> unfair to say they don’t deserve happiness just because they can’t make themselves seek it.
You and I have very different ideas about what's fair.
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You and I have very different ideas about what's fair.
This is actually a deep philosophical and practical issue called the frame problem. It is not tractable to define all the axioms and presuppositions for any given set of rules. That's why the American system has a legislature and separate interpretive body in the judiciary.
I think this is exactly the issue. To rephrase: the biggest difference is management. There are different challenges of course, but the most significant is how to manage. Workers have an easier time shifting location. Furthermore, it's often more difficult to troubleshoot and repair bad management than bad workers, so it's not trivial to discover the source of the corporate problem when you flip your WFH/WFO setting.
"the Ministry annulled the DCSD decision, citing procedural errors, including lack of documentation of errors in the book, and asked the DCSD to re-examine the case. In March 2004, the DCSD formally decided not to act further"
> mostly women and children.
Isn't Israel inflicting civilian casualties because Hamas is using human shields? Isn't there a stark moral difference between trying to minimize collateral damage (but still killing civillians) and intentionally fighting out of civilian infrastructure like hospitals?
That's because it's not true. That might have been the baseline, but it's not what people were paying due to exemptions and credits, etc.
> I also don't get how the average person can defend the existence of the ultra wealthy.
Average person checking in. Who do you think is shouldering the tax burden? Gen z loudly complaining they don't have enough money for college or a house?
I find the avarice and greed masquerading as morality in the anti-wealthy movement reprehensible. If you're poor in America you have one of the best lives available in human history.
Also, what exactly is the complaint here - specifically? Anyone have a first principles argument for why "the existence of the ultra wealthy" is bad? Everything I've ever seen has been reddit-quality freshmen year drivel.
> Sanders’ supervisor berates him for calling the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
> “Why in the world would we ever call the FRA about anything? Unless I’m absolutely blatantly telling you to break the rules,”
This sounds like a reasonable position. You expect anyone you work with to go straight to HR, or your boss, or an auditing agency? Without talking to you first?
> “All I can say is I need your help right now to keep my ass from getting fired,” Sanders’ boss told him on the call.
> “I need to just look the other way?” Sanders asks, referring to the reporting of defects.
> “No. We just need to have a conversation,” his boss said.
So when asked if he's supposed to falsify reports, his boss says no.
> “Why can’t we just fix the (expletive) defects?”
This is a great sound bite, but doesn't have much bearing on reality. Complex systems have complex solutions. There's liability and lifecycle budgeting, impact analysis, ERP, etc etc etc ad nauseum.
All in all, it seems like the boss was somewhat shady, but its hard to tell - Nothing is black and white. I'm just surprised everyone is willing to take this implication and turn it into a witch burning.
> cattle ranchers
The fact that you think these two things go together really highlights how blinded by ideology you are.
Another way to phrase this:
Your job as a parent is to expose your children to the maximum amount of love that is healthy and the maximum amount of pain that is healthy.
Too little or too much of either is possible and damaging.
- bag of cocaine found in Whitehouse, extensive investigation, no suspects
- two decades of war and occupation in Middle East. After a year of agreeing to leave, US literally runs to planes and abandons millions in military gear in the hands of our enemies
- definitely not CIA kompromat sex trafficker commits suicide in prison during a guard change while the cameras malfunction. definitely not CIA kompromat sex trafficker's aide gets arrested, given deal to absolve all unnamed co-conspirators. No further suspects.
- Government intentionally lies about pandemic policies its putting in place about masks and their effectiveness.
- key members of government intelligence services author open letter about hunter bidens laptop, calling it russian disinformation. This letter is intentionally a lie for the express purpose of influencing the election.
I'm not convinced I won't see civil war in my lifetime.
> Ponzi scheme? Yes.
How in the world are these the top comment and top reply? Commercial real estate isn't a ponzi scheme. Like, at all. In any way, shape, or form.
There are disparate actors making separate, uncoordinated decisions. There are single transactions being made delivering real value. There's no long term holdings falsely being promised under the guise of stealing short term value by adding more customers.
