safety features including rechargeable front and rear LED lights
Wow, what will they think of next? By the way, on an e-bike I'd expect integrated lights rather than rechargeable ones, powered by the propulsion battery.
Specialising is often necessary due to hiring and experience constraints
In a way. I’ve often said something similar, except that I called (over-)specialisation and the increasing compartmentalisation of work the result of lazy HR practises. Once you are almost solely relying on well defined specialist “resources”, you’ll find that specialists are a lot easier to manage (and replace!) than generalists. That’s the difference between managing resources and managing people. And while your output will not be as good with specialists, it will be more consistent; what someone called “predictable mediocrity”.
Interestingly, I see a bit more room for generalists in Agile and DevOps shops. Even if hiring practices still haven’t caught up.
Innovators do not invent things. They successfully apply inventions in a product, service or process. The word for inventions is “new”; for innovations it’s “change”.
I'd think that the FBI is investigating more than just "missing projected targets", perhaps evidence of actually misleading the public. If your internal studies predict a 3500 a week production volume by Q4 and you promise 5000 a week by Q2, then that could be construed as misleading, legally speaking.
Props for the abort system which apparently did its job flawlessly, but... it's a bit worrying that one bent pin on a sensor can do in the entire system.
Many companies have something in place where employees can anonymously report ethics violations. It’s anonymous because the accused often is a boss or close co-worker of the person reporting the violation. This sort of stuff cannot go through the regular chain of command and should be anonymous for it to be effective
The real question is: what happens with such accusations? Is there a proper investigation and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Or is it a #metoo witch hunt?
These claims are modded up because many people have at least anecdotal evidence from their own environment that they are true. If you work for a large corporation, I’m sure you’ve had your course on “micro-aggressions”, which refers so called offensive behaviour that is so insignificant that you have to go out with a magnifying glass to look for it. Or just look at the wave of politically correct intolerance that washed over this year’s Halloween celebration.
It's a common theme: the middlemen usually do provide a valuable add-on service, but once they are more or less indispensable, they jack up the rates. A popular restaurant reservation and rating service around here did just that... and at some point the restaurant owners (or rather, the hotel, bar and restaurant association) said "sod it, we'll make our own" (No not with blackjack and hookers). The service seems to be doing well and restaurants get it at cost. And people increasingly become appreciative of this issue, and actually make an effort to find out if they can order take-out from the restaurant directly, before hitting the usual food delivery sites.
"dwarsliggers" -- tiny, pocket-size, horizontal flipbacks that have become a wildly popular print format in the Netherlands
Wildly popular? I've never seen these "in the wild', only a couple in bookstores. And online bookstores seem to push these.
I like the name though. Dwars means across, and dwarsligger means either a crosstie (supporting train tracks) or an obstinate or obstructive person.
The right thing for the wrong reasons: Turkey is just taking a page from Putin's playbook and driving a wedge between the somewhat uneasy alliance between S.A. and the West.
Look at the graphs about halfway down that page: Death rate from ambient air pollution, and Life years loss from particulate matter. Those are the figures that matter (since they reflect the per capita effects). And you can see that every region has had a remarkable decline since the 80s, with pretty much every region still seeing a downtrend. Not that we shouldn't improve things further, but looking at those numbers I see a success story rather than a "silent health emergency": things have already gotten much better and are improving still.
Many victims hesitate because in the end, most cases kind of devolve into a he-said-she-said situation, and that goes nowhere since the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Very few of such cases are straight up rape, i.e. guy pulls woman into the bushes and violates her forcibly. Sometimes the guy spikes her drink or gets her good and drunk and then takes advantage. Sometimes the guy and girl are seen to leave the bar together happily, they go back to his place for a night cap and then he goes a bit further than she is willing to let him. Good luck proving any of that beyond a reasonably doubt in court.
Then, on top of that, police have to grill the victim a bit and check her story, because there are also plenty of cases of false accusations after regret or out of spite. So the woman is made out to be the bad guy for a bit. I can well imagine that a lot of them receive legal council along the line of "this will never hold up in court, and your name will be dragged through the mud in the mean time"
Of course the solution to all that isn't to have a witch hunt and get an accused molester fired or smeared on social media.
Or they treated the whole thing as a "We're not quite sure if this was actually abuse of power or merely a somewhat inappropriate office dalliance, but in either case you should have known better. So we are firing you but we're giving you some benefit of the doubt, and we're not taking your golden parachute as well". That sentiment, that there is something between innocence and the maximum possible penalty, seems to be lost on the #metoo crowd.
Clinton was the devil we knew. Trump was only a partly known entity, especially as a politician: how was he going to act, who was he going to take on as advisers, and was he actually going to listen to them? If you wanted a "different" politician, a new broom, then why not vote Trump, if you are willing to taking a gamble on just how he was going to be different? This turned out to be a terrible gamble, but that's 20/20 hindsight.
