HexagonalKitten

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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> For the sake of argument: I would perhaps argue that the skepticism itself, which is held by many in tech at the moment, could be collectively considered institutionally racist. Well, if all racism is, is some deserved skepticism then
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> "we should re-evaluate people in a race-neutral manner" Cough, no. This is where I know that's not even a rough paraphrasing because racially-neutral or sex-neutral hiring practices are not okay these days. They lead t
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
American racism, in housing for example, didn't creep in. It came in a bang with slavery and has been going away, in fits and starts ever since. How do you get from there to: > racism creeps into all of our institutions. Instead of
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> I have no doubts that she has experienced institutional racism at Google I think Google saw a black female PhD and jumped to hire her. All the boxes, and a well respected PhD. So it's hard to imagine how they'd be racist agai
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
All of which is caused by her going public with vague accusations. Had she not fought with her boss, and made the unreasonable demand of knowing who her anonymous reviewers were, she'd be able to have a nice quiet talk with a lawyer wh
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I think this is it (OP feel free to comment): IBM has made white people into a minority by moving the main work to countries where white people are a minority. This is okay. Minorities are, by definition, less frequently encountered in a po
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Do you go out of your way to listen to the internal communication and writing of all the groups? Because otherwise what you've heard only indicates who you pay attention to. For a quick intro, google Rachel Dolezal and skip the news ar
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I've had jobs where every little thing required a bunch of back and forth. Integration, and spinning up a new product. Slack (or IRC if you aren't hooked on giant emojis) work well for this. But for the rest of my work there are q
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> Perhaps read the source I linked you? The redacted Japanese one, or the Wikipedia article? The Wikipedia article doesn't contradict me. It says "serious explosion", but nothing about kilotons, and says "would eject
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> I posit that it's more about a lack of knowledge/education around good software security design/implementation than spec changes or scope creep. It probably depends on what your team is good at. I tend to work in fairly
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Show me a single project where the functional specs were complete when given to the developers and external concerns didn't dictate any implementation details. All of the projects I've been on have had changing specs, right up to
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It sounds like you're saying that to avoid drowning you merely need to swim upstream carrying all your workers. Anyways, by rich I mean the 3%, not the 0.001%. Those who are very comfortable, but who aren't captains of industry. P
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I wanted to step back to the beginning and ask why you felt that you needed to jump into a conversation with someone who was obviously much more deeply involved that you. In no way did I criticize trans people, or otherwise attack anyone o
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Twenty-five year ago that would fool people. Now things are complex enough that you can't help but leave clues even as you're trying to plant them. The DPR was caught in part from a post on Stack Overflow where he was asking a que
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It's the hardware that's the problem so we should have an fpga cloud so you can run whatever hardware you want. What would make that 600MB of javascript secure would be to auto-generate a random CPU architecture and recompile your
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
What it means is that MS is no IBM, in the sense that you may very well get fired for buying MS.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> the most egregious offenders are software developers Blame always rises. Management knows that any product without extensive review is going to be bad. They push it out the door without that review because quality costs. Stockholders k
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Do you have any idea what time window they had to generate collisions in? The MS article on the collision says the attack required knowledge of, among other things, the predictable serial numbers. They could have had as little as the usual
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I've seen the same in discussions of many things from programming to cars. For instance, FP vs Imperative, where a simple example (map for instance) is being shown and someone always compares it to a for loop, and then disses garbage c
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> Capitalism is about free market trade. A sort of freedom. Not free from taxes, free from interference. But that's really never the case. Say you buy something from a store, and you expect their use of your data to follow the ter
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Petrodollars will stop mattering when tanks and rockets stop burning hydrocarbons. Petrodollars are backed by the ability to apply force.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
And a vast majority of BTC is owned by the Bitfinex criminals who created Tether. You can't win against the bank and in this case the bank is the Ponzi schemers themselves.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Actually, all you have to do to dodge inflation is dump your idle currency into literally anything else. Rich people hang in the circles where these plans are made so you'll never take them by surprise. (It'd be interesting to loo
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It seems that this should be great cover for new ventures.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
No, I think only those who try have any chance. Is your rudeness caused by a disability?
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> In law, everything is textualism Everything should be. But 95% of everything is really people decrying textualism and actively choosing their ideology. > it's nonsense used by people to make themselves think they are smart What
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
"Fixes" that are moral hazards often don't fix anything. The schools wasted everyone's time and money, from inflated rates to useless courses. If anyone should eat the debt, it's them.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I'd be all for university debt cancellation if it was in the form of universities not getting paid. Because as you say, they provided a shitty product. And as a parent poster said, if they get paid they'll just keep or raise rates
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> It's important to understand that a majority of the violence was initiated by folks that were seeking to take advantage of the protests to carry out violence: Yeah, all of Antifa and a lot of BLM. And yes, a lot of unaffiliated lo
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> Textualism is pure nonsense, used to present a false sense of rationality No. You're just saying that people have biases and thus everything is a lie. Textualism is a thing, and exists outside of law. Textualists think that the

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