Apparently, you've never been in a romantic or sexual relationship, if you think they are on the same level as "having a bad day" or "seeing a movie." It makes sense, I guess, since this is slashdot. Your list of reasons for bad decisions, is not even in the same ballpark as the problems caused by people in a relationship with a subordinate or...a spy. There's a reason that "honey-trap" is a term, and has been since the 1400s, long before Puritans were a thing.

You know, when everybody runs to the john at the same time when halftime starts.

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Oh wait, some people actually want to watch that halftime show.

On a personal note, the Super Bowl is a real dilemma for me. I love watching the game, and I love watching the commercials. There is literally no good time to...go!

Makes sense. But call me skeptical. If these researchers are right, they should be able to demonstrate that the pulses emanate from data centers. The proposal seems to be a hand-wavy hypothesis, no clear evidence that they measured the pulses as actually having come from data centers.

I've never seen a UPS that had a clock. How on earth would they synchronize, accidentally or otherwise, without a clock? Sure, they could know how long a minute is by counting 60 (or 50) Hz pulses * 60 seconds per minute. But they wouldn't know whether the time is 2, 5, 13, or 32 seconds after the minute, unless somebody either set a clock on the system, or connected it to wifi so it could connect to a time server. How many UPSes do that? I'm sure some do, but the vast majority I've seen do not. Nobody wants to bother with that kind of setup, just plug it in and go!

How could they be synced at all, closely or not? Almost none of them actually have a clock.

How many UPSes have you seen, that have a clock? Even if they did pulse every minute, they would all pulse at random points within a given minute, some at 5 seconds after the top of the minute, some at 10, some at 20, and so on.

You do sound like an executive, I'll give you that!

It's not about morality or religion. Sexual relationships make people do weird things, that are often, and usually are, directly contradictory to good business. If you're having an affair with a Chinese spy, and she starts begging you to find ways to get export controls relaxed, you just might do it for her sake, even if it's detrimental to the company or the country. If you're having an affair with somebody who reports to you, you just might let her get away with substandard work, or be partial to her in other ways that ruin the morale of your other leaders.

Businesses don't ban relationships between employees (especially subordinates) because they're trying to be so righteous. They're trying to protect their business.

Post-ethics world? Are you implying that the world was an ethical place once? That's funny!

Yeah, poor guy.

You are making two big assumptions:
1. Large numbers of people will reserve and then cancel parking spaces.
2. Large numbers of people will arrive late for their reservations.

Most people who need an Uber car, reserve it at the time they need it. Few cancel. Why would parking be different?

Agreed! Today's parking lots and garages don't really have to compete with each other. People who come into a downtown or large event area, have no idea what their choices are, so they just randomly pick a spot and pay whatever the price is. With this app, you'll presumably be able to choose a lot based on price and location, giving you a much better ability to make an informed choice. It should also help bring down prices, because now the parking owners will have to compete against each other.

I don't think this will result in *more* people parking than already do. They'll just have more ability to choose a parking spot, than they do now. This is good even for your "poor guy", he'll be able to see where he *can* find a spot.

I'm not so sure.

As it is before Uber, pre-choosing a parking garage is almost impossible. So you end up driving to a random spot and pay the price, whatever it is.

If Uber shows you prices for different options in the same area, you'll naturally pick a lower-priced option, forcing the various parking operators to compete against each other. That would have the effect of driving prices down, not up.

Uber certainly didn't cause taxi fares to go up, so I wouldn't expect parking prices to go up because of their entrance into the market either.

People like Trump and Huang would like you to think that's true, while all the time they feed at the trough of blatant payola. You think these guys are just innocent and shrewd negotiators? No, not even close. Huang didn't get Trump to make exceptions to export restrictions, out of sympathy for the plight of the needy Chinese people.

"Task-oriented" is a euphemism here. What it really means is that, if you work for Huang, you were just a cog in a machine. If you didn't get your task done on time, and on budget, it didn't matter whether you did your best to get it there, you still failed. Maybe you didn't spend enough of your evening hours at the office.

The article also called his leadership "demanding" and "cutthroat."

There will always be people who believe the hype, following the mirage of promised wealth, who will follow this kind of dictatorial leader. It's not surprising that he has found people who will submit to him.

If you think that's the kind of company you want to work for, please go for it. As for me, I want my work to matter, and I want to be treated with respect, not like a cog in a machine.