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Generally I think long tenure is a positive signal, but you have to be growing. If you are growing and learning, and enjoying it, I recommend you continue to do so. Stop and smell the roses while you're at it.

In theory, skills are what matter, but I don't find that true in practice. Appearance matters more. A long tenure is a good look to most.

The people in charge have the power and the responsibility to ensure they are doing the right thing, and that their subordinates are too. If your subordinates aren't doing the right thing, or aren't listening to you as the leader, you as the leader need to act.

Goodbye Auth0 2 years ago

Very rarely; maybe i misunderstood your point. You're saying it's an institutional failure, but not one of the leaders? So, it's the governments fault they allowed corporate structures to function this way? Or maybe you want to blame the board of directors?

Goodbye Auth0 2 years ago

when shit hits the fan all its leaders can do is to find blame in the individual.

Or they could, like, take responsibility for their actions that led them to that point?

Goodbye Auth0 2 years ago

The vast majority of employment in the US is so called "at will," which means an employee can be fired at any time for any reason, except an illegal one. And good luck with proving it was in fact an illegal one. Our "contracts" are barely worth the bits we use to store them. Why would we trust the company at all in this situation? It would be a mistake for every single person to take management at face value.

The risk is that we have enabled a new class of technological leadership, whose capacity for forming its own authentic beliefs about the world has been severely diminished.

It is we, not our technical creations, who are to blame, for failing to encourage and enable the radical act of belief in something above and beyond, and external to, the self.

As you describe it, the system is worthless then and does nothing. How long to wait is up to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

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Any observations can be an event, and a stopping point.

[Edit] I could put a resistor on the table and call it a system, and wait for it eternally, but I'm not sure that's useful. You need a desired outcome, and some limits to make rational decisions. Actually, mathematically, we can find certain limits.

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You also can't prove a negative, as some future state may eventually disprove it. So you will have to assert something like "I expect such results at such time."

If a system takes action, or affects something, those effects, or lack of, are notable. For an electronic system it's simple - it is powered on.

[edit] You can also consider the transient and steady states:

[1] steady state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_state

[2] transient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_state

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My comment about the start doesn't actually address your concern about the end of the transient state. I think there are options. Any observable result can be considered the output of the system.

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Yoda would say "do or do not, there is no try." I prefer "there is only trying."

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i need coffee >.<

I'm pretty sure right to deletion does include account deletion, which I did not see anywhere as an option, but I could be wrong. As you mention, some of this might be possible by messaging the staff members directly. Last I read, there were like 2 moderators for this site who work their ass off.

As to your second point, reddit is not a public archive, or a court room, or any sort of entity that I would trust or expect to retain, much less make accessible, "public" discussions, technical or not. They have no obligation to give you anything, and the moment it's profitable for them to switch to pay-to-play, you can bet they will. Steve Huffman, the CEO of reddit, killed all the 3rd party apps accessing reddit, no? Not someone I will place my trust in.

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I would also add the court of public opinion is a place no one should be tried, and peoples' privacy trumps your desire for information, so it makes perfect sense that comments would be removed or stripped of a byline. Adding a byline redaction feature would be cool imo.

I definitely believe it. I'm more worried about the scenario like that Marvel/Disney director who got fired because people found some off color tweet he made 10 years prior. Determined people can accomplish a lot, but removing some of the low hanging fruit would be nice.