome on a real dispute. They simply are too involved because resolution requires you to take some sort of side. B
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Handling negative feedback doesn't involve going to anybody - neither the manager, nor the person who gave the PR. Someone giving negative feedback is not supposed to be a conflict in need of resolution. We are talking about a situatio
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> It might turn out like if we treated the cold, COVID, tuberculosis and lung cancer as the same thing because they all involve coughing. Well there are 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. We lump them together because the
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In what way does that counter the claim it's ham fisted? Modern agriculture is a solution to malthusian traps because of its scale, not its precision. Shifting from small scale, artisanal farming to large, standardized operations was o
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> The opposite extreme is you have someone on your team who is only able to resolve conflicts by having their boss intervene. What's wrong with that? Resolving conflicts is the boss' job. So long as the team mate is doing their
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Comparing leadership to parenting right out the gate tells me all I need to know about this person's management ability. Your direct reports are not children. You are not raising them out of an altruistic drive to guide the next genera
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The logic of paying lawmakers well is that if they have enough money they won't be at tempted to do bad things to get more money. All of human history has shown that "enough money" is not a meaningful term for people attracte
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I'd bet any amount of money a demo ran slow on one stakeholder's computer, who happened to have a mechanical hard drive, they attributed the slowness to the hard drive without a real investigation and optimizing for mechanical har
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The process of setting up and maintaining automation should be less labor intensive than just doing it manually (or else why would you automate it?) and almost always requires a more advanced skillset than doing the manual task.
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These slides miss most of the point of meetings. You don't just go to talk, you go to listen. Generally if you have enough information that you know what you will share and can expect to receive at a meeting, it should be an email. Peo
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From Wikipedia[0]: >In May 2021, the British Computer Society, a professional body for those working in IT in the UK, called for reconsideration of courts' default presumption that computer data is correct.[283][284] > Horizon wa
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Hare's theory predicts that there would need to be a cold snap at just the right time, and lo and behold there was. Probability isn't an issue if the only reason you are considering the probability is because the event already hap
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It's common for people who have close associations to have events that could be construed as involvement, and when someone does believe they are involved in something important, they tend to claim their involvement was important. It wo
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Paperwork is a tool, not a process. Maybe the right process does involve paperwork, maybe it doesn't. Further, even if the right process involves paperwork, it doesn't mean that adding more paperwork has improved the process. And
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> On the other hand, I have seen process stifle above average people or so called “rockstars”. The thing is, the bigger your reliance on process, the more you need these people to swoop in and fill in the cracks, save the day when things
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Throwing people at a problem is very different from allocating an appropriate head-count of appropriately trained/educated people. A small but skilled team can accomplish a lot, whereas a lot of the wrong people can't do much at a
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Well by that logic, there are 4.4 million software developers, much less than half the employment of manufacturing, in the US. Should we introduce stack overflow as a website you've never heard of? I'm sure plenty of people haven&
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This is not an example of nor even an attempt at long horizon thinking. Voyager wasn't built with the intention that it would last for decades. It was a rush job to take advantage of a very rare planetary alignment and it's primar
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McMaster Carr is probably the most famous industrial supplier in North America. It's a $1.3 billion company that's been in business for over a century. Anyone who makes physical stuff probably goes on their website multiple times
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If your bot farm happens to be domestic, exposing all the foreign bot-farms competing for the same audience seems like a no brainer.
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If the incentives of the team (team happiness) and the company (delivery of something of value) are misaligned, that's a much higher level failure. Either the engineering manager has been handed the wrong team or assigned the wrong tas
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I'm referring to the comment you responded to comparing america to various countries that offer free childcare.
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> but the amount of stuff you can fit in it is determined by the occupiable space. You can fit more into a larger terrarium, but that doesn't require a larger terrarium to contain more. Regardless of what is contained within the ter
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Yes, people should be reminded that they've already been paying the government without receiving this service for years.
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> The US was founded on individual rights and freedoms, not community sacrifice. Approximately 25,000 americans gave their lives in the revolutionary war. Every signer of the declaration of independence was signing their own death warran
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America is the place without universal childcare being used as a control here.
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That's not how space or terrariums work. A terrarium does not spontaneously produce energy out of nothing, it gets energy from the sun. Heat input from the sun is proportional to cross sectional area, while heat loss to space is propor
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Heat isn't produced by the volume. Heat may be produced by something within the volume, but it's not the volume's existence that causes heat to be produced. There is no fundamental reason a bigger terrarium should produce mor
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The real grift has been in echo chambers changing peoples vocabulary such that we can use the same words but talk right past eachother, allowing extremely moderate positions to be reframed as extreme and making what ought to be minor disagr

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