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by woofie11 7y ago
A hint as to how that happened: Regulation isn't about more or less, so much as about good regulation versus bad regulation.
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by woofie11 7y ago
Real estate is most efficient when it's managed in the public sector. The government owns all or most of the land, and provides everyone with free housing from taxes. Free markets tend towards a land-owning aristocracy and peasant rent
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by woofie11 7y ago
Which is a fair expectation to have. Free markets are nearly optimal for commodities, restaurants, and similar sorts of goods, as well as many competing small businesses. They grind along for IP, utilities, and some sectors of education, as
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by woofie11 7y ago
I am using IT to refer to more than support/help desk. It includes, for example, having a working network, email, and CRM. It includes custom database applications. It includes an internal wiki and an external web site. It includes lot
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by woofie11 7y ago
I don't quite think you understand the point of a support role. People who support me do a lot of innovation, fixing what isn't broken, and all of that. Most are highly empowered and I expect a few to take serious leadership roles
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by woofie11 7y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to treat everyone you work with as your customer, but that's not what's being proposed. IT's role is generally to support the organization. The organization is its customer. For the mos
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by woofie11 7y ago
Did anyone notice DO leaked customer financials in this post? If I were a startup running on credit, I definitely wouldn't want to advertise that. WTF?
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by woofie11 7y ago
If screws snap from shear, you used the wrong fastener. A bigger screw isn't the right solution. It costs more, makes a bigger hole, and doesn't work as well as the right fastener. Screws are generally harder steel so that the thr
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by woofie11 7y ago
A problem is that "strength" isn't a scientific term. You have tensile strength, shear strength, torsion strength, and compression strength. Screws have incredible tensile strength, which this article was testing. Shear stren
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by woofie11 7y ago
As far as I know, prior to Brown v. Board, most states (50 of them) legally gave equal rights to blacks and whites. The reality was different. Joint custody is not the same as equal custody. Courts will almost always assign joint custody, b
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by woofie11 7y ago
That assumes: 1. The whistleblower are always right and the company is always wrong. I've seen it go both ways. On an engineering project, a junior engineer misinterprets something, and then starts sending upset, angry emails with odd
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by woofie11 7y ago
I lost trust in Paypal after one of the most credible, respectable organizations I knew was on the verge of going out-of-business. A lot of people made donations, myself included. Paypal froze and wouldn't release those donations. I wo
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by woofie11 7y ago
> If you don't believe me when it comes to what modern feminism actually believes I'd be happy to walk through a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article to make the point. Most modern feminists do not support the tender yea
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by woofie11 7y ago
As much as I appreciate the abstract, theoretical perspective, the reality on the ground is different: 1) Many courts assign default custody to women, almost no matter how bad a mom she is. 2) In liberal, feminist blue states, assuming both
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by woofie11 7y ago
The damning thing is the alt-right is very occasionally right. This one stuck out at me: > I trained myself to freeze my facial expression into something neutral so that when I countered Sam’s remarks—“Feminists keep divorced dads from s
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by woofie11 7y ago
Both happen quite a bit, in large organizations. In most cases, the person at the top sets KPIs (e.g. a salesperson should sell at least $10 million of goods), and incentives around those KPIs. Helping oneself means achieving those KPIs by
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by woofie11 7y ago
No. A billionaire will fundamentally employ thousands of people. At least one of those thousands will be a crook. It is statistically impossible to find a large enough organization without some crime occurring. Perfect controls and checks-a
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by woofie11 8y ago
I've been using it for many years with no problems with fulfillment. I like that there is a record the letter was sent. The biggest annoyance is the horrible UX for entering recipient's address. I'd like to type the two lines
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by woofie11 8y ago
I've been involved in several not-for-profits. The "not able to run a profit" part is a little bit misleading: 1) Base take-home salary is typically a million dollars for the CEO or similar senior positions. 2) A senior posit
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by woofie11 8y ago
I see. The not-for-profit has grown from 8 people to over a hundred, and wants to become another corrupt, POS not-for-profit focused on executive fiefdoms and headcount, rather than doing any good. They have a monopoly position on .org, and
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by woofie11 8y ago
It's a nice, informal study. I'll mention this looks at job turnover (and new jobs), not raw numbers of jobs. It's a good proxy for general popularity, but it will have errors (likely 2x or 3x). Java is more popular than Perl
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by woofie11 8y ago
At least where I live, the segregation isn't on skin color, although it sure looks that way at first glance. There are two major communities (African Americans and whites) and a number of smaller ones. The "white" community a
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by woofie11 8y ago
Although your precise wording is correct ("prominent understanding"), far greater splits exist, for example, on political views and on income, and arguably even more harmful.
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by woofie11 8y ago
The screens on front also spontaneously crack, all the time. My first phone, I thought it was a fluke, so I bought another. Then I had to RMA it. Then I stopped buying Sony.
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by woofie11 8y ago
I don't think the document addresses key issues with Mongo: Poor technical implementation. There are countless stories of odd performance issues, occasional data loss, and similar. postgresql can handle JSON documents with none of that
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by woofie11 8y ago
I've certainly used comic sans intentionally when presenting data. Much of this depends on audience too. A corporate board meeting is quite different from an activity with a group of rowdy 8-year-olds from a presentation in a universit
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by woofie11 8y ago
Perhaps the other piece of the equation is making cheap junk and selling it at premium prices. At some point in the past few years, KitchenAid products replaced steel internals with plastic ones. You still have a big honkin' powerful-l