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by restalis 9y ago
"The employees who feel like they need the job will move, but those who know they can get a job elsewhere will not. This adverse selection leads to some of your best employees leaving, with your worst staying." So your argument
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"In theory I agree. In practice, has anyone seen anyone work farther from work on purpose to pad their pay?" Look at it in another way -- you're basically penalizing the employees that don't spend time commuting by pay
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"it can be very difficult to get things done when you're waiting on input (or output) from a co-worker who's not on the same schedule as the rest of the team" That sounds to me more like a poor problem deconstruction a
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For one, it's an easy pick for someone with a cosmopolitan spirit. Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok" which serves as a pushing base for all but the most aware and opposed
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"I'm tired of creating accounts and managing umpteen million passwords." That's your choice. You can use the same credentials for all accounts you create and manage the entire mass as one. It's a bad practice, I k
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Settlements concentrated along the coast were mostly colonies of former naval powers, like Greek states, Phoenicians, and Carthage. These liked to settle close to shore but weren't connected by roads due to political reasons until subm
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The given temperature range tries to cover the optimal condition for a broad range of people. Optimal here means that below that many muscles that have to rest in the sleeping state are instead working to compensate the loss of heat (and wi
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"You only need a laser printer, a decent camera and a contact lens." No, considering that the picture doesn't have to be that good, you need only a rogue picture from somewhere on the Internet (Facebook, Instagram, or whate
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Judging from all the existing fossils, one can assume that the prehumans started shifting into humans somewhere around East Mediterranean, but still got to Africa first and evolved there. Somewhere much later, after some migration waves of
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Add that that humans millions years ago were not in billions as today. They were actually in very small numbers, like tens of thousands on the entire planet.
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"Psychopaths have always been with us. Indeed, certain psychopathic traits have survived because they’re useful in small doses: the cool dispassion of a surgeon, the tunnel vision of an Olympic athlete, the ambitious narcissism of man
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I'm actually interested in all commercial ideas that got funded. That means there was enough things in place to generate confidence from someone else other than the (possibly deluded) founder(s). Once customer cashflow appears, the bus
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"France, is a deliberate, forced creation of Louis XIII and Napolean" I disagree. On political, administrative, cultural and on many other levels, all that territory had pretty much a monolithic evolution. Starting from the firs
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"the Chinese at least have a better claim than most people of being heirs to a unified culture" That is, if you can count Chinese as one people in the first place. How can one consider that loosely mass of over one billion peopl
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"I think it is unethical to take away the livelihood of someone if the only reason you are doing it is to add even more zeros to your already fat bank account." Even if one would agree to judge things within your frame, i.e. emp
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So many RISC options and almost none for CISC. If you want yet another low power chip, then it makes sense. If, however, you want to get real on efficient cache usage and a high instruction-per-execution ratio, just do yourself a favor and
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"we're just more comfortable with the relatively common and direct mapping of the C runtime" That's a funny way to put it. It's more like the difference between getting results or abandoning the thing altogether d
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"What if the general reflective surface of uninhabited areas were darkened across the spectrum, but especially in the radiative thermal and infrared region? Would monsoons return?" When you "darken" something it means
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Amazon is on the equator, whereas Sahara is on tropic (north limit). Different kind of climate happens on those two latitudes.
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"In much of Europe the preferred way of doing that was to produce beer." In much of Europe the preferred way of doing that was indeed to use alcohol, but in more than one form. Beer's usage, compared to other alcoholic beve
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"communication in the brain is done with chemical signals that are orders of magnitude slower than electricity and use much more energy" A nitpick: the neurons actually do use electricity to send signals and (looking at the ne
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We're in the age of disruption and with your cold reason you've just crushed an attempt for disruption in history itself! How dare you wiping California off the middle paleolithic map?
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That was pretty much my conclusion too. Homo Sapiens got out of Africa around 130-90k years ago. Here they found bones broken by tools. Those bone-breakers might have been humans (as Homo genus) but definitely not our species. Our species
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It pains me to see these scientists handling those ancient bones with bare hands. That's not a good practice.
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Seemingly not applicable in this case, but bones can stay intact for thousands of years in caves, without being buried under layers of sediments. People may later find them and find them useful to whatever purpose. (Then later another bunch
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"Typically a population either grows exponentially or vanishes." That is, if there don't arise artificial limiting factors, like a cult/religion rule or system that takes control over population's dynamics. When t
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Instead of terra-forming another planet, how about using that planet's conditions to gain experience with adapting to another world? When humans went out of Africa, they adapted, like getting more serious clothing and learning how to c
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"At some point, governments have to do what's fair and not what the angry mob they represents want." Fair to whom? A government has to be fair primarily to their subjects. It's their subject's trust and resources
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Mass destruction (chemical) weapons existed and were employed in WW1. You'd expect that WW2 should have consisted mostly by aerial bombardment with much improved chemical (and other kind of horribly effective) weapons, yet what happene
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Crimean War was not limited at all. It was waged in way larger area than just Crimea, and here I mean not only the Black Sea surroundings. It also had a Baltic Sea, a White Sea and even a Pacific theater of war, with close to two million pe

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