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by branweb 6y ago
yeah I've always heard it was Crockford. Do you have a substantiating source you'd mind sharing, op?
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by branweb 6y ago
I'm no media expert but this seems like a plausible explanation. Increasingly the American press seems to be less about "disclosing important news to people so they can judge what is happening in the world" as the article say
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by branweb 6y ago
Aside from the legality, what does this say about whatever role the friend was doing (assuming this is true of course)? I've heard from friends who work at FAANG that it's fairly easy to hide in the bureaucracy and do no real work
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by branweb 6y ago
I'm obviously not saying the work can't be exhausting.
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by branweb 6y ago
you raise some valid points but I disagree with your conclusion. Tech is a gravy train compared to most jobs. I say this as someone who transitioned into it from a more physical blue-collar job and just went through the interview process re
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by branweb 6y ago
hmm the 50% number comes from https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-134/Accenture-A4-GWC... , which seems to get the figure from a 2016 study ( https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files&#
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by branweb 6y ago
I think maybe the quoted response should be ""If we wanted this, we WOULDN'T have hired an architect." That clarifies the meaning at least.
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by branweb 6y ago
Doesn't make you feel any better about the original claim or about the fact that the abuses took place? To your first point: I have a problem with the unsourced claim that there have been 1000 instances in the past 10 years, which I co
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by branweb 6y ago
Totally agree that "US internal issues" bring nothing valuable to this discussion. Also agree that truth matters. I don't think that can be said enough these days. My comment about the discussion of slavery/prison inmate
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by branweb 6y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm just trying to get some clarification on the original statement. The source I was able to dig up is from 8 years ago, and was reporting on incidents stretching back 23 years ago. The op menti
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by branweb 6y ago
It's not inconceivable that Uighur human rights abuses are being used for political purposes. Certainly a healthy dose of skepticism is not uncalled for. Yet the people who respond to such reports with outraged knee-jerk accusations of
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by branweb 6y ago
From the linked article: "The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands" Maybe the article is mistaken? It seems like qui
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by branweb 6y ago
I dislike internet flamewars with glib calls for "source pls", but this seems like a pretty extraordinary claim to make with no substantiating evidence. Over 1000? According to who? I found this wapo article from 2012: https:&#x2
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by branweb 6y ago
Don't forget forced sterilization: https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c The attitude of someone who reacts to this with "what about the antebellum south!" is beyond my understanding.
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by branweb 6y ago
Thanks for the links! I wonder if Andy (or anyone else) has addressed the lack of images in these notes. Some ideas are expressed much better visually, but I have yet to figure out a frictionless way of integrating things drawn in a noteboo
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by branweb 6y ago
ah i see that and yeah after reviewing the concept of evergreen notes, I think your assumption is a safe one ...though the original post (pre-edit) was something like "oy using volume of notes written as a gatekeeper for knowledge work
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by branweb 6y ago
what's the problem with it? Isn't a good metric going to be numeric, kinda of necessity?...also since these are his personal notes, shouldn't we assume the "you" there means himself? So who's he keeping outside
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by branweb 6y ago
Was expecting to bypass this pretty quickly, but this is great! Lots of interesting ideas about how to gain and use knowledge effectively. Spaced repetition for habit formation, non-linear reading as the norm, needing a writing surface to t
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by branweb 6y ago
Ah thanks for the suggestion. Yep that is a pretty nice solution. Grouping the ask to ask ("would anybody be available to answer a question") with the question avoids the tedium of prefacing your question with standalone messages,
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by branweb 6y ago
I agree it's better to just ask, but whenever I catch myself asking to ask, it's not due to laziness but rather to (perhaps misguided) politeness. Sometimes it feels a little abrupt to dm someone or bust into a team channel and ju
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by branweb 6y ago
ha this was wonderful, thank you! Tangent: his fox in sox one is epic.
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by branweb 6y ago
yep I don't disagree with you. I can see how my comment reads like I'm casting blame solely on corporate lobbying, but it's obviously more complicated than that--money in politics, etc.
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by branweb 6y ago
Maybe so but to me it seems achievable. Lot's of other countries have such a system. Why would it be so much harder to achieve here? Also it seems to me we don't have much to lose. Our choices were: pay intuit or give our personal
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by branweb 6y ago
That's encouraging!
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by branweb 6y ago
Would this even matter if the tax-prep industry hadn't successfully lobbied against a free government-prepared return system? https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
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by branweb 6y ago
Not the op but I wish downvoters would comment giving their reasons. I remember seeing something about this in the atlantic a while back, and it would be good to know if/why it's a bad argument.
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by branweb 6y ago
The article concludes with this: Against this background, we argue that preserving employability cannot and should not solely be the burden of the developers themselves. Companies should take their share of responsibility, en
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by branweb 6y ago
hmm maybe I've misunderstood the parent comment or the PG essay. I read them like this: Parent comment: I haven't felt censored, therefore there is no problem. PG essay: This isn't a good argument for the absence of censorshi
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by branweb 6y ago
I think there's some truth in what you say, but as a counterpoint, consider this essay Paul Graham wrote a few weeks back: http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html . Namely this part: The more conventional-minded someon
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by branweb 6y ago
I like this approach and used something similar for a while myself. For me the main drawback was syncing between devices. I had to remember to commit and push on one device and then pull on another. Maybe not a big deal for lecture notes, b

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