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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>lose by default I don't believe that's true. I've found success in my personal life this way, and the journey is more important than the destination. Will success really feel like success if I achieve it in ways I think
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Are you trying to convince me that I should lower my standards, or are you sharing in my despair for the reality we find ourselves in?
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
That still doesn't make it okay. At no point have I denied this reality. It just makes me very sad that this is the reality we find ourselves in.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Caveat Emptor, right? I just dream of a world where people are more honest than that. Just because that's the way it's been doesn't make it okay, nor right. People of integrity do not act this way. When I see people claimi
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>In a nutshell, you can't catch it again right away after having recovered. "Can't" is too extreme. "Very unlikely" is much more accurate.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
This is what my approach is, but I've found that it's very difficult to find people who disagree with me, but do so in good faith, and who are just as willing to be skeptical of their own beliefs as they are of mine, and I am of m
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>It's not like there's a lack of historical precedent for a profit motive causing them to work against the interests of the general population So that makes it okay? Perhaps the thing that needs to change is our expectations o
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
This seems like it would only be a deterrent if these institutions are targets explicitly. If the attacks are random, this will not help at all.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I've worked remotely now for years, across multiple teams. This reads to me like someone saying "we'll never go faster than sound" because you can't imagine it. Just because you can't see how it could work doe
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
The problem is distinguishing "busywork" from "the work". Often times, they look very similar, especially to outside viewers.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>No one has ever been able to explain to me why the climate seems only picks on CA Well for one thing, let's start with the fact that this is wrong. CA is not the only state experiencing dangerous and widespread forest fires. It j
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>Algorithm changes are always going to produce winners and losers. The implementers have control of the algorithm. If you choose to go a certain way, then that means you are accepting the output. Why should anyone be able to hide behind
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
More like, it's almost as if expecting humans to be uniform is a really bad expectation.
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>Cause and effect is important to distinguish. Alternatively we should probably abandon the notion that anything at the society level has a simple cause and a simple effect. When dealing with society, we're dealing with a chaotic sy
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Maybe those weapons should cost more instead.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Pretty good example of selection bias. The people who are concerned are not going to be posting on facebook.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>There are so very few people that fit that criteria of doing the right thing even if it costs them. The world would be a much better place if there were many more people like this. Trying to get people to meet that standard is not a ba
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
The lie we tell ourselves is that the quality of code matters to non-engineers. It seems it doesn't. The most uncomfortable truth of our field is that there is no floor for how bad code can be, yet still make people billions of doll
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Or you could make consideration for tracking that change in source code a priority when making those changes and code appropriately. The problem you describe is a problem because people are not prioritizing or valuing the commit history as
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>Facebook deals in contracts, not promises and even if it was contractually agreed upon, what would you do about it? Sue? Why shouldn't we expect more from companies? Promises should mean something. But really this is just another
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Oh man, you put this into words so well exactly what I have been thinking. We have a justice system that has massive problems, and there is very little change or improvement happening. Confidence in the system is at all time lows. It&#x2
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
I don't know anything about being flagged either. If something was flagged here, it wasn't I that did it.
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Voting is the starting point for participating in democracy. Then you need to make sure you're informed the best you can - this can demand that you move beyond your comfort zone to understand things that you do not. You need to interac
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
You have an opinion, not a fact. If you think "participation" is only about voting once every 5 years, then you are part of the problem. Although since you say five years instead of 4, perhaps I shouldn't assume you're
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Just because I'm happy to pay taxes doesn't mean that I'm happy with the ways that money is spent. But I can recognize the inherent need for _some_ entity to serve in this function, and I'm glad that I have one that I c
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Obviously you think this is a clever reply, but it isn't. Between this and your parent post, all you're really doing is demonstrating that you have no idea how civilization works. Perhaps you have some idea of how you think thin
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Taxes are the cost of civilization - of being able to deal with other people without resorting to violence every time. Perhaps one day we'll be able to do that without a monopolistic entity enforcing the rules, but it's very clea
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
You seem to be under the impression that only 'better' things exist. That is wrong. The fact of the matter is that for literally millenia, humans have considered gold to be valuable. That is unlikely to change any time soon, tho
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
>Bit worried about the quality of the content, based on the quality of the proofreading. I don't know why this feeling persists. The ability to proofread or write free of spellings is a skill completely unrelated to the underlying c
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by jmcqk6 6y ago
Sure, but this is impossible to escape. Even if you're looking at a dry set of facts, there was editorial decisions made regarding what to put on that list and what to leave off. There is literally nothing you can read where you can

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