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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Except you made the failure of assumption that it would be of random people exactly like jury duty. I contend that it would be better to pick from a pool of professionals who, as part of their entrance into a professional society, agree als
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yup. Big org problems, but specifically big govt org problems. Perhaps also: 5. Systems thinking - To cut though and optimize across organizations requires government "consultants" who can apply systems thinking. They become tempo
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
America needs to throw out the entire political system and replace it with sortition because unqualified political appointees are counterproductive by definition. The only way to fix government is slow, thoughtful, and deliberate consultati
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Because they have more sensible actors, stronger regulators, and less room for corruption that America. Maybe before you determine, without evidence, that an agency is "useless", you should be honest and dive into the details befo
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that platitude.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yeap. I forgot those and more. It's like some sort of culture of medieval hazing rituals that too many people have normalized and accepted that somehow "proves" their loyalty, dedication, and/or self-worth to a company t
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
See also: The Piasa and Pere Marquette https://youtu.be/G14hwyYsPTo
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
- Finding a conference room that isn't taken - People hanging around socializing loudly rather than working - The unhygienic and jerk habits of previous users of hot desks - Uncomfortable, unergonomic hot desks - Pointless, wasteful, a
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Sssh. Also, we're selling the Sun and the Moon for a special price that comes with a free bridge.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Cute. Seriously though, it'd be cheaper to fund (or crowdfund) a super PAC to send out lobbyists to conduct political interference and gerrymandering in the desired direction. Giving out 1 kg gold bars apparently isn't socially-ac
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
The problem with the traditional antivirus signature model is that it's reactive rather than proactive. Once it's been identified by human or automated submission for human and/or automated analysis, the damage has likely alr
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
It doesn't directly. These are malicious VS Code extensions. It's completely Microsoft's fault for poorly managing the ecosystem. They must curate extensions with security audits prior to publication and sandbox them with adv
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
It was always easy to keep a perfect running balance when the cashier can make change accurately and when there was a penny/nickel jar because customers might not have had exact change. It's only the normalization of sloppiness, o
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
> Cash registers are nearly always out a dollar or two at the end of the day anyway, that's normal, and cash rounding doesn't change that much. This is human error, not a software design error.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Typically, the -ists demand uncompromising change for a complete and instant transformative adoption of their utopian designs, like the Project 2025 anarcho-libertarian billionaires, rather than fair and practical compromise/accommodat
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
No. Rich Americans do, while everyone else doesn't because America has one of the high rates of economic inequality in the developed world.[0] Why do you think there are so many homeless people in America? America also lacks universal
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Ozempic != Wegovy. While both are semaglutide, Wegovy is the therapeutic dosage for weight loss while Ozempic is the dosage to control type 2 diabetes. One is covered by Medicare, and the other is not because somehow being morbidly obese is
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Correct identification but invalid conclusion using grossly faulty, deceptive logic because beef agriculture isn't some bucolic, pastoral phenomonon but a corporate CAFO machine. Corporate meat ag leads to the unnecessary risks of pand
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yep. Utopian crazy who can't grasp the ideas or value of government, commonwealth, or regulations except as "red tape" and "waste". They literally believe in anarcho-capitalist libertarianism with extra anarchy will
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Nawh, it's austerity and socialism for the rich and technofedualism in all but name.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
That will be next year. The year after that, America be buying things in units of wheelbarrows of bricks of hundreds before switching to the Zimbabwean dollar. ;)
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Sloppy managers and lax fiscal controls aren't pertinent to companies that actually do check.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Doubtful. It's required to keep a running balance of net cash contained so that it can be manually counted and reconciled for creating that day's bank deposit. Percentage of money type is meaningless to this fact.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
It also wouldn't work in the vast majority of corporate-controlled apartments in America for similar reasons. You aren't allow to fly flags or have decorations in most of these kind of units either, although this kind of rule tend
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
> In the USA, given that the vast majority of apartments don't have to pay energy bills, This is false.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
The language of rationalizing fascism.
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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein (1949)(monthlyreview.org)
7 points by pentel-0_5 2y ago|2 comments
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Reprogramming of cash registers.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
I almost have a Trump changes bingo. Waiting for renaming a day of the week or a month, and going to war with either Switzerland or Italy. Seriously, this one isn't actually dumb, dramatic, or insane. I approve.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
With inflation about to go up to absolutely insane levels, it might be reasonable to round cash transactions to dollars. Cash is still essential for transactions without requiring technology, creating traceable metadata, or disadvantaging t

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