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by finnthehuman 9y ago
> conflates free speech as social and legislative ideals What's to conflate? Free speech as a legislative goal is primarily useful in so far as it furthers a social goal. I'm just going to quote Scott for this from now on: &gt
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
See also "oscar bait" >Oscar bait films are theatrical, a word which here means “keeps reminding you that you’re [in] the audience.” So don’t be fooled when the panegyrics pour out over a Spielberg flick about a dog that sniffe
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
The dems getting their shit together has been "just around the corner" for decades. At some point you've gotta admit they're just scrambling to be slightly less detestable than the GOP, to just enough voters to win elect
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
This article and comment thread was about Uber specifically? Oh, well, then, yeah, no, I didn't come here to say anything in specific about them. I've never worked there, so I obviously can't speak to it, and the rumors don
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
OK. Then why not be more specific. If "tech" and "the industry" means one corner, of one business domain, with one financing model, on one peninsula... maybe I just haven't landed any jobs with the boorish worklif
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
>If any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it, we have to cut it out. I used to think like this. After years and years of refining my own behavior, a non-wor
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
When I was younger there was a popular line of thinking that the typical highschool job in customer service was where people learned to grow up into the kind of people that wouldn't yell at customer service. It sounded like the kind o
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
>Must one be an alt-right troll to describe one? No, but this smells like the journos that in 2016, lurked /pol/ for a few hours and tried to work backwards to form a grand unified theory of Trump's win. Granted, that&#x2
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
I work in medical devices. The regulation can be unnecessarily prohibitive, but more often than not I see it used as a cop-out. Where one entrepreneur says "the status quo in this space is so behind the times I can't work there,&
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
>I’d received the second-most abuse of any Jewish journalist on Twitter during the campaign cycle. [...] As a result, I’ve become something of an unintentional expert on alt-right trolls and their tactics. Red flag: Blind man about to de
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
That's still just as rigid, it's just increasing scope of the deliverable so a smaller portion overall has to be dedicated to complying with your rigidity.
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Political content on reddit has always been trash. The reason everyone wanted spez to create a politics subreddit back when only admins could create subreddits wasn't so they could talk politics, it was so they could unsubscribe from
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Well, yeah, obviously a bad idea. But the real question everyone in "security" should be asking themselves is "if the idea of having better security is such an easy sell to even the vaguely-clued-in, what have we implemented
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
>So the games industry completely gamed ratings and the correlation all but entirely disappeared. Go figure, games actually being good was the confounding variable. Who could have guessed? I don't too much attention to video games
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
>What's the difference between writing x commands and hitting enter once, vs writing x commands and waiting for each command to finish? The point of homework is to do it yourself, not to clone a repo with the answers.
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Is a hot dog a sandwich? The answer depends entirely on definition. What properties of bitcoin are essential to a blockchan vs which properties are simply how bitcoin happens to use a blockchain? If blockchain just means the Merkle tree, t
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> The problem with that however is how we use tags today. "Doctor, it hurts when I cargo-cult workflow from GitHub..."
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
But your own company doesn't capture all of that value. That will never happen as long as we pay wages. Look at all that value going out the door as payroll. The benifit of on the job training is to hire a $X dev at <=$X and turn
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Every software engineer I’ve worked with has had a strong sense of personal values and ethics, but the organizations we work for can take actions that are at odds with these. Do they though? I've noticed a trend where the strength o
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Well, when everyone that understands exactly how the surveillance of the modern internet works has a hand in building it, don't be surprised where there's no one left to make the well informed case against the surveillance apparat
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
Facebook's content policies are best understood as "don't rock the boat". It operates on reports, ML and hired minders with more backlog than time for context. Their Amero-centric policies on nudity should be seen as pri
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
VICE.com unique voice is strong in this article. Their writing style guide was recently leaked: https://youtu.be/C-q4bEULG64?t=4
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
This is narrowly tailored advice presented more broadly than to the context it's useful for. And it's not the best way forward in that case, either. If someone needs a fire lit under their ass to get going, a sense of falling beh
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
The dark web doesn't give online anonymity a bad name. Charlatans use the dark web to advance their goal of branding anonymity as bad. Clickbait hot take bloggers, "journalists" who should know better, and other useful idiots
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Talk_Barbie The meme "Math class is hard, let's go shopping" is only slightly apocryphal. Two of the voicebox lines were "Math class is tough" and "Want
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by finnthehuman 9y ago
The parent poster didn't say it was a problem with a solution, they said it was a problem. Systems can have inexorable negatives, and it's fine to take issue with them.