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  1. Re:Before you commies get you panties in a bunch on Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And in the meantime, take 50% to 75% of your rate, and provide you with really crappy benefits.

  2. Re:Before you commies get you panties in a bunch on Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How about RETIREMENT? They're replacing the workers who traditionally earn the most, putting more stress on the already overburdened Social Security system when these people are forced to retire due to illness.

  3. In an effort of course to break the trust between labor and management and save money on retirement programs.

  4. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    It's usually rather objective and downright darwinian if you give it long enough.

    Organizations that build codes of conduct that work, can last for centuries. The ones that find a way to edit such codes while still keeping the core competency, do best at adaptation.

    The longer you go on, the more refined the code gets. But adopt a malformed rule into your code, and your organization will go extinct.

    If you need a code of conduct, you're already BELOW a Reality TV level of competence, the question is how to stay alive through such times. And the answer isn't wild experimentation with genius, which is akin to madness, it's making sure people do what works and eliminating behavior that doesn't work.

    Want genius? Then be prepared to go bankrupt every other year. Just like the other 4/5ths of startups.

  5. Just the truth. What do you think all those ecumenical councils and synods were about? Direct peer review, in a format little to no different than any other scientific conference.

  6. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Good point. But who ever takes the time to read license agreements even for closed source software?

  7. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Clients loved the rule of St. Benedict, especially after the Daily Bread Shipments from the Emperor stopped. When nobody was doing anything more than subsistence farming and the barbarians were attacking, the monastery fortress was the place to be, it had all the beer.

  8. Re:But is it a bad code? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    I would point out that Mike Pence, a lover of chastity, has been pointed out by both sides now for the wisdom of "I will not have a meal with a woman unless my wife is present" Catholic theology.

    Yes, you can have chastity and still have sex, but you have to be having sex for the purpose of procreation with somebody that you're mated to for life.

  9. Re:Ah, mission statements... on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    "To Regulate Business fairly and with efficiency"

    There, solved that for you.,

  10. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    I know some non-monks that would do well to reduce their drinking to that level.

  11. Re:Protective, huh? on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for telling me, I knew there was a reason I don't use spotify (and clearly, neither should any of those evil normies).

  12. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    I actually find the laws in the Rule to be quite simple indeed. So simple that the Order of St. Benedict has a history of taking in dullards and idiots (in the classic sense of the term, people will IQs between 40-100) and turning them into decent human beings.

  13. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    I see it as neither a joke nor a mistake. Why invent a new algorithm when the old one has been working well?

  14. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Why is it that only people who don't know how to act like responsible adults resist the concept of rules that teach people how to act like responsible adults?

  15. Re:Why even adopt it on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    The very definition of wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. Accepting a well proven code of conduct that many others have tried and succeeded with, is wisdom to the extreme.

  16. Your definition of peer review is very different from my definition of peer review. Theology has been doing peer review since the mid 300s, well over 1700 years now.

    Your "studies" are scientism, based in the rather unscientific view that only journals published by colleges for profit have truth.

  17. Your definition of science is therefore too narrow and reductionist is the problem.

    The problem with Popper's reductionism is that it is decidedly unscientific. There is no experiment you can do to prove that his definition of evidence is correct.

  18. Re: Another lazy Republican pretends to know bett on 'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then explain the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade, which is so hyper evolutionary that it picks up new genes from what it eats.

  19. It isn't anywhere near as important as the demographic fact that the sexual revolution has caused dangerously low population growth in the first world, and even worse, has caused huge amounts of ignorance and superstition to overwrite wisdom among anybody younger than 90. The chaos caused by that makes the woman's cycling race being won by a man who was pretending to be a woman just a blip in the ether.

  20. I hold that most atheists have never read The Summa. Heck, most Catholics haven't either. It is after all, like the comparison between Newtonian physics and Einstein.

    But if you're going to argue that God doesn't exist, you should at least bother examining the best evidence out there.

  21. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg.html

    This is a classic of a theologian disproving certain supernatural elements based on the idea that they aren't reasonable.

    Of course, even suggesting to the Islamic world that God is reasonable, that the world is ordered, and that science exists, caused a rather violent reaction.

  22. Incorrect, the supernatural is quite falsifiable. Repeatable you are correct, but not falsifiable.

    Repeatable because the only difference between the supernatural and the natural is the knowledge needed to repeat the effect.

    Falsifiable because it's actually easier to prove a negative in this space, God is rational

  23. Understanding basic biological sex and procreation is absolutely necessary to being able to fuck properly. In fact, the very definition of abuse is fucking improperly- in such a way that fails to protect the mental health of the individuals involved such that successful procreation of new adults is possible.

    In fact, only heterosexual monogamous marriage fits "fucking properly"- with all other forms being improper.

    INCLUDING lying about your biological sex because your brain has been destroyed by drugs.

  24. Re:So how would it deal with GNAA on iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. GNAA is a slashdot troll

  25. Everything that is natural is contained in the supernatural. It's a subset.