The commercial real estate market changed. Money is going to be lost. There are bad contracts on the books. Correlated markets are going to suffer. Leveraged losses are going to exponentiate. None of this has anything to do with a ponzi scheme.
> unfathomable to me that a large portion of the populace is okay with [...] direct and terminal negative impact on children's lives.
That's because those two things aren't true. It's a lie told by statistics.
Firearm violence in that demographic is largely from places like LA and Chicago where gangs are the problem and firearms are already illegal.
If you're scared for your child's life every day they go to school, you have been brainwashed by media FUD.
> According to the stats, we make top 5% income of our area
Well one of those two things isnt true. It's not possible to be 95%ile income and not afford a house.
Bullshit is too weak a word.
The shaft and screw are confined to the end of the sub. A navigation instrument like this would not be in the engineroom.
No kidding. I have only negative things to say about Adobe, but that is a terrible argument. $100 a month to replace multiple $100k/year employees? That's basically the definition of technological advancement freeing labor to be more productive elsewhere.
Depends. The TS/SCI enclave at Raytheon R&D is probably locked down. However, most of the (sub)contracting work is done by small-medium business America and they've never even heard of lolbins.
Are you? Have you tried seriously considering his position instead of watching 1 second sound bites OBVIOUSLY taken out of context?
> I was on a bicycle ride listening to this interview when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking about what I think about the idea
Oh? This musk interview was the first time you learned about unfairness in the world? I'm glad he "got you thinking". Heh.
It is not some extreme, radical position that shutting down your company by staging a strike because you _deserve_ to work from the comfort of your own home is morally tenuous. You can disagree, but acting like musk is a raving lunatic for sympathizing with minimum wage workers who bus to work is nothing short of supreme stupidity.
Honestly the anti musk sentiment around here is so braindead and reactionary its beginning to feel like an astroturfed psyop.
The post you replied to is saying it's categorically impossible to have an injection filter when user input interacts with executable statements.
From what I can tell, the root issue is that most people are item-oriented instead of system-oriented.
People are animals and animals need to survive. Survival is path dependant, so people think today is more important than tomorrow. In actuality, today and tomorrow are the same thing.
The American experiment seems to be failing its two pillars of capitalism and democracy for the same reason: they require input from most people. Rather, they require _thoughtful_ input from most people - and most people ain't that good at thinkin.
As far as I can tell, the game is already lost. Competition in all key products is at best reduced to 4 players. Money's influence on politics is hiding in plain sight. At least taco bell delivers.
This is something anyone (any American, at least) with a modicum of honest intellectual curiosity should be rapaciously interested in.
Honestly this sounds apocryphal.
What is the type of racist that accidentally doesn't promote any black people? Furthermore, what is the subset of those racists that simply stop once they get lectured about their obviously racist practices? If they're promoting the wrong people (ie the ones that don't do the job the best) they get fired.
this is an exaggerated straw-man version of my argument, but yes. colleges are a training ground for young people during their formative years, a place we send them to intentionally change their personalities and come into their own being away from their parents. One college isnt going to topple the global culture, but calling bad things that happen at college "hyperlocal" is obviously wrong.
> If every element of campus life could randomly and capriciously be escalated to the national stage, how could anyone possibly expect kids to learn how to take risks or make mistakes?
i dont understand this argument. the article we're commenting on is about exactly this type of oppressive, no-mistakes, no-learning regime the college administration is creating. the media coverage isnt about highlighting mistakes students made; the media coverage is escalating to the national stage the exact thing youre complaining about. a girl got a conduct violation for intentionally spilling coffee and then killed herself.
What a terrible take. The entire purpose of college is to influence the minds that attend them before sending them out to further propagate those ideals into the world.
Furthermore, this is an elite institution that ostensibly is training future leaders - the type of people most poised to spread influence.
It's a problem of bad journalism coupled with lazy readership, aka "scientists dicover..." articles.
This is a deeper problem than mice or science "journalism". There is some fundamental asymmetry in people's desire for information vs their capacity to understand information.
Kind of like how I'm not a programmer or business owner but... here I am.
i said time is about liquidity, not solvency. i never said gaining money in the future makes you solvent in the past.