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by pitay 10y ago
Sorry, I am not talking about IBM. I was actually working at a regulatory agency. I don't want to be any more specific than that. Sorry for the confusion.
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by pitay 10y ago
Sometimes it is not done to save money. At my previous workplace we had a new CEO come in 4 years ago. 1st. She trashed talked what was done before. 2nd. she took away any coffee or tea provided for employees to use, saying it cost $10000
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by pitay 11y ago
Just curious as to why owning an automatic was one of the most expensive decisions of your life? Just for reference I own an automatic and I'm quite happy with it.
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by pitay 11y ago
And giving the people freedom to get away from bad employers destroying their life, helping society to reduce horrible employment conditions.
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by pitay 11y ago
One could hope that we aspire higher than killing people or allowing people to dies because they have no use to you. It's psychopathic and values people as nothing expect for their use to you, the same way a rapist doesn't give a
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by pitay 11y ago
Most economists didn't predict the Global Financial Crisis. Given that you have to wonder about the utility of the so called 'economics' and whether statements made by economists are true. Feel free to correct me or give mor
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by pitay 11y ago
I would like to mention my sympathies are with that lady, saying that it was here fault for not being rude is obnoxious. There is way too little being done about stalking and other repeated behaviours that aggregate to the detriment of som
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by pitay 11y ago
I am not familiar with this 'all lives matter' thing, so I will ignore that for the moment, it also seems to be off-topic. Did you know that the effects of non-conformance have different outcomes with different people. You might
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by pitay 11y ago
I was responding to varjag's post, which was saying that the grandparent post was downplaying the societal pressure, which it wasn't. It was a correction to that false statement.
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by pitay 11y ago
You behaved admirably, after you realised it could end badly you did something about it (perhaps a little extreme, maybe). It sounds that things could've been better with your life, sad to hear. The guy in the article however, activel
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by pitay 11y ago
No, the grandparent post was saying that men were similarly influenced by societal pressures. It wasn't downplaying the societal pressure.
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by pitay 11y ago
Another option is to tax intellectual property at the rate of real property in the countries that they want to claim copyright in. The holder of the copyrighted material will have to declare how much the intellectual property is worth, and
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by pitay 11y ago
Creating new things that people like to spend their time on will help stop a bit of those funds getting to the bad actors. Until the bad actors figure out how to 'own' the new activity in some way.
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by pitay 11y ago
I think he means reporting built into the program itself, such as when the program crashes. I don't know why it is sad.
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by pitay 11y ago
I have to highlight the contempt part of ebiester's post. Working with people who have contempt for the people around them is seriously deleterious to your productivity and mental health. If you are working for a boss who has contempt
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by pitay 11y ago
Another huge annoyance with mobile devices is webpages that load some of it then crash the browser with all the JavaScript that it loads. So on an iPad 2 using Safari, load page, crash, reload, crash, reload ...
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by pitay 11y ago
Why deny someone that pleasure based solely on the ever-retreating carrot of hand-out promises? It is dehumanizing, in my opinion. Why eschew "white priviledge," then turn around and say, "The only way you can succeed is if
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by pitay 11y ago
That suggests Mozilla is least influenced by the ad serving networks. I like that.
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by pitay 11y ago
Just because someone burns a house down while most people don't, doesn't show that the same percentage of people can build one in the time it takes to burn a house down. I'm disappointed I had to make an analogy like this to
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by pitay 11y ago
I was referring to the amount of money the employee makes for the company. Does the employee get near what they make the company? I doubt it. Does the company need to pay the employee near what they make the company? No. So a company does
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by pitay 11y ago
If you read the paragraph which you say I am attributing 'attributing JC Penny's 32% loss to the CEO' then you will find that I was talking about it being unpredictable when a new CEO is hired, he had a good track record at a
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by pitay 11y ago
The same could be said for any other employees. Programmers, warehouse workers or whatever. Maybe they could be paid for the difference they make too. Yet this doesn't happen, because the supply side is important as well, as well as
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by pitay 11y ago
I totally agree. I have had people blaming me for making them depressed when I was refuting someone saying 'you get out what was put into it', which I thought was complete bullshit the way he was saying it. I was saying that a lo
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by pitay 11y ago
This is how the fuck I read that into what you wrote, and I quote: "In a state of nature, to refuse to work is to commit suicide, at a rate proportional to the hostility of your environment." ... "So, no. There is no choice a
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by pitay 11y ago
Wow, you value a persons life so little that you would let them die if they didn't work. If a person killed you to feed themselves or their family, I would consider them more ethical, because at least they had a reason to kill you. Y
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by pitay 11y ago
Sometimes you just get a terrible boss, most people would not be able to predict that happening.
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by pitay 11y ago
I have read elsewhere that programming is giving the computer instructions. So clicking the close button on a window or typing into a word processor is technically programming (although it is not coding). My search-fu was unable to find t
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by pitay 12y ago
Is it that they are too difficult to put on and take off? (They aren't.) I wouldn't assume that. As far as I can remember, this is one of the main reasons cited for the reduction in cycling. Small things can change a persons b
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by pitay 12y ago
That is still far far better than a forum site controlled by a few moderators. In those sites anything said that contradicts the moderators interests is deleted. Those places are terrible, especially if they are a main site for that topic
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by pitay 12y ago
I have heard it referred to as empire building.

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