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That is not a new phenomenon, per se. The hospitality industry was shaped by monasteries, based on the Rule of St. Benedict.

The way I read it is not to be needed for normal functionality of the team, not to "not be needed" at all. Akin to a ship's captain - for the most part a ship works without a capta…

I 100% agree with the sentiment. To me, it feels like most bloggers nowadays think only in very superficial abstract idea, and then prompt ChatGPT for a blog post.

This comment is disingenuous. In everyday speech, people don’t carefully separate “the people” from “the state.” A French person talking about the U.S. usually says les Américains.…

Sanctions have a theoretical basis behind them. In the Western Political Philosophical Canon, leaders and elites are expected to strive for the Common Good. From that perspective, …

I don’t want to argue with you. I just want to say I understand the pain in what you wrote replying to other people. Life can make people hard, but that doesn’t make your hurt any …

The board will not participate in the meeting, vocally.

I too thrive in that chaos.

Because one of the 3 basic principles of sovereignty (as is understood by western political philosophy, known as Westphalian sovereignty) is that there is no other authority inside…

I bought one when I lied to myself and said I'll learn to do this in less than a minute. After 3 weeks I just got an app and solved it. Now I use it as a motivation tool to force m…

You must be fun at parties... Some people do stuff just because it's fun, not to be the best of the best. If you only do something to be the best, why do anything at all?

Some IDEs have gotten slightly less frustrating with better processors: e.g. Xcode, which in my opinion deserves the star rating it has in the mac App Store

I’m in Europe, but the first thing I said to the renters of my Grandmother’s house was “here’s the keys, these are all the copies, but feel free to change the lock if it makes you …

Garden leave also happens in Portugal, but only when the relation between employer and employee deteriorated to the point of no return. As an example in the same company I had a co…

Well, there’s hot coffee and there’s coffee that give you 3rd degree burns.

I don’t see a problem with someone publishing 5 great papers early in their career and nothing else. I mean what were the meaningful publications from Oppenheimer in his later year…

Well, Apple is trying a 'do as I say, not as I do' approach, which isn't exactly working. For example I got an Apple Music notification the other day telling me how awesome the new…

I’m positive GP doesn’t write in their phone in more than one language.

Or that, thinking logically, if you pull yourself by your bootstraps, you either don’t move or fall down.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a double positive just a positive while a double negative is a positive? Opt-in by default: you are in You can’t not select opt-in: you are in

This is true even among western languages. For example, it’s basically impossible for any other western european speaker to say the Portuguese ão sound. First thing I did in my com…

I wonder if it’s different where you are (I assume US) compared to me (EU). I’ve used McDonald’s self checkout in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Germany, and although they aren’t de…

I think both answers are referencing the Central Limit Theorem, that states [simplified] that once you get over 30 samples for each independent variable, you will get a normal dist…

I fail to understand your point. What kind of feature do you to be excited to see in a product that is 16 years old? Do you think the and thing when you buy a new dishwasher, a cou…

If that’s the worst you think it can happen, you lack imagination. I Myanmar fingerprinting helped the military find dissidents, the the US Cambridge Analytica managed to get enoug…