jariel

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by jariel 5y ago
"Hang Mike Pence” is calling for assassination. "Arrest Mike Pence" is not. "Put Mike Pence to Trial and then Hang Him" isn't either. You have to qualify 'Kill That Guy' with something more in order f
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by jariel 5y ago
There's some debate about the degree to which the authorization could have been abused, but it today's world it's just hard to imagine how such rights and authorization could be granted in the first place.
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by jariel 5y ago
There's nothing really comparable between calling for someone's assassination, and on the other hand, someone to be arrested and brought to justice for a crime. And there's also the fact that there's no basis in reality
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by jariel 5y ago
"Oh please. Laws exist, platforms must ensure their customers follow the laws, and when a customer refuses to remove illegal content" Don't make this about 'laws' - this was definitely not about 'laws' or
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by jariel 5y ago
Yes, the US has a byzantine migration bureaucracy, as do other nations, but that's a separate issue from notions of 'welcoming' or 'integration' or 'opportunities' etc.. It's also weird how the US has
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by jariel 5y ago
There's a citation there, and I think people are smart enough to understand what the term 'welcoming' might mean. The data is very consistent - whatever words you want to use, the US and UK come out pretty well in terms of th
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by jariel 5y ago
I have been an immigrant / temporary resident in both countries. Ad-hominem is not helping.
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by jariel 5y ago
Whatever the net rate of migration in IT workers, it's not something an individual is going to notice in terms of offers.
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by jariel 5y ago
The US and the UK have the most open policies and are overwhelmingly the most welcoming to migrants. Both in practice and in culture. The hints of Trumpism and Brexit 'nationalism' are essentially bigotry on the part of the author
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by jariel 5y ago
"doesn't change my point that grit seems to be a strict subset of the actual definition conscientiousness w" Yes, I think it quite clearly does. By definition (chose your own source, that's fine) and example, they are di
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by jariel 5y ago
Yes, convention is more important that the quality of the convention. The convention abnegates the need to think about things, and for a developer, thoughts are precious.
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by jariel 5y ago
"s almost like never having to think about logic. " Not really, because naming is 98% convention when it's done right. The challenge is establishing all the conventions for a project, and then sticking to them. If there are r
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by jariel 5y ago
This is one of the most interesting artifacts of programming, and it's probably impossible to explain to people outside the field. How at the same time it's trivial and important, and a constant cause of neuroticism. It takes up f
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by jariel 5y ago
"the guy who sponsored the fellow who did get promoted managed to get my ranking knocked down so I wasn't competing with his fellow for ED." You're working at a toxic place and putting your own self worth up to them for
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by jariel 5y ago
The thing to realize: this is normal . People are weird - all of us. We get into our own head-space, and we interpret the world differently than others, sometimes objectivity falls by the wayside. Sometimes someone is truly working is rear
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by jariel 5y ago
This is a really good point, the social dynamics change so much in a power position it's really hard to relate. Keep the 'bad puns' though, that's more of an expression of humility than anything and it gives them an excu
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by jariel 5y ago
This is highly subjective though. Personally, if I'm sick, the last think I want to do is communicate with my manager - it means you have to be careful, you never know if they're digging, or 'professional but not exactly sinc
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by jariel 5y ago
This is good advice for many but it's not nearly as universal as it's implied. There are people who don't live up to the mark in terms of quality and that's that, and in those scenarios it would have little to do with tr
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by jariel 5y ago
I've literally just explained the difference to you. From Google: "Grit is the perseverance and passion to achieve long–term goals. Sometimes you will hear grit referred to as mental toughness." "Conscientiousness is the
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by jariel 5y ago
I'm really hoping for the Kumail Nanjiani spin-off of Pied Piper where he plays Chamath. The new era of RobinHood traders has brought an incredible degree of financial populism, youtube is crowded with people giving their opnion. Some
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by jariel 5y ago
'Conscientiousness' and 'Grit' I think are different attributes. Conscientious people are like your 'nice Grandparents': they are consistent, orderly, pay their bills, are pleasant, predictable, file their taxe
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by jariel 5y ago
"Anything can be valued at anything" is not an argument. It's just some weird rhetoric you're using to somehow show a parallel between BTC and Stocks. The material issue here is that stocks can be rationally valued by de
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by jariel 5y ago
This is the closest thing to correct, more specifically USD is backed by some real-estate and mostly TBill which is the government's ability to pay it's debt. There's some sketchiness there, but generally it works, and of cou
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by jariel 5y ago
"It's the perfect settlement layer for large actors." Wow, all the 'large actors' seemed to have not figured that out? If it's the 'perfect settlement' process, then why are literally zero large actor
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by jariel 5y ago
No, we cannot 'do it'. 1) a) There can only be 1 currency for an economic area - this is because we need price stability. The 'second currency' with the promise of 'less dilution' wouldn't be useful for tr
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by jariel 5y ago
"far from having shed the problems of government-issued currency," Government currency is backed by assets, or the governments ability to pay debt. BTC is backed by nothing and they issue currency on the basis the ability to do fa
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by jariel 5y ago
BTC has nothing backing it whatsoever. The crypto space doesn't seem to mind. The minds managing the crypto space have never depended on reason or financial integrity, just a means to excite the masses onto their scheme.
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by jariel 5y ago
Saying 'people can or cannot use it means that it's not a fundamental property' -> is not an argument. Nobody has to use anything to value a stock - including current profits. Therefore even current profits would not be &#
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by jariel 5y ago
The problem is the young financially illiterate people BTC hypers who believe that BTC is an issue of tech, when really it's an issue of money and finance. BTC a number who's ownership can be legitimized by some degree of public s
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by jariel 5y ago
" The fact that we can agree that bitcoin gives us a source" 'Sources of Truth' are a commodity. There are any number of ways to do that. There's no reason to have a $50B source of truth. And FYI there is no value m

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