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by BryantD 4y ago
Sure, you could obviously have a poorly functioning diverse workplace. Likewise, you could obviously have a poorly functioning lily-white all-male workplace. The idea that diversity advocates are solely focused on diversity for its own sake
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by BryantD 4y ago
I think that if he had to do the LinkedIn searches himself, you can conclude that his recruiters weren’t all that great. I’d be annoyed at them in his shoes.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Oh, that’s easy. Because you wind up with a better, more productive company when you put forth the considerable effort necessary to increase diversity. It’s winning in the marketplace because it’s better. You’re 100% right about the funnel,
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by BryantD 4y ago
I should have taken Scott Hassan up on his offer to be a very early eGroups employee. I’m perfectly happy with my life so it’s not a huge regret, but I’ll always wonder.
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by BryantD 4y ago
That’s very cool. I’d also recommend RSS-Bridge, which is another OSS self-hosted tool that generates RSS feeds. It might be useful if you’re looking for RSS feeds for non-article oriented sites: there’s a wide array of scrapers built in (A
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by BryantD 4y ago
Pierrot le Fou was the one that clicked with me. I’d already appreciated Breathless, Contempt, and Bande a Part but I didn’t feel a lot of emotional connection to them. Pierrot le Fou delighted me. Can’t say why, but in part perhaps his use
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by BryantD 4y ago
Man, memories. I worked for Phar Lap for, I dunno, a few months. Cool place.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I don’t have a great way to prove this, because we’re arguing about a hypothetical, but I think you’re wrong. Let me try one similar but non-medical counter-example. People are still willing to get on planes, even though Boeing 737 MAX engi
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by BryantD 4y ago
It’s a fact that I had coffee with someone who grew up a thousand miles away from me yesterday. If I were to infer from that fact that there was something unusual about that, I would be wrong.
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by BryantD 4y ago
This doesn’t convince me because we have a recent covid-related example of scientists making a significant mistake and admitting it: namely, the primary means of transmission. At the beginning of the pandemic, the scientific community argue
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by BryantD 4y ago
IANAL and you could be right.
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by BryantD 4y ago
This is a serious suggestion: if you are concerned about blanket accusations, it’s helpful to avoid blanket statements like “Activists hurl around the Nazi label…” Some people do use that term with insufficient care. Some people use it care
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by BryantD 4y ago
I agree that MTG almost certainly wasn’t swatted by KF. I have, however, spent time reading Kiwifarms well before this controversy. I have zero interest in arguing about the conclusions I reached: I just want to put down a marker and say th
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’m depressingly amused by that. If you’re a free speech absolutist to the point where you’re unwilling to draw a line between Kiwifarms attacks and the real world consequences, surely you shouldn’t blame the anti-KF campaign for the way KF
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by BryantD 4y ago
I think it’s covered in their TOS: “We may at our sole discretion suspend or terminate your access to the Websites and/or Online Services at any time, with or without notice for any reason or no reason at all. We also reserve the right
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by BryantD 4y ago
I don’t think they’ve done well, and I think we can say that regardless of our opinion of this choice unless you think they should never deny service. The mistake they’re making is this: they’re treating each event like a unicorn. They need
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by BryantD 4y ago
100% true. It’s a sign of evolving understanding of software engineering — in 2005, it was still common to believe that the best way to prevent errors was to help fallible human beings learn to detect them better. Now, well, it’s still comm
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by BryantD 4y ago
I hold it in such high regard that I have considered the question of whether or not Kiwifarms inhibits free speech.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I think that you have to take responsibility when your actions (doxing) result in a higher probability of other actions (swatting). The exact degree of responsibility varies. You believe the same thing. Cloudflare dropping Kiwifarms wouldn’
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by BryantD 4y ago
To be perfectly clear about my own bias: I think Kiwifarms is among the worst Web sites on the Internet, I think it's caused immeasurable harm, and I don't want it to exist. However, I am (probably) talking to people who aren&#x27
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by BryantD 4y ago
It's a thoughtful document and I appreciate the time it took to write it. I think there may be a missing factor in their decision-making process. I'll quote the document itself: "We also believe that an Internet where cyberat
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by BryantD 4y ago
Recently: - Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Black Phone - The Northman - House of Gucci - Knives Out - Little Women - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - The Shape of Water The blockbusters are such a huge part of the cultural lan
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by BryantD 4y ago
The trilogy is currently in re-release to celebrate a new 4K transfer. If you live in a US city with an arthouse theater you might be able to catch it on the big screen.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Counter arguments: While there are a ton of lost movies, we also live in a world in which services like Criterion Channel, Mubi, and Shudder make more film available than ever. The other week, I got curious and watched a movie from Ulrike O
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by BryantD 4y ago
If you have the budget for it, I strongly recommend Criterion Channel as another source for these.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’d argue that LucasArts was effectively dead before the acquisition, despite having in theory a few games in development. That said, I’d also argue that LucasArts would have wound up shuttered even if it had been in great shape, so you’re
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by BryantD 4y ago
I'd argue that Marvel is another example, although a complex one. Marvel Comics has changed very little in terms of culture; Ike Perlmutter runs it very much the way he ran it when it was independent. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has
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by BryantD 4y ago
I strongly agree with this comment in general. One small nitpick: Twitter says there will not be a login wall for reading Notes[1]. "Additionally, Notes will have unique URLs that people can navigate to from outside of the Twitter plat
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by BryantD 4y ago
Not as good as his find, but close pairs do exist in the US: https://goo.gl/maps/ZisYmkTEJsd6Rw1f8
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by BryantD 4y ago
There's a trend for the latter category to be renamed Free Kriegsspiel Revolution (see https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2500148/ancient-roleplaying... for a writeup). Kriegsspiel is a Prussian term for refere

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