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by drb91 8y ago
I am probably being too pedantic here, as it is certainly unethical to state that publicly as a mayor. I only mean to convey there’s no such thing as an unethical thought, only unethical actions. Among other things, it is certainly socially
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by drb91 8y ago
Now that I understand the confusion.... A) I do not hold a firm position on moral absolutism. B) All I am saying is that there are so many variables that go into employment that you need to make this moral calculus yourself.... but simply h
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by drb91 8y ago
It’s hardly racist to express personal preference. It’s also not the same as saying “I don’t want any old white people in this town”.
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by drb91 8y ago
The decisions we make in life, and our difficulty making them, defines us. I can’t help you define your morality here.
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by drb91 8y ago
> How would you like people to square this with providing for their families? With a capable human brain, like we all have! Just because a decision is hard doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility to make the right one—all people making
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by drb91 8y ago
This actually points most at developers being considerably underpaid.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Is there any room for good judgment, to weigh ethics, ability and consequences, and have a different approach in different situations? Yes. War can be unethical but the most ethical response to an action. In practice, there are few eth
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by drb91 8y ago
I struggled with the decision to stop taking it because it’s very hard to nail down how it even affects you. Talk therapy proved enormously successful. This is kind of my point, though—if in my case I do NOT have a treatable chemical imbala
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by drb91 8y ago
Hey if we’re offering sample sizes of one, SSRIs make me sleepy and unmotivated—nearly the opposite of a helpful effect. I’ve also heard quite a few complaints from women friends about weight gain. Sexual side effects are common. For me, at
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by drb91 8y ago
I’ve found the quip to be the most satisfying explanation in the end.
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by drb91 8y ago
This is true. That doesn’t imply a lack of politics, though—I’d hazard a guess that it’s essentially impossible to have non-political narratives.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Better to build a good product now and if you really want to turn it into a startup, productionize it then. Well, you gotta deploy with something. Why not k8s? Obviously if you're developing locally, k8s would not help in the leas
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by drb91 8y ago
It also doesn't make sense to reject it out of hand—it's not like Bloomberg (or any paper) is an infallible source of fact.
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by drb91 8y ago
> This is probably the darkest pattern cancellation flow I've gone through in recent memory. Can't be worse than e.g. NyTimes, Zipcar, Stamps.com (many others I'm sure) that force you to call a human to cancel
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by drb91 8y ago
Readable, non-paywalled version: https://outline.com/epLGYZ
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by drb91 8y ago
I just buy high value items in person. The local economy can use the money anyway. The rest I don’t really care if they’re counterfeit so long as they function. Why on earth would you buy a Gucci purse from anywhere but Gucci? Caveat Emptor
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by drb91 8y ago
Maybe. I just don’t see a shred of evidence developers generally hate Apple.
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by drb91 8y ago
What you are describing has always been true, though. I’m not sure what change you are seeing that causes you to sour on amazon. Granted I’ve never received a counterfeit.
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by drb91 8y ago
I’m not sure I follow developers hating Apple when 99% of the engineers I see use an apple laptop. As to facebook, we’ll see if it survives. There’s not much to use it for aside from advertising as a platform, and I’ve heard nothing but neg
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by drb91 8y ago
I’m not entirely convinced eg Trello or Asana would do much better here, and you need to organize planned work somewhere. Personally I’m a fan of a physical Kanban board. This definitely scales far worse than JIRA does.
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by drb91 8y ago
What about protecting our computers from Apple? I’m far more concerned about them dictating our future than China.
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by drb91 8y ago
Why not sell to both markets?
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by drb91 8y ago
Have any sources?
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by drb91 8y ago
> Funny how HN is full of people with >120 IQ claiming that IQ doesn't matter I’d assume a similar distribution to the general population, actually. Why would I think otherwise?
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by drb91 8y ago
I guess in the subreddits I visit, the prospect of vote manipulation doesn’t really matter because the content is evidently good. The shared subreddits are indeed trash. I wonder if banning commonly astroturfed topics would help and directi
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by drb91 8y ago
Wasn’t digg’s issue power users or something? Reddit was and can never be that bad simply due to subreddits. I think a more apt comparison is simply facebook and twitter and instagram: make the UX shitty to promote ads.
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by drb91 8y ago
Who mentioned intelligence? This is about skills, a far more valuable and meaningful thing to measure.
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by drb91 8y ago
> That would be a pyrrhic victory at best. True ownership of comsumer devices is de facto a thing of the distant past. Only because consumers are not offered an honest choice. Anyway buying by the cycle would fall squarely into non-owner
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by drb91 8y ago
I think they mean “single page app”, ie you do not navigate away from the initial resource. I agree with the sentiment though.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Perhaps we need some sort of "Fully Unlocked" certification to indicate that a device you're considering purchasing would actually be yours? Maybe we should make it impossible to advertise a product as being purchasable

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