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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
We have implemented rules that people who are dating each other serve on different sub-teams, and refrain from PDA during team time. If anyone has taken additional practical steps, please share!
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Originally Posted by marshall
LOL... that is such an engineers way to deal with the problem. I love it!
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Of course, if the inventor of the "Laws of Robotics" (Isaac Asimov) is correct, it wouldn't actually be of much help. The first conservation theorem that Hari Seldon's team was able to prove was referred to as "The Law of Conservation of Personal Problems":
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Originally Posted by Yugo Amaryl, in Forward the Foundation
Never at any time was there a total decrease or, for that matter, a total increase in the friction within a closed group--that is, one in which no old members leave and no new members come in. What I proved, with the help of Elar's achaotic equations, was that this was true despite any conceivable action anyone could take. Hari calls it 'the law of conservation of personal problems.'
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(On page 273 of the hardcover, page 300 of the Bantam Spectra paperback, or at
this link)