cskinner

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by cskinner 5y ago
Good managers are largely similar, but bad managers are each bad in their own way (with apologies to Tolstoy). From my good managers I have learnt the value of shielding working employees from excessive meetings and bureaucracy, and trustin
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by cskinner 5y ago
Just my personal (contraversial) opinion, but I believe that opting out of being a donor should also opt the person out of being a recipient. Include a 12 month waiting period for someone who has previously opted out, but now wants to opt b
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by cskinner 5y ago
Particularly when those firings were a biased process resulting in age discrimination [0]. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2020/09/20/eeoc-...
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by cskinner 6y ago
Back in the early days of mobile number portability the majority of telcos put in systems to make porting out harder, e.g. getting an unlock code. This gave them a chance to keep the customer when they called up. Regulators (particularly in
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by cskinner 6y ago
I wonder how large Deutsche Bank's exposure to the office space market is. People who WFH will still spend a similar amount of money, just on different things and in different places.
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by cskinner 6y ago
With the advantage that the house can then be sold to the next set of parents after the kids have finished with school.
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by cskinner 6y ago
The article spends most of its words discussing the reality of math via Platonism vs empiricism while forgetting its own title "What is Math?" If going for a pithy answer, I like tha following quote by G. H. Hardy: A mathematician
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by cskinner 6y ago
This would be a reasonable argument if they were trying to attract a CEO to an already sinking ship. Being the one in charge when it starts sinking is a different case.
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by cskinner 6y ago
IMO, this is the most important comment here (so far) in understanding the investment & maintenance decision making and constaints of PG&E. From the linked CPUC Decision Making in the above comment, there are multiple examples where
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by cskinner 6y ago
IANAL, but I expect this is part of the prosecution's strategy from the start rather than a change. My understanding is that lawyers like to use a multiple lines of attack/defense approach. So in the context of this case, they wou
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by cskinner 6y ago
E. M. Forster in The Machine Stops also covers the idea of primary vs secondary research. "First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could er
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by cskinner 6y ago
And will ramp their transmit power up to do so.
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by cskinner 6y ago
Some things to keep in mind when doing any interview. First, know what message you want to get across, and focus on that. Second, avoid almost all "what if" type hypothetical questions. Third, make your own recording of any interv
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by cskinner 6y ago
To expand on this for non-Australian readers. Native title in Australia stems from the Mabo court case in 1992. IANAL, but my understanding of this case is that the High Court overturned the concept of terra nullius in Australia. Essentiall
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by cskinner 6y ago
Our local motoring association (RACV in Victoria, Australia) provides a car running cost calculator, including precomputed values for common models organised by category. Their methodology seems pretty solid. https://www.racv.com
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by cskinner 6y ago
In Australia, a few of the top private schools as well as government schools in demographic areas with a high Chinese student population do have an intellectual culture. A few of my family members are teachers (in both private and governmen
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by cskinner 6y ago
Nicotine (smoking) has been known to act as an immunomodulator and can act as a preventative for gastrointestinal inflammatory disease such as ulcerative colitis. This could be attenuating the inflammatory response and reducing symptoms for