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by _djo_ 4y ago
I could believe that if people like Musk were still amplifying centrists on the right, but they're not. They're amplifying the more extreme far-right figures and bankrolling politicians with far from mainstream views. This idea th
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by _djo_ 4y ago
We don't know this. The reason for the suspension is not given. It may as well be part of the big bot purge. Why give Musk the benefit of the doubt in this way? The @elonjet account was a properly registered automated account going t
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by _djo_ 4y ago
This was not an inauthentic account pretending to be a real person, which is the type of bot you want purged, it was a properly registered account using the Twitter API in a way that said it was a bot.[0] So it makes no sense for it to have
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Really not sure what you're trying to argue here. The workers are the people truly suffering. Not getting laid off with a cushy severance package or not being allowed to work from home. There can be suffering in both, this isn't
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Not every reaction against entrenched capital is a carbon copy rerun of the Bolshevik takeover.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The vast majority of workers in tech don't get equity, and certainly not at those scales, to be fair. Most are labor, as properly defined. They may earn less, but it's the same business relationship.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Sure, but I don't see how that contradicts what is being said here. You're assuming that commentators are welcoming a violent uprising because they think it would benefit them, but they're not. They're warning that one i
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Revolutions are usually led by members of privileged classes, backed by the angry masses. Nobody here is saying they desire that type of violent unrest, they're saying it's a likely outcome unless we change course, because as bad
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Well put. Aside from tools to enable remote work, which was already a strength area, big tech was woefully inadequate at providing rapid innovation to solve a major pandemic. Indeed, all the major cash-flush companies doubled down on non me
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No. This isn’t the definition used in the official COVID death statistics published by the ONS. That’s based on a stricter definition, requiring that COVID-19 appear as a cause of death on the death certificate. The definition listed here i
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Contextually this is clearly about people who died of disease, rather than accidents. It actually represented a tightening of the earlier definition, therefore resulting in the number of deaths defined as being from COVID-19 being reduced b
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That's a very poor source to be relying on. Actual studies of the COVID death rate in the Nordics all show Sweden having a much worse mortality rate. [0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1403
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by _djo_ 4y ago
It's a misconception that life went on as normal in Sweden. Plenty of activities were reduced or curtailed and business and personal travel from surrounding countries was dramatically reduced. Even so, it saw much higher mortality rate
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by _djo_ 4y ago
None of those are calculated to come anywhere close to the excess deaths caused by COVID. Overall, suicide rates in most countries either dipped or remained the same. [0][1] Whether or not police brutality saw an increase, its effect on mor
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by _djo_ 4y ago
None of the actual engineers involved in Twitter said it would crash and burn immediately. Nor have other SREs. The belief in an imminent complete collapse was mostly amongst non specialists. But SREs including former Twitter employees have
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No, the seizure of contraband on the high seas and blockades are entirely separate things in terms of international law. You’re confusing the two. Blockades have always, up until fairly recent times, legally included the blocking of foodstu
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Except that the semantic shift of triage to also meaning any under pressure prioritisation of too-scarce resources, including in a project sense, is decades-old and predates its usage in tech. This is a case of tech adopting business jarg
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Sorry, yes. I was recalling it from memory and mixed the two up. My apologies. I meant the London Declaration. You are selectively and misleadingly quoting it, and confusing the concepts of contraband, which can be pursued on the high seas,
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by _djo_ 4y ago
If that's the way you're sharing those claims, it's no wonder you're getting pushback. You're taking a nuanced and complicated subject and reducing it to a single misleading assertion. First, of course the blockade
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter has been okay for its users and advertisers, not 'very dissatisfactory'. The fact that it has not seen a flight of both in the past 5-10 years is evidence of that. There are arguments that it could have been better, of cou
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Triage isn't a word that came out of tech, though. It's a term from the medical field, specifically for trauma care, and effectively means prioritisation under pressure. A product manager really should know and understand this, be
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That doesn't match my experience. Sure, there's the usual set of performative announcements of leaving by those who are terminally online and can't really bear to go somewhere without the same level of engagement, but I'
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You're missing the point. I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm saying there is a social cost and friction involved, which makes it a not so easy choice especially for younger people just starting their careers and needi
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nope. Also if you want to share the same experiences as your friends and colleagues, such as joining for Friday drinks, going with them on holidays, going to concerts and other events together. Of course it doesn't mean you should do
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by _djo_ 4y ago
To be fair, that clearly represents a bubble viewpoint of its own and it shows you don't use Twitter. You also may find that a lot of people in your real world social circle do use Twitter but don't publicise it, because they&#x
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Also interesting that both of those comments were from brand-new users.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
As just one example of why that's a flawed way of looking at it, things like alimony and child support are calculated on your income, not on how much you actually live on and put away in savings. So a person earning $120k will all else
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nah. Those were the earliest days, but Twitter has been rock solid for about a decade now. Outages and service degradations were extremely rare. The Fail whale itself got retired in 2013, and there hasn't been a complete global outage
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by _djo_ 4y ago
These aren't intended for base load at all, they're Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) stations meant to be used for short peak loads, but because of the power crisis they're being run continuously. Eskom's OCGTs are combined
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Pipelines can be repaired and one of the NS2 pipes was left undamaged. As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion Russia blew up the Georgian pipeline transporting gas between the two countries once before.

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