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by ixtli 7y ago
Touché. (Though lets be clear it's profitable for the individual in those situations to tow the line.)
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by ixtli 7y ago
Correct. I'd add that I don't think anyone worth listening to has ever really thought this to be true: rather, it is convenient for those with the majority of private capital for everyone to believe it is true so that they don&#x2
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by ixtli 7y ago
Fingers definitely crossed.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Brace | New York, NY | Onsite | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Fullstack Engineer, Security Engineer Think Turbo Tax, but for distressed mortgages. It may sound boring, but it turns out that when people can't aff
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by ixtli 7y ago
I hope these games increase people's awareness of property ownership (both public and private) and make them pause to give thought to the question of how and why things are and what normal people are allowed and disallowed from doing a
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by ixtli 7y ago
Im a new yorker and i disagree, for what its worth, with the quoted internet commenter who said they're ugly. They seem reasonably nice to look at relative to the status quo.
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is really a lovely thread. In general I loathe working at large companies and try to avoid it, but this really changes my perception of Shopify. The fact is that people who say they work 80 hours don't really do it. If they ever
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by ixtli 7y ago
It's a dark world where the fact that someone will pay for something/someone is, alone, proof of utility.
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by ixtli 7y ago
A single employee walking away has no power to change the status quo at google. A lot of them, however, do. That's what google and all employers wants to crush before it has a chance to coalesce.
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by ixtli 7y ago
I agree. There's a scene from Futurama that is useful here :) https://i.redd.it/gy1a8j3rqhx21.jpg Also for a less tongue-in-cheek response this is related to the notion of "false consciousness" first written
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by ixtli 7y ago
Whoops you're right. I misread.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Since you can’t spend 53000 dollars on a Mac laptop last I checked, yes! However the whole purpose of a managerial hierarchy is to establish a responsibility chain so at very least I would expect the manager to also get fired. Google doesn’
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by ixtli 7y ago
People love to make excuses for their bosses because they believe their interests are aligned :(
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by ixtli 7y ago
> not being able to pick single objects that work for absolutely everyone (ironically, this criticism comes from outlets that each exist but for the grace of extremely wealthy Silicon Valley benefactors). It's been a long time since
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is a truly unbelievable answer to the question you were asked.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yeah I’m in NYC and I find it frustrating when people force a bartender to deal with cash at a busy spot.
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by ixtli 7y ago
It’s incumbent upon everyone here to consider how powerful that can be for the people who’re trying to sell Kong.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yes they eventually replied on twitter and, after making a joke about it, I told them the song they were referencing is very clearly about child abuse they said they’d change it. Shrug.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Wait what happened with VLC? I didn’t realize they ran afoul of the “Cathedral”
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by ixtli 7y ago
I read more than two thirds of this blog post before realizing the author doesn’t seem to agree with this guy he quoted: > Then drop it and let someone else maintain it. To be clear, if maintenance of a popular open source project is too
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by ixtli 7y ago
It's apparently on visible on the desktop version, but its a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_(song)
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Clicksend has a joke on a song about domestic abuse on their website(clicksend.com)
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by ixtli 7y ago
For what it's worth i agree with this. A realistic example of what i would describe as unbiased is, say, telemetry data from a radio telescope, or a neutral reading of a poem or story. Tools are unbiased. I think the real danger is act
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by ixtli 7y ago
I would have accepted this, yeah. The difference is important because there is a relevancy calculation that determines what's on top of news.google.com at any given time and that encodes types of bias. Personally, in fact, I believe th
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by ixtli 7y ago
You're reading far too much into what im saying. I'm not calling google a bad actor (though certainly I think they can be for reasons that have little to do with the search algorithm.) I'm saying that there is bias encoded he
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by ixtli 7y ago
I dont think this is pedantic and my point is exactly as you describe! There is no such thing as "unbiased" and people who are in search of that are living in a dream world.
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by ixtli 7y ago
> Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company. How is it ok to just say clear lies like this?! Without making any value judgements at all this is bla
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is true, and further it has ALWAYS been true. Media is always unwilling to publish things that will upset the cohorts their advertisers are trying to reach. We frame this discussion entirely wrong in this way: for-profit media platform
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by ixtli 7y ago
The 'somehow' seems rather clear to me when you look at how the organizations who governed these languages and how they're run.
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by ixtli 7y ago
I agree. But they don't care. Nor do they care about anything happening in China. That was kinda my point. In a way i guess i'm happy they didnt claim it was for some sort of humanitarian reason like many have in the wake of the b

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