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by wisty 5y ago
The purpose of management is to keep all the stuff employees do actually be useful to the company. Executives are there to ensure that happens, and having employees onsite makes it easier. As far as I can tell, Bezos would sack every manage
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by wisty 5y ago
People seem to be completely ignorant of the theory of the firm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm It's a bit of a straw man I'm making, but a lot of people seem to say "I do fantastic wo
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by wisty 5y ago
I think there's research on driving. Listening to music is bad if you're in city traffic and need to use all your attention, but good if you're on a country road and risk just losing focus.
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by wisty 5y ago
Ambivalence is a key part of most mental health issues. If there were not positive aspects, people wouldn't do it. (The exception would be things that are very much not a choice, like schizophrenia or Alzheimer's). I know "ch
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by wisty 5y ago
I immediately get skeptical when I hear "because" being used for something that is not clearly a proximate cause.
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by wisty 5y ago
I don't think the UAE is concerned about this.
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by wisty 5y ago
The alternative is that you nitpick, and toss out all the ones that don't tick the right boxes. This means you either get people who have good attention to detail, or people who have had plenty of failed iterations to polish their appr
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by wisty 5y ago
See "concept creep" - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-08154-001 Abstract: > Many of psychology's concepts have undergone semantic shifts in recent years. These conceptual changes follow a consiste
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by wisty 5y ago
There's near-infinite access to free literature, it's called the internet. Any author who wants to make their work freely available can just put it online.
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by wisty 5y ago
So they don't run the city, but they are highly influential stakeholders.
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by wisty 5y ago
It seems like this is strongly in favour of creating the right incentive structure to motivate employees. Anyone remember Joel On Software's take? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/09/the-econ-101-ma
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by wisty 5y ago
Test is injected into muscles, usually once every 2-4 weeks. It can't be taken orally. This makes dosage control difficult. The long half-life also means that your body's control systems are slow to act (if they reacted quickly th
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by wisty 5y ago
Or see people who "spammed" emotes into a Youtube livestream getting caught by spam detection and locked out of gmail.
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by wisty 5y ago
Yes, there's 2 big hoopholes in the question.
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by wisty 5y ago
Often yes. How often happens in practice will usually depend on the size of the solution space. A chaotic system is pretty much a random number generator, and random number generators can spit out the same number (or nearby numbers) twice (
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by wisty 5y ago
David Brin (sf writer) shoe-horned a scene into one of his books where a "terrorist" deliberately poisons a populist politician with a sci-fi drug designed to cure addiction to stop him from making angry speeches. Blog article fro
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by wisty 5y ago
The terms don't make sense though. No-one would say that Mark Zuckerberg (born way before Google was founded in 1998) is a digital immigrant who wouldn't be expected to know how to ask Google. The whole point of the article is tha
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by wisty 5y ago
> By “normalization” Vaughan meant that decision making processes and action choices that deviated from formal established rules were reinterpreted by work groups in a manner that allowed for those choices and actions to sit comfortably
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by wisty 5y ago
It's a good book, but while some elements are good sf it's not all hard sf. They're looking for a new planet and didn't even send a probe 50 years ago?
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by wisty 5y ago
You literally build the editor from the ground up (events like keystrokes modify a data object which then changes the page), rather than trying to patch the browser's editor (including all possible versions of every supported browser)
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by wisty 5y ago
If something is bad when a government does it, surely it's also bad if a really large company does it. Come to think of it, why would it be bad if a government censors speech?
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by wisty 5y ago
One suggestion I heard was that the Mayans were a bunch of imperialist tax collectors and their "empire" simply started refusing to pay tax when the military advantages were no longer so important. You could probably say the same
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by wisty 5y ago
Disrespectful jerks are a problem in any workplace. Programmers complain about it online a lot, because programmers complain about everything online. Making a disrespectful jerk do some stupid Sudoku problem to teach them about interruption
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by wisty 5y ago
The theory is based on historical data, and I doubt that an end to middle class blue-collar work would apply to all that many historical cases. But you might be onto something - elite overproduction could be a concession made by an elite th
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by wisty 5y ago
The current theory isn't particularly lacking, the average teacher (let alone layperson's) understanding of it is lacking. Plus there's dozens of rubbish theories that are sorely lacking so you have to find the researchers th
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by wisty 5y ago
I think it's a bit different, as people adapted to milk which is usually been beneficial (if it's available).
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by wisty 5y ago
I like to bring up the Theory of the Firm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm It makes no sense that employees exist, right? Why not just pay everyone as consultants, gig workers, piece-work, etc? But em
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by wisty 5y ago
> It took years — eight years and counting in exile — for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening,
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by wisty 5y ago
I am sure there are plenty of web-based alternative UI disasters to replace menus with fonts that are too small to read properly.
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by wisty 5y ago
Stinky tofu is like the blue cheese of tofus. It's quite nice. Natto ... I'm not such a fan.

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