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Re:Data structures and algorithms I actually used while work... by wutbrodo on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:11PM (#23861116)
Your surprise comes from the fact that you're modeling an institution as a single person when it in reality consists of a hundred thousand people. It's obviously less mental effort to reason about large entities this way, but it's obviously much less accurate.
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Re:Data structures and algorithms I actually used while work... by phendrenad2 on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:51PM (#23873363)
That's funny because institutions can only be modeled as a statistical average of all of the humans who contribute to a given property of the institution.
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Re:Data structures and algorithms I actually used while work... by wutbrodo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:59PM (#23882790)
Untrue (there's plenty of emergent behavior in large organizations), and ignoring that, irrelevant. An obvious trivial example is looking at the property of consistency in actions: an organization consisting of a hundred thousand people is going to be far less consistent in many sequences of actions than any given person would be.
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