Fins

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811.
by Fins 9y ago
It would have helped if somebody actually posted examples of toxic viewpoints held (as in present tense)by Thiel. Nothing like that has been produced so far here.
812.
by Fins 9y ago
Well, this is all guilt by association at best.
813.
by Fins 9y ago
Indeed. Which is why I provided an exampe of one that is both far more nefarious than anything I have ever heard from Thiel, responsible for deaths of tens ofd millions of people, and at the same time being rather welcome in SV.
814.
by Fins 9y ago
Nothing of what you listed has anything to do with conservatism, really. It's just as easy to come up with a list of terrible (even if they don't think so, of course) things far left believes in as for far right.
815.
by Fins 9y ago
Marxism, say, works far worse that trickle-down, but is far more welcome in SV. Or is it the right kind of diversity?
816.
by Fins 9y ago
Is there some actual proof of that?
817.
by Fins 9y ago
If it is "mature and empathic" that you want, SV is not the place to be looking for them, with or without Thiel. It is always somewhat amusing to see that for "voices of diversity" to win, diverse woices need to be silen
818.
by Fins 9y ago
Yes, and you really need to do it well before the police gets involved.
819.
by Fins 9y ago
That would be a better approach, for sure, but it works much better in Europe, or Japan -- places where the general population is very unlikely to have guns. Europe also has better mental health support systems, so they have fewer crazy peo
820.
by Fins 9y ago
"a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field?" Maybe because they are oblivious to the big difference between being a good developer, being generally smart, and being a decent person? Thes
821.
by Fins 9y ago
But at least with those Random VPN apps there is some chance that they are not actually stealing your data. With Facebook there is not. And if billions of people trust Facebook, that's just a sad commentary on the amound of critical th
822.
by Fins 9y ago
Actually it's exactly evidence for that -- anyone who considers "anti-communist" to be a bad thing, especially so in the ex-USSR, lacks both brains and even a single shred of human decency. Not that I thought much of her befo
823.
by Fins 9y ago
To be honest, other than weed all of that doesn't sound any different from SFBA. Tennessee probably isn't the most culturally amazing place around, but then Bay Area isn't just devoid of culture, it actively sucks it out of e
824.
by Fins 9y ago
The problem is that alternative systems still reward destruction, deception, etc., but do not reward the good things.
825.
by Fins 9y ago
That would not necessarily concern Putin too much, as the ones with brains almost by definition would not be too happy with him.
826.
by Fins 9y ago
Their business and labor practices didn't help either. Of course it didn't help matters that they had flat out lied to me for a week.
827.
by Fins 9y ago
Note -- you said tip . And I imagine you tip if you got at least acceptable service (something that looking at comments here doesn't happen too often with AMZL).
828.
by Fins 9y ago
Before I just dropped Amazon altogether, something like 75% of my Prime orders were late. At some point it becomes tedious to go to them and ask for some compensation. And they only ever offered me extensions of Prime (and lied about it, to
829.
by Fins 9y ago
Because paying for things more than they are worth makes all the sense. Soviet experiment worked out really well! Of course what Amazon will pay their delivery personnel will match the quality of Amazon service, such as it is, anyway.
830.
by Fins 9y ago
The whole "Koch brothers are teh devil!" seems to be quite an extreme position, if one bothers to read what Koch brothers actually promote.
831.
by Fins 9y ago
But did anyone ever point at any actual evil that they do? They seem to be rather liberal/progressive on social issues, and quite moderately conservative on economic ones, which doesn't seem too bad.
832.
by Fins 9y ago
But is getting correct results reliably really "backwards and archaic", or does it only seem so because it is not the latest shiny toy with a trendiest name? (edited: spelling)
833.
by Fins 9y ago
I'm not tyhat familiar with Mac software, but last time I checked, Apple had some pretty stringent standards for UI design. And well, unless you went to some extreme lengths, your menus, textboxes and buttons would look consistent. Now
834.
by Fins 9y ago
AH, but how many of those less technical people use more than one platform? Most likely they are using Windows. Possibly MacOS. Very unlikely Linux. So giving them something that looks entirely different from all the other apps they are use
835.
by Fins 9y ago
Well, it had always taken me far less time and effort to do a nice, interactive app in Delphi than it would in HTML/JS. For a designer, yes, I can see your point -- it's easy to use markup to make something that looks good (or at
836.
by Fins 9y ago
Even if they are the same factories (if talking about genuinely expensive/quality stuff, not something that just has celebrity name markup on it) the process and quality control are quite different.
837.
by Fins 9y ago
Sometimes you're paying for the quality. Sometimes you only pay for the name. I have polo shirts that are > 10 years old and look like new. Stuff from H&M barely lasts a season.
838.
by Fins 9y ago
This is truly painful to read. Although the quality of English translation is quite commensurate with the Elbrus development process, mostly consisting of implementing Burroughs' architectures from the early 60-s. It also repeats once
839.
by Fins 9y ago
At one of my jobs, a Delphi application (admittedly quite old) was reimplemented with the latest (at trhe time, anyway, I'm sure it's completely passe now) web frameworks, fancy Javascripts, nd all that. Not only did it take somet
840.
by Fins 9y ago
But what exactly do any HTML/CSS do for me that I could not do with a 17 years old copy of Delphi? And the resulting application will be harder to use, bloated, and much slower than a Delphi one (let alone using something more modern

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