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> In general, I've come to value neutrality and apoliticality less and less. What's "political" and what's not is loosely defined and socially constructed, and I suspect it's occasionally deliberately constr
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If a job is critical to society and nobody does it, the wage will necessarily increase. That is the beauty of the free market. A job can be critical and also have WAY too many bodies versus jobs.
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It really sounds like you are assuming people are stupider than they are. Nobody thinks McDonald's, Hungry Man XXL frozen meals, or Doritos are good for you. People know the benefits of healthy eating. And you toss out this "stres
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They have diversity programs, they aren't trying to hire exclusively women because they are cheaper. Those are two different things. Also, nobody promotes diversity because diversity it reduces payroll costs. They do it because it alle
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Well certainly EVERYONE doesn't feel the way you have described. Are there companies out there who are hiring a bunch of women and kicking ass because of it? And if so, why hasn't that success story been told and started propagati
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> That is not the case today, even in an industry like tech where genetic differences in strength have no bearing on performance. That's a big claim to make without a citation. And it really doesn't even make a ton of sense giv
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You operate on the assumption that the choice is between "work 80 hours per week" or "starve and be homeless." You have painted a false dichotomy and that destructive mindset is _exactly why_ people get stuck in shitty s
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Working hard isn't sufficient, you also have to work smart and invest in your future. If you spend 80 hours a week mowing grass, or raking leaves, or shoveling snow (season dependent), then you are working very hard. But if that's
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So on the one hand we have diversity which is touted as a strength because people of different backgrounds bring a wider range of experiences to produce the best results. But also... Somehow those otherwise impactful differences have ZERO b
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Just wanted to say thanks for sharing leafshave.com. I was using a standard safety razor for a while, but I started shaving my head and quickly abandoned the safety razor for obvious reasons. This looks like a great product that's both
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If it is something that models a real-world thing, give it the real-world name, generally. If it doesn't, it may model a well-known software pattern. Check out the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_des
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This isn't a good faith interpretation of what I said. Intentionally ignoring was already covered off on. Yes, policing someone's eye contact during a potentially high-stress situation (like an interview) is moral puritanism.
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I'm going to assume the equitable treatment you're talking about is eye contact, because I previously already addressed ignoring someone as disrespectful. Policing eye contact, absent any other context, sounds like a massively neg
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> It may not make you a bad person, but it would probably make you a bad hire. Ah yes, so the very people who champion "diversity" and "empathy" show their true colors by selecting against people with some kind of soc
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Does being shy around women make you a bad person? Does being uncomfortable around people who are different than you make you a bad person? It's one thing if someone outright ignores an interviewer (that is hugely disrespectful). It&#x
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> The root of the promo and hiring problems is this focus on individual performance. The appropriate unit of analysis for most human efforts is the group level. This is an awful idea. Rewarding individuals based on the group outcome is a
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Normalizing pay to years experience is a bad move in general, IMO. You are going to have a distribution of high and low performers at all levels of experience. If you pay all the senior people the same, you have less money to pay your high
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> Is k8s really all that hard? Build a container and you don't have to worry about provisioning it and deploying it again. No, the deployment of a container to Kubernetes isn't hard. And it better not be, that's supposed t
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> If you're using python for the web you're already part of the complexity problem, atleast from the perspective of someone deploying php 15 years ago. [...] deploying webpages used to be copy an apache config and ftp/scp
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So why can't the SF Conservancy assist by making resources available to developers who are interested? If pro bono legal representation were provided, I wager a number of developers would take up that offer.
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> * For project maintainers: The SF Conservancy can't prevent developers from working on their own project, because it is GPL-licensed and copyright holders can't retract GPL licensing once it's been given. No, they can&#x
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> I do check the level from time to time so I can be sure to charge it overnight. So here's the rub, isn't it? Consumer mice from decades ago did NOT require you to check battery levels. There's no good reason for a chargi
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> Why everything which doesn't work as someone expected is called "damned"? > ... > It's also ironic how we don't get to like systems which do limits us in severe ways, and then get angry to a system which
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Looking at this through the devil's advocate lens, it's easy to see how that kind of policy prevents a lot of people from going to college. That could be a bad thing. On the other hand, it could also be a good thing since it would
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> I don't think "tough on crime" voters strongly differentiate, based on the behaviors of the prosecutors themselves. The biggest resume priority seems to be maintaining a ludicrously high conviction percentage, which is a
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> But the electorate continues to reward "tough on crime" prosecutors. Do you believe that people who vote for "tough on crime" prosecutors are seeking harsh punishment of mistakes? Or do they want criminals acting in
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Nah, that's not why. Women, on the aggregate, like professions that are people-driven. HR is that. Recruiting is that. Nursing is that. Programming isn't.
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> What? The 2008 Mortgage Crisis was the biggest news story for at least a year. It was an event that absolutely decimated MANY people in America financially. And for many of those people, their only fault in the whole thing was, I guess
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It's cheap in terms of absolute dollar value, yes. But it's also an EXCEPTIONALLY shallow form of entertainment that I can easily approximate for free by just streaming some different movie off Netflix. I'd much rather go to
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The elites of America use "inclusivity" and race as bait to distract from the very issues you describe. Notice how we, as a society, spent relatively little time discussing the 2008 Mortgage Crisis and Occupy Wall Street. Meanwhil

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