Melchizedek

It is 99.9% certain that Epstein was murdered. And not by some random rich person but by a state level intelligence organization.

Another mere coincidence is that his former girlfriend and probable accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of a known Mossad asset.

Both Communism and Agile are at odds with reality (current productive forces and human nature) so they tend to devolve into tyranny.

They lack all imagination so they have nothing better to do anyway. They have no charisma or empathy so work is only the place for them to hang out with people. They hate people who thrive outside of work so they want everyone's life to be consumed by it.

Cool, tell that to your "scrum master" next time you see him.

1. Benign lack of social skills (terse emails etc.). These people are not a major problem in my experience, and are sometimes even under-appreciated because they don't (successfully at least) sell themselves or play politics. They don't really have bad intentions and can often improve their behavior.

2. Narcissism (belittling others, must always be right, etc.) This is a _huge_ problem that in severe cases can destroy an organization. Such people are basically incurable because this is a deep seated psychological problem (really a personality disorder) and nothing a manager can fix. You must get rid of such people at all costs.

Kind of like an open plan office, you mean.

Also, I would like to select for less subjective factors like "private offices", not "thoughtful office layout".

As James Damore recently tweeted: "Amazon abuses its near-monopoly to bankrupt its competitors by selling at a loss, threaten brands with counterfeits until they sell on Amazon, and use third-party merchants’ data to undercut them. All while being subsidized billions by the government." https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1094985319575969792

I really want to use F# for training deep learning models, but at this point it doesn't seem feasible, at least not without a lot of hassle compared to using Python.

By "populist nationalists" I mean what they really are, not necessarily what they call themselves. The Swedish Social Democrats of old are a good example who in practice created a national welfare state, often even with explicitly nationalist rhetoric.

The only real counterforce to global capitalism has historically been the people of a nation, and the populist nationalism of a few nation states has been the only example ever known of an economic system that has upheld basic human dignity (whether it has been called social democracy, christian democracy or something else). This is now going down the drain.

There's a weird mechanism that punishes posts with comments, because they are deemed "controversial".

Regarding downvoting - just disable it. What makes the echo chamber even worse is that only users with a certain amount of points are able to downvote. So people who have already avoided being downvoted by others get to effectively police who else amasses the required number of points to be able to downvote. It's a vicious cycle where only a group of like minded people will be able to downvote.

Can we just let the up votes do what they're supposed to do and stop trying to distort the system with weird arbitrary rules?

There's a youtube channel called "Invisible People" that interviews homeless people. https://www.youtube.com/user/invisiblepeopletv Many of them are sane and not addicts, who simply became poor for one reason or another.

These interviews are really heartbreaking. Especially how so many feel the need to emphasize that they are actually human beings, just like the rest of us.

Cool, so why don't you give away 99% of your net worth to people who really need it, and lower Apple's cut on your monopoly App Store to something like 5%.