Sure the "principled high road" has meaning. Coming out of the 90's, the US had a dominant position in international institutions and a 'vibe' that it was willing to subordinate its interests in favor of the global…
Why take the chance that the food you buy from the grocer may be contaminated? I have respect for human creativity, and the limits of farmers. It's not easy to keep constant vigilance against all sources of…
That's a farcically absurd statement given the context. Following this logic, Japan and the US being adversaries is the only justification you need for Japanese internment camps.
"Against the public interest" is the vaguest bar for investigation I can imagine, it's even vaguer than "probable cause" in policing! As long as you can find a person who disagrees (and presumably pays taxes), you're…
And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion? Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?
It's insane to me that most of the heat is being directed at Fujitsu. Sure, there's definitely some culpability there, but the Post Office (especially their legal team) holds the vast majority of the responsibility.…
Free speech may not be the relevant criticism here, but there's... somewhat of a discomfort of a government (if admittedly foreign) agency calling out specific individuals. I know we're in the era of terminally online…
Real wages are also barely up (0.8% [1]), when comparing Q4'19 vs Q3'23, which is a poor showing for 4 years. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q - 3/362
it's a pithy, feel-good explanation that lets the anti-RTO camp feel superior without having to delve into complex topics such as talent development, informal learning, meeting effectiveness, etc. that do not trivially…
The so-called 'hidden caste system' that has tipped employees at the top of the F&B food chain, earning significantly more than back-of-house staff like bussers and chefs?
This incredible scope creep in the customer's responsibilities (not just price, but I somehow have to adjust for a vague sense of the employer-employee relationship, for ethical/ESG considerations, etc. etc.) is just...…
Your understanding is wrong, which leads to a flawed analogy. > The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still…
Given that we know that there can be multiple types of intelligence and that college only tests a small fraction of those types - are you comfortable with this binary framing? That the only way to go is up (in years of…
It's difficult to claim that any system is 'certifiably broken' until you can actually point to an actual effective real-world implementation of a 'better system' (pareto or otherwise), no?
Was the UN meant to be a 'global government' or more of a newer forum for the superpowers to avoid nuclear conflict? If the latter, it's done a pretty reasonable job so far.
Yeah, locking up Elizabeth Holmes and SBF for running a small business will destroy respect for the law for generations. How dare we?!
Following this logic, our current period of inflation must be a real boon for innovation then?
who gets to determine what things are vices?
Our economic systems used to be very bad at scaling. They also used to be very bad at incentivizing value-add economic activity. Which system do you want?
There are productivity decisions at the micro-level that actively hurt scaling. The easy business example here is the choice to manage data in Excel as opposed to a formal database. (Very common in financial orgs).…
Increased prices (and sufficient demand to justify the price increase - e.g, overall profit increase) is part of the interaction between demand and supply. Sure, demand for food is inelastic, but there are plenty of…
gouging is an incredibly unhelpful context in a macroeconomic sense. In cases of shorter term scarcity (e.g. toilet paper during early covid), you can have instances of gouging. But over a longer-term period where…
I suspect your conceptualization of 'dangerous and violent' as a single axis may be the main weakness here. We've struggled with 'dangerous and violent' for a long time (e.g., incorporating 'friendly' Gallic tribes in…
What the business truly requires is an abstract question. What the business expects of him, however, has been answered in this thread. The purpose of a system is what it does, etc.
I suspect there's a simpler takeaway than what most comments are suggesting: Don't spend substantial amounts of money (based on nominally promised funding) before the checks have cleared.
Sure the "principled high road" has meaning. Coming out of the 90's, the US had a dominant position in international institutions and a 'vibe' that it was willing to subordinate its interests in favor of the global…
Why take the chance that the food you buy from the grocer may be contaminated? I have respect for human creativity, and the limits of farmers. It's not easy to keep constant vigilance against all sources of…
That's a farcically absurd statement given the context. Following this logic, Japan and the US being adversaries is the only justification you need for Japanese internment camps.
"Against the public interest" is the vaguest bar for investigation I can imagine, it's even vaguer than "probable cause" in policing! As long as you can find a person who disagrees (and presumably pays taxes), you're…
And how would this transfer take place? With Aircraft carriers and a naval invasion? Are we setting up for Falklands v2.0?
It's insane to me that most of the heat is being directed at Fujitsu. Sure, there's definitely some culpability there, but the Post Office (especially their legal team) holds the vast majority of the responsibility.…
Free speech may not be the relevant criticism here, but there's... somewhat of a discomfort of a government (if admittedly foreign) agency calling out specific individuals. I know we're in the era of terminally online…
Real wages are also barely up (0.8% [1]), when comparing Q4'19 vs Q3'23, which is a poor showing for 4 years. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q - 3/362
it's a pithy, feel-good explanation that lets the anti-RTO camp feel superior without having to delve into complex topics such as talent development, informal learning, meeting effectiveness, etc. that do not trivially…
The so-called 'hidden caste system' that has tipped employees at the top of the F&B food chain, earning significantly more than back-of-house staff like bussers and chefs?
This incredible scope creep in the customer's responsibilities (not just price, but I somehow have to adjust for a vague sense of the employer-employee relationship, for ethical/ESG considerations, etc. etc.) is just...…
Your understanding is wrong, which leads to a flawed analogy. > The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still…
Given that we know that there can be multiple types of intelligence and that college only tests a small fraction of those types - are you comfortable with this binary framing? That the only way to go is up (in years of…
It's difficult to claim that any system is 'certifiably broken' until you can actually point to an actual effective real-world implementation of a 'better system' (pareto or otherwise), no?
Was the UN meant to be a 'global government' or more of a newer forum for the superpowers to avoid nuclear conflict? If the latter, it's done a pretty reasonable job so far.
Yeah, locking up Elizabeth Holmes and SBF for running a small business will destroy respect for the law for generations. How dare we?!
Following this logic, our current period of inflation must be a real boon for innovation then?
who gets to determine what things are vices?
Our economic systems used to be very bad at scaling. They also used to be very bad at incentivizing value-add economic activity. Which system do you want?
There are productivity decisions at the micro-level that actively hurt scaling. The easy business example here is the choice to manage data in Excel as opposed to a formal database. (Very common in financial orgs).…
Increased prices (and sufficient demand to justify the price increase - e.g, overall profit increase) is part of the interaction between demand and supply. Sure, demand for food is inelastic, but there are plenty of…
gouging is an incredibly unhelpful context in a macroeconomic sense. In cases of shorter term scarcity (e.g. toilet paper during early covid), you can have instances of gouging. But over a longer-term period where…
I suspect your conceptualization of 'dangerous and violent' as a single axis may be the main weakness here. We've struggled with 'dangerous and violent' for a long time (e.g., incorporating 'friendly' Gallic tribes in…
What the business truly requires is an abstract question. What the business expects of him, however, has been answered in this thread. The purpose of a system is what it does, etc.
I suspect there's a simpler takeaway than what most comments are suggesting: Don't spend substantial amounts of money (based on nominally promised funding) before the checks have cleared.