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 Discussion on answer by Fizz: Is part…

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StackOverthrow
Apr 10, 2020 06:27
I don't know that the distinction between journalism and commentary is useful, since by this standard, all American networks are primarily commentary.
 

 Discussion on question by Phil Frost:…

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StackOverthrow
Mar 22, 2020 22:22
@Strawberry We have lawyers because we need to interpret laws like this, or we have laws like this because they were written to create work for lawyers?
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Why d…

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user560822
Mar 19, 2020 22:28
@SergeyZolotarev To add to Dale's comment, if the defendant's airtight alibi were time sensitive but convincing evidence were more durable, a corrupt and calculating prosecutor could gain an advantage by delaying.
user560822
Mar 19, 2020 22:28
@SergeyZolotarev The question isn't tagged with a jurisdiction, but in the US at least, criminal convictions require a much higher standard than preponderance of evidence.
 

 Discussion on question by fuschio: IT…

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user560822
Mar 17, 2020 11:39
"he thinks it'll lead to worse productivity" - Granted, there hasn't been a lot of research in this area. But what little there is all points to the company getting the equivalent of a free extra day of work per week.
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: Why…

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user560822
Mar 11, 2020 18:43
This question reminded me that my Honors Geometry teacher in high school promised $1 million to any student who could trisect an angle. There was no mention of any proof of impossibility.
 

 Discussion on answer by Bilkokuya: Ca…

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user560822
Mar 10, 2020 12:16
@Joe The employee could have contracted it from a family member. Even if the entire family never left the house, they could have contracted it from a piece of mail or something. (The hope that warmer weather will slow the epidemic is based on research showing that the virus can survive on surfaces in colder temperatures, but not above 30C.) The CEO's demand is not only unreasonable, but futile.
 

 Discussion on answer by HelloWorld: C…

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user560822
Mar 10, 2020 11:43
Not only is the employer's request unreasonable, it would be completely ineffective in achieving its stated purpose.
 

 Discussion on answer by hatchet - don…

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user560822
Feb 25, 2020 16:37
@Anush The president's powers are extremely limited by design. Some people won't be happy until the office holds no power whatsoever.
user560822
Feb 25, 2020 16:37
@Anush Because it's the only thing holding back the tide of degeneracy.
 

 Discussion on answer by Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2: Ho…

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user560822
Feb 20, 2020 03:03
@tgm1024--Monicawasmistreated A perceived need is often an XY problem or should be re-evaluated in light of some compelling reason not to do it. That is definitely the case here. "Don't do it" is the ONLY reasonable answer to how to drive through floodwaters.
user560822
Feb 20, 2020 03:03
@tgm1024--Monicawasmistreated So then, by your own standard, this is a valid answer. "What is the recommended thing to do if you need to pass through an area that's been flooded?"
user560822
Feb 20, 2020 03:03
@Mavrik "Don't do that because..." has always been a valid answer across the SE network.
 

 Discussion on answer by Morris The Ca…

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user560822
Feb 13, 2020 16:09
@Ryan_L Or lead azide. Mercury fulminate hasn't been used for about 100 years.
 

 Discussion on answer by user6726: Can…

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user560822
Feb 12, 2020 21:20
@emory Voters may be more analogous to board members of the corporation that employs them. Either way, "I'm their employer" is fairly accurate shorthand.
 

 Discussion on answer by berry120: How…

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user560822
Feb 6, 2020 12:59
Sometimes things really are this black and white. I'm cleaning up after a rockstar "senior" developer who wrote console apps that crashed multiple times a day and filled our customer database with garbage, turned 500ms page loads into 45000ms page loads, booted users out of our ERP by writing an integration that failed to dispose its user sessions, caused data loss and filled our logs with error spam because he was using EF DBContexts incorrectly... I could go on. Thankfully he's gone, and now I'm the rockstar for fixing all these things he told everyone couldn't be fixed.
 

 Discussion on answer by paulj: How to…

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user560822
Jan 29, 2020 22:36
Those in power don't actually lean the way they demand everyone else lean. "Diversity" is the chief weapon of the new colonialism.
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 Discussion on answer by MakorDal: 5yr…

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ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
@GregSchmit-ReinstateMonica You've grossly misrepresented what the OP described.
ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
@GregSchmit-ReinstateMonica That depends entirely on whether the "bullying" is perfectly normal and reasonable behavior. In my case, and the OP's case, it is. Simply ignoring such things does not make a person a "pushover", and learning to distinguish between minor annoyances and serious affronts is a major part of emotional maturity.
ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
@user3067860 The people acting like children in that scenario would be anyone who gives it a second thought. Scheming to fire someone over such a thing, even the thought crossing their minds, would be ludicrously immature and vindictive. A company (or a society) populated with such people is doomed.
ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
@GregSchmit-ReinstateMonica The OP didn't describe anything about her daughter's behavior that even rises to the level of mildly concerning. It would be a massive disservice to the other child to treat this as anything other than her own problem that she needs to deal with internally. When my son didn't want to go to school because the other kids were loud and wild and it made him anxious, I taught him how he could deal with those feelings. And he did. It would have been ridiculous to expect the other kids to change their behavior to accommodate him, even a little bit.
ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
@GregSchmit-ReinstateMonica As a last resort, perhaps. My oldest is almost five, and I've deliberately (and largely successfully, considering his age) taught him dignity culture.
ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 17, 2019 17:08
-1 for teaching the other child that the solution to interpersonal problems is to get authorities involved.
 

