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Re: Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole

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tutufan wrote: post #203
Tagore wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep- don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm legally obligated to do so in some cases. That's what fiduciary means.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Except that is what it means. The term is used mainly in certain contexts these days, so you might have gotten the impression that it only applies in those contexts, but 'fiduciary' has a broader meaning.

To quote from Wiki (I know): "[t]he distinguishing or overriding duty of a fiduciary is the obligation of undivided loyalty" and I'd argue that taking on capital imposes just such an obligation, such that trying to hire the people most likely to maximize your investors return is indeed a fiduciary duty, one that implies other duties.

Re: Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole

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Post by Tagore »

elbigbad wrote: post #216
Tagore wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep- don't hate the player, hate the game. I'm legally obligated to do so in some cases. That's what fiduciary means.

No it's not. A fiduciary duty is not the same as a legal duty. Though they can overlap.

See above.

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Post by hughdbrown »

rhizome wrote: post #57
hughdbrown wrote: post #27

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Taleo's particular talent is in interfering with applications to other companies that use Taleo. Suppose you use Taleo to submit to Oracle. Great! But when you use Taleo to submit to Cisco, you need to use a different address because email addresses for oracle.taleo.net and cisco.taleo.net are in the same namespace. There are a couple of online systems that make me reconsider applying, and Taleo definitely leads the…

Wait...you can only apply to one of their customers?

As near as I can tell, you can apply to only one with the same email address. The best dodge is to use use a gmail.com address with a plus-address. If your usual gmail account is rhizome@gmail.com, you can try rhizome+oracle@gmail.com and rhizome+cisco@gmail.com and both of these will land in your rhizome@gmail.com account, but I think there is still a problem when you reply to taleo.

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Post by troymc »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #126
troymc wrote: post #113

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While math can be used to optimize some function(s) (for "societal optimization"), math is silent about the question of what to optimize. There's no general agreement about that. (For example, should there be regulations to reduce river pollution?)

Sure but what do you trust more, a properly designed control system with various safeguards to allow for the right amount of river pollution, or politicians arguing about which of their buddies should get the rights to polluting that river the most? In the future I imagine your question about the river pollution is almost nonsensical. That is if we manage to actually get there. Going by current news about the future…

My example was one many human questions where "math" provides no objective answer, because not every question has an objective answer, particularly some questions of morality, fairness, or personal taste.

Some more examples:

* Is it okay to jaywalk with children across a busy street?

* Is it fair to give the bigger piece of chicken to the boy, rather than the girl, because "he's a boy"?

* Which is better-tasting, peaches or plums?

(I'm not arguing for moral relativism. There are some moral questions where everyone agrees on the answer.)

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