ajhurliman

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by ajhurliman 9y ago
"EthicsFactor is 1 or 0. There is no in-between." I can't wrap my head around how naive this sounds. You've never come across morally-grey situations?
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by ajhurliman 9y ago
I truly feel awful for the family, but to play devil's advocate: What could you do if you were in Uber's position to prevent something like this? And no cop-out answers like "Don't make an environment that pressures peop
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
I'm glad he did act out, though. Ultimately, he's doing so on our behalf as passengers. When United freaks out about negative PR they're conditioned to be more wary about pushing customers around. If I were in his position I&
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
"this guy is a creep whose Gorean fantasies are linked to regressive views" Judging people for the type of sex they have? Isn't this the same sort of reasoning that led to persecuting the LGBT+ community?
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
Or maybe it was because the controls didn't eat anything at all. "A possible explanation [for increased alertness[... is the simple presence of consuming breakfast vs. not consuming breakfast,"
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
Code Fellows grad here. I went from a $50k mechanical engineering job to a $130k web dev job (consulting) directly after completing the program.
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
By their wording, it seems like they're more focused on the outcome of the hiring process. No black managers is the outcome, and they said that's unacceptable. If you look at the process instead of the outcome, it might not be the
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by ajhurliman 10y ago
This strikes me as centralized planning for jobs. It seems like the best way to go about this is focusing on the pool of applicants and making sure everyone gets a fair shake. Making assumptions about the outcome of those hiring decisions i
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by ajhurliman 11y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks :)
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by ajhurliman 11y ago
Rooftops?
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by ajhurliman 11y ago
In bursts! I try to do something meaningful for my side project about once a week. If it's side-project night, I put my phone on airplane-mode and tell the lady-friend I'm booked up so I can concentrate for a solid ~5 hours withou