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by dongslol 10y ago
I think the idea of "victim-blaming" has morphed into its own beast. We're so scared of doing it that asking for evidence or asking critical questions is now in a weird way associated with victim blaming. Everyone in this thr
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by dongslol 10y ago
Social justice fundamentally needs an economic basis to stand on. If you want to stop sexual harassment, install a financial penalty. * The internet was supposed to democratize this stuff. People like Balaji Srinivasan say the FDA should be
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by dongslol 10y ago
Fair enough, and further to your point, apparently men do react with disproportionately more shock than women in response to stories like these. I think your point would've been better made if you'd written this comment first, ins
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by dongslol 10y ago
I feel like you're getting downvoted to death for the same reason atheists are more disliked than agnostics: "there is no god" is more offensive than "there's insufficient evidence that there is a god." Persona
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by dongslol 10y ago
As it happens, I disagree with mjolk on this, in that I'm inclined from my experience to find Amy's story pretty believable. However, HN has lost its mind if merely saying you don't believe a story is now flag-worthy. Why sho
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by dongslol 10y ago
Wanting evidence is privileged? Is everything but complete credulity now considered "privileged?" She doesn't have to, but putting it that way, people don't have to believe her. Has the word "privileged" so los
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No Evidence of Disease (2012)(idlewords.com)
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by dongslol 10y ago
Certainly, but why necessarily at the hiring level? Why is citing the pipeline problem inherently lazy?
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by dongslol 10y ago
Is there a refutation to the argument that all these "diversity for diversity's sake" programs, this sort of frantic insistence upstream to achieve diversity at all costs, produces some less than qualified candidates? In ever
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by dongslol 10y ago
> Cockroach was a terrible branding decision. This sentence is true, but whoever is in charge of picking a database for the engineering team shouldn't base his decision on such a criteria.
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by dongslol 10y ago
Right, the implication being that nothing especially impressive about CockroachDB stands out, and so we're going to stick with proven options. That's a technical discussion! Why are the people in charge of deciding what database t
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by dongslol 10y ago
That people are both emotional and logical is a non sequitur. The responsibility of picking a database includes trying explicitly to discount how ones feels about petty things like the name and rush to the technical discussion. That'
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by dongslol 10y ago
Why at your company are people who would evaluate a database by its name rather than its technical merits the ones who decide what database gets used?
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by dongslol 10y ago
It was tongue in cheek.
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by dongslol 10y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks.
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by dongslol 10y ago
I find it fascinating that people interpret his essays as elitist or "meritocratic" (in a dirty sense) when his basic message is optimistic: you, too, can start a startup. The whole self-serving thing, too. How does it make life b
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by dongslol 10y ago
Thanks. (It was edited in.)
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by dongslol 10y ago
I'm actually interested in this "cannon fodder lining up on his doorstep willing to eat Ramen and gleefully line the coffers of his investor’s portfolios" characterization, which I've read a good twenty times now. How
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by dongslol 10y ago
What do you do?
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by dongslol 10y ago
First, please see my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13572547 I think your disagreement with Graham is over a definition of words. You seem to be saying that creation of value is the indivisible sum of e
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by dongslol 10y ago
So I understand the point here, and would say that marketing provides separate value. Distribution networks are certainly highly valuable, but as distribution, not as part of the product. From the perspective of creating things and sellin
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by dongslol 10y ago
"There are so many problems with Graham’s thinking that it is difficult to organize a focused response." Statements like these are pointless theatrics. The more wrong someone is, the easier, not harder it is to point out where a
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by dongslol 10y ago
Does programming count? :)
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by dongslol 10y ago
In a debate you'd be right, but journalism is in principle half truthseeking, half storytelling, and in practice more the latter. The author's motivations are a critical piece of evidence.
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by dongslol 10y ago
In practice the "something very special" thing comes down to how well you can bullshit admissions. If you helped kids polish their essays, you know this. The annual number of 18yos who have done genuinely remarkable things is less
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by dongslol 10y ago
I once went onsite for a week-long trial. I learned their codebase, discussed infrastructure, wrote an app, and demoed it, explaining how it might improve their workflow. At the end of the week I got rejected for "not being a 100% cult
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by dongslol 10y ago
If anything, I think people assign too much weight to "sending a message" or "taking a stance." Thiel backed both Trump and Lyft! Down with Lyft! Uber wouldn't go along with some strike! Disavow! YC works with a Tru
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by dongslol 10y ago
Built into what you're proposing is the assumption that everyone agrees about what constitutes hate, bigotry and racism. Which is my point: this works when convincing people who already agree with you, but not in today's violently
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by dongslol 10y ago
Yeah, that was the part I later maybe wished I could retract. I do think saying "it's time to act, people" and then actually acting is underrated.
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by dongslol 10y ago
I like it because it includes the implication that you're doing it to ingratiate yourself with people who are already your allies, and passing it off as bravery. That's more specific than insincere.

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