broadwaylamb

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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
No, they want to feel better about themselves but feel like they can't unless the other person forgives them.
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
> That is, forgiveness is how I see the other when I see them not as an enemy or friend, but as a tragic part of nature. I have moved on. Our ability to forgive has, perhaps, been distorted by the perception that it's an act of kind
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
> So why not let them have a bit more salary then you? One can agree that child-rearing and domestic work are productive activities while still disagreeing with your proposal to inflate salaries. For instance, instead of what you're
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
As if people won't continue to procreate unless their employer gives them more money. The global population is increasing, so some form of civilization will carry on. The issue is that certain societies have lopsided demographics that
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
I didn't realize companies are charities now. A couple makes a private and typically self-serving decision to have children, therefore we ought to pay them more regardless of performance.
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
I think there's a misconception that types are meant to tag things according to the programmer's mental taxonomy. They're not. Types should be based on significant distinctions in how your particular program treats and proces
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
> Why would you instead keep your manager in the dark? Because you're already providing enough value to justify your wage even with padded estimates and slacking off (otherwise your manager wouldn't have been happy to begin wit
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
> If you continue to draw your salary while ceasing to provide reasonable best efforts, you are intentionally acting in bad faith and the employer has grounds for termination or at least reduction in pay. I know you're mostly focuse
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by broadwaylamb 4y ago
To me, "from first principles" implies a certain presentation style that's different than what this article employs. It feels like you take it to mean "start from the axioms and build up without any gaps or unanswered wh
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by broadwaylamb 9y ago
I think the issue here is that if mathematics is talking about anything at all, then the search for the first cause tells us what that thing is. This is a philosophical issue separate from the sociological activity of doing mathematics. The