RCortex's comments

Do you have any recommendations for books for managers written by managers? The last book I skimmed on this topic was "The Alliance," by some people at linkedIn. According to one of the reviews on amazon it mainly just talks about industry-wide blacklists for employees if they leave their jobs for a better one.

$160...for wireless earbuds + mic. I mean I have the money to throw away but...why. They look ok, kinda odd, but not like call center headsets at least.

You could buy a DS for that much right? That's about how much the ps2 slim costed back in the day.

Not the piece above, but here it is. This article has a lot of links/sources on how Trump's campaign statements and Russian propaganda are almost word-for-word identical, and in general complementary. This is from back in August. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/underst...

It's not a matter of abnormal vs normal, it's a matter of dysfunctional versus functional in various situations. It's also a matter of the brain itself inhibiting healthy functioning of the entire body (in the case of depression and similar illnesses) The mind is the body, most especially the brain.

> There are so many forms, expressions, and causes of depression, requiring wildly different approaches to treatment, that I think we do a great disservice by lumping them all under the same umbrella term.

While individuals with mental illnesses often have unique/situational characteristics, there are common causes and symptoms of such illnesses, hence our ability to categorize illnesses by name. Because the causes and symptoms are similar, medical professionals and therapists can prescribe appropriate cognitive, pharmaceutical, and other treatment plans.

Telling yourself your depression is unique just feeds into the idea that it's unsolvable and that depression is rational...

The treatment/theraputic perspective is that depression is a treatable disease of the brain, one that can be modified by changes in behavior/thinking and/or by medication.

(Note: the paper paints a mixed picture but concludes with the generally-accepted scientific model that depressive realism is rarely accurate)

...It's strange how I've been seeing more and more about how Depression is somehow "Rational" lately. That kind of thinking reinforces depression, and is part of the core of the illness. Also this meta-study doesn't assess whether depressed individuals also overestimate helplessness. (One of the studies in the paper only tests if they underestimate control in an experiment, which might sound like the same thing at first blush but it isn't) Broken clock is right twice, poorly-designed studies, and all that...

> though, it is easier to believe that the system works as intended and people want to trust that it works as intended. I don't think America is truly authoritarian as much as it is too lazy to pay attention until either the guns are...

I wonder if people just don't know how to make a difference. I wonder what would happen if schools taught activism as part of social studies. The idea itself is absolutely hilarious. A lot needs to be taught in social studies, like just getting kids to get along adequately

"This is far too valuable to limit to sick people"

Not a word about the major negative side effects including panic attacks, seizures, and death, or how some members of the population are at far greater risk of experiencing these side effects for reasons we do not yet know or fully understand.

Sure, if it helps someone near death why not, but I don't like the rosy picture this article portrays.

Oh you, not every top universities has to play by those rules.

GMOs are one answer, there are numerous others that don't destroy farmland so effectively (intercropping, aeroponics, ocean farms, to name a few) or put farmers under the gun of chemical companies.

> buddhism...precisely rejected the vedas

It's a lot more complicated than that...

You're ignoring the Citizens United decision, we don't have real figures on campaign spending with superpacs and third party campaign vehicles. Additionally no one is taking into account the resources the Russian government poured into the Trump campaign, their state news channel was repeating the republican/trump message ad verbatim. [1]

[1] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/underst...

The idea that the electoral college somehow protects smaller states is fallacious. If you take the six most populous states, you already have about 200 votes. Then you only need six more states from the next 18 most populous states. Bam, you have a majority by only winning 12 states, the other 38 states (and additional territories) have to put up and shut up. [1]

This doesn't usually happen because CA/NY usually vote D, Texas usually votes R, Illinois has been voting D for a while now, and Florida/Pennsylvania are swing states; (Florida usually votes R) although, the usual suspects have passed voter suppression laws.

This system doesn't protect smaller states by design, it is, as it always was, supposed to prevent the rule of mob and a demagogue from being elected. Unfortunately, due to an extremely misguided sense of party loyalty, here we are. At best it's an arbitrary ruling that can be exploited by someone who will lose the popular vote.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_Stat...

Please post a source or more of an explanation before spreading FUD like this...

>Xiaomi And it will never be of apple's quality during its heyday, or even of the quality apple offers now. Copying isn't enough, or sony snd toshiba or samsung woukd be able to make comparable laptops.

...what?

Bet her entire campaign? A piece of her campaign, but not the mainstay by any means. Identity politics was a core of trump's campaign.

Has russia bought the gop? Starting to worry about this...

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/underst...

Most of what you've said doesn't appear to have citations or evidence backing it up.

Power centers in the US? Source? Everyone is trying to leave? From what I've heard India doesn't have enough opportunities for everyone so some people try to leave. Also India has 10+ different languages, all I see you citing are two.

> There is very little awareness of political systems

Uh-huh. Right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India. Have you ever heard of a parliamentary, democratic republic? They have a constitution and 3 branches of government too.

I'm just googling shit here and I already appear to know more than you do.

Completely ignoring the democratic party's platform as usual. It's starting to look like this "right-wing base" is obsessed with identity, and it's preventing them from actually understanding the other people who want to help them. The rest of us just want everyone to get along and be happy.

This article makes it sound like working or middle class people are dumb as shit. My neighbors aren't dumb. They didn't vote though.