jessedhillon

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by jessedhillon 5y ago
What good is it to live in a wealthy nation, if being a citizen means you have to operate at cut throat efficiency in order to keep up? Creating slack for the average man to enjoy is also a valuable national economic goal.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
In my experience, "because I said so" is not a great argument. Just one look at the way these color pickers are presented on first use, and how that selection becomes the default thereafter, tells you everything you need to know a
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
No, I'm shooting from the hip and exaggerating (slightly). When you're sending an emoji for the first time, an app typically presents you with a selection of skin colors for the hand or face icon you're choosing. My point is
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
People choose to pay their taxes, therefore people want taxes. People choose to accept EULAs before they use software, therefore people want EULAs. People choose to stay with spouses with whom they occasionally fight, therefore people want
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
>One is asking you which color of emoji you prefer. Other is asking you which race you are. How would you recommend which emoji color I should pick? How do you imagine most people would navigate that decision? >The difference is big e
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I'm not suggesting it's impossible. I'm saying you don't know what you claim to know, and to my knowledge nobody has tried to know it. People, such as yourself, assume that because this feature is used, it's desired
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
I don't mean they literally print these words. You can see how it's done if you search for "emoji color picker" or similar.
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Users follow prompts, so "people choose a race when presented with a racialized emoji picker" doesn't mean "people want their emojis racialized". It means, people understand what they are being asked to do, and want
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Setting up your own servers was absolutely the bottleneck. Providing on demand scalable computing and storage untethered a generation of garage startups from venture funding. Prior to 2007, if you had a great idea you could build it and the
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by jessedhillon 5y ago
Not at all. Major apps and OSes put a "choose your race" message on their UI (and very strongly direct people to make that choice). This does not mean there was pre-existing latent demand for this. What this shows is if you inject
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
There was a discussion here a few days ago that showed how misleading this statistic can be, by pointing out that Apple is sending home geolocation while Android isn't. The conversation needs more nuance than who sends the most bytes.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
This is a simplistic analysis of the "duty to the shareholder" principle. The wellbeing and happiness of the operations staff directly impacts competency, efficiency, and retention. And those all directly affect, among other thing
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
They mean that the forEach runs code per element, but cannot return a transformed list of values, you need map for that. A map can run code per list element but the result must be injective (one-to-one). Reduce can do all of the above, but
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
If such a technology existed, it would definitely require intense mental training and preparation before it could be used. One would have to become the most detached buddhist in order to be the sort of person who, when cloned, did not flip
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Similarly, this is an astonishing (and infuriating) interview with SF board of ed president Gabriella Lopez: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-ren... Even for SF, this is extreme. Side note,
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Did I say otherwise?
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
This discussion is incomplete unless it also comprehends that the definition of white supremacy (or x-phobia, patriarchy, misogyny) in elite and academic circles has expanded incredibly, to the point where it bears no relation to any reas
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Where are you getting that information? Near as I can tell, the share of foreign born people who have degrees is similar to the share of all Americans with degrees: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org&
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
The line I responded to was about "awarding the contest to the loser," that means transferring institutional power. Not just killing people on TV. In order for a coup to be successful, institutions need to endorse the new order or
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
> an intent to award the presidency to the loser How would they have done that? Nobody would listen to a bunch of hooligans pronouncing orders from the House rostrum. In a coup, someone like a general is waiting to hear the signal to thr
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
And what restraints are in place on social media or app platforms when they police speech? Only the ones they place on themselves, so this analogy is broken.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
It's a shame these officers didn't go to a police academy as fine as the one you attended.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Federal courts are restrained by the defining document of this country, and by the other branches of government. This is literally the reason why all power is not vested into one branch: to restrain each other from the known corrosive effec
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Suppose Google releases an update to Chrome that prevents it from loading problematic websites. What really is the difference, in your mind, between removal from the app store and what I described? Or would you also find that scenario accep
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
You can't think of any ideas which began well outside of the Overton window, but today are commonly accepted as true?
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
What's naive is thinking that anyone, once empowered to define impermissible speech, would not eventually expand that definition to include inconvenient speech. Freedom of speech exists to protect the rights of minorities: the opinions
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
> I also don't recall BLM protesters threatening the leaders of our government in a real and material way Accepting your description of events for the moment -- is it your real, sincere belief, that this is the distinction that matt
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
I'm not aware of any BLM protesters being shot by police during the summer protests, so right off the bat, this is a really weird comment you've written. Shooting a protester in the head is already worse treatment, isn't it?
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
I know you're being intentionally obtuse, as is the fashion right now, but I'm going to give a straight response to this for anyone genuinely engaging. We don't know what went through that officer's mind. If you're
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
The capitol police shot one of them in the head, teargassed and wrestled with the others, so they have exactly every reason to believe otherwise. But sure, some short video of cops removing a 3' tall baby gate, circulating on social me

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