justadeveloper2

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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
This is why I just moved on to protonmail and am ditching Google as fast as I can after almost 20 years. I can't control what Google does, but I don't have to help them or be subject to their biases or censorsial behavior. The gr
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I'm not sure it has truly been any different except during times of national emergency, e.g. WWII. The states were always like separate little nations and people traditionally never described themselves as American but rather as Texan
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
The whole thing makes me queasy--to think that somebody is going to determine what to censor on the Internet can never be anything but a bad dream. We can suffer through the hate speech and counter it with rational arguments. But once cen
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I support what you said--higher ed in the US is kind of a shell of its former self, not on par with Ho Chi Min or whatever, but the rampant infusion of PC ideology has wrecked rational dialog.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
A lot of scientific inquiry is un-politically correct and therefore "wrong" even though it was arrived at by the correct processes. That is especially true when cognitive traits among races have been compared. Many just can&#x27
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
We didn't make it to the 21st century by not being aggressive and dangerous.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Any matter that gives you an edge or leg up in business will be utilized period.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
The problem I have with the allegation of "leaning on biases" is that it is impossible to disprove. You can never get out from under that allegation no matter how hard you try! NO ONE is without bias, no one is completely object
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I don't think it matters in the sense that people with that kind of money can never be reined in--they just spend more money to route around anyone who wants to regulate their behavior.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
What you mean you developers don't do that like every week?
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I disagree with the "many other industries" part--I'd say maturity level overall is pretty low and incompetence among men and women in the US is pretty high. There's not enough emphasis on business ethics, but that isn&
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I got a bit confused when she ticked off her resume--how does anyone get that much experience at all top flight companies in just a compressed amount of time? Despite the obvious issues she has faced, my career is a completely dead, non-st
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I'm not at all comfortable talking about 18th and 19th century social issues through a 21st century lens. It's not going to be productive at all. Slavery ended in the Northern US states without any war. It's an oversimplifi
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
The Chinese and North Koreans ban pornography don't they? It's a pretty good litmus test for how open or closed a society is.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I used this same quotation back in the '90s for something. It's become kind of trite, like the Ben Franklin quote about liberty and safety. Yes, we know the Jews suffered, it's been drilled into your psyches over and over ag
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
When you say pro-hate-speech, do you include Marxist rhetoric in there? I only ask because anyone who has suffered through communism will tell you who the truly brutal and destructive monsters in this world are. I can think of no fascist r
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
There's nothing naive about it--what is naive is assuming there is some entity out there with the godlike power to determine what speech is good and what is bad. It's either all on the table or none of it is. What we can't
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
You have no recourse! Technology and corporate consolidation have made free expression a dangerous game in the 21st century. It's another example of how technology is completely value neutral and can have extremely unintended consequ
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It's just you. The answer to speech and