CharlesColeman

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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Is this a genie that can be bottled back up? Lets say you enact these magical regulations. Will the corporations stick around or will they focus on other countries where they have more clout? Similarly, will they use international leve
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I agree with this analysis, and find it overall reasonable, but it seems to need a little more evidence, e.g. do we have any data that shows companies who put "generic managers" on top on regular fail more than those who put
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> So "modern capitalism is not a system that will magically fulfill customer needs in the absence of competition". But modern capitalism, at least in the American context, is a system being drained of competition. Competitors
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> If customers don’t want this stuff, why isn’t there a competing company offering non-DRM tractors? Because modern capitalism is not a system that will magically fulfill customer needs, despite propaganda to the contrary. The way the s
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Or create a new NATO that does not repeatedly exclude the Russians[1]. It seems like accepting Soviet/Russian proposal would have had the effect of 1) limiting the criticism of Soviet human rights abuses and 2) weakening the abili
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Why would we fight the Russians? Ask the Ukrainians.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
That's awesome. 16:9 monitors only make sense for watching video, and are an abomination for pretty much any kind of work involving text. I will be very happy when 4k 16:10 or 3:2 desktop monitors become widely available at an afforda
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The LF hasn't been about tools and software for quite a while. It's disappointing. I wish they'd change the name at this point. At least it would be honest. >> 100% of donations received go towards funding diversit
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I wonder if they would perform better if they routinely fired the top 10% of their employees (by org chart, not by performance ratings) and let talented new blood bubble upward. IIRC, the US military follows something like that practic
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Just look at our voting count machines. You think something like that would be treated with extreme priority and would have a lot more security around it than it does. If the priority was to build a good system. However, powerful gove
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> state media has reported So, is this rumor true, exaggerated, or just the authorities trying to cover their own asses by "discovering" evil agents for the public to blame instead?
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It’s funny how people treats unions as panaceas to all problems. > But it is not some grand solution to high level engineering problems caused by stupid cost saving priorities made by C-class executives and other weakness in quality
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> If the last one was an engineer, why would another engineer restore your confidence any more? He's probably talking more about mindset than educational and professional background. You can have a leader with the mindset of an orne
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Could you point out where you see a link between unions and the poor quality control that was observed in the plant? Unions empower employees, and the quality control issues were getting raised by employees and getting ignored by man
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Some people do get a sense of pride and fulfillment out of doing a good job. But a good job for a CEO is building shareholder value, which is now understood as "[wringing] all the money out of the company that they can [for the sh
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Didn't 346 people die in unnecessary deaths?! I suppose, but if more people die because of the now well-known management failures at Boeing continue, their deaths will be even more unnecessary.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> That's what all your personal information and your identity is worth. $6. That's not how much it's worth, that's just how much Equifax was able to corruptly negotiate to pay for losing it. If you really want to know
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Citing whataboutism is often used as an intellectually soft way to avoid responding to claims of hypocrisy. It's pretty much always used like you are using it nabla, to sidestep a challenge of hypocritical behavior. No, it isn&#x2
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> why would we not assume that there are political factions within the intelligence agencies abusing their training and tools to try to help a particular candidates? That has nothing to do with what I said, and is in fact completely orth
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Operation Infektion: A three-part video series on Russian disinformation(nytimes.com)
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Also, the CIA may prefer other techniques than spamming social media. There's no good reason to think they're following the same playbook as the FSB.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
This. There are both honest and dishonest reasons to seek anonymity. That tension makes this a very difficult problem to solve satisfactorily, in the context of liberal democracy. The decision is much easier in authoritarian states, becau
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> ...when I first looked at the link it said 'state-backed' which immediately put the NSA and the likes in my mind. Then it went into Saudi propaganda. > ...I wonder why this article focuses on the Saudis and not state backe
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I think the best thing that can be done is wait 1-2 generations; by then nobody will believe anything they see in the media or in social networks. That's not the best thing, that's the worst thing . The goal of disinforma
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The proposition in St. Louis does have a runoff. Seems like a lot of expense. Honestly, I think there's too much focus on expense nowadays. We shouldn't feel forced to pursue the best cheapest system, or feel limited only
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> and almost always equally balanced Doesn't that also follow from the voting method? A faction will make the political compromises it needs to reliably get past 50% in order to active power, but won't go much past that becaus
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Oh no, thanks to democratic elections of senators, senators risk their voting decisions being scrutinized by their constituents...yikes! More democracy more directly is not a salve that cures all problems. Election of judges is pretty
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Approval voting does way better, and it finally has been put into practice in local elections (in Fargo ND), and is being considered for a big city (St. Louis MO). That looks a lot more understandable and straightforward than ranked-ch
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> BOM costs make or break mass market hardware products. You don't just add 50 cents of BOM to a mass market item without a real good reason. I guess the question is, why is that so? IMHO, a valid "real good reason" is fix
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> That's not post-hoc rationalization. That's the stated reason. That's also clearly the reason if you take an inventory of the facts on hand. The stated reason can obviously be a post-hoc rationalization. It's entir

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