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by GVIrish 6y ago
I once worked on a federal IT contract where the project manager for the team was from another company. He was a dishonest, backstabbing snake, and it reached a point where I was quite fed up. I told my company that I was fed up and the on
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I could maybe understand the anonymity, but I don't see why the substance of the feedback that let to the whole paper getting retracted was kept secret at first. At least give the paper's authors an opportunity to update the pape
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A few things don't add up then. Timnit claims that she was told at a meeting called on short notice that her paper was being retracted because of anonymous feedback. She said she asked about the substance of the feedback and they refu
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They wouldn't even share with her the feedback on her paper to give her the opportunity to fix it. They didn't have to say who the feedback was from, but they could've at least told her the substance of the feedback.
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Sure but HR wouldn't share the feedback on her paper and give her an opportunity to update it. Instead they demanded that she retract the paper. How is it fair or standard to make someone retract a paper because of anonymous and secre
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This isn't the email that she sent with conditions she wanted met. Apparently she said she would resign if those conditions were not met, and the response to that email is that she was fired.
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It's not bad that it's profit-motivated, it's bad because it is short-sighted, greedy and consumer-hostile. This is the type of thing that is done because (many) someone's bonus is tied to some profit margin kpi, and the
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I don't think parent was assuming those measures are implemented. They were saying that they should be implemented and if they are not, it betrays seriously poor security posture at Twitter.
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> Any country that tries to make its people pay the actual cost of their emissions without the rest of the world doing the same will quickly see regime change because people aren't gonna waste a bunch of resources pissing in the win
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Yes, but that's kinda my point. Trying to remove methane from the atmosphere probably isn't a good use of resources. Methane capture at the source like what is being done at some waste processing plants makes sense though. And
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Correctly pricing in the negative externalities of burning fossil fuels is what will help us shift away from fossil fuels. And if people are gonna be upset about a decrease in standard of living because they can't buy gas guzzling cars
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Methane doesn't stay in the atmosphere very long though, so greenhouse gas capture efforts would be better spent on co2.
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It's not really a mystery, we could just bring co2 levels back in line what they were at the beginning of the 20th century. Hell, even the 1950's levels of CO2 would be great. But right now the carbon capture discussions are simp
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> A lot of these policing issues seems to come from progressive localities so I'm not sure it's even due to government unwillingness to solve the issues. Part of the reason for this is that police unions fight vigorously agai
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Why can't we do both? For people who don't own homes, we need to invest in clean energy sources for the power grid. For people that can't afford EV's now, if there were actually better demand for EV's auto manufac
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This article gets the problem right, but misses some other reasons for making personal changes to combat climate change. For one, the more people that buy products that are more environmentally-friendly, the more the market will shift towar
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Not only that, but to join the military is to join a way of life. In the military your conduct is still governed by military regulations after you go home for the day. You can't just quit the military if you want a new job. You can
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That's an interesting and I think valuable angle to all of this. Trust in institutions is absolutely key to the proper functioning of government, but it is also key to maintaining ethical behavior in any institution. If you can'
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I see this much like the Civil Rights Act. There was no way segregation was going to be ended without significant legislation and enforcement from the federal government. Bottom line is that the sort of large scale reform needed to end s
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That's a good point, but the corollary of that is, how many people were shot by the police but didn't die? And going one step further, we've seen the stat for yearly police gun homicides but as far as I know there are no reli
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What judgement? This is an indictment. If the government can prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt and he is convicted, then that would be a judgment. These are simply charges that Assange would face if he is ever extradited to the
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That is literally the issue that Hey is having right now. They have provided no means of subscribing inside the app, but now Apple is telling them that they'll remove the app from the App Store if they don't add Apple IAP. Meanw
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The issue at hand here is even for a company that has an app in the App Store that exposes no way to buy a subscription in the app at all, Apple will force you to put in the Apple IAP option, of which they will take a 30% cut. And yet, they
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The problem is that Google and Apple are a duopoly and as such both have outsized market power. And with that outsized power, Apple has regularly abused app businesses trying to make money in the App Store. From blocking apps that replicat
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When someone advocates for "taking no quarter", they're advocating for killing people. You may say the average person doesn't interpret that phrase that way, but a former Army captain like Cotton knows full well what it
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> The other alternative is to not execute search warrants in that way. When you boil it all down, this is the answer. The main reasoning behind no knock warrants is to prevent evidence destruction. The harm of a drug dealer flushing so
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Consider that it is far easier to spread misinformation/disinformation than it is to educate, and that over time there are going to be even more powerful forms of disinformation in the form of deep fakes. People have a hard time disti
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This is always my answer to people trying to justify being an asshole by comparing themselves to Steve Jobs or Michael Jordan. If you are as talented as them, maybe you can make that argument. But if you are not literally the best in the
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Maybe it wasn't a great sacrifice. But how many powerful and well-off people do nothing at all? Maybe if more people like him took action, even if the personal cost is relatively modest, more things would change for the better.
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Maybe so, but recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new employees is expensive. If turnover at AWS suddenly spiked it would inflict some pain on the company. Yeah there are always people applying, but institutional knowledge would suffe

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