 Discussion on question by Incognito: …

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ReinstateMonicaSackTheStaff
Dec 13, 2019 11:29
This exists. We call it the Olympics.
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe: Seen fro…

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TKK
Nov 24, 2019 05:12
The biggest problem I have with this answer is that the parties, and even more so their voters, do not behave like coalitions. Anyone who does not toe the line on every single plank of the party platform is relentlessly ridiculed and shamed.
 

 Discussion on answer by LangLangC: Is…

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TKK
Oct 15, 2019 17:51
If the word "liberal" were unambiguous, this question would not have been asked. It may be unambiguous in certain contexts (for example, a political science textbook where it is narrowly defined) but in popular usage in American English it's ambiguous to the point of being meaningless. Let's get the English SE people in here to fight about definitions, usage, and the good old etymological fallacy.
TKK
Oct 15, 2019 17:51
If this were the answer, the question wouldn't have arisen.
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: A…

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TKK
Sep 30, 2019 16:07
@MikeM The community disagrees. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8891/…
TKK
Sep 27, 2019 18:43
@MikeM "Don't do that" is just as much a valid answer here as it is on SO.
TKK
Sep 27, 2019 16:53
+1 for "utterly disgusting." HR should fire themselves.
TKK
Sep 27, 2019 16:53
@CCTO In this situation, it would be wrong not to go behind HR's backs. The asker is treating them far better than they deserve by not naming them publicly.
 

 Discussion on answer by user6726: Can…

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TKK
Sep 30, 2019 00:45
@hszmv Sounds ripe for abuse.
TKK
Sep 30, 2019 00:45
@hszmv [citation needed] I suspect you're dramatically overstating whatever case you're referring to.
 

 Discussion on answer by called2voyage…

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TKK
Sep 12, 2019 05:01
To add to @Schmuddi's comment, another variable that needs to be considered is whether the respondents meet a particular definition of "Republican" or "Democrat". In this context, do those terms refer to people who typically vote for those parties, are registered with those parties (a smaller group), or actually know and understand the parties' platforms and can explain their support for them (a very small group indeed)?
 

 Discussion on answer by David: Is the…

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TKK
Sep 10, 2019 13:39
@J... The only concession I will make is that if a person who would not normally pronounce "Indian" as "Injun" did so, they would be intentionally invoking an offensive historical stereotype. But if anyone takes offense at a naturally accented pronunciation of the word "Indian", the fault is unequivocally their own.
TKK
Sep 10, 2019 13:39
@J..."Injun" is exactly the same word as "Indian", just pronounced in an accented dialect. "Native American" is more correct and preferred, but "Indian" is in no way offensive.
TKK
Sep 10, 2019 13:39
@J... Only in bizarro world is that a racial slur.
 

 Discussion on answer by Erwan: How wo…

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TKK
Aug 22, 2019 08:30
@bob There is no fundamental difference between the secession of a US state and the decolonization described in the answer. The right of self-determination justifies both. The Federal government's reaction might not be so principled, but I do think they lack both the means and the political will to assert their authority the way they did in the 1800s.
 

 Discussion on answer by Steve Smith: …

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TKK
Aug 6, 2019 19:11
@Gnudiff Yes. And gun ownership is already subject to similar restrictions.
TKK
Aug 6, 2019 19:11
@CramerTV Being serious and thoughtful is not a requirement for voting or being pandered to politically. The riffraff on Twitter and Facebook represent the direction the country is going.
TKK
Aug 6, 2019 19:11
@V2Blast Slippery slopes are not fallacious when reaching the bottom of the slope is the opposition's openly stated objective.
 

 Discussion on question by Richard U: …

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TKK
Jul 13, 2019 03:59
There are Q&As on Space Exploration SE about how we could not build another Saturn V or even launch another space shuttle because not everything was documented (or the documentation was lost or intentionally destroyed) and the original engineers have retired or died.
 

 Discussion on question by Folling: Wh…

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TKK
Jun 8, 2019 15:12
I had a Microsoft keyboard that wouldn't register the release of a key when more than three keys were pressed. In games this often resulted in my character running, spinning, or repeating some other action uncommanded.
 

 Discussion on answer by user2979044: …

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TKK
May 16, 2019 14:11
@FedericoPoloni An example of a computational advantage would be some kind of simulation developed in Unity on Windows. The exact same program runs 3-4x faster on Linux.
 

 Discussion on answer by SmallChess: H…

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TKK
Apr 8, 2019 16:40
@SmallChess That seems unlikely to be rational. There's an enormous opportunity cost to working with idiots who make your work more difficult than it needs to be.
TKK
Apr 7, 2019 19:42
@J.FabianMeier If the client doesn't address the problem, why would you want to work with them in the future?
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Shouldn…

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TKK
Mar 23, 2019 20:09
@spmoose No, because there will be bureaucratic overhead involved. If you look at it as an automatic tax refund, most conservatives would prefer to simply not be taxed in the first place.
 

 Discussion on answer by qsp: Why do s…

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TKK
Feb 2, 2019 13:37
Many non-academics obtain your listed benefits by publishing open source work. And if you work at a small enough company, you get to take credit for things and get heaped with thanks and praise at work, too.
 

 Discussion on question by Zebrafish: …

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TKK
Jan 31, 2019 10:17
The answer might be the same as the answer to this: Is there a formal name for confusing useful heuristics with formal logic, or applying one when the other is more appropriate?
 

 Discussion on question by Stefan Doll…

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TKK
Jan 19, 2019 01:00
In some contexts, such as software inputs, required would be more idiomatic than guaranteed.