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by magduf 7y ago
I think this is a great idea. Similarly, we should stop putting bathrooms in our residences, and just have businesses where you can go to buy bathroom time. That way, you don't have to keep it clean on your own, or pay for it in your
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>I can cook, but to me it's like changing my oil or cleaning my apartment. Some people love to make a face and go "you don't cook?!?!?!" It's a tradeoff of time and money in most cases. For oil changes, for insta
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>Singapore Airlines is known for their cabin experience, so I'm guessing the vegetables taste pretty good? I've flown on Singapore Airlines twice (one round-trip), in economy class, and it was easily the best flight experience
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Where did you get those numbers? It certainly isn't seen in election results. Approximately half the population reliably votes GOP in every election, and they certainly don't want Medicare for All. On the Democrat side, MfA is
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I think the problem isn't heterogeneity in ethnicity, it's heterogeneity in values. Many western European nations have a good amount of ethnic diversity, but they don't have half the population saying that nationalized healt
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It's just like ISO-9001.
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There's a bunch of other search engines out there; no one is forcing you to use Google search. Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, etc. are all viable alternatives. If Google needs to open-source their search algorithms, then why should
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Would it be unethical to genetically engineer embryos to eliminate sociopathy? Or how about engineering an airborne virus which modifies victims' DNA to eliminate sociopathy? (Of course, these could have drastic unintended side-effec
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Being into athletics helps my work performance too. Athletic, fit people live longer, are healthier, have fewer sick days, and it probably extends to mental performance too, which is important in programming. Being fit also probably helps
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Society, of course. Some people may disagree with it, but the society at large is doing this things, either led by or approved by our political leaders, whom most of the citizens elect.
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I'm into fitness too: I go to the gym, I ride my bike for long distances, etc. My job involves sitting at a desk and writing code; my athleticism has nothing to do with it. It's the same with Tiger Woods.
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>Sure, warrants aren't necessary, but the concept of mass, automated surveillance is so new that we simply haven't figured out what to do about it yet. We haven't? It seems like we have: we're embracing it wholeheart
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Um, isn't this exactly what Microsoft did up until they got slapped with that antitrust trial in the late 90s? They found out the hard way that not playing the game can be very costly for the company. It'd be nice if it wasn&#x
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>He is a fine athlete but golf is not one of his sports. Isn't this orthogonal? Golf has absolutely nothing to do with athleticism.
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I don't know about this; it isn't completely unheard of for female managers to proposition male subordinates, it just doesn't happen as often obviously. I think it's wrong and abusive, no matter which sex does it (and t
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If the harassment has moved beyond the workplace, and someone is stalking you at home or wherever, then call the police. As long as it's still at work, the easiest thing, and probably best choice for your career, is to find a new emplo
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>I totally don't get how on earth protecting a "high performer" and sexual offender is good for the business. It probably isn't, in the long run, but it IS good for the HR chief's career to keep the executives ha
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Exactly: it's all about money, and also individual consequences to HR staff themselves. If the company stood to lose lots of money to bad behavior, then they would police it much better. But they don't, so they don't. Inst
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Yep, I have a Brother color laser; works great with Ubuntu.
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>Of course none of the above is as shitty as the government agency my neighbor works at that asked the female employees to serve cocktails at a winter social. Wow, that's amazing. I wonder which agency this was, and if this is new
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Sure, it was "plug and play", but like every printer, it took some work: you have to download and install a driver package and software suite, because this stuff isn't included in the Windows OS. This simply isn't the c
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Sorry, but a bit of a pedantic note here: laser printers do not use dry ink. They don't use ink at all; they use "toner". Toner is really nothing more than microscopic particles of colored plastic. The printer uses electro
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While I do agree about the jackets thing being sexist, I would like to point out that this isn't always a man vs. woman thing. At my current company, they like to buy corporate-branded clothing for employees too. T-shirts, polo shirts
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>Your theory that sociopath executives only exploit people for money and not for other things they personally enjoy is not one that matches my experience. I think I wasn't clear enough: I'm really pointing at HR, not at general
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Sexual harassment? Sure. Sexist? Sorry, no, that's just silly. By your logic, if a male manager only propositions female subordinates, it's sexist, because he isn't also propositioning male subordinates. That's not
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>Companies used to have Ombudsman; literally a board member who did nothing but listen to employee complaints and help them e heard. This tended to lead to unions, which reduced company profitability, It sounds like the ombudsmen didn&#x
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I guess you don't like Apple evangelists either: you can't just buy some random hardware and just expect it to work on your MacBook. It only works that way on Windows because Windows has ~90% of the desktop market, so of course e
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>Honestly, it sounds like a sociopath was in charge of HR. The very topmost post in this thread you're posting in discusses how people should be educated that the whole function of HR is not to be a moral arbiter, but to protect the
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Then you got the wrong printer. Some manufacturers do a good job of supporting Linux (HP is probably the best actually; their drivers all ship standard in most distros), others don't bother.
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You shouldn't be trying to set anything besides Safari as your default browser in iOS: Apple doesn't want you to. Your desires are not important if you're using an iOS device, and you're thinking wrongly to be wanting t

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