GVIrish

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by GVIrish 6y ago
If it were a case of their software functioning as intended, it would be malpractice to not come out and say that. Right now it looks like they're deliberately manipulating the market to the detriment of their customers. That makes f
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The brokerage (Robinhood) is absolutely not protecting their clientele. If they were, they would've explained what they were doing when they did it or shortly thereafter. The silence is an indictment.
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If that were the case then why didn't RH put out a statement saying exactly that? They haven't even put out a tweet.
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You can't even look at the stock on RH, it's like it doesn't exist. Same with Nokia, AMC, etc. And all this with no explanation whatsoever. It would be one thing if they put out a press release or something to explain thems
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That article throws out a bunch of numbers without really putting things in a proper historical context. Violent crime has fallen dramatically since the 90's and the murder rate is about as low as it was in the 60's in 2019 (acco
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I don't know the laws of every country, but I don't think it's illegal to jailbreak your phone or create/use an alternate app store in the United States. Your phone just won't be supported any more. Circumventing d
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I think that's an argument against Google and Apple being a duopoly in the smartphone market, not an argument that companies shouldn't be able to make policies about what is and isn't allowed on their app store. So if users c
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Sure, but what oppressive law is at work here? Companies make choices about who they want to do business with all the time. If the argument is that Google and Apple shouldn't be able to ban any apps on their respective stores, it wou
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by GVIrish 6y ago
The F-35 program is more like the F-111 than the F-16 or F/A-18, except in the case of the F-35 the DoD doubled down instead cutting their losses early.
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No, the X-32 lost the competition because it didn't perform as well on several objective measures as the X-35. To the point that very late in the game Boeing tried to switch to a four post tail design and dramatically redesign the win
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by GVIrish 6y ago
You're right that Putin has had people murdered in far more conspicuous fashion before, and there's now the big risk of Magnitsky sanctions. It's hard to say whether the blowback and sanctions from an assassination would be
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If Putin wanted to do something that is untraceable he wouldn't use a nerve agent that is exclusively used by his regime. He could easily stage a 'robbery gone wrong' plot or an unfortunate car accident if he wanted to truly
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That's part and parcel of Putin's Chekist paradigm of obvious aggression combined with denials and disinformation. The idea is to create enough doubt and lies that people feel like the truth is unknowable. But everyone still get
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May develop a bad case of defenestration. Kinda stunning how bad that guy's opsec was, but on the other hand Putin wants people to know he was behind the assassination, otherwise he wouldn't have used Novichok. So maybe those in
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Yeah but all the successful VC funded startup stories are a form of survivorship bias too. The whole idea of venture capital is to fund many companies that will fail with the hope of finding the one unicorn that will make up for all the lo
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I'd agree that the relationship looked like it was all but unsalvageable. The thing I don't understand is why Google insists she resigned rather than just owning that the ended things early. Saying she resigned sounds better I gu
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So this gets into nuance and I will preface this with, we don't know what her email specifically said. If you give your company a date for the cessation of your employment, that is giving notice. If you say I "will resign if&quot
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> It's also unreasonable that she will get to choose her leaving date at her own liking. When wanting to part way, either side has the full right to choose an earlier date. People choose their end date all the time. That's ju
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If someone states I will do X if you don't do Y, it still comes down to the person choosing to take some action X. If you don't take action Y, it is still on the first person to choose to take action X. She may have intended t
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> I'm curious: why is ignoring too much relevant research not a good reason to demand retraction? Isn't this one of the most common embarrassing mistakes that inexperienced researchers tend to make? I can fully understand if Go
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I could be wrong but I would think that most people would prefer being able to quietly lobby for improvement at their company rather than going public and putting their job and career on the line. There are certainly rabble rousers out the
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But Google didn't ask her to add the references, they demanded she retract the paper. In the meeting when they demanded the retraction they refused to even explain why. If those references to recent developments were the real issue,
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People certainly could just quit when they feel their company is not doing the right thing. But people who care about their mission and the company might stay and do something like this because they genuinely want to improve things. Maybe
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The paper was submitted on time, other papers at Google were submitted for review after they were released. By Jeff Dean's own admission the paper was approved for release. The demand for retraction was initially given while refusin
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That's a strange way of looking at things. The other 199988 employees aren't on her team. If they had circulated their letter widely and then only got 12 signees then we could say only 6 thousandths of a percent supported the let
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She gave a set of conditions and stated that if they couldn't be met, that she would work with Google to schedule a resignation date. Google then cut off her corporate access and terminated her employment immediately, ergo, firing. If
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I think not clearly understanding the tradeoffs was a huge factor here, but I would go one step deeper into that decision-making process. One thing that could happen when making a decision like ObjC vs Swift is that the decision makers can
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I think that's an argument for better training or a complete rethinking of training. More of the wrong training will just result in bad behavior getting more entrenched. Related to that point, defunding may actually have the opposite
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If that is indeed why the demand for retraction, why didn't they state that up front in the meeting where they told Timnit she needed to retract the paper or remove her name? Instead they initially refused to tell her the reasons for
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Is it anti-social behavior if a company tells you, 'do X or else'? Even recently plenty of companies have told employees that they can move and work remotely but they had better report it so their salary can be adjusted. The pen

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