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There is research that suggests highly agreeable people do not do as well e.g. negotiation tactics. What is probably true is that is good to 'appear' agreeable. The same research s…

Stock prices are a prediction built on crowdsourced information.

Do you also believe there is no upside in crowdsourced information found in, say, commodities, equities and futures markets?

With some product categories there are independent testing laboratories that do a fairly good job of determining quality. The automotive industry comes to mind. It seems it's a rev…

> EU lawmakers should pass laws to prevent this. So EU lawmakers should determine the amount member countries collect in tax?

> fixed someone else's incompetence This is basically a full-time job for many senior engineers. It may as well be the job description. Thing is, most of these 'leaders' are not ca…

It's interesting to think Microsoft was around back then too, taking approximately 14 years to regain the loss of approximately 58% of their valuation.

In practice, it seems that politics generally takes precedence over problem solving. If you look into the psychology of it, neither politicians nor voters are really incentivized t…

Maybe I'm autistic, but in this thread is appears that one side is making a rational argument, and the other is an appeal to emotion. A feeling of a community is not a contract. Co…

This is just one example that was made public due to the federal case, but there is no doubt that this kind of activity is quite common in corporate America at all levels. https://…

> we're headed to a world with humans, livestock, and the few species... It looks more and more like we're headed toward a world where we'll regenerate extinct species in labs; and…

You might even say that some neurodivergence is an adaptive strategy to quickly identify a potential threat. Many sapiens like to believe they are good people, but they don't like …

I believe you, and this has been know for decades. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10928755 The underlying truth here is worse than 'majority of educated are illiterate'. Collective…

I've seen projects that failed, or were killed, likely at least in part due to a culture that encouraged poor quality and tech debt. This is preventable, and for no additional up-f…

> Is there something here about the role of (and lack of in this case) deliberate and intentional practice? Something like 50% of college graduates in the US are considered functio…

> Some clever business people sees this trend and starts ordering junk... Similar to lower quality made-for-outlet products produced by major brands. With the bins it seems to appr…

> I recently overheard a very smart user struggle to find how to mute a group > you end up having to search the internet for a recipe as to what place to click to find which flydro…

Using the same logic you might say that people shouldn't be allowed to drive until they are 24. Statistically far more lives would have been saved yesterday if we'd only simply res…

The theory is that there may be civilizations, or remnants (AIs), that have a vested interest in removing possible competition for resources, or in the case of the AIs, have been i…

I was referencing something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.L.A._Schechter_Poultry_Corp.... I think the 70's gas rationing in the US was another example of where price c…

Have price controls ever ended with a positive outcome for consumers, or anyone for that matter?

> but that hasn't been proven at all. Do you know of anything that provides a strong rebuttal to the research found in documents like this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

> no intellectual challenge I tend to think that cargo cult programming and resume-driven development are the intellectual path of least resistance. Perhaps it's analogous to, "I'd…

Society is already structured to handle a population where approximately 50% of adults cannot read beyond the 6th grade level. For all the hemming and hawing and throwing money at …