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by adamsea 7y ago
Why is it not immoral? My first thought would be, it is. Only a naive reading of the law reaches the conclusion that "if it's legal, it must be moral." And morality 101 is kind of, "with great power comes great responsib
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by adamsea 7y ago
> Must we blind ourselves to the good in order to recognize the bad? ... or blind ourselves to the bad in order to feel good?
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by adamsea 7y ago
Has anyone ever built an interface ( software and / or custom keyboard ) specifically for interfacing with the terrible UI / ergonomics of COBOL / mainframe systems like this? Basically, has anyone ever built modern dev tooli
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by adamsea 7y ago
Hotels. Parking. Restaurants. Not sound?
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by adamsea 7y ago
Shorter - 2-3 sentences. Less is more : ).
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by adamsea 7y ago
Amazon has a really good reputation for treating its warehouse employees well so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. /s. Obviously, I mean the opposite ; )
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yes. And / or a law : ).
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by adamsea 7y ago
I agree. However as someone who read Enders Game as a kid but didn’t know any better I get some folks emotional attachment. I have fond memories though if I read it now there’s a good chance I’d hate it. Yet I’d recommend those folks who ar
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by adamsea 7y ago
Distrusting social skills, linguistic ability, and emotional intelligence doesn't sound like a recipe for success. It's not like there aren't plenty of engineers, scientists, math folks, i.e. those "honest", quantit
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by adamsea 7y ago
IMHO the SAT is no more objective than an essay, grades in school, or any of the other things you listed. What is the SAT objectively measuring? Not math. Not logic. Not writing ability. It's objectively measuring the ability to succee
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by adamsea 7y ago
Go talk to your friends who have elderly parents or grandparents and see what they think about that. Go have the courage of your convictions and go talk to some elderly people and explain that to them, see what they think about that. I know
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by adamsea 7y ago
What would be really, really nice is if after the crisis passes the world's best institutions and minds continue to get a significant amount of funding to apply those remarkable science and engineering capabilities for the sake of huma
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by adamsea 7y ago
It's just not a healthy or grounded (or accurate) approach to encourage hero worship.
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by adamsea 7y ago
There is so much the US could have done if it had exercised an international leadership role earlier in the crisis. And the current administration messed up big time by not manufacturing sufficient coronavirus tests and instituting some sor
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by adamsea 7y ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense, from a public health perspective, to put that money into the existing local institutions (hospitals, health clinics, food banks) which are vital and soon may be strained to the breaking point?
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by adamsea 7y ago
Some people screamed about it. And, for better or worse, right and wrong are not measured by the number of people screaming about something :).
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by adamsea 7y ago
A ship isn’t on fire for years.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yeah but the parent comments point is that “life and death for a company” is categorically different from life and death for human beings, ie actual life and death.
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by adamsea 7y ago
The difference is killing, trauma, and death.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Hello sir. Good luck. In addition to all the other good advice, if there is someone you know and respect, and who has a stable living situation overall, I would strongly encourage reaching out to them and ask for help and meeting with them
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by adamsea 7y ago
> an extreme level of institutional instability. My first guess would be colonialism and its consequences.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Well until we create a more peaceful world we will not have the opportunity to find out. Also I don’t think Russia, China, Iran, etc, are any less ignorant than the US. Differently ignorant, maybe ;). Which is not to give those countries a
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by adamsea 7y ago
There is a broader point to the quote which I think your comment does not touch upon. Put simply, war is never good, it damages even the victors, and, the necessity of being prepared for it should not blind us to its costs. We all come from
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by adamsea 7y ago
What about Bell Labs? Xerox PARC? I think those examples show that R&D without an immediate return can be a rational decision for a corporation.
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by adamsea 7y ago
We definitely have safety nets. Ours just cost more and give less. To be fair we are also a much larger country with more diversity (especially of culture) than many countries with robust social safety nets. Basically what I want to know is
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by adamsea 7y ago
Is it common for C-level positions? What’s the overall percentage of non white dudes as you go higher up the ladder at these places? How many of the VCs are not white men? I ask because I think these questions are useful heuristics to look
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by adamsea 7y ago
They often - or maybe even usually - get paid less for the same work. Plenty of studies and articles out there discussing this from both sides (saying it happens, saying it doesn’t) so imho google is the best way to go if you are curious.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Requirements gathering in reality can often require more soft skills or political skills, which doesn’t seem to be the primary focus of these interviews. Which isn’t to say the skills you mention aren’t important.
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by adamsea 7y ago
I feel to urge to add a little color to this statement. Let’s recall that, beyond whatever assertions the poster is making here, the countries in question didn’t allow Jewish people to practice other trades. “ The result of those occupation
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by adamsea 7y ago
Everyone is motivated by different things. It makes sense that some people are motivated by the craft of software development, which overlaps with, but is not the same as, product development or running a successful business.

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