The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI
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Gori the Grey
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Why do so many posters read as "Chieftan" when they have, e.g. 8000 posts? Did the switchover to the new system reset everyone to "Chieftan"?
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I've been checking job postings for companies for months now. There seems to be managerial and senior positions available quite often, but not entry-level ones. From my perspective, it would seem logical to hire entry-level positions regularly and then hire senior staff from experienced people you already have. Is there some facet of company dynamics I'm missing here?
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Lack of willingness to pay to train. Or develop the ability to. Been a while since I was in HR, but my experience was green cards were cheaper/more desirable than training entry-level to expert. Failing that, you could always just lean harder on your exempt employees and leave the position vacant. Maybe give them a 5-10% if they complained about the workload and you had to keep them.
Edit: actually, they'd probably have just been visas. Most of what I dealt with was supporting the generalists in hiring engineers(largely). Had I been dealing with a mostly different field, the experience may have been different. The guy in the mailroom still couldn't shake loose classes, though, and he was a pretty smart cookie. Just wasn't going to happen.
Edit: actually, they'd probably have just been visas. Most of what I dealt with was supporting the generalists in hiring engineers(largely). Had I been dealing with a mostly different field, the experience may have been different. The guy in the mailroom still couldn't shake loose classes, though, and he was a pretty smart cookie. Just wasn't going to happen.
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GoodSarmatian
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If you come in as an outsider you don't know the people who work under you. There's no sense of cameraderie and that means you'll have fewer scruples to go along with whatever exploitative crap the people above you come up with. You'll probably come up with some ideas of your own.
You'll also be less likely to recognize if a new "productivity target" is unrealistic or downright impossible with legal means and can only be achieved through unpaid overtime or other types of wage theft, non-compliance with safety regulations etc. This ignorace gives you plausible deniability if middle managers gets caught doing these things because otherwise they'd miss their target and be replaced with someone who will break the law.
Diffusion of responsibility is not a bug, it's a feature, and it works best if the higher ups are as far removed from the workers as possible.
There may be some less cynical reasons, but I can't think of any right now.
I am using a version of Linux very recently released - What telephones? - I am old enough to remember rotary diallers.
They destroyed the search function, dismantled all social groups (RIP IALS), eliminated BCC for private messages, and have only now given us a Dark CFC background. Who knows what else happened? The implementation was haphazard and careless at best.
Traitorfish
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You ask me, anyone still using default user titles is a Chieftain.
What I think happened was that the people with custom usertitles got to keep them. Those using the vBulletin default postcount-based usertitles were reset to "Chieftain" after the migration. They should be able to give themselves a custom usertitle if they want to.
I'm old enough to remember rotary phones on a party line (in my case, with 3 other households along our laneway).
I've tried using the search function. It's sorta doable, if you don't mind it being completely non-intuitive and something that requires complete concentration (Search is the only way I can ever find the "weird thread juxtapositions" thread).
Eliminating BCC for private messages means I can no longer PM Iron Pen participants simultaneously, which is not appreciated. And we also can't have folders to separate categories of PMs. So if I want to find messages from one specific person, I need to look through pages of messages, manually.
Also, I'm not happy at losing access to the other half of the Visitors' messages, along with the links. This means I've lost the links to the cat pictures and videos some folks have been kindly sending over the past several years.
And indeed, RIP to Ideas Are Like Stars (IALS).
We should have been given a heads-up so we could archive stuff.
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Molecular biology.
hobbsyoyo
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Possibly you're seeing a bit of selection bias. Higher level positions are harder to fill and will stay open longer while entry level ones goes as fast as they are posted. So you have to get lucky to see the latter but will run into the former a lot.
Also some companies go through phases where they actively look for outsiders for higher level positions in the hope they will bring new experiences and practices from industry/academia that the company doesn't have already.
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Within a week or less? I highly doubt that.
MagisterCultuum
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I'd guess it is because duplicate buildings, units, civics, etc, can all be added easily in XML by those with no prior experience programming. Modifying game mechanics requires delving deeper into python and/or C++ coding.
Edit: I should have kept reading the thread and seen that The_J expressed this before doing so myself.
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In some countries, the rate of people doing a doctorial degree in the field of biology is like 80%+. A position as a PhD candidate is basically an entry-level position.
(that's a simplification, for sure, I know)
.In some countries, the rate of people doing a doctorial degree in the field of biology is like 80%+. A position as a PhD candidate is basically an entry-level position.
