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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
My point is extracting the maximum value from people by paying them almost nothing because it "increases the GDP" isn't a moral imperative. It's absurd on its face to say that growth at any expense is ethical because of
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
> As much as it is true that inequality is higher than it should be I just spent time with a friend who is working two jobs during the pandemic and cannot afford to live on their own in our relatively low cost of living city. They have t
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
Police unions have no solidarity with workers. They're groups that exist only to protect themselves, and they're happy to suppress strikes when it serves them. It's facile to consider them as part of labour unions. https:&#x
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
From experience, work at these companies five years ago, get options, don't leave even though it's awful
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
If your employment was entirely piece-work driven by "the algorithm", which is completely opaque and subject to change at any time, what other recourse do you have? They're basically trying to reverse engineer the weights of
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
As in, medical doctors who have done brain surgery? Or random dudes who like to inject RFID chips into their hand to pay for coffee
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
Part of the problem is that Black people never had the opportunity to buy the properties they occupied, even at depressed prices when those properties were undesireable. So when gentrification occurs, rents go up and they're shut out.
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
In my experience a startup of a certain size is founders and sales doing razzle-dazzle, "deeply technical people" jerking off to the latest fad, and no customers.
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
Those are the only two Level 7 nuclear events (the highest severity) to occur in history so I think it makes sense to group them together.
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
The kind of software I'm talking about should be thrown away after one or two years. Long-term you figure out what works and what the pain points are and you Ship of Theseus away all the bad shit. > And yes, that discounts languages
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
Relying on a client not being able to guess a random number is also important for Diffe-Hellman and like, all private key generation AFAIK. I don't think anything says private keys are security by obscurity because they require you to
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
I've worked with people like this - they're usually very dogmatic and won't defer to the status quo. This can be useful because they'll find low-hanging fruit like this that everyone else just accepts. Long-term I find t
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
Instead you should push down a single argument which is an untyped key value map which may or may not contain the variables you want?
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
There's diminishing returns along all those axes, suddenly throwing billions of dollars at a problem doesn't automatically yield a fast, high quality result.
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by hehebbssjj 6y ago
> Big disasters are unpredictable and hard to understand. One of those could end the world at any time. In the context of nuclear reactors, Fukushima and Chernobyl are pretty much the worst case scenario. A large nuclear disaster is very