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I think we're just using different definitions here.

There will still be a non-zero amount of hierarchical order within social systems even if it doesn't come from the government.

Ah, thanks, that's fair since most people are going to make those sort of voluntarist associations. I guess I was imagining an edge case for people who opt to not do that, but that feels an awful lot like when people today make arguments like "well, nobody's forcing you to carry a phone!"

I suppose this all comes back to the point that nobody is pragmatically advocating for absolute anarchy - it's simply a valuable concept to reference as we collaborate to build actual, functioning social systems. Or, at least, that's how I tend to think about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dictionaries are neither objectively descriptive nor apolitical - their definitions reflect the biases of their authors and the systems they exist within which allowed them to obtain positions of relative authority.

I agree that it's silly to assume that's what people would do without coercive hierarchy (I think this conflation is often intentional to make the concept less attractive to folks who aren't paying attention), but surely it would be "allowed" because who would be disallowing it?

Gotcha. This is the one pre-installed on MacOS 11.6.

Mine does not

~ $ cal apr

cal: year `apr' not in range 1..9999

Preventing competition in social media won't eliminate it - it will prevent innovative new entrants from solving its issues, while allowing the status quo to continue and likely deteriorate further.

The comment you're replying to didn't imply otherwise.

I'm not arguing and don't know the state of the market deeply, but for what it's worth Sentry is an uncommonly good product.

What languages? No option to configure any character as quote character or delimiter?

He's saying it's a mixture.

I should have asked a slightly different question - I was just looking for any information you could share around what the tech scene is like there, i.e. what kinds of things are people working on, what specific companies, anything that be worth checking out if you're new there, etc.

> It reduced the bias in the system from ICs writing up their own packets, which disadvantaged poor writers and poor self-promoters less. It got employees thinking less about promotion, since there was less they could control or do.

I agree that this seems positive, but you lose some things with this sort of change as well. ICs often have knowledge of their own performance that their managers don't, even when you're having highly effective 1-on-1s. You definitely don't want engineers spending huge amounts of time and energy selling themselves, but you probably do want them to at least a little bit!

Hi, what sorts of companies are in that area please?

Yes, and if they pull that trigger too frequently they'll earn a reputation for firing people, which isn't a great way to attract talent.

There are other things that people might reasonably care about. Someone might honestly want to have influence because they care about the team's output.

> If I am unable to be productive I still expect to be paid my full salary regardless of output.

Sure, for a reasonable amount of time until either you are able to be once again, or they let you go.

> Productivity is the company’s problem, not mine.

I know this can feel hard to believe when you're stuck in a crappy situation, but there are many folks who value their output for its own sake.

You might also choose to care about your productivity because it can correspond with your ability to get promoted, earn more, etc.

I interpreted the assertion there as being that you're bribing them for better service, and an argument that this is "corrupt" because there is a belief that the service should be provided at a single price that is known to everyone, with equal quality to anyone who is willing to pay it, as opposed to favoring customers who pay extra.

That said, it's up for debate whether this is a valid expectation either in the context of public services provided by the government, engagements with private parties, or both.

Get another job and then sue before leaving your current one?

It's additionally better because you now have the option to call and ask "Is the car from the ad still available and will you hold it for me until I arrive?"

Thanks, I thought that this person might have been describing something other than that because they said "no-focus" as opposed to "focus", and also because they made mention of scheduling meetings during "no-focus times".

I was wondering whether maybe "no-focus time" might have been something even wackier, like time in which it's explicitly encouraged to interrupt everyone as much as possible, which I know sounds silly, but you never know these days...

Try calling them on the phone.

What are "no-focus times"?

Does a situation like this actually exist? Managers succeed when their teams perform well, which is more easily accomplished when the people reporting to them who compose those teams perform well.

There are a large number of BTC that have not moved since its early days which are largely believed to be / have been controlled by Satoshi, and if they were to move now, there would most likely be some sort of at least temporary price shock because market participants have been largely assuming that they will never move.

Will a Diet Coke give you the same effect as a Coke? I'm curious how much of your bouncing is due to the caffeine versus the sugar and/or some synergism.

That sort of rule of thumb is going to be most accurate for average salaries, because large amounts of the non-salary costs are relatively fixed (e.g. health insurance costs the same amount whether you earn $50K or $200K annually). As salary goes up, so does its share of total compensation.

There are multiple points of friction in this scenario. Their asking you to install spyware is friction for you, your asking them to buy a laptop is friction for them.

It also creates friction for the client, making it less likely that you get paid.

The BLS includes rent in the CPI basket.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...