etripe

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by etripe 6y ago
> men are going to believe they're more competent ... because they've been socialized to believe they're better at it. That's one of the central dogmatic feminist talking points that are just spouted off uncritically,
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Don't underestimate the tremendous advantage both Wozniak and Bill Gates had even having access to computers at the time. And that access was simply not available to most people. Similarly, "all you need is a computer" is sti
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by etripe 6y ago
Can you eat or sell happiness? What about contentment, satisfaction, meaning or purpose? I mean, no skin off my back if you want to frame yourself as a cog in the economic machine, but surely there's more to life than materialism? Am
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by etripe 6y ago
Most people didn't get Lasik when there still was a risk of permanent damage like blindness or halos. A lot more did when the technology became proven. As someone who underwent the procedure, it also felt like liberating surgery. App
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by etripe 6y ago
Which azerty? French or Belgian? I find the Belgian one is actually very well suited to programming, with easy access to all common symbols. I can't speak to the French one, but from a quick search it does look insupportable .
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by etripe 6y ago
> the obvious way to achieve it is less transfer payments from the middle class to the poor This is an oft-touted talking point, but not actually correct. If you add up all the numbers, most social welfare in the West proportionally goes
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by etripe 6y ago
From an employee perspective, the one fairly definitive upside I can spot is knowing what to expect ahead of time. Are you implying it's mainly/only great for management?
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by etripe 6y ago
The question is whether politically there is a greater demand for available housing, or for ROI on already owned properties. Depending on which hypothesis you prefer, there either is a problem today or there isn't. When one factors in
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by etripe 6y ago
I don't think they're so much technically helpless as they self-identify as technological victims. They don't see the I in solution. As such, there is no catering to them.
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by etripe 6y ago
> in terms of deadline estimation In my experience, deadlines are usually arbitrary to begin with. They are the result of annual/quarterly budget allocation much more than actual customer needs. Nothing of value is lost when they ar
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by etripe 6y ago
> interviewing over and over has a non-negligible cost I would say, specifically in the US where this type of question is asked, it is negligible compared to a dev's yearly salary. What one should consider is the time spent interv
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by etripe 6y ago
What's sexist is the lack of agency ascribed to women, as in: success/failure is something that happens to women and something men work for/through . That is the textbook definition of objectification, very much the norm e
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by etripe 6y ago
Particularly apt in light of the modern metaphor of a "marketplace of ideas".
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For every software engineer, there are tenfold logistics, customer service, house keeping and hospitality workers. You know, the people living on food stamps because their employers are anti-union. The difference between the former and the
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by etripe 6y ago
> The employer in the public sector case is ... the workers’ fellow citizens. How is a private sector employer not? Are you alluding to the difference in affluence?
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by etripe 6y ago
> For a sitting senator to act like she can use the power of the government because someone was "snotty" to her is ridiculous. You're cherry-picking her quote, because that isn't all she said. A more charitable readi
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by etripe 6y ago
> Any serious intro to CS course will have them as part of the curriculum (at least for linked list). Your implied assertion is that a CS degree is required for programming. That's a good way to select for people like you , which i
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by etripe 6y ago
There is a good reason: the money they got from the government for exactly this purpose.
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by etripe 6y ago
Not only is it a real thing, at some workplaces it's the main event.
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Which 3 envelopes would those be?
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> But 3 months seems crazy to me. What you might not realise is that these three months would be the default legal position in case of disagreement . If you want to leave earlier and the employer agrees, you can usually leave earlier, t
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by etripe 6y ago
It becomes clearer if you look at it in terms of core business. So yes, they can collect X and Y because that's their core business and directly related to the product. When it's for marketing, telemetry or similar purposes, it&#x
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by etripe 6y ago
For those similarly confused as I was, Gafam seems to be the acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. I'm sure I would agree to Google and Facebook being bad in this situation. I'm mostly convinced about Amazon,
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by etripe 6y ago
In my mind, because "offence", depending on legislature, might be vehicular manslaughter, a parking ticket or anything in between. There is also a huge difference between driving 55 in a 50 zone and driving 90 at the same location
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by etripe 6y ago
> that it should be for nature, or God, to decide It's not about nature deciding, is it? Or are you against vaccines, heart bypass surgery, doctor-assisted births and in vitro fertilisation, too? > and we don't usually get t
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by etripe 6y ago
Your comment is as reductionist as it is to call all slaves black. What about Romans using Germanic slaves or ancient Greece? What about the Middle East, past and to some degree present? What about the Mongols or China?
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by etripe 6y ago
I honestly prefer teaching people to fish over providing them shortcuts. Giving them the answer doesn't often help in my experience. Helping them frame the question better does . There are some cases where the person is lacking fundam
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by etripe 6y ago
Just a small nitpick: what you probably mean is there was little regulation . Regulatory capture is what occurs after regulation has been established, is seen as a hindrance and companies start currying favour by greasing the wheels. In a
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by etripe 6y ago
> you as an individual can interact with, audit, and build technology within the world of finance without going through the traditional gatekeepers of our current financial system. A big reason there are gatekeepers is the regulation. I
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by etripe 6y ago
Even in offices, the myth is that everyone is replaceable at a moment's notice, because that is a comfortable thought for those in charge that makes it easier to play "4D chess" with the corporate pawns and integrate seamle

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