mmirate

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by mmirate 9y ago
I read that question as implying: "it is HR's job to ensure the company does not get successfully sued over personnel-related matters; since company metrics apparently indicated the harassers were businesswise quite valuable, why
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by mmirate 9y ago
(Which is to say, the private sector very much does have an efficiency advantage when there is a competitive market. Because only then is everyone in that market personally motivated, by the "vice" of greed, to be virtuously eff
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by mmirate 9y ago
> personal relations are just another kind of task which is apt to make the people being related to feel devalued because they're not important enough to be given space in someone's day-to-day consciousness. You seem to indicat
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by mmirate 9y ago
That's interesting. While studying the Reichstag Fire in grade-school history class, I ran across a quote from someone in the Nazi propaganda machine, who asserted something to the effect that exerting control over a democracy was simp
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by mmirate 9y ago
Right; my point is that your "some" circumstances are precisely those under which there is no competitive pressure.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Without having multiple competing private orgs, what incentive do they have to be more efficient instead of sitting on their butts as usual? (I'm not saying that privatization alone has no potential or that it is not necessary; I merel
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by mmirate 9y ago
Unless there are to be multiple competing ATC firms, such an efficiency gain is impossible.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> A monolithic private institution doesn't inspire confidence in me any more than a monolithic public one. I don't see the purpose in switching one for the other, and would probably rather see it run by the government. Indeed;
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by mmirate 9y ago
> You're equating value with money. Well, unless we regress from currency to bartering, value is measured in money.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> Based on the examples shown, BPG certainly has the makings of a useful image format. The catch, however, is that it is derived from HEVC, which is patent-encumbered and royalty-bearing. That poses a major problem for free-software proj
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by mmirate 9y ago
> The point here is intent. I see. > Don't promote less than maximally accurate beliefs unless you hate someone so much you'd be willing to go and slash their tires. Yet is it not conceivable to hate someone thoroughly, but
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by mmirate 9y ago
> you have no value unless you work This subjunctive clause, stands alone as a true statement. How else does one earn money?
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by mmirate 9y ago
> When did "legally can" and "should" become equivalent? They didn't; e.g. playing the lottery as an adult is both legal and insanely idiotic. (Don't misunderstand me; I do like it that the insanely idiotic
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by mmirate 9y ago
All the more convenient, then, that sabotage-of-beliefs is not per se a crime.
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by mmirate 9y ago
(I'm not a lawyer, only a layman.) > "Promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires" Regardless of whether the first sentence is accurate (a
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by mmirate 10y ago
> bricked over for easy protest breakup What do you mean by this, exactly?
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by mmirate 10y ago
Probably the better question is whether everyone who might want to damage such infrastructure is in fact (a) a state actor who (b) was one of the signatories to the Geneva Conventions.
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by mmirate 10y ago
Evolution has produced hindrances just as easily as it produced our uniquely human mental abilities: the same mental feature that helped us avoid behavioral loops, now mentally impedes humans who perform repetitive tasks. Yet if that task i
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by mmirate 10y ago
Aside from the various recognition+analytical+creative tasks that are only tractable on the human brain ... biology doesn't have much going for it. It uses carbon, yes, but only in the structurally-weaker forms; e.g. no nanotubes (ergo
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by mmirate 10y ago
Well thanks a lot for the useless meme...
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by mmirate 10y ago
> other skills often seen as the antithesis of being smart Pray tell, what, specifically, are these skills?
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by mmirate 10y ago
> Essentially, your statement singlehandedly destroys minimum wage arguments. "If I could pay less, then I could be profitable, otherwise I am not profitable and thus won't hire anyone." Yes. That statement shows exactly
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by mmirate 10y ago
So if someone reacts with delight to that last paragraph, then they must lack technical knowledge? This seems inaccurate.
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by mmirate 10y ago
Oh, and nothing's wrong with me. I'm merely able to think of preconditions as potential subproblems. (dead comments' unrepliability is rather annoying, btw)
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by mmirate 10y ago
Hence my particular turn-of-phrase: " that brand of inevitable violence [described by anigbrowl]". Yes, I probably should have included that bracketed clause. (aside: AFAICT, needing violence to remove violence is as much an inev
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by mmirate 10y ago
It is. If I read the great-grandparent correctly, violence is only needed as an outlet because the majority of humans don't have a particular combination of attributes; therefore, one solution to that brand of inevitable violence, is t
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by mmirate 10y ago
> we're not really cut out for long-term thinking and abstract mentation for its own sake appeals to only a tiny minority. There is great value to living in the moment but most people don't know how to do it That's the mos
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by mmirate 10y ago
> If you don't get a job straight out of college, you're effectively a second-class citizen. There is no second chance, there is no plan B. How is this any different here in the 'States? If I'm still looking for work
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by mmirate 10y ago
Logically-following question: why do we have such a population that the average and below-average members are too stupid to out-think common automation? Let alone, why do we continue to have such a population?
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by mmirate 10y ago
> neural networks that can analyze information better and faster than the ugly bags of mostly water ever could As soon as the above is the case, why should the ugly bags of mostly-water exist anymore?

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