(that's a simplification, for sure, I know)
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Unless you've been continuously monitoring for months, you wouldn't really have a terrific picture of what the current job postings are like. Things can look like patterns but are really just an artifact of your narrow search window (in time). Jobs that stayed up for months could have all closed out when you started looking, some jobs may coincidentally get taken very quick now that you're looking or other positions could have been almost filled but the candidate backed out in the end, dragging the process out far longer than normal.
You wouldn't get that kind of context without insider information and having been paying close attention for months.
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A semantic question - Why does the word Monarchy only apply to royal regimes?
I've never heard it used to describe any other form of sole leadership (military dictatorship, pseudo-electoral republic, or whatever), but only princes, kings, shahs, khans and such.
It seems to me like a global mis-use of the word, and I've never heard it pointed out.
If this is how Monarchy is used, shouldn't the word Anarchy apply to any non-royal regimes, the same way? (therefore France is an Anarchy in that sense of the word Monarchy)
Or do I miss anything? Is the word Monarchy actually widely used to describe any kind of sole rule?
I've never heard it used to describe any other form of sole leadership (military dictatorship, pseudo-electoral republic, or whatever), but only princes, kings, shahs, khans and such.
It seems to me like a global mis-use of the word, and I've never heard it pointed out.
If this is how Monarchy is used, shouldn't the word Anarchy apply to any non-royal regimes, the same way? (therefore France is an Anarchy in that sense of the word Monarchy)
Or do I miss anything? Is the word Monarchy actually widely used to describe any kind of sole rule?
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sophie
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Because a word derives its meaning from how it is used by the speakers of the language, not by how it used to be used, nor by what the etymology dictates the word should mean. Even though monarchy etymologically means "rule by one", its meaning in modern English is generally used to mean rule by an individual claiming royal authority. If the autocrat claims the title of King or a king-adjacent title (like Shah, Emir, Prince, etc.) then that person is a monarch and presides over a monarchy. If they don't, they don't. At the practical level there isn't much differentiating an Empire and a Kingdom, and yet one wouldn't call Nero's Rome a Kingdom, would they?
As to part two, you're getting your etymological pedantry wrong. Anarchy doesn't mean "rule by no monarchy" it means "rule by nobody" or "absence of [state]".
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Traitorfish
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"Monarchy" usually carries the implication that sovereignty is inherently tied to the monarchical office: either the monarch is the sole source of sovereignty, as in pre-Revolutionary France, or that the monarch is the necessary embodiment of sovereignty, as in the United Kingdom. It might not even require an actual monarch: Hungary was a kingless kingdom between 1920 and 1946, because the absence of an actual reigning monarch was not sufficient to create a formal republic.
This sort of claim is almost universally associated with royalty, and although that can get a little circular, because as Europeans have tended to identify royalty in the non-European world by asking which leaders can make credible claims of sovereignty, but as Owen says, at a certain point usage becomes self-justifying. Most forms of one-person rule formally invest sovereignty elsewhere in the nation or church, and in modern times usually present themselves as essentially national and popular, just like democratic or oligarchic republics.
Also, historians and political scientists do sometimes use the word "monarchy" to describe non-royal regimes, they just tend to be quite careful about it. It's widely accepted that hereditary republican dictatorships like that held by the House of Orange in the Dutch Republic or, less enduringly, the Cromwells in England were monarchies in all but name. A modern example would be the Kim dynasty in North Korean, distinguishable from a revived Korean Empire only because, although the leader gets to wear a very fancy hat, there's no specific fancy hat reserved exclusively for his use. Some political scientists may even use "monarchy" to describe non-hereditary offices within a monarchical tradition, for example, such as the papacy or the American presidency, although that would usually be carefully qualified and may simply be to make a point.
This sort of claim is almost universally associated with royalty, and although that can get a little circular, because as Europeans have tended to identify royalty in the non-European world by asking which leaders can make credible claims of sovereignty, but as Owen says, at a certain point usage becomes self-justifying. Most forms of one-person rule formally invest sovereignty elsewhere in the nation or church, and in modern times usually present themselves as essentially national and popular, just like democratic or oligarchic republics.
Also, historians and political scientists do sometimes use the word "monarchy" to describe non-royal regimes, they just tend to be quite careful about it. It's widely accepted that hereditary republican dictatorships like that held by the House of Orange in the Dutch Republic or, less enduringly, the Cromwells in England were monarchies in all but name. A modern example would be the Kim dynasty in North Korean, distinguishable from a revived Korean Empire only because, although the leader gets to wear a very fancy hat, there's no specific fancy hat reserved exclusively for his use. Some political scientists may even use "monarchy" to describe non-hereditary offices within a monarchical tradition, for example, such as the papacy or the American presidency, although that would usually be carefully qualified and may simply be to make a point.
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