joshuamorton

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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Can you elaborate on this? There are always going to be security/reliability tradeoffs. Things that fail closed for security reasons will cause slower incident responses. That's unavoidable. Innovation can improve the frontier, bu
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
What is good leadership, in your opinion? What makes someone's job a "leader" job, do you mean management only, or technical leadership roles as well? What is a leaders job? When you say that "leadership is feckless&quot
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
So have you met any good leaders? Or are you saying that good leaders are nearly impossible to find (and therefore perhaps the job is difficult?)
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> There's "pip freeze" but that's a one-time operation that you can't then reverse, so it's only usable for leaf applications. What do you mean by reverse? You can certainly upgrade all packages locally and
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
If Facebook were, say, democratically operated, with users voting on feature prioritization and such, how do you think it would look different?
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
From what you cited: > mRNA stays in the cytoplasm, where the ribosomes are. It does not enter the nucleus and cannot interact with your DNA or cause any changes to the genome. No Frankencure here, either. Its not genetic anything and th
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Well no they couldn't, it was given to them.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I mean there's also like the super not obvious stuff that comes with scale. Facebook wanted to hire me to join their team that does supply chain optimization to ensure that computers get to their datacenters fast enough. That's li
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Let me rephrase: what, in your opinion, is wrong with Youtube's search algorithm making antivaxx content appear "last"? This is "just" a choice about how they order search results, but is functionally equivalent to
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Well but did I intentionally search for that video , or did I search for, say, content about vaccines? If you're saying the video is unlisted/private and sent to people on a mailing list over email, that's one thing, but I t
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Note that this formulation doesn't have to descend into some sort of free speech maximalist apocalypse; spam is unprotected because it's not something anyone wants to receive, incitements to imminent violence are violations o
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I'm having a hard time seeing your point. It seems like you're saying that because [entities] only started to do online counterinsurgency once ISIS was somewhat established, those entities didn't actually try to shutdown extr
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I mean, this isn't really true: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama... https://ww
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I mean, yes. I think that's fine. But that goes in both directions: if you're willing to sacrifice the speech of some for the speech of others, clearly either you aren't a free speech maximalist, or there is some inherent con
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I didn't take any particular position, I pointed out the incongruence in the one they espoused. I'm admittedly mixed on common carrier laws, I think that they are "impure" in a sense, but I also think the benefits are gr
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Corporations are not humans (regardless of the "corporate personhood" doctrine) and thus should not be entitled to the full rights of humans. True, but corporations are just connections of people with shared goals. Should gro
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
What makes something an opinion or an idea versus a threat or an obscenity?
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Given the size of 8 Chan and the size is communities banned from Reddit, we know this to be untrue.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
https://handwiki.org/wiki/GmailFS https://github.com/maxchehab/redditfs etc etc.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
If someone's able to do some kind of physical attack that involves a cable swap style mitm to mess with the face id system, what stops them from also rebooting your phone once?
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
You're off by a factor of probably 5-10 (and maybe more) in the number of L8s. It's a 150K employee company, with a dozen or so "S"VPs, and then VPs, and then below that are the directors. And its worth remembering that
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Dan Luu wrote about this a few years ago: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ (from 2015, but has been updated a bit since then). I think the big challenge is that accurately evaluating a startup offer is very, very
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This, I've basically never felt external pressure from management or deadlines in my job. I have however, on more than one occasion, found myself up far too late (or in the pre-pandemic times having nearly missed the last bus home) bec
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
You're simplifying the opposing position in a way that isn't fully honest. There are at least four purposes incarceration can serve: rehabilitation, retribution, dissuasion, and separation. Rehabilitation meaning, giving people th
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
It appears so: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/spam-filtering... (I work on Gmail, but that shouldn't really be relevant here)
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
At your large, in vogue, non-neflix companies, pay often has fairly well known bands, and approximately doubles (or more) every two levels (well not at Microsoft). This holds true at Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber, Snap, Apple, Stripe, etc.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This works, until something about the image violate your expectation. To use the image example, say you have an image editor that uses the common assumption that a pixel is a 3-byte item, with 255 possible values. Lots of stuff worked this
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
You're comically overestimating the effective tax rates. SSI maxes at 140K, so you're paying an effective 3.5% rate at 250K. The effective federal and state tax rates for 250K of AGI are going to be below 32 and 9% and they won&#x
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstances. How can you take those circumstances into account without knowing what leadership values in those circumstances? And anyway, how do you even know you have full information?
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> How do are these qualitatively different kinds of value? The second set are tradeoffs, they give you a framework for decision making: "integrity" is obviously a thing you want, but everyone wants it, it doesn't really

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