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by issa 4y ago
That's just how silly racism is. By the same token, Americans consider all Europeans to be "just Europeans". We don't distinguish if you're from Ireland or England, Greece or Macedonia, etc.
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by issa 4y ago
I actually don't know anything about these people's appearance aside from that they type. But I do know the content of their comments, and that is what I am referring to.
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by issa 4y ago
American racism is VERY complicated. President Trump accidentally explained it pretty well in his comments about "shithole countries". But essentially, people from most European countries are considered "white" when it c
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by issa 4y ago
There is a lot to unpack here, but what you are saying is only true in the context of an all-white, all-male company that is trying to become more diverse.
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by issa 4y ago
I don't think I am "assuming" anything. Read the thread (or internet comments on any number of similar threads).
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by issa 4y ago
Speaking for the US, I wish this is something that everyone could think about slightly differently. There are a lot of white males in this thread who take the lack of diversity in tech so personally. As if those in favor of diversity blame
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by issa 4y ago
I think it is worth pointing out that this simply is not true. The epitome of diversity is when the makeup of a team reflects the demographic makeup of the larger society.
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by issa 4y ago
Not entirely related, but in my personal cache of "I was almost a billionaire" stories, my favorite is when I was approached to build a porn platform that would accept payment in Bitcoin. Who knows if the site would have made mone
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by issa 4y ago
This strikes me as insanely underachieving. In ten years we should be able to do much, much better.
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by issa 4y ago
Not a terrible example, but I think the difference is that we, as a society, sweep the issue of animal suffering under the rug. Most Americans are horrified if someone mistreats a dog, but don't bat an eye at the treatment of cows and
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by issa 4y ago
It is pretty insane when you think about it. We could get all the climate harm reduction benefits the article mentions if people would just choose to eat plants instead. Seems like a very simple solution.
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by issa 4y ago
Apparently I have conflated the memories of a lot of the computers I had back then. I will NEVER forget those metal buttons running down the right side, but I could have sworn the 800XL looked different inside.
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by issa 4y ago
At 50 and looking back, I do not regret ANY of the fun and traveling of my 20s and 30s. 40s has been work and children, which is fun in a different way. But don't let youth be wasted when you are young.
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by issa 4y ago
Are you aware that there were laws specifically targeting black people and women for hundreds of years in this country? Do you believe the fix for that is to simply not address it in any meaningful way? If not, what do you suggest?
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by issa 4y ago
Whenever people post messages like this I am genuinely curious to hear what their solutions to an unjust system are. If a society is unequal, then a "strict meritocracy" means it will stay that way essentially forever, right? So h
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by issa 4y ago
Definitely. And if you listen to the podcast, they are doing the things they would NEVER do in real life.
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by issa 4y ago
Generally speaking, if you don't know how to solve your own immediate problem, and you have the means, it can be helpful to solve someone else's problem. A lot of people are suggesting volunteering, etc, and that's what I&#x2
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by issa 4y ago
This is exactly what these podcasters are doing: Taking $10k and using every trick in the hedge fund playbook to turn it into $1 million (or zero!). https://twitter.com/hardmoneypod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctw...
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by issa 5y ago
Based on comments, I am apparently in the minority in that I could not care less what my kid's school does to my kid's school computer. I understand that the OP purchased their own computer, but that seems immaterial--Schools give
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by issa 5y ago
I guess that makes sense, but it means you would have rough versions of your feature sitting on production, hidden by flags. I could certainly be wrong about the potential for issues there, but it would definitely make me nervous.
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by issa 5y ago
I have a lot of questions, but one above all the others. How do you preview changes to non-technical stakeholders in the company? Do you make sales people and CEOs and everyone else boot up a local development environment?
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by issa 5y ago
C'mon. A ghost-written post-presidency book is worth $20million easy, guaranteed.
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by issa 5y ago
Space at the scale being discussed here is uniform, so no one direction should be "more populous" than another. The "empty" here designates an area without stars easily visible from Earth. Our local area is denser in our
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by issa 5y ago
I like this approach because it keeps the fact that code is supposed to DO SOMETHING front and center. There is so much temptation (and many excellent reasons) to organize code in various ways but I think the power of route-based thinking s
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by issa 5y ago
It's not "transparent" when you only admit the things that have already been made public by others.
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by issa 5y ago
Agreed. I always wonder if maybe I'm just old and out of touch, but I don't see much promise in web3.
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by issa 5y ago
I think I'm going to dig out my copies too. Enjoy!
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by issa 5y ago
Difficult to pick just one, but I will go with The Stainless Steel Rat. It was a great introduction to the idea that society's rules don't always make sense. I haven't read it since I was in grade school, so I don't know
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by issa 5y ago
I've always thought the words were essentially identical. An atheist or an agnostic can be sure that the God of Abraham doesn't exist and also be sure that the world doesn't ride on the back of a turtle. But both agnostic and
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by issa 5y ago
Estimating timelines is a simple but great example. If I use my experience on similar projects, I can probably give you an excellent estimate of how long it will take to build a new project in about half an hour. Or, I could break it down f

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