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  1. Re: Excessive collaboration is a good one! on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    seriously, if the bug fix wasn't important why did you label it a P1 and put it on top of the fucking backlog, I'm fixing the bug because of how it was prioritized, if you dont like that, do a better job prioritizing.

    by the time it is accepted into the sprint that shit should already be figured out

  2. Re: Lack of vacation is the big problem on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 0

    Its only freedom if its the freedom to do what he wants, not to do what you want.

    Also little known fact, outside the US, in every single other country, its illegal to negotiate for your pay... learn something new every day right?

  3. Re:Lack of vacation is the big problem on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    you sure as shit aren't going to edit a comment on slashdot

  4. Re: Lack of vacation is the big problem on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    A year+ long death march is a really good way to end up with a shite product. Of the companies I have worked for none of the ones that had extended death marches is still around.

  5. Re:EXACLTY.. but let me expand on one.... on A Case For Why Movie-Theater Experience Is Still Worth the Effort (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One major advantage of assigned seating theaters is that I don't have to show up early and watch a bunch of commercials just to get a decent seat.

  6. Re:Only half the picture on Student Loan Debt Has Nearly Tripled (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So wages have been stagnant vs inflation for decades but somehow you think that students coming out of school make more money now?

  7. Re:Doesn't anyone pay as they go anymore? on Student Loan Debt Has Nearly Tripled (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    HA,Thats nothing! I would have killed to be able to collect bottles and cans, but when I went to school you couldn't find bottles and cans... because of the war...

  8. Re:Also min wage 80-150K based on COL with maybe on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you track their hours though? It seems unlikely that anyone would self report high hours if it was likely to cost them their job and their visa.

  9. Re:Messy? Who Cares, this is a privacy win! on Minnesota Senate Votes To Bar Selling ISP Data (twincities.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah except with the environment your state gets to poison mine regardless of the laws passed in my state. While having 50 privacy laws is a workable, if stupid, way to handle things like ISP data, it doesn't work for the environment.

    And if states like California, who already put far more into the federal government than they get back, end up having to fund things like space exploration and environmental protection and basically everything else that is being cut from the budget, what reason do they have to keep paying into the federal government.

    Federalism is all about the taker states getting their way while the maker states foot the bill. Its not sustainable.

  10. Re:"We're" loosing it? on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    the thing is when the white house makes a press release that itself is news

    They did make a press release, there are many many many sources backing that up and those same sources will confirm exactly what the press release said

    Thats news because the whilte house is important. If you make a press release that might not qualify, it depends on who you are and what the release is about.

    Its also news if you independently verify the contents of the press release, or if you can dispute them. THAT is something that requires verification.

  11. Re:Side effect of the Fake news in MSM on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The thing is though, thats an example of the media doing its exact job. They didn't jump to the conspriacy theorists conclusion, they reported the facts they had, they reported the statements by the administration and then they started to dig into them... they turned up facts and presented them, the administration made new claims and the media dug deeper. Thats how it should work.

    These days its "hey look at this picture of 2 kids eating pizza in a leaked dump of emails, clearly the democrats are running a pedofile ring out of a pizza joint." No digging, no facts, just conspiracy.

    Yes, sometimes the official line from the government is bullshit but thats exactly why the media exists. Its their job to figure that out.

  12. Re:Headed there? on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the aftetmath of a serious event perfect information can be hard to come by, the result is that sometimes legitimate news outlets make mistakes.

    The difference between NPR in this case and, say, infowars on just about any day is that when the realized the info they had was incorrect they updated their story and went on to report correct things. Infowars will continue to report the same debunked BS for the next 6 months.

  13. Re:"We're" loosing it? on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah but if you report on what Colin Powell says thats not fake news, what was bullshit was him saying it, not papers reporting what he said. The misinformation around the iraq war came straight from the white house and from our own intelligence agencies. Pizza gate came from 4chan.

  14. Re:You spelled Lesser Britain wrong on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    wow so the UK can leave the EU with a 51% vote but literally everyone in Scotland needs to agree in order for them to leave?

  15. Re:A completely unaccountable governing body on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in my experience the British have no problem with folks leaving their little empire, they certainly don't go to war with places that decide they want to leave.

  16. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An empire in decline should not rely on its past strength to indicate the strenght of its future.

  17. Re:Just Another Industrial Revolution on Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, except this time the labor unions don't have any leverage if workers are no longer needed

  18. Re: This will be denied by all the idiots on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If they were in it for the money you know damn well that they wouldn't be in higher ed.... or at least you would if you were at all honest with yourself.

    You get all fucking flip because I tell you to step outside of your news bubble and actually read something that isn't from some conservative jackass who knows literally nothing, who feeds you information in little bite sized pieces designed to fit right in with your preconceived beliefs and lead you right to the slaughter, along with the rest of us.

    You know what would help me sleep at night, if shit-stains like you would stop pretending that 99% of climate scientists are somehow out to screw you over by telling you that the world cannot sustain our current greenhouse output. We have known this was a danger for decades and you still want to have your head in the sand and when you are confronted with the fact that these people didn't get into this line of work to get rich of some imaginary government teat you devolve into an argument about wage stagnation. Its no wonder you don't have the balls to post as anything but an AC

  19. Re:Baby Goes Whaaaaaaaa! on 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Good, thats exactly what should happen... but probably wont because, you know, if they weren't needed the jobs would have been cut long before this.

  20. Re:100% of landline customers affected by strike on 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then clearly the companies shouldn't be employing any of them... which is fine, but probably not the case since companies are pretty slick when it comes to figuring out if they still need employees and cutting down labor costs if the answer is "no" so really this is just about your hatred of unions because you know damn well that if these people weren't needed the company would have laid them off a long time ago

  21. Re: This will be denied by all the idiots on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, lots of people like building up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of student debt just so they can barely scrape by on that sweet sweet government grant money.

  22. Re:The Donald says on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats what we like to call a "pre-existing condition"

  23. Re: This will be denied by all the idiots on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Its good practice for when our cities are underwater

  24. Re: This will be denied by all the idiots on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody is getting rich of government grants. Nobody. Maybe you should break out of your news bubble and stop listening to the people shoveling this crap at you.

  25. Re:No complaints here on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This thread started with a guy saying "Well its warm where I am so its all good" and this is the post you complain about?