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Given the nature of the system, when would she have been notified that she needed to take control? Additionally, what did Uber tell her about how the system operated? Ultimately it…

> Seriously, think about it. How can someone who isn't qualified to do your job, actually manage you? When put in a leadership position, above all "resist the urge to manage". I do…

It is the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. As another person mentioned, DerbyCon got…

> You’re being tricked by gurus of the mind to send your money to someone else. How this is legal represents a gap between traditional laws and modern times. Eh, this has existed f…

"I'm left with opinion on those days that not much of anything has happened regarding X. But folks still need views!" In a strange way it validates how well off we are, particularl…

There is a differentiation here in important to the company vs. important to the individual. As mentioned in other threads, as people mature they often begin to look for meaning in…

Again, the op stated these things are put there to "show how people react to stress" -- my post was a response to that, there is no re-creation of a stressful environment in the si…

"Interviews are necessarily more stressful than typical work. That's not just a property of whiteboard coding." My sister, a pediatric ER nurse would disagree with you. The intervi…

I agree but have a bit different take... "For instance, machine learning is now widely used for surveillance and advertising in ways that violate basic presumptions about privacy r…

You screen name has triggered me as I was once bullied by someone named Jonny. I'm getting a lawyer...

What are the limits of culpability and what are you responsible for? The article is pushing that definition beyond the first order effects of safety. And the proposed solution is t…

And yet that is not even close to the hand-wringing being discussed in the article: "In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate somethi…

"If Boeing and Airbus weren't artificially inflating administrative barriers to entry we'd definitely have more competition, and consumers would benefit, not suffer." From the arti…

So, make city living even more expensive?

"Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc." "All that behavior wi…

"Third level of safety: optional part-time work." Don't you find it hilarious that a blog on financial independence tries to talk about safety nets vs. risks and devolves to: Well,…

From my own experience, most people have not. I work in aerospace and there are a large number of employees with 30+ years tenure who are of retirement age who need to stick around…

You can't claim to be financially independent and come back two years later with this gem: "The secret is that my wife is no longer really retired, and in fact she started a busine…

I really hope that more people would look at it that way. Just my own personal experience, but I've honestly seen the trial-by-fire method used either at the sole exclusion of, or …

People have been using this tactic for ages, whether it be for political, professional or personal gains. The software engineer who is rewarded for putting out the fires, when in r…

In assessing the current poisonous political environment with respect to all parties... “It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They wer…

From the long view, no. Regimes that use pain as control inevitably break as at a certain point, people will no longer willing give that up. This is history. Walk down to a local A…

"I just struggle with understanding what's wrong with people these days." On one hand, it is fundamental human nature (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons…