That's a very, very weird thing to care about unless you're being paid to feel that way. Since Microsoft has done so much shit to so many people in so many ways it's otherwise inexplicable that anyone would come out of the woodwork to defend them. It's like when George Bush pointed out that Hitler had a dog.

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It doesn't hurt to pay attention to what you are eating to make sure you're getting enough protein.

I try to urge people to measure their macronutrients to get a clear picture of where they might be lacking. That's more effective than trying to tell them that they are eating too much protein (because once they see the numbers, they draw the conclusion for themselves).

Yeah, the extra just gets excreted in urine.

Body builders are so aware of the protein requirement that they are more likely to have vitamin C as a limiting factor to muscle growth than protein (since vitamin C is involved in muscle synthesis). Vitamin C deficiency is surprisingly common, even in the developed world. As a hypothesis, maybe because it needs to be consumed regularly, since it's water soluble and gets washed out the body easily.

The humans are usually no help regardless. They are often not sufficiently trained to do their jobs, and they frequently have no power to do anything for the customer anyway.

Oh yeah, that was the Dilbert era. The kind of dirty stuff that goes on in corporations hasn't seemed to have entered the awareness of the academic world. At least, I haven't been able to find it.

I don't know why you think this, but you didn't read it in any science, and it's not true. You are just wrong.

It is definitely self-interest instead of company interest. You can learn from this: don't let work stress you out, nothing there matters anyway.

It is true, but the CEO is one of them. This is a main reason why corporate bureaucracy sucks. If any single manager starts becoming more efficient/effective than the others, he is painting a target on his back. The other managers will backstab him to keep him down.

Sure, but if you knew what you were doing you could install the generic adobe postscript driver with the appropriate ppd... so what we're really establishing here is that Windows never "just worked" and required a lot of specialist knowledge that people have just willfully forgotten about apparently in order to support their argument that Linux is hard.

Even if you live somewhere with good cops, they're still human beings and will often put themselves above duty.

Only the fear of consequences drilled into them during training followed by robust monitoring and security audits will keep it under control (note I didn't say 'prevent entirely').

The range and payload penalties will be enormous.

If you can build an enclosed habitat that can keep a population alive for 1000 years in deep space, you'd find it a lot easier to do the same on Earth. And if that's not an option, Mars, or the asteroid belt. Places where there are resources to exploit to resupply and repair, or even expand.

And that's before you think about how your destination is an entire alien biosphere - you might know the air, water temperature and gravity are all fine... but you won't have any idea if you can digest the locally available flora and fauna, if it'll be toxic, or if it'll be digesting you.

Interstellar colonization is for when your star is cold and all the rocks around it are used up.

Looks good, you would be much better off if you switched out the lettuce for spinach.

That's like saying that all a new pharmacist needs to learn to get started in dispensing is one book: The PDR. The information on the medications is in there, the knowledge to comprehend it is not. If you had an infinite amount of time, and one of the really well-documented versions of Unix, what you say is true, for an educated and/or talented user. But not all man pages are very good, and some are missing entirely and it's not obvious where to find the documentation.

Some things are also only documented in the pages for programmers, but I've never seen a Unix system come with the kind of documentation you'd reasonably need to start learning C, or in most cases even shell scripting (although the modern bash man page is pretty good!)

What I mean is, they are incentivized to reduce productivity. They are rewarded for it. If they are merely irrelevant to productivity, then they are not likely to be promoted, or have as good a position if they change companies.