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Lyft's IPO Is Making the Same Circle of Men Rich, Again(nytimes.com)
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A credit score is not racist because racism implies intent, however credit scores do disproportionately discriminate based on race and thus should not be used for hiring. Consider the fact that to access any form of credit, and thus a credi
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Big tech is going to have to learn how to balance automation with social history. Race based housing discrimination has a long history in America, it's hard to believe that no one in a position of power to question these methods brough
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I think age discrimination is really hard to prove because the plausible deniability is so strong. For one, older workers make more -- so discrimination can be masked as reducing costs. Secondly, management is usually older, so if you'
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I think this is called conditioned place preference. You've associated dopamine hits (junk food, social media, etc.) with the chair. You've also probably conditioned yourself to timing (after work) -- do you go this routine at oth
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I'll wait for the write ups but I'm excited to see what Apple's pivot to services entails. I don't own a iPhone but definitely have been envious of some of the services that are included with the Apple ecosystem. Apple&#
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This is bad policy, but in my experience also an outlier. I'm actually quite surprised that a company would publish this policy, as opposed to simply executing it under the rug. I have to ask -- how large is your company? Is it public?
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Some of the comments in this thread is a master class of how discrimination and gatekeeping work not just in our industry but in society as a whole. How can we simultaneously be an industry built on free an open source software and yet try
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The recent attempts at banning cashless stores is addressing the symptoms without considering the root cause. The two main reasons to ban cashless stores revolve around privacy and access to the un/underbanked. Privacy is a legitimate
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I think MMT is an interesting school of thought because the economy has been reacting in a way contrary to what the data suggests. We're in the tenth year of an economic expansion and wages are only just starting to increase -- and at
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It's assumed that large centralized platforms make the problem worse but I'm really not too sure. When I first started using the internet, AIM was still all the rave. I'm not sure exactly how but I got into the habit of joini
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I read this kid's story in the times and as a native of NYC it just helped to strengthen my conviction that NYC, despite all of its problems, is truly a microcosm of what makes America great. I was a latch-key kid growing up and can cl
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This is the cycle of Silicon Valley at play, and an example why despite the Exodus of many entrepreneurs and engineers SV is still the leader in software based start ups. Take the "PayPal mafia" for instance, out of one successful
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We have yet to have a real discussion about what we expect the largest platforms to do about content like this. The nature of online content is that once it's created it can be copied quite easily, if Facebook was able to block 80% of
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I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.
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This is no surprise. I am of Haitian descent, my parents both immigrated to the US in the 70s and 80s and just this past holiday my aunt told me a story about how she paid hundreds of dollars for a fake passport to obtain passage in the US.
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I'll be honest, I don't understand the difference between what defines a monolith vs. a microservice. My 'organization' is about 15 developers, and we all contribute to the same repo. Visually the software we provide can
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This is the correct move. Airline crashes are so rare that two crashes of a new model within 6 months of each other must be cause for grounding flights. The fact that Boeing cut as many corners as they did to bypass mandatory training just
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Call me a partisan hack but the fact of the matter is this situation is murkier politically than a lot of other similar controversies. There is a direct conflict of interest between our president and the CEO of a major American multi-nation
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Is this the first of a wave of anti-anti-trust moves by big tech? It's a play that I certainly would advise. It makes sense to trade marginal revenue with low hanging fruit gestures like these to take the air out of folks like Warren a
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This is a side effect that I'm willing to deal with. The problem with monopoly is not so much about the concentration of individual wealth in my mind, it's about the lack of competition between companies which make investment in R
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Shame has always been a part of human nature, doing shameful acts -- like eating up all the reserve food that the tribe worked so hard to store is appropriately responded to with shame from peers. Social pressure has it's place in soci
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Thanks for the numbers. This confirms some suspicions but also refutes others: not a lot of legacy kids at Harvard, but their parents are still largely wealthy and mostly White / Asian.
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Hmm, is this how the "what song is playing" feature works? Google claims it works offline (I haven't tested it) but I have a hard time believing that Google is storing information related to every song out there. What about n
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This is why, to me, the entire debate about affirmative action at elite colleges is a complete red herring. The amount of kids, regardless of race, who can be considered "deserving" of a spot has been reduced more so by legacy adm
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Given names is one of the most effective way to encode culture. We already know that individuals harbor some biases based on culture, so it's no surprise that there is some bias when people exchange names. My mother explicitly gave me
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From a product perspective I think this is the right move. Aside from data privacy concerns, a lot of the critism of Facebook as a product seems to be due to it's global nature -- how your feed is mixed with Grandma posting conspiracy
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In my experience code reviews need to be a conversation. I'm on a small scrum of 3 developers and we all review each other's code. The major thing I've learned is that you need to depersonalize the code. Don't ask "
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I have no idea what things were like "back in the day" but as a 20-something it's really interesting how there aren't many places (excluding 'nightlife' venues) were strangers can mingle and micro-conversations
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I don't know much about journalism but I follow a lot of journalists on Twitter. (And I play a doctor on TV). Aside from coverage of Donald Trump, where in the past he has basically acted as the assignment editor for all of mainstream

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