alien_at_work

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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>What is an 'objective opinion'? Look, things like murder or pedophilia are unabigiously evil. So it's not out of line or particularly dangerous to say that a person who engages in one of those activities or supports&#x2F
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
No individual owes me that, but this goes far beyond that. You have to keep in mind that any oppinion shared on line represents more than the person expressing it. And it may change the minds of others reading it. If anyone who works on
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
You find labelling people is in invitation to a debate? So if you find yourself in a position where you desperately need a job but upper management says "I think people of race X are <racial slur>" you would take that as an
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
First of all, it's not you specifically. On a forum it never is. When we post here we represent a certain portion of the population. And things like censorship have proven to be very dangerous so we have to be careful. In your secon
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
At the very least we need to consider the culture. In our culture there are things where we consider them unambigously immoral and anyone engaging in them or even defending them is as well. But we have other things that are at least contr
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I agree with that. "Don't go around pissing off co-workers" is a sensible rule. But it's also our responsibility to not look for reasons to be offended. If you ask me about something I'm not going to lie. But I&
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Well the jail comparison is really far away. People in the west, right now, are going to jail for expressing oppinions. Right now those oppinions are universally seen as bad (e.g. rascism) but does that justify going to jail? >boyco
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I haven't censored anyone or shut down any argument by saying this You haven't shut down any argument by saying "anyone who works on this is a bad person"? Seriously? I happen to think the exact opposite: life exte
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>How am I supposed to work with someone who thinks a huge part of my life is immoral? So everyone needs to ensure they hold no oppinions you might find offensive or be homeless? It goes both ways: how am I supposed to work with someone
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
The issue is that what we're discussing is not objectively unethical. If we were discussing disecting live babies, then no one would disagree that anyone for that is unethical and even evil. But extending human life? We don't k
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>Isn't this just asking for your ideas to not be criticized? No, he's asking not to be critisized for his ideas. And it's troubling to me that you think what you presented is a proper discourse but I guess that's w
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>with the left favoring various forms of scientific or empirical epistemology What is scientific or empirical about safe spaces and identity politics?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I'm personally not obsessed with removing NN. I was just pointing out that you don't need to have it if you have proper competition. It's not the kind of thing that simply needs to be everywhere. If you already have it, fi
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
How I dispise this meme. If you have real competition you don't need or want NN regulation. Monopolies are the problem and NN is a sub-optimal solution precisely because it's permanently one pen stroke away from being eradicated
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
> In this case, the financial penalties imposed on the companies themselves seem like a more effective tool. I disagree with this part. Fining the company just pushes prices up to compensate for the loss. It might cause the company to
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I think the point is that sometimes showing documentation that something exists isn't enough for everyone to "get it". Sometimes you need some kind of technology evangelist to show something really cool they did with a featu
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Go seems to be a study in how to ignore decades of both acedemic research and practical experience. Did no one learn from Java that code generation is a red flag that something is wrong with your language?
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Yes, it's amazing that a language made when Go was is basically a version 1.5 of languages made 40 years ago. C had the worst possible error handling and Go has swooped in to take the second spot. The very best error handling I know o
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Exactly right. If all computer languages were created anonymously, Go would be less popular than BF.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Haskell is an evolving language and the error story isn't entirely resolved yet. Personally, I like the MonadThrow stategy which gives the flexibility to the caller but the IO story gets in the way. So yes, it can be messy when using
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Both are very obviously war criminals. Hitler's actions were obviously more egregious but war criminal is just a person who commits one or more war crimes (regarless of scope), which they both (amoung many, many others) did.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
They do have an importer between all games, afaik. I know you can take the saves from CK2 and import them into EU4. It's a DLC on steam.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I disagree with this, I like how it is right now. For certain kinds of code I need things like FlexibleInstances that I absolutely wouldn't want enabled everywhere. As it currently stands in Haskell I can turn it on only in the files
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Actually, the main thing that gives money value is the fact that you have to pay your taxes in it. If you live in the US, you might be able to live day-to-day with nothing but BTC but when tax time comes you'll be converting some of t
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
> like yelling fire in a theater I hate that this example is always used. Yelling fire in a theator for a laugh isn't "expressing ideas". It's a kind of social fraud: in some sense we depend on each other to make so
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
I think this "zero tolerance for all the things" is more dangerous than the things it targets in most cases. I assume Tesla is a very high stress place (at least at times). I don't know if you've ever experienced a high
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
Not sure where you're working but in every US company I've ever worked for management behaved like Linus and worse and it wasn't them getting fired.
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/552/
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
>I think you must have worked for some horribly unprofessional companies. I have for sure, but the worst of those companies was better than fortune 5 (if I said exactly, you'd know which company), so while primitive they obviously m
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by alien_at_work 9y ago
No, what we need to do is stop listening to fragile cry babies. If you ever work for a real company with real deadlines you'll get a lot worse than what he gave. And he only responded this way after 3 weeks of unacceptable behavior.

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