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by vanusa 5y ago
It seems the world of management is full of petty narcissistic control freaks. It can sure seem that way -- and no doubt is that way, in certain situations. More often I find they're simply ... scared. Of how they'll be evaluat
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by vanusa 5y ago
As pop music is 99.9% just some basic music theory put in the shaker and than pressing the random shuffle button. No it's not. No more than writing a successful novel is a matter pressing the random shuffle button on all the distrib
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't much courage in the promulgation of such half-cocked reasoning as in the OP's unfortunate (and unfortunately long-winded) missive.
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by vanusa 5y ago
While I'm open to discussion that things just might more complicated than the standard narrative (basically: "disproportionate shootings of unarmed blacks versus those of whites is explained entirely by racial bias on the part of
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't see why it's misleading to call ads that are deliberately designed to look like legitimate search results (and which are themselves explicitly designed to misinform and misdirect) "fake". You can call it "s
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by vanusa 5y ago
I took the liberty of paraphrasing the title a bit (to say "fake search results"). Both to make it shorter and because frankly, that's exactly what these ads are.
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Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google fake search result ads(theguardian.com)
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England’s farmers to be paid to rewild land(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah, there's only so much these people can do on their own. But the point is -- there's no reason not to at least try to take them seriously.
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by vanusa 5y ago
[flagged] misleading title
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by vanusa 5y ago
I can definitely go with this "pay them to build and manage their own homes" idea. As long as what they build is up to code.
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by vanusa 5y ago
At which point you're back to where we are now - an issue of enforcement. Which is what the orange jumpsuits + baloney sandwiches are for. See my other recommendations in this thread.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I would argue interrupting the experience and wasting billions of peoples time clicking on cookie banners is also a form of harm. Right. We should just be able to set a blanket "No" in our browser preference tab, and be done.
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by vanusa 5y ago
How shiny is the software? Does it impress and/or please users? Does it impress investors? Yup. And in many cases (2) doesn't matter at all - just heaping portions of (1)+(3). You know the kind of "software" I'm
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by vanusa 5y ago
At a certain one of my previous employers, no. That's because I met the principals directly and we spoke over the nanoscale particulars of a certain problem space we had both worked on and that was their basis for hiring me. After that
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by vanusa 5y ago
If she says no, then it doesn't get developed. That's not how the world works. When she says no, they just find someone else. That they don't have leverage over the decision-making process seems like a cop out. No one sa
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by vanusa 5y ago
It's certainly not "backed by the west". This characterization is simply naive. True, it's not like the western powers are shouting their support from the rooftops. But they are more than happy to play ball with these
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by vanusa 5y ago
That's a classic slippery-slope argument there. That is to say, a non-argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope There's nothing "authoritarian" about imposing criminal penalties on tho
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by vanusa 5y ago
No one said there should be no punishment at all for leaf-node employees. Just that about 99 percent of our resources should be focused on those with the most leverage over the situation.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Nothing to do with "mean". There's no need to emotionalize. It's about focusing on people with (1) the most leverage over the decision-making process and (2) perfect visibility into the consequences (legal and otherwise
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by vanusa 5y ago
So the solution here would be a fine that is also affecting the developer. No, the solution is jail time for the founders and board members of these companies. Along with extremely harsh and vindictive confiscation of their assets. And g
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by vanusa 5y ago
They're here of course, and they're reading along with the rest of us. And they're thinking: "Yup, that's me. That's my handiwork, my impact on the world." And then they think: "But what can you d
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah, I should have said "from Stalin onwards".
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by vanusa 5y ago
A truly staggering number of innocent lives basically ruined.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Which is perfectly reasonable, given that the so-called GBD is basically pseudoscience.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Fucking Rupert Murdoch’s wife. Why should we hate him for this? Sounds like its own punishment.
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by vanusa 5y ago
There's no dichotomy here. In Putin's mind they were one and the same: "It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union," Putin said of the 1991 breakup, in comments aired on Sunday as p
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by vanusa 5y ago
The officers who participated described a group gathering by City Hall and moving around downtown. They delivered reports such as, “It looks like a few of them might be open carrying,” and: “Hearing from the Proud Boys group. … They may be
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by vanusa 5y ago
Paraphrasing his own words, he learned a lot, met some good people, found some good practices that he's going to carry forward with him... isn't that a successful outcome? I agree that it definitely doesn't read like a stra
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by vanusa 5y ago
Don't even know what files are Which is of course exactly what these companies should expect if their idea of candidate "preparation" consists of sitting in front of a webform and being asked to type in functions, one after

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