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Re:Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:08PM (#9287297)
A slave master is highly motivated to invest in a slave's skills, because the master extracts the profit of that investment.
Re:Paternoster on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:19PM (#9287202)
That's called a fried apple pie in the USA.
Two of the A endpoints are the same,so don't need to be encoded twice.
With good lighting control, you could set up he checkerboard illusion in the real world. That's part of he point.
Re:In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:57PM (#9248417)
The point of ACA was to make not being insured more hassle than being insured, to motivate you get insurance, not complain about the hassle of being uninsured. Maybe you philosophically oppose insurance, but it isn't ineffective at its stated goal
Re:In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:51PM (#9248400)
You may be confusing "isn't interested in disucssing it with you" with "isn't up for discussion at all". Maybe you bring less to the conversation than you think you do, in some cases.
Re:In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:46PM (#9248386)
On some topics of debate, as it goes, they say, "the Devil has enough advocates already".
Re:In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:44PM (#9248380)
But computer programmers are logical by training and profession, so we can trust that our own analyses are always correct.
Re:In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:41PM (#9248369)
Try putting as much effort into correcting your own mistakes as you do into correcting others. Being correct but in a biased way is practically equivalent to being wrong.
There aren't enough free ranges to product the eggs people want. Does everyone want tl pay $1 per egg? The answer is to be less greedy about animal produce.
Re:Martin Luther Insult Generator on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:16PM (#9248273)
Ultimately all you can do is gently guide the world toward secular humanism, as people raised under the irrational tribalism of any religion struggle to writhe out of the pit they were born in. Calling out the faults of one flavor of religion is silly.
Re:Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:43PM (#9247763)
Not really. SV employees pay 40-50+% income in tax. The founders, maybe, are at threat.
Re:Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:36PM (#9247745)
The easy way fight this is Schindlers List style: just fail to deliver quality when you work overtime. They won't fire you, because a priori they can't find anyone better.
Re:Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:35PM (#9247741)
Full time "benefits" (vs part-time hours) didn't exist in 19th Century USA wen Kellog practice changed.
Re:Ten years since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory shipped on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:25PM (#9247720)
After you slept, did you remember what you had previously forgotten, or was it a loss?
Re:Ten years since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory shipped on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:24PM (#9247714)
Why do you believe it's not an army of real people all burning themselves to the ground?
Re:Mentors Are the Secret Weapons of Successful Startups on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:10PM (#9247241)
What else is in the "environment" that could be helping? It's made of people.
I though monoprice just sells out - of - tolerance factory seconds, and covers the high failure rate which a free-replacement. The MicroUSB cables I got from them were junk.
Re:Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper on Saturday March 21, 2015 @05:09PM (#9244225)
An athlete can't exercise all day and week long, their body would collapse. During the downtime, they can party or they can study.
Re:AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them on Saturday March 21, 2015 @05:02PM (#9244203)
There is 0 enforcement of this.
Yes, private parties stated, smd government partnership made it actually happen
99pi did a story recently on how the auto industry fabricated the crime of "jaywalking" to get people out of the streets and seize the streets for cars.
Re:Stop telling women what they aren't capable of on Sunday January 18, 2015 @03:55PM (#8908843)
Is this a fabricated controversy to drive readers to medium? The author of the rebuttal is a medium employee, and the original article was utter drivel to begin with (and completely on trope: a grandparent quoting pseudoscience to explain biases about their grandchildren), written by someone with no audience.