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Former Pixar senior technical director, current husband, father and grandfather. Licensed as K6HX, blogging at brainwagon.org, enthusiast for enthusiasm. Geek, telescope maker, cohabiting with cats.
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The money and muscle perhaps, but not the will.
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We should be clear about the difference between what people earn and what people are paid. He was paid $100M.
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It's a start
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Let's stop calling them conservatives.
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Honestly, I don't know why anyone would think the business people exercise care during times of layoffs. When a company reduces headcount to (nominally) reduce costs, they are likely to do so on the most arbitrary or random justifications. Concern is always for shareholders, not workers.
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They aren't imbeciles. Well, they may be imbeciles, but what is certain is that they are dishonest.
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Perhaps you should consider that the way you measure performance isn't actually telling you anything interesting about someone's abilities or capabilities.
When I was a kid, people believed that education was valuable.
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It wasn't a rookie mistake: it was the policy of the Trump administration, and always has been.
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The answer is simple: he has a lot to hide.
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Every single time Trump says he is going to increase tariffs, we should just replace it with "raise prices on goods". The two are exactly the same.
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...
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"
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I haven't read this since I was 18 or so. Good stuff though.
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If he was really open, there would be nothing to leak.
You honestly can't have it both ways.
Businesses often have information that they cannot be open about. Own it. But don't pretend to be open and then complain when people openly discuss what you say.
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Is it weird that the first time I read this, I read it as "because like America" instead of "because like American cheese"?
Too much political stuff in my feed today.
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Imagine how terrible someone must be to finally lose Murkowski's vote.
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Who?
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If you are somehow enticed by the current crop of rich and powerful, it's pretty much on you. It's not that they are good at being charismatic: they are transparently terrible.
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He got to make movies and TVs for decades because he started decades ago. The modern film industry environment is considerably different than it was in the 1970s or even the 1990s when I became part of it.
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Sorry, but the American voters decided to go a different way.
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I was watching a Numberphile Youtube video which was talking about the boardgame Risk. It makes me wonder if your code could be used to present a better global evaluation of Risk positions and actions... Interesting.