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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
I don't think big businesses have ever avoided politics. Try being openly gay and get hired in the 80s or being a woman trying to be an executive in the 80s. Businesses did openly discriminate. And that is political. The shift happened
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
After the crash of FTX, it's going to take a long time for anyone to trust anything that has blockchain in its description. Fair or unfair, the entire ecosystem is tainted. I'm also suspicious of claims that an algorithm is uncorr
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
You seem extremely angry about a Twitter outage. Have you considered going outside and getting some fresh air?
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Most of the gains in Bitcoin are highly correlated with gains in the SP500. The times that it tends to decouple is when Bitcoin is crashing due to Bitcoin problems. So definitely not a great inflation hedge and definitely a rather risky ass
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
BioNTech has been approved for foreigners but that's going to be too little, too late. China has a higher vaccination rate than the US but not in the elderly which is most at risk from Covid.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
I really enjoyed the interplay of managing complex programmatic state, virtual economics, and community in a much earlier era. I was also entertained by the connections to blockchain in a situation where it would have been (actually) useful
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> Why don't you segregate funds between Wikipedia and the rest of WMF? Managing restricted donations is a pain from an accounting perspective and incurs a lot of overhead. I don't deal with nonprofits at WMF's size, but mo
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Yes, I should be more civil in my comment and thank you for pointing it out. I find the tone of "engineers, developers smart, everyone else dumb" to be really tiresome; and when it becomes self congratulatory, it becomes really ir
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> its only engineers that I’ve heard say “oh yeah..” Yes - only engineers are capable of independent and rational thought. The orange site continues to sniff its own farts.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Yes, we're about 100 people in total with a leadership team of sevenish. Adding the regular offsites has actually increased accountability and ferreted out who is effective and who is not; and ended tolerance for those who are not.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
So there is lots of grouchiness in this thread. Maybe I'll try and give some comments on how these can be productive. I'm in a remote working firm that provides IT services. We get together as a leadership team once a quarter to r
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
I mean, he did commit to buying them $44 billion. If he didn't want to buy them, he shouldn't have signed a contract agreeing to do so. You can't argue that Musk doesn't know what a contract is and can't get decent
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
We keep seeing actions from Kiwifarms that include doxing, swatting,and cyber bullying that lead to the suicide and death of people. If you're saying that swatting is free speech, then we've pushed the idea of speech beyond all re
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
No, but any reasonable examination of Kiwifarms shows a history of swatting, doxing, and bullying that has led to suicides. If I had a hosting business, I don't see why I should be required to carry their content or provide service to
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Suddenly everyone who attacks Moon supposedly committed sexual assault and is a groomer or some other slanderous attack. Moon should put up or shut up.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Kiwifarms has gone way past free speech and onto active harassment. To fly this one as a free speech issue is disingenuous. To act like censorship is the issue here is pretty ripe.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Free speech is the right for penis pill sellers to post incessantly.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
I disagree. Private schools self select their student population. Most private schools do not take students with special needs or students with really difficult home lives - and those students deserve education. Once private schools have to
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> This is the greatest German catastrophe in 80 years. It is an existential threat to the German (and, thus, European) economy and nation. Any other topic half as serious would occupy far more of these subreddits' front pages. And i
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
That's good feedback. I'll have to give another go.
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
I always want to like Perl, but I struggle to find use cases that aren't better served by Python or Go on the web side; or just straight bash on the sysadmin side.
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Crypto Winter: Three Fundamental Problems on why Crypto/DeFi is still failing(davidschenz.com)
1 points by d_e_solomon 4y ago|0 comments
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
We're long past the time when we need to be concerned about maximizing children output as a societal goal. I'm much more interested in ensuring people have lives with meaning and growth than trying to pop out as many children as p
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
You poor oppressed baby. How mean those liberals/gays are to you that they ask you to call them by their preferred name and pronoun. You're so brave in resisting our hegemony!
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
Sure, there's process at most jobs for disciplining employees - but there are generally still consequences for speech that is racist, sexist, and so on. If a company doesn't enforce those standards, they will probably find their l
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> Cancelling means someone losing their financial safety and that of their family for expressing their opinion. If your response to this is "tough luck", I'd say you're showing a lot of privilege, and lack of empathy
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> by deign of grievance. What you call a grievance is someone's life. > You should absolutely be allowed to make terrible jokes about that, people are also allowed to tell you you're not funny. And you might face consequenc
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by d_e_solomon 4y ago
> Respect is earned Respect isn't earned in polite society at some base level. I say "Good Morning" to the people I meet on my run not because they saved five children from a burning building, but because they're peop
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Self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane(theguardian.com)
11 points by d_e_solomon 5y ago|4 comments
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by d_e_solomon 5y ago
That's a lovely system. I would definitely put my hand through the spike accidentally!

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