Shit, HR doesn't even exist to protect the company sometimes. Sometimes they get so cancerous that they start to operate as if the company works for them.

Hence my megacorp's most recent CEO fired the CPO, and hired a long time former company employee with no HR background to go clean house of the infestation of Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice Presidents in HR.

Ultimately it's the board of directors' call. Sometimes they are oblivious to how much HR undermines the company by bringing in unnecessary distractions and making poor hiring decisions. Like much else, it's subject to momentum.

I have just experienced this.They raised HR exec up to VP level so they could investigate another VP to ultimately fire them.

Then once the BAD VP was fired the owner fired the HR VP and the the replacement was not a VP.

DirtyDeeds.DoneDirtCheap.

Biological optimal vs societal optimal.

I would reframe it from

> Biological optimal vs societal optimal

to

> Biological optimal vs personal optimal

"Societal optimal" should really include consideration of whether that society can sustain itself.

Sure, but should "societal optimal" be a concern for the individual? I think not. Government economists, maybe.

Rejecting any care or duty towards one's own society is a very modern, very extreme viewpoint. And I don't think it bodes well for societies where it prevails.

Just like every person dies, so does every society (no matter where you draw the lines around it). We can't justify what we do solely based on survival. What's worth doing has to be worth doing for its own sake, here and now. That we are around to do things in the future, doesn't matter if nothing is worth doing.

Put in a catchier way, if nothing is worth dying for, then nothing is worth living for either.

I think you'll find this is a very old viewpoint. As is the smear that we reject any care or duty for society. "This may seem harsh and stubborn and unconciliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it."

What transit systems in America are getting rid of cards?

NYC is the most recent that I am aware that is in a payment system transition, but the new system has physical cards you can buy and reload to use with the new tap to pay system.

Capability of a product that makes non-working outputs at a premium?

I can hire an intern for that.

Will cost you a lot more ;)

>However, the fact that the aluminum gets hot during prolonged use means that it is acting as a heat sink and cooling the CPU compared to a body made of plastic. Thermodynamics, it's the law!

Not really. It's picking up "stray heat" that is radiated from the copper heatsink inside and conduction from the air in the fan system. It does not improve cooling the processor in any kind of manner. If it were plastic, the plastic would get warm too. Maybe it'll be a 2 degree difference.

Direct contact or bust.

It should improve ambient temperatures inside the body, allowing for more heat transfer.

It might be marginal, though.

It does actually help. All heat radiated into the aluminium isn’t in the copper, so makes it to the environment. The copper remains cooler overall.

Junior professors get absolute poverty wages these days. Junior administration hires get paid more at most universities.

>while the leaders run off to back rooms to make global-reach decisions about war, macroeconomics, and the shape of our society to come?

Don't forget abusing children

Actually I think that's the crux of it. After repeatedly delaying, dismissing, and dodging they were forced to arrest one of their own for his sex crimes. Now they are making more sex crimes to arrest common people for, because it cannot be the case that only the rich elites are arrested for their sex crimes. Normal people aren't involved in child sex rings at remote islands, so step porn it is.

If only we had the technology to exempt storage from spending limits.

As if that would solve anything? Depending on use, storage could be the largest line item (storage across databases, VMs, object storage).

>There is no one to turn to and bully for compliance.

They can and will go after anyone that distributes it.