fatbird

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by fatbird 9y ago
To which community are you signalling virtue?
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by fatbird 10y ago
I take your point, but we didn't reward lying here--they profited as long as we were unaware they lied. Once revealed, the ship is going down fast. This is just to say that crime pays... until it doesn't. What would be scandalou
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by fatbird 10y ago
Are you seriously suggesting they lying-by-small-print is somehow the more moral course for them to have taken?
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by fatbird 10y ago
They offered $800 vouchers, which are limited flying coupons. Legally they're required to offer cash up to $1350. They'd already failed to exhaust their legal duties in this situation, and if this actually ends up in court, one
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by fatbird 10y ago
As the linked article demonstrates, you actually can't reliably or easily. For practical purposes it is often a secret.
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by fatbird 10y ago
Agreed. I only wanted to dispute that the primary blame should be on the police themselves. And "Chicago police" is a whole topic itself.
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by fatbird 10y ago
I agree that's not a great example from the perspective of what the individual should do. It's just the best example off the top of my head of an organization using its size to make lawsuits largely worthless as a remedy. That sa
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by fatbird 10y ago
"you are expected to resolve the on-scene dispute without violence" Only to a limited degree, and this forbearance is itself subject to abuse. When everyone politely agrees to "grieve later", it creates an organization-
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by fatbird 10y ago
The article raises the point about whether or not the police were acting under the controlling authority's (i.e., the pilot's) instructions, but that's not the only consideration. Other expert opinions have raised the point
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by fatbird 10y ago
Rather than blame the goon squad, you should blame the king for ordering them into action. Or, in this case, the subcontracting sheriff's deputy. I think the more serious error here is the error you display: "people are asked&#x2
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by fatbird 10y ago
Thank God we did.
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by fatbird 10y ago
"People get rich frequently in Silicon Valley by being assholes, taking other people's property, customers, business, employees. We call this system 'capitalism.'.... Capitalism is not really nice, get over it." The
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by fatbird 10y ago
Your whole comment is indicative of why SV is now in the situation it's in, where disruptive apps aren't enough to overcome idiocy that the rest of us outgrew decades ago. "So-called justice porn has no place in a productive
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by fatbird 10y ago
"The Left supports the so-called 'path to citizenship' only because the majority of illegal immigrants would vote Democrat if given the chance." Thanks for poisoning the well.
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by fatbird 10y ago
It restores a prior status quo that was well through the pipeline to being inoperative--thus, "voted to repeal". The status quo is that this was ending, and changing that literally required an act of Congress and the president&#x
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by fatbird 10y ago
He does actually say "The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on
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by fatbird 10y ago
It's fine because it's an ephemeral value in a docker container, put there during provisioning by ansible where it was pulled from a properly encrypted vault. Kubernetes can totally manage that for you so you can finally go serve
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by fatbird 10y ago
Without excusing the act, I think part of why people minimize or dismiss the potential damage for acts like these is because they feel like it can't be that bad if it's that easy to do.
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by fatbird 10y ago
Ironically, when discussing the NYT and fake news, one might make a strong case with Judith Miller's reporting on Iraq, or Wen Ho Lee. There's lots of scandals where major outlets have pursued obviously agenda driven stories to t
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by fatbird 10y ago
The name of this fallacy is "tone argument".
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by fatbird 10y ago
My point is that your remedy for the problem of political correctness stifling you is for everyone else to act differently. You have unpopular opinions but you're afraid to voice them, and what you'd like is for people not to cra
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by fatbird 10y ago
So you're too scared to tell the truth with your real name attached, thus empowering the apparently stifling political correctness you complain about? Wouldn't actually speaking up, ready to accept the social consequences, be the
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by fatbird 10y ago
... says "throwaway420"
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by fatbird 10y ago
Not when it's a limitation of one toolkit that another toolkit doesn't have. Then it's just a reason to choose on over the other.
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by fatbird 10y ago
At my employer I can easily imagine deploying react native apps for a variety of uses, especially as we do service design : being able to run real experiments with, say, gov't services with real apps or companies looking for mobile ass
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by fatbird 10y ago
Having run through an app building exercise myself, and starting to shepherd coworkers through the same exercise, my feeling about it is the same as it was for earlier platforms (like Appcelerator) that I tried: good for certain classes of
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by fatbird 10y ago
I'm a Canadian who lived and worked in the US for six years, and my impression on returning home is that Canada is the country you'd get if you took the U.S. and removed the extremes of wealth and poverty.
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by fatbird 10y ago
We have voluminous statistical evidence that women are judged more harshly than men in all phases of hiring when the only differentiator is being perceived as a woman. That's not handwaving, that's decades of study. Handwaving i
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by fatbird 10y ago
When you can find a few examples of some group succeeding or being where the vast majority of their group are not, it's called "tokenism", and it's a self-defeating argument. Is it common for low caste Indians with no s
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by fatbird 10y ago
Prevent? No. Continually add friction at all stages, from conceptualizing, staffing, funding, and interacting with the larger techsphere while competing for earned media, virality, etc.? Yes, absolutely, with predictable effects. One way

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