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Which one is worse, lose your job or end up in prison?
It's keep your job and your freedom if you're not caught.
Sure. I guess this explains the size of the US prison population.
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Those depositions are extremely stressfull. Add in years if not decades of emotional stress, prior. So yes, that can cause depression and can lead to suicide. Another case where this happened was Therabis Edit: Theranos, obviously (my Pixel 7 keyboard and I won't become close friends any time soon): one of their lead scientists, who very much opposed cheating and their approach, developed a depression because of that…
> Therabis Do you mean Theranos? Therabis seem to be CBD weed for dogs, which I deeply hope has not caused any deaths.
> Therabis
Caninabis would have been a better name.
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#273Only time will tell if it truly was suicide or a cover up.
Will it really?
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Is cleaning a car less expensive? I feel like it would be harder, just considering that it's a cramped space that seems difficult to scrub and full of stuff that is not easily washable.
I imagine you just scrap the (assuming reasonably priced) car, who would want to use it afterwards?
You can sell it. Or auction it. You never know who will buy it.
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#276I wish there were an aggressively anti-clickbait news outlet that writes headlines explicitly designed to preempt and neutralize potential misunderstandings. Imagine editors try to anticipate all kinds of ways a candidate headline might mislead the reader, and rewrite the headline to discourage those inferences — succinctly if possible, verbosely if necessary. For this particular piece such a outlet might opt for som…
https://www.boringreport.org/ is actually pretty good at that. I've been reading it for some time. It's LLM generated I think
I have it on my phone too, but its app is just horribly frustrating. I'm back to reading Google News. If you could give me a news feed chstomized for me, with LLM neutered titles and summaries, I might just pay money for that: but that feed would have to be octaves above what Google News has. Think TikTok-level of recommendation quality.
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It's keep your job and your freedom if you're not caught.
Sure. I guess this explains the size of the US prison population.
One thing I've been realising over the last few years is that that prison population is almost completely unrelated to actual crime rates.
My standard example is heroin, which is in the most severe rating category of illegal drug. In the UK, the number of users of just that drug on its own is close to triple the entire prison population.
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Suicide in a car is a “popular” way of doing this because there is less cleaning afterwards. Crime scene cleaning of a room costs like $20k. Bodily fluids go everywhere.
Also less traumatic for your loved ones to replace a car than have to move houses because they can't get the image out of their mind.
I thought this happened in front of a hotel?
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+1 for quitting. This can be life saving. Finding new purpose then becomes possible.
The probable with quitting is that you can’t change the company from within anymore.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
If you want to change the company from within then you are almost certainly dedicated to the goals of the organization and they are falling short, but it is loyalty to the organization itself that gets you clout. So in order to change the company, you first have to do the thing that you want to change, like cutting corners to meet a deadline. Only after you've kissed the ring will you be given power. This means that unless you are able to perform a revolution or coup within the company (maybe by unionizing), you will always be subordinate to its rotting fish head. If you want to change the company, the best way you can do that is by joining a competitor with better leadership and out-competing or being that leadership at a competitor.
Being a subordinate to people you don't respect is going to demoralize you, demotivate you, disempower you, and make you lose respect for yourself until you cannot function as a person.
CGPGrey's summary of the dictators handbook is also quite relevant: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers
If you want to make a change, your only option is to get into a position of power, be subject to the same corruptive forces as the incumbent, and choose to be responsible instead of selfish, which is fundamentally an act of self sacrifice. His discussion of the video is way more thought provoking than the original video itself, IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD7zVN2jo
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> Occam's razor From my point of view Occam's razor here wouldn't be assassination. It's would be as mentioned above, mental health and overwhelmed by the sheer impact of your whistleblowing. Maybe there is no Occam's razor here if there's no obvious answer.
suicide due to mental health makes zero sense. sorry you just have to introduce way too many elements. The real explanation is simple.