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by synu 4y ago
If each 50% happens to be more or less perfectly geographically distributed, sure, but if not then you've just recreated the same problem twice (now something approaching 50% of each new division wants to immediately undo what you&#x27
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by synu 4y ago
Do you mean TARP? That was paid back. The government didn't really make a profit (the revenue generated in addition to the repayments was less than inflation) but there didn't really end up being any free money except in the short
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by synu 4y ago
As soon as you started seeing projects like NFTs of jars full of farts you had to know the end was coming.
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by synu 4y ago
Well that seems quite silly. You'd think you'd want a majority for a big, hard to reverse decision like that, otherwise it will oscillate back and forth.
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by synu 4y ago
Several inconclusive outcomes don't add up to one conclusive one.
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by synu 4y ago
Does the UK really run these kind of referendum based on a simple 50% majority? That seems like a recipe for chaos (if true).
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by synu 4y ago
It would match the % required to pass the referendum. So if 65% is required, for example, and it seems like 65% might support it, then you should find out. What % is required to pass a binding referendum in the UK? What was required to dete
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by synu 4y ago
The pledge you’re referring to is something every voter signed during the vote? Or something a politician had said? Also curious why Scotland is not able to apply if it leaves the UK? Thanks in advance for the info.
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by synu 4y ago
When it’s a close vote and circumstances are changing rapidly, I’d say pretty often. Maybe every two or three years until some kind of consensus emerges? It seems like an important topic you wouldn’t want to suppress except for once every s
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by synu 4y ago
I am not British or Scottish and have no skin in the game, but what is the harm in revoting if things seem to have changed? Either things didn’t change and everyone votes the same anyway, in which case it was a waste of time but reconfirms
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by synu 4y ago
Maybe some kind of circle of trust? I would trust reviews written by my contacts more than internet randos. People they know a little less, and beyond that not really at all. I think the problem is that if you make it into a business it mes
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by synu 4y ago
Reminds me of how Yelp tortures small family owned businesses. Is this the endgame for any for profit review site like this?
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by synu 4y ago
Got it, thanks!
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by synu 4y ago
Im sorry what are we taking about? I think I’ve gotten lost, or maybe your reply was meant for another thread?
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by synu 4y ago
It is weirdly common for people to conflate running into others who disagree with or aren’t interested in them with authoritarian suppression. You even see people going on television to talk about how they have been silenced.
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by synu 4y ago
If I spent a lot of time and money making something and someone else immediately broke it I’m not sure I would be as satisfied with the experience alone of having invested time and money in it as you, but I have to say theres something to b
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by synu 4y ago
I’ve heard stories of people getting up, driving to the office, turning on their computers and sitting in zoom meetings all day from their desk. Who thinks this is a good idea?
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by synu 4y ago
I'd feel worse about the wasted time and money.
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by synu 4y ago
Are we giving web four a miss and going right on to five then?
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities(lesswrong.com)
3 points by synu 4y ago|0 comments
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by synu 4y ago
There’s so many normal people out there who are basically motivated to do a good job, even in boring industries.. why would anyone go out of their way to build out a team of uninterested people who don’t want to be there? Seems like we’ve j
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by synu 4y ago
I tend to think you’d have more success having no manager at all vs the bad manager who thinks his team is going to go off and start making a video game or something more fun instead of working on the business if they don’t crack the whip.
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by synu 4y ago
Be careful, a Scum Master(TM) is bound to appear out of the woodwork and will find your lack of faith disturbing. Surely your lack of success can be attributed to a lack of believing hard enough.
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by synu 4y ago
> Most engineers when "empowered" and left to their own devices without much accountability go off on their own side quests that often add no value to the business, but scratch that engineer's curiosity. These side quests
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by synu 4y ago
I think the solution is to do everything you can to keep the heavy process people away from anything important for as long as possible, before you get too big and they manage to embed themselves anyway, where they will commence to expand th
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by synu 4y ago
It’s not really 30 seconds though is it, if everyone is making all these tickets to do trivial things, they are getting update emails on them whenever their micromanager gets around to acknowledging them. It’s generating all the work for pe
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by synu 4y ago
Let’s first open a ticket to have a discussion about the ticket opening process, and from there we can get a ticket open to open your proposed ticket.
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by synu 4y ago
I agree the best teams have been more “keep it simple and focus on making cool stuff” than being focused on trying random new frameworks. But Scrum is not a popular choice for keeping it simple because it comes with a lot of baggage.
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by synu 4y ago
Exactly - I’ve definitely seen a surprising number of companies here in Europe where they talk about using Scrum as if it’s proof of them being an innovative and modern company, and really make it a big selling point in their hiring materia
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by synu 4y ago
Running scrum is kind of a red flag for me, not a strong one but a concern for sure. Maybe this is unfair but for me it indicates a potential cargo cult mentality.

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