If I actually had a vote in the election, in retrospect I would choose Hillary for sure. But at the time, not knowing what we now know, I would be hard pressed to say which candidate I'd prefer.
What with today's censorship - mandated by the state, self-imposed, AI driven, whatever - and political correctness, perhaps it makes more sense to remove the ability to tweet, and only have buttons to like / dislike pre-approved tweets from "authorized authors"
For most people BT earphones absolutely are a replacement for a wired headset. Just like the vast majority of people regularly stuff a McD burger into their face, and not a Kobe steak. If we want quality meat or sound, we just take our business elsewhere, but no one really cares. Least of all the manufacturers, there's just not enough of us to matter.
We showed that a woman could be President if there werent so many opposed to science and progress.
A woman could be president if she was actually a good candidate. Hell, a halfway decent one could have beaten Trump. Not the first time I hear this notion that Hillary lost because "the US wasn't ready for a female president" or similar rubbish.
I am with those who say "What the f... where the democrats thinking?". She lost because she was the poster child for much that more conservative voters and not a few progressive ones thought was wrong with politics today (calling them a basket of deplorables didn't help win them over, I am sure).
The thing is: the guy was already screwed and up to his ears in debt before the thing even went to trial. And apparently the real case (whether he was involved in piracy) hasn’t gone to trial yet, thus far they’ve contested the legality of the search. So we don’t even know if he really did bring this whole thing onto himself. What if they come knocking on your door tomorrow morning? Nothing to hide perhaps, but you could still spend the rest of your life paying back legal bills.
Correct, and the same goes for privacy laws. But the latter at least lets us come down hard on whomever is caught with their hand in the data cookie jar.
Big Data (as in Big Pharma or Big Oil) will love this. Of course they will not just use this data to provide interactive video but to provide all manner of feedback for other purposes as well (to "tailor the user experience"), while in the meantime your privacy is getting raped in a ditch. But such technology will most certainly also lead to ads that aren't just unskippable, but have to be watched as well. "RESUME VIEWING... RESUME VIEWING... RESUME VIEWING"
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safety features including rechargeable front and rear LED lights
Wow, what will they think of next? By the way, on an e-bike I'd expect integrated lights rather than rechargeable ones, powered by the propulsion battery.
So dump the empty batteries as you go...
Too little, period. If air travel accounts for 2% of CO2 emissions, shouldn't we be focusing on other stuff first?
Specialising is often necessary due to hiring and experience constraints
In a way. I’ve often said something similar, except that I called (over-)specialisation and the increasing compartmentalisation of work the result of lazy HR practises. Once you are almost solely relying on well defined specialist “resources”, you’ll find that specialists are a lot easier to manage (and replace!) than generalists. That’s the difference between managing resources and managing people. And while your output will not be as good with specialists, it will be more consistent; what someone called “predictable mediocrity”.
Interestingly, I see a bit more room for generalists in Agile and DevOps shops. Even if hiring practices still haven’t caught up.
Innovators do not invent things. They successfully apply inventions in a product, service or process. The word for inventions is “new”; for innovations it’s “change”.
I'd think that the FBI is investigating more than just "missing projected targets", perhaps evidence of actually misleading the public. If your internal studies predict a 3500 a week production volume by Q4 and you promise 5000 a week by Q2, then that could be construed as misleading, legally speaking.
Props for the abort system which apparently did its job flawlessly, but... it's a bit worrying that one bent pin on a sensor can do in the entire system.
Many companies have something in place where employees can anonymously report ethics violations. It’s anonymous because the accused often is a boss or close co-worker of the person reporting the violation. This sort of stuff cannot go through the regular chain of command and should be anonymous for it to be effective
The real question is: what happens with such accusations? Is there a proper investigation and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Or is it a #metoo witch hunt?
These claims are modded up because many people have at least anecdotal evidence from their own environment that they are true. If you work for a large corporation, I’m sure you’ve had your course on “micro-aggressions”, which refers so called offensive behaviour that is so insignificant that you have to go out with a magnifying glass to look for it. Or just look at the wave of politically correct intolerance that washed over this year’s Halloween celebration.
Even that seemingly PC word of theirs: “person of colour” (PoC) is deeply racist. Basically it means “everyone except the whiteys”.
Milk?! According to PETA, drinking milk is racist. No, I’m not kidding but I really wish I were.
It's a common theme: the middlemen usually do provide a valuable add-on service, but once they are more or less indispensable, they jack up the rates. A popular restaurant reservation and rating service around here did just that... and at some point the restaurant owners (or rather, the hotel, bar and restaurant association) said "sod it, we'll make our own" (No not with blackjack and hookers). The service seems to be doing well and restaurants get it at cost. And people increasingly become appreciative of this issue, and actually make an effort to find out if they can order take-out from the restaurant directly, before hitting the usual food delivery sites.
