the nordic systems are based on popular sovereignty by proportional representation, which lies in opposition to separation of power.

no, not every democracy. every government performs those roles but they are not all split the same way. the nordic countries are single-branch and he chinese government has many more than three.

bear witness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXT0gNeSvM

No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.

tell me you’re from the us without telling me you’re from the us. what’s a “branch of government”?

skunk works by ben rich, about his work as chief of the lockheed skunk works during the time they built the sr-71 blackbird and the f-117 nighthawk.

the soul of a new machine by tracy kidder, about the development of the data general eclipse minicomputer.

as long as it’s actually an in-person evaluation rather than an online form.

the annoying thing is that they are still market leaders in their field. it’s a big company.

poor moomin

yeah i’ve been on the other end too. but being forced to take a standardised test should feel humiliating to anyone over thirty.

the most frustrating thing was when they told me they made all their applicants go through the process, from janitors to sales to engineering to c-levels. apparently it made the company “statistically egalitarian”.

i have the physical release of lösningen, which is a fun little inverse mystery game based on “true speculations”.

i would have done the same. i went through the interview process for an engineering position a few years ago where they required an iq, reading comprehension, and basic arithmetic test. i felt so insulted by their apparent lack of trust in their applicants that i went off in the feedback field, whereupon they cold-called me to ask why i was so frustrated despite apparently being in the 95th percentile of all applicants. not something you want to tell someone applying to an engineering firm…

theoretically it can absolutely figure out how to do that without it being in the training data.

we know it’s in the training data because of google’s filters, but theoretically it could have been generated without having anything to draw on just due to how the thing works.

probably a finn

i think the food use is older, it’s been used at least since roman times.

i sent my canadian sibling a bag of turkisk peppar as part of a care package and they thought it was a prank. then when i visited i ate all of it myself. love me some salmiak

it’s mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

a mess

they’re ass because they’re inconsistent, have aliasing issues, are obviously stretched/squashed, are put against a noisy background, and in some cases are just wrong.

and no, if the name was not on it i would not assume that the ps4 was a ps4. it looks like a modem. and the 360 has a keyhole for some reason.

the graphics are ass, and the text is hard to read