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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
I was surprised because the person suggesting it wanted to get rid of it even though it helped his case. His argument was literally that it would help Black employees advance to get rid of the numbers. I would have expected management to wa
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The SAT thing was wild. I have no idea why people thought making the admissions criteria more opaque and fudge-able would help prevent bias and racism. I saw the same thing at a company I worked at where they found at that Black people were
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The American obsession with race is deeply rooted in historically having a large, enslaved underclass that was kept down using racial justifications and against which there is still measurable bias across all areas of life (hiring, police s
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
I think that points 3 and 4 of that article are somewhat refuted by the popularity of Go. You could argue that Go ultimately does give you a much control as possible but it certainly doesn’t do it like Lisp in the way that Paul Graham admir
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Notably it’s not clear if there’s a better determinant of that. Tests at least have the advantage of being a knowable thing you can prep for, instead of whatever you have without tests.
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Maybe they wouldn’t, but generally anyone with strict adherence to an ideology has fundamental thinking errors where they reject evidence inconsistent with the ideology. Communists white washing the badness of Che Guevara, Mao, and even Len
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Dating sites put a massive thumb on the scale to looks, probably to everyone’s detriment in the long run. Looks become less important if you know someone through work, or your friends set you up, or you meet at an activity.
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Both kindness and physical attractiveness are poorly defined characteristics, and anyway are not the only possible positive traits someone can have. Humor, loyalty, and work ethic are other potential traits. I’m not sure what “studies” you
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
The counterpoint to this is that lots of science isn’t high quality. The whole point of peer review is to help protect against bad science, which definitely exists. As noted in the article, if people don’t like the views of a paper they can
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
I suspect it’s even dumber than that and no one wants to remove a coin from circulation with Lincoln on it.
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
In both cases there is an uncompensated expense by the employee. Either it’s time commuting or it’s the office space. The main disagreement here is which should be valued more. In practice the massive rise in people voluntary working from h
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
The implied threat was… that they wouldn’t buy from those companies anymore? While I guess that’s slightly worse than just casually notifying a company of bad behavior, it’s not much worse. The whole point of this kind of criticism is to ex
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
I’d argue that while that’s not illegal, that definitely crosses a line and am happy to articulate that line in the way that Popehat requests (something like “don’t take a statement of someone you don’t know made to a small group of friends
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
The actions were almost certainly legal, otherwise boycotts are illegal, which would be insane, and also the tweet from Elonin the article I linked above would be illegal as well. Criticism and free speech generally includes that the critic
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
If you think people in oppressive regimes get due process in court then I have a bridge to sell you. I think trivializing harm is bad but at the end of the day I think you will concede that there is a speech line which can be crossed beyond
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
I think he is merely pointing out that you can’t just say “someone is doing something that harms me as a result of my speech” and call that censorship. Otherwise literally no one could ever make any decision based on someone’s speech, which
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
I don’t think it used to be as rare as you think. The internet mob phenomenon has made it easier for random people to be bizarrely piled on for one bad comment but in the recent past famous well-liked people had to completely hide that they
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Boycotts are unquestionably free speech from a legal perspective and definitional perspective. From a moral perspective, Popehat’s main consistent point is that you need to be very specific about what behaviors cross a line and actually app
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by eapressoandcats 3y ago
Lots of Biotech stuff does fine, and plenty of tech startups are basically frauds (WeWork for example). I don’t think you can extrapolate that startup funding doesn’t work for Biotech.
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
One thing I find frustrating is that non-engineering people in tech companies don’t get held to as high standards of productivity because it can be harder for especially engineering founders to evaluate whether they are doing a good job. Th
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
I don’t see how it’s unreasonable that someone would want to make plans based on the development velocity of software. Just because it’s actually hard to estimate some things accurately doesn’t mean it’s not valuable from a business perspec
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
For all the crappy stuff insurance does, their medical loss ratio for group insurance is pretty good. The actual problem is that healthcare costs way more in the US than most other countries. Health insurance just ends up getting the blame
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
In the US at least the underlying problem is that we pay more for basically every medical procedure, drug, and device, so you end up paying more to get less. Largely this is due to having engineered a shortage of doctors combined with no ne
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
Generally speaking, you’d expect newer housing to be on the higher end no matter what, because people with less money would tend to buy/rent older housing, in the same way that all but the cheapest new cars are mostly bought by the mor
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
For the most part developers focus on luxury because they are limited in how much they can build and there is enough pent up demand willing to pay. Also they have rules like minimum sq ft in cities and minimum acreage in suburbs.
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
The economics of this have been well observed in the car industry. Car makers prioritize luxury cars with higher margins when there is a restriction on how many cars they manufacture (due to supply or legal constraints), but if there is abu
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
An underrated problem is that many suburbs use zoning to make small houses impossible to build. Urban YIMBYs don’t talk about it because they hate suburbs but forcing everyone to have a huge lot makes home ownership far more exclusionary, w
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by eapressoandcats 4y ago
Worth noting is that single family zoning in many places also prevents people from having houses as well. Small starter homes are basically illegal in many suburbs due to high minimum lot sizes and low FAR rating. I think that is frankly an