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by throwawaysleep 5d ago
People aren't treating it as a thoughtful contribution. It is more of a flag, like "spam".
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by throwawaysleep 11d ago
> And if you do that, you’ll sometimes assign praise and blame to them, instead of hoarding it all to yourself. I mean, if things are going well, the logical thing to do is to hoard it.
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by throwawaysleep 12d ago
The problem with applying Hanlon's Razor here is that it presumes malice is rare. The current administration revels in malice. They very openly decide things based on malice.
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by throwawaysleep 16d ago
Painters with broad strokes have done extremely well the past few decades.
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by throwawaysleep 22d ago
Americans are such unserious people.
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by throwawaysleep 28d ago
But it is currently a strong mitigating factor. The law is full of oopsie defenses.
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by throwawaysleep 28d ago
The US military seems like an organization where there is very little accountability given all the people they kill in training accidents, the number of procurement mishaps they have, or their continuous inability to pass an audit. So I ima
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by throwawaysleep 2mo ago
It is well past the point where writing off bad behaviour as probably a joke is a reasonable thing to do with Trump as he as consistently not been joking about many things people have claimed he is joking about.
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by throwawaysleep 3mo ago
AI makes certain types of people, like those who need to be trained, obsolete.
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by throwawaysleep 3mo ago
Eh, we might be all better off if a lack of curiosity was more regularly financially excruciating.
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by throwawaysleep 4mo ago
That’s the value of tailwind. You can just skip learning CSS and still get a good result. The benefit to learning it is marginal.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
BigTech is far more competent than a Telco though.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
Most breaches are not in the interests of management, but they happen anyway as management wants to save money or doesn't understand how it could happen.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
> And obviously, a simple email to the data governance and privacy office would be taken extremely seriously. What is this based on? I used to work for a data governance and privacy vendor that supplied data for audits. Tons and tons of
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
Cops are too dumb to comprehend that. They would proclaim it impossible and order more donuts. Most simple criminals get away with their crimes. Anyone with any level of sophistication does as well.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
Anecdotally, I am consulting for a few of these and they are nowhere near that, haha. Everything still requires 5 approvals, so the challenge now is scrambling for attention.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
The UAE is a bunch of absolute monarchies. You are applying the processes of a democracy to hereditary absolute monarchies.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
Distribution is a whole other animal.
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by throwawaysleep 5mo ago
And we would be stupid to give them as access to cheese afterward. They had that chance and blew it. There is unlikely to be any thaw within our lifetimes.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Trump is also often anti capitalist, between tariffs and government shares in business. There is what fascists say and what they do, and industrialists were often very good Nazis.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
They are pretty much openly that way.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
A friend and I have a contract with a local university here in Canada. They paid for custom on prem software and in over a year, they have not fully provided both access and infrastructure for install it. We have been paid already, but they
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Depends? Are those more narrow one’s better and people have a better idea of what ideal looks like? I’m kind of horrified at people saying they had/have to work at their best friendships as with my best friends, everything is seamless.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
I think we should want to disincentivize any person from having too much power and wealth is power.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Expensive places are where people care the most about that though.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
In politics, power is everything. You do not matter without power.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Fiscal conservatism only exists as an ideology when paired with hurting brown people. It does not exist as a meaningful political camp otherwise. There is a reason that fiscal conservatives spend all their time on food stamps, environmental
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Eh, if you see the reaction to Flock Safety, people object to that one as well.
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Look at what social media considers to be safe countries. You are absolutely bombarded with messaging about how Dubai and Chinese cities are the safest places in the world. I have friends who live in each who consider North America and Euro
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by throwawaysleep 6mo ago
Efficiency, metrics, and willingness to look stupid works when nobody has much future power over you. If you can just refresh to a new pool, that is fine but if it is the same pool, it has consequences. I was on an interview panel for a rol

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