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by gress 11y ago
'Scheming against employees' is a generalization that you have made up and is not part of the accusation. Generalizing in this way is a fallacy. To show how absurd this fallacy is, let me apply your logic to Google: "Some Go
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by gress 11y ago
The lawsuit has nothing whatsoever to do with company culture so it speaks to nothing.
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by gress 11y ago
If you knew about that second business insider article, why did you reference the only the first unless to deliberately justify a biased point of view?
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by gress 11y ago
I'm not wrong about you being dismissive of anything except what you deem to be 'scientific'.
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by gress 11y ago
No it is not, but you've missed the point.
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by gress 11y ago
You do realize that Business Insider is part owned by Jeff Bezos?
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by gress 11y ago
Apple doesn't operate like this at all. You are confusing Steve Jobs personal behavior with the company culture.
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by gress 11y ago
Because it isn't.
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by gress 11y ago
Now you are being intellectually dishonest. You didn't use the term behavioral analysis in that specific reply. True, you used he word science, but this is irrelevant to the fact that you were dismissive. Attempting to evade this thro
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by gress 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10024791 In this reply, you are wholly dismissive of discussions about behavior that do not solely use behavior analysis.
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by gress 11y ago
Why not also mandate the use of drugs that promote good behavior, by law?
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by gress 11y ago
In that same paragraph you quote from, you dismissed the author's reasoning about thinking processes. You didn't simply 'offer an alternative'.
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by gress 11y ago
The purpose is to point out that people sharing information about how they think about things is a valid a way of influencing behavior. You are simply wrong to dismiss that. I agree that humans influencing each other through talking about
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by gress 11y ago
This is a straw man. I nowhere suggest that open source would not have distribution. GitHub isn't just 'distribution' it has required a huge amount of investment and focus by individuals who need to make money to feed their
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by gress 11y ago
What are these 'melting pot sessions' you are talking about, and how do they teach social skills, empathy, and conflict resolution?
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by gress 11y ago
Necessary but not sufficient. There would be no free GitHub repos for open source without the income from the closed source repos that pay for them. As usual, open source is subsidized by closed source.
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by gress 11y ago
Actually you haven't. I have read all of your comments here and the only thing you mention is 'being exposed to a vast set of people with different experiences and biases'. You do not list social skills anywhere. Even if it
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by gress 11y ago
Why is it hard to send a kid to a summer camp, or a community program? There are all kinds of groups children can attend. I see zero evidence for the idea that it's 'very difficult' to expose home schooled kids to diversity.
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by gress 11y ago
Can you present even one piece of evidence about how public school helps students develop empathy for those who are significantly different from them?
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by gress 11y ago
Why don't you say what this precise subset of skills is, and present some evidence or even narrative about how public school assists students in developing them?
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by gress 11y ago
Public school doesn't teach people to interact well with people you don't want to. Indeed forcing people to do what they don't want to do is precisely the problem with school - whether socially or academically.
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by gress 11y ago
That's just a further proof point that open-source is not a panacea: it sometimes gets in the way of running a business.
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by gress 11y ago
> Is it? Yes. They first used the word when referring to Andy Rubin's departure from Android.
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by gress 11y ago
Prediction and control is not the only paradigm for causing behavior change, indeed it may frequently be the least appropriate one.
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by gress 11y ago
Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android. By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine.
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by gress 11y ago
Google Video, and Orkut, were complete failures and no longer exist. Successful products don't disappear without a trace. If they are closed by management when they otherwise might have succeeded, that is failure. Reader was a fail
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by gress 11y ago
It may not be what you think, but you continue to argue (condescendingly) that behavior analysis is the only valid approach to any topic concerning human behavior. Now you do so by an appeal to authority. Have you considered the possibilit
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by gress 11y ago
It seems you think that people should only use behavior analysis when talking about the mind. I wish you luck in persuading people to accept this philosophy. You may have an uphill struggle convincing people that it is comprehensive enoug
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by gress 11y ago
Are you saying that talking about what goes on in the mind is unscientific and should not be done?
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by gress 11y ago
It's a blog post - an opinion piece - not a scientific paper. Do you go around criticizing all opinions that refer to people's thought processes as 'flawed because it doesn't provide means for prediction and control of b

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