arthur_pryor

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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
if any part of the tech industry needs unions, it's content screeners: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
yeah, and i'm absolutely not trying to justify this outcome, just trying to think out loud about the unsatisfactory state of things.
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
less constructively: taxpayers who complain about bad infrastructure but who don't want to pay taxes to fund better infrastructure can shut the fuck up. please, <municipality>, take my money. build me a decent public transit sy
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
ha, i did not see this comment before posting mine, but the irony was not lost on me. or rather, is it even ironic? it seems totally germane to a forum full of geeks with a wide spectrum of interests, many (most?) of whom are software devs
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
besides the inherent difficulty of estimating the resources required to finish a large project that hasn't been done before... i think what willie brown describes here is also part of the problem providing estimates for the time requir
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
the janitors at my office don't get paid enough, and don't get valued enough. AFAIK, we contract out our janitorial work, so that we don't have to pay benefits, etc. it's shameful. > Janitorial work always has been
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
the point is, by removing the "least bad" option of an 8 year old working a coal mine, we were forced to improve our labor practices overall. if kids don't have a better option than working in a coal mine at 8, society needs
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> However, free speech and oppression of democracy is not a moral wrong. i and many others disagree with this statement. > "Free speech" in the west means the Government shouldn't censor speech,this is a relativly new c
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
why downvote this comment? i'm not saying you have to agree with it, but this seems like as universally accepted an answer to "what are basic human rights?" as any that might be given (i'm assuming there is actually no u
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
that does not sound like a realistic course of action for a resource constrained group whose primary mission is not technology development. a minority group should not have to deal primarily with people in that group just to be treated fair
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> We do, but it’s a broader problem than simply “minorities incur racism”. Racism manifests in all directions and while it’s valid to have support for minorities, it is nonetheless divisive that our society only takes racism seriously in
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i'd also be super interested in seeing this put up. if i'm being honest with myself i probably wouldn't be able to contribute (lack of time, don't have much C++ experience and even less graphics experience). but i alwa
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i don't see anything here that contradicts the parent. which is to say, preventative and maintenance care are important, and i don't see any of that in what you described. parent's talking about emergency care. you're
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> The people who would want to nix such a shelter would probably want it nixed whether it was in their proverbial "backyard" or not i guess i don't have any more hard evidence at hand than what you present here, but my gu
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
this thing is great. don't have time to listen to it right now and see if it's changed at all, but when i listened to it last summer, i loved it. feels all too real. i opened a radio show with 5 minutes of it once. then i sent
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> Rehabilitation isn't transactional, and a debt to society isn't something that can be repaid with cash. well said. concise and correct, IMO.
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i agree that's one way to read it, but it seems plausible to me that the intent really was just as a winnable end-run around abolition.
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> > Some economists hope that we could use prediction markets to make difficult political decisions. > Political decisions aren't verfiable fact questions, so they aren't really subject to prediction markets. You could us
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
only if you just claim to live there for tax benefits, but don't actually reside in the state.
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
amen to that. i appreciate type checking so much more now than i used to, and i find that i disliked it most when i needed it most (i.e., i blanched at it more when i was a worse programmer, even more likely to make type errors than i am no
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i'm moderately hopeful that we'll get that sort of querying for free* as the semantic web matures, and we can better query federated linked data. university libraries are pretty keen on making that dream a reality (and this is th
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
because then you wouldn't get a chance to say "blockchain"
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
...right, but then you have to figure out explicit metrics for determining what "prestige" is, and you have to explicitly implement the mechanics of it. i think this is a worthwhile research project of its own (or many research p
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i'd prefer a robust public safety net to corporate welfare. but again, i find it more likely that comcast and the like would become competitive and less obscenely profitable, as opposed to going out of business entirely. and if the pen
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> Shareholders are also people. Some shareholders are large and rich. Some are small. Some are pension funds that want their members to receive dividends and returns. right. i didn't say i'm happy that shareholders will lose m
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> The money has got to come from somewhere sure, but the total operating cost can be lower, because they don't have to rake in profit. said another way, the profit-making imperative is operating overhead that a municipal ISP doesn&
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
B) for sure. i haven't had that used as an interview technique on me, but i've been on the interviewing end of that, and the feedback from the candidates was great. additionally, we felt it gave a great sense of what it'd b
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
i'd posit that if an employer can't find a decent pool of current employees to potentially pair program with an interviewee, they have deeper problems than getting that upcoming interview right, and need to correct for some past h
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
add to that the way they let him go: > Surprised by his unexplained freedom, Watson walked out of a federal detention center in rural Alabama. He recalled how he was penniless, in prison garb and thousands of miles from home when he appr
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by arthur_pryor 9y ago
To me, it seems clear that Backpage was well outside of the safe harbor of section 203. They knew full well what they were doing, and knowingly helped facilitate a lot of illegal (and in my opinion immoral) activity. EDIT: the part that i

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