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481.
by twoquestions 11y ago
You and many others seem to post that there is a mental cancer infecting 1.5 billion people on this planet, and at any time it could transform its host into a bloodthirsty murderer seemingly at random. I don't buy it.
482.
by twoquestions 11y ago
> If an employer has decided to fire you, then you’ve not only failed at your job, you’ve failed as a human being. That was me, being a hateful little shitbird. Reading that is like seeing myself in a photo of a lynching, gleefully poin
483.
by twoquestions 11y ago
I'll have to give this a shot later!
484.
by twoquestions 11y ago
In all seriousness, what do you do that you're so secure with your manager that you have no fear of getting fired for saying or implying the wrong thing? Every place I've ever worked at groans at the expense of people, and will us
485.
by twoquestions 11y ago
I would also be stressed about giving my superiors tons of reasons (real or imagined) to take me out behind the wood shed and put a (metaphorical) bullet in my head. Having to resell yourself and your work on the regular has go to be stress
486.
by twoquestions 11y ago
I don't know who has wronged you or how, but all the bloody vengeance in the world won't make you feel any better, nor will it undo what has been done to you. Punishing the individuals responsible for specific acts is all well and
487.
by twoquestions 11y ago
While a clearer contract language greatly intrigues me, I'm skeptical on how effective it would be. Even the clearest contract is worthless if one party is too weak to hold everyone to the contract's terms. "What, you want m
488.
by twoquestions 11y ago
For those who don't want to comb through the article, the TL;DR seems to be: "Criticism of bad behavior is good and necessary, but it far too easily spirals into a howling typhoon of nonstop vitriol and hate that's difficult
489.
by twoquestions 11y ago
I wonder why Amazon is going after game developers, as the gaming industry looks like a crowded and low-margin market. Not to mention the free to try and mature tools that developers already have (Unity, Unreal Engine, etc.)
490.
by twoquestions 11y ago
Thanks for the link, I've not seen a book that deals in algorithms that didn't assume calculus knowledge. My CS education wasn't exactly MIT or Stanford, so this should help plug the holes left by my university and shameful l
491.
by twoquestions 11y ago
One thing that I haven't seen considered is the cost and complexity savings of a Basic Income safety net over our current patchwork safety net, in addition to being more effective.
492.
by twoquestions 11y ago
In addition to what soneca said, it could also motivate a government to enact bad populist policy (confiscatory tax rates, punitive wealth confiscation) and leave us all poorer. Or the elites could convince the government to execute bad pol
493.
by twoquestions 11y ago
This guy put into much better words what I've been thinking for a while. It doesn't matter to me at all that Bill Gates has more money than God, because he's empathetic to people who aren't as rich and aren't as gre
494.
by twoquestions 11y ago
How do you make sense of that media without already knowing the language? I can see reading such media to improve fluency to be sure, but I can't see how a sufficient amount of listening to foreign gibberish somehow makes it not-gibber
495.
by twoquestions 11y ago
Wow, how does somebody get all that reading/working done in a year?
496.
by twoquestions 11y ago
So somebody figured out a startup idea from ancient Catholic policy? I'm actually quite amazed that somebody didn't think up the idea of a secular indulgence system before! I sincerely hope this is a joke.
497.
by twoquestions 11y ago
Why should the Michigan state government care about this? Flint is a bunch of liberals, and the State government is Republican. The Snyder administration will certainly pay a heavy price for "giving free handouts" to the Democrat
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by twoquestions 11y ago
I think Midwesterners are just too conservative for a startup scene to take root here. Venture capital, computers in general even are too new of ideas to depend on. We're used to industries springing up around us, then running away to
499.
by twoquestions 11y ago
Given such brutal firing practices, it seems like there's a lot of ways this could go very, very badly. If you know you're competing against someone for a raise or to keep from getting fired, what's to stop you from paying s
500.
by twoquestions 11y ago
What? Your church doesn't mean anything if you can't keep Those People out? What exactly do you mean?
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by twoquestions 12y ago
I fail to see how this matters. As it stands it's perfectly legal to lie to you about the consequences of not consenting to a search, and even outright cold blooded murder on a police officer's part is extremely difficult to seek
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by twoquestions 12y ago
You're making the bad assumption that working less hours gets less things done. The author made it clear that he gets more done while working less hours, so it follows that people burning the midnight oil for social cred are the real
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by twoquestions 12y ago
Wow, I can't believe the cavalier attitude to getting fired most of you have. If an employer has decided to fire you, then you've not only failed at your job, you've failed as a human being. Perhaps it's due to where i