"dwarsliggers" -- tiny, pocket-size, horizontal flipbacks that have become a wildly popular print format in the Netherlands
Wildly popular? I've never seen these "in the wild', only a couple in bookstores. And online bookstores seem to push these.
I like the name though. Dwars means across, and dwarsligger means either a crosstie (supporting train tracks) or an obstinate or obstructive person.
The right thing for the wrong reasons: Turkey is just taking a page from Putin's playbook and driving a wedge between the somewhat uneasy alliance between S.A. and the West.
Look at the graphs about halfway down that page: Death rate from ambient air pollution, and Life years loss from particulate matter. Those are the figures that matter (since they reflect the per capita effects). And you can see that every region has had a remarkable decline since the 80s, with pretty much every region still seeing a downtrend. Not that we shouldn't improve things further, but looking at those numbers I see a success story rather than a "silent health emergency": things have already gotten much better and are improving still.
Many victims hesitate because in the end, most cases kind of devolve into a he-said-she-said situation, and that goes nowhere since the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Very few of such cases are straight up rape, i.e. guy pulls woman into the bushes and violates her forcibly. Sometimes the guy spikes her drink or gets her good and drunk and then takes advantage. Sometimes the guy and girl are seen to leave the bar together happily, they go back to his place for a night cap and then he goes a bit further than she is willing to let him. Good luck proving any of that beyond a reasonably doubt in court.
Then, on top of that, police have to grill the victim a bit and check her story, because there are also plenty of cases of false accusations after regret or out of spite. So the woman is made out to be the bad guy for a bit. I can well imagine that a lot of them receive legal council along the line of "this will never hold up in court, and your name will be dragged through the mud in the mean time"
Of course the solution to all that isn't to have a witch hunt and get an accused molester fired or smeared on social media.
Or they treated the whole thing as a "We're not quite sure if this was actually abuse of power or merely a somewhat inappropriate office dalliance, but in either case you should have known better. So we are firing you but we're giving you some benefit of the doubt, and we're not taking your golden parachute as well". That sentiment, that there is something between innocence and the maximum possible penalty, seems to be lost on the #metoo crowd.
Clinton was the devil we knew. Trump was only a partly known entity, especially as a politician: how was he going to act, who was he going to take on as advisers, and was he actually going to listen to them? If you wanted a "different" politician, a new broom, then why not vote Trump, if you are willing to taking a gamble on just how he was going to be different? This turned out to be a terrible gamble, but that's 20/20 hindsight.
If I actually had a vote in the election, in retrospect I would choose Hillary for sure. But at the time, not knowing what we now know, I would be hard pressed to say which candidate I'd prefer.
What with today's censorship - mandated by the state, self-imposed, AI driven, whatever - and political correctness, perhaps it makes more sense to remove the ability to tweet, and only have buttons to like / dislike pre-approved tweets from "authorized authors"
For most people BT earphones absolutely are a replacement for a wired headset. Just like the vast majority of people regularly stuff a McD burger into their face, and not a Kobe steak. If we want quality meat or sound, we just take our business elsewhere, but no one really cares. Least of all the manufacturers, there's just not enough of us to matter.
We showed that a woman could be President if there werent so many opposed to science and progress.
A woman could be president if she was actually a good candidate. Hell, a halfway decent one could have beaten Trump. Not the first time I hear this notion that Hillary lost because "the US wasn't ready for a female president" or similar rubbish.
I am with those who say "What the f... where the democrats thinking?". She lost because she was the poster child for much that more conservative voters and not a few progressive ones thought was wrong with politics today (calling them a basket of deplorables didn't help win them over, I am sure).
The thing is: the guy was already screwed and up to his ears in debt before the thing even went to trial. And apparently the real case (whether he was involved in piracy) hasn’t gone to trial yet, thus far they’ve contested the legality of the search. So we don’t even know if he really did bring this whole thing onto himself. What if they come knocking on your door tomorrow morning? Nothing to hide perhaps, but you could still spend the rest of your life paying back legal bills.
Morocco changes their clocks for Ramadan if it occurs in the summer
Isn't that cheating? Or do they change it back to their geographical time during ramadan?
Correct, and the same goes for privacy laws. But the latter at least lets us come down hard on whomever is caught with their hand in the data cookie jar.
Big Data (as in Big Pharma or Big Oil) will love this. Of course they will not just use this data to provide interactive video but to provide all manner of feedback for other purposes as well (to "tailor the user experience"), while in the meantime your privacy is getting raped in a ditch. But such technology will most certainly also lead to ads that aren't just unskippable, but have to be watched as well. "RESUME VIEWING... RESUME VIEWING... RESUME VIEWING"