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by arcwhite 4y ago
I think "assume good faith" has to be taken as something of a Prisoner's Dilemma proposition. You don't want to be a dove, and keep assuming good faith when it hurts. Assume good faith initially because it least has a ch
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by arcwhite 4y ago
Where are you getting this theory that there was an impact event that.killed off both the megafauna and the Clovis people's off? Everything (credible) I'm able to find suggests/theorises that the Clovis differentiated into di
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by arcwhite 5y ago
The perception of the possibility of the perception of industrial espionage is usually enough to get a lawyer choked up in cases like this - I wasn't saying there WAS industrial espionage, just that there might have been the possibilit
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by arcwhite 5y ago
> CFAA isn't going away There's some pretty concerted efforts in play to at least have it updated and tempered, which could have legs. I don't hold much hope it'll go away but I do think some of these efforts to have
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by arcwhite 5y ago
Lots of people suggesting that either company was out of line here, but like, CFAA is still a thing (assuming OP is in the USA) and it's still got gnarly teeth. Let alone the possibility of industrial espionage allegations... If you&#x
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by arcwhite 5y ago
Yeah, lick that boot! > Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people go to prison each year in the US and don't feel the need to kill themselves Plenty do, and plenty die while they're in prison. This is not a rational justifica
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by arcwhite 5y ago
Bugcrowd | Multiple Roles | Hybrid Remote (Australia, US) | Full-Time | https://www.bugcrowd.com Bugcrowd crowdsources hackers and applies them to cybersecurity work to find and fix critical vulnerabilities faster. We facilitate
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by arcwhite 10y ago
In my experience automated tools are generally fairly rubbish for this kind of work... which is not to say it's impossible, just that you'd want some real smarts in said tool
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by arcwhite 14y ago
Allegedly. I see plenty of people speaking their minds, on either side of the issue, and many of them are reasonable. I'm left to wonder how one can be so certain that 'the most reasonable people' (by what metric? In whose judgement?) are '
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by arcwhite 14y ago
I totally agree with you that there are many problems here. I have also seen the research on male literacy and numeracy rates, and agree with you that there's a problem there that needs to be tackled. That does not invalidate this problem
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by arcwhite 14y ago
All the examples you cite are relevant to an individual; they do not stop the gender as a whole exerting their voice in halls of power. (You also end up mixing a lot of other weird demographic data in there that could be caused by existing
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by arcwhite 14y ago
I have never once seen this happen at any place I've worked. I counter your anecdotal evidence with my own anecdotal evidence and we all have to go away and get some real data!
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by arcwhite 14y ago
Young coined that term 'meritocracy' in satire; I feel it remains a ridiculous concept. Who judges what is meritorious? The entrenched majority? Won't they tend to think along similar lines and discount dissenting opinions as lacking merit?
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by arcwhite 14y ago
"Instead of actually choosing the best candidates based on their best abilities, we now resort to purposely choosing people based on their sex or race." I call bulltwang. Please provide evidence of this supposed systematic selection of 'min
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by arcwhite 14y ago
To those saying that "this is discrimination is it is morally wrong" (and I don't think this event constitutes discrimination, but here goes): 1. Should we then do away with gender segregated sports teams? 2. Should other minorities (e.g. L
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by arcwhite 14y ago
It's real simple. Sexual harassment is not okay. Tolerating that behaviour in others is not okay. Inviting a known problem-person to conferences is not okay. We can prevaricate about the "truth" of her story (and this particular incident) a
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by arcwhite 15y ago
And I should probably link to the project ahem : http://pygg.co
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by arcwhite 15y ago
I work for Pollenizer (@pollenizer on twitter) - I'm engineering lead on Pygg. I do a lot of stuff out of work hours too, would be more than happy to chat. I'm @arcwhite on Twitter
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by arcwhite 16y ago
Mmm. Thinking about it, I can't think of a positive connotation of the word "hipster", or even a neutral one, so given that; you're right - it's become a slur, and probably worth abandoning as a term. I realise what I'm describing sounds li
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by arcwhite 16y ago
Well, by that logic, we should abandon all labels altogether. Down with identification of groups of people! Cast off the oppressive shackles of classification! Down here in Australia, "Hipsters" are an easily recognizable and quite specific
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by arcwhite 16y ago
We'd almost done that - had a brilliant marketing plan drawn up and everything; then burnout hit myself and my business partner (hard). The coup de grace was delivered by the GFC (Even here in Australia, small businesses were hit - and all
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by arcwhite 16y ago
Seconded. It's not a done deal until the money is in your bank account. If someone offers something, you write a Memorandum of Understanding at least to clarify the details. Also, never trust anyone who asks for a little bit of work at a
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by arcwhite 16y ago
Trying to run a service-based dev business to support creation of products. That consulting grew to consume 100% of our usable time and resulted in a period of pretty intense burnout, personally.
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by arcwhite 16y ago
Travel is probably the best thing to spend money on. Get out. See the world. It's big and it's weird and you come back a better person for having reveled in it. (I did 2 months last year - 1 month in Thailand/Laos, 1 month in Europe & E