naravara

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by naravara 7y ago
We're in the middle of a big cultural reckoning with the "business friendly" or "win/win economics" ethos of management consulting having been the guiding star for most large public service and non-profit organ
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by naravara 7y ago
Crows also eat carrion and listening to a bunch of them squawk all at once definitely sounds like they're a crowd at a colosseum demanding someone get killed.
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by naravara 7y ago
>And are the "grimy" parts "trapped in the past" or next door to the "future"? They don't actually intermingle much with the future as cyberpunk might have made us think though. Usually the nightmare cy
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by naravara 7y ago
>Seriously though, cyberpunk never died, it just became the default for most sci-fi works due to the fact that we now live in that world. Although interestingly, it's much shinier and prettier than we expected. And most of the grimy
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by naravara 7y ago
>The flip side is that it is also bad for morale for someone to be recommending a solution for some time, the recommendation is ignored, a consultant is hired, the consultant recommends the same solution, and then the recommendation is i
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by naravara 7y ago
Or they find alternative revenue streams such as: a.) Patronage/donation model b.) Paywalls c.) Integrated the advertising into the program rather than making it a separate ad read
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by naravara 7y ago
My wife's friend used to make a habit of offering to pay people on CraigsList cash for things, and then showing up with 10%-15% less cash than she committed to. Usually people were annoyed but eager enough to get rid of the thing that
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by naravara 7y ago
That's not really about griping after something has been decided. This was about obfuscating the actual risks or concerns.
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by naravara 7y ago
>Yes, and at the point you stop repeating your disagreement, you have begun to self-censor. Absolutely not and even making this comment seems indicative of really unhealthy communication dynamics in a team. Censorship is specifically sup
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by naravara 7y ago
>s that everything they say is a characteristic of groupthink, is also characteristic of achieving consensus of any sort. ALL of them? How about: - Outgroup stereotypes? - Self-appointed mind guards to insulate leadership from challengin
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by naravara 7y ago
> Even worse, in the US, collections companies typically have no proof the debt is real, which also conveniently means you dont actually need to pay. IIRC/IANAL Also not a lawyer, but from what my financial planner tells me simply s
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by naravara 7y ago
> Why doesn't legal have to fight the same fights? Legal constantly fights the same fights. They get those systems put in place because they acknowledge that fighting these fights is a critical aspect of their job and they make sure
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by naravara 7y ago
> Been doing extreme over-hours in the hope of fixing stuff once and for ever, only to realize your job becomes more and more like shit-shoveling, since management starts to feel invincible (and protected by your contributions), which le
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by naravara 7y ago
> You need to find some resources or setup training to combat phishing. Honesty it’s so bad I think we’re best off just figuring out ways to do away with email as a primary communication mechanism altogether. When my company was smaller
915.
by naravara 7y ago
"Pretty horrible" + easy integration with Sharepoint and Exchange + cheap if you're already knee deep into O365 is a tradeoff many large Enterprise IT folks are perfectly happy to make.
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by naravara 7y ago
>Word doesn't at the same time allow markdown input and autoformats it impredictibly! Word can't even auto-format plain text input predictably. If you try anything at all complex involving spacing our outline formats it gets co
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by naravara 7y ago
>We don't often celebrate making things harder to do, but adding friction to something that's happening too often can help bring it back into balance. Sometimes friction creates abrasion and waste. Sometimes it creates the trac
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by naravara 7y ago
Not just an agenda but, if possible, an explanation for why each invitee is being invited and what they are expected to bring to the table. I can't count the number of meetings I show up to with only a foggy notion of why I was include
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by naravara 7y ago
>My hunch is that would incur unwanted liability from FOSTA-SESTA [1]. Producing content and paying talent out directly is fairly straightforward for adult entertainment. There be dragons if you're attempting to build a marketplace
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by naravara 7y ago
> This is simply not true. Secondly, the restrictions around urban development are self-imposed at either the State or Local level. Made possible by the unending spigot of funding for laying down asphalt. These decisions become less and
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by naravara 7y ago
>Knowledge, education, communication, art, work: all of these are much easier to obtain outside of cities now, and that has massively factored into why our current "future" has allowed that demographic shift into the suburbs to
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by naravara 7y ago
At some point I gave up. It just stopped being worth it for me to save $10 here or $20 there for how much of a navigation PITA these sites are. I just stick to Kayak for booking most things now. It's simple, clean, and straight-forward
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by naravara 7y ago
>As opposed to what? YouTube is supposed to just host videos for you for free? I think there is a median point between this dichotomy where YouTube comes up with ways to collect revenue that don't depend on maintaining an adversaria
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by naravara 7y ago
It's even worse when you just want to find a menu for a restaurant.
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by naravara 7y ago
>2019 web : content rubbish, looks good Or at least it would have looked good, if it wasn't covered in "SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER" and "ACCEPT OUR COOKIES" light boxes. Which is only slightly less rubbish than h
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by naravara 7y ago
Google Scholar is still quite useful for general information, but it's also generally pretty dense and hard to parse so it will take a bit of work. The days of just having a question and being able to find an easy layman-level answer a
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by naravara 7y ago
>Even then I don't fully understand why it took 30 years for automakers to figure out how to produce high power engines that met emissions standards. They could probably have done it before, but this stuff is expensive. The current
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by naravara 7y ago
>What classical government had the right to vote for a representative? Rome? No. Only the elites could vote. Athens? Same story. Citizens voted. The question is who gets to be a citizen, but once you are acknowledged as a member of the c
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by naravara 7y ago
In the US elections are hyper-local, so you can generally only vote in a specific precinct based on where you live. If the list of names is getting really large, that's a sign that you don't have enough precincts/locations fo
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by naravara 7y ago
They don't need it. You need your voter registration card or some other way to identify yourself (like a piece of mail with your name on it) to vote in your precinct and they take your name off the list once you vote. Voter ID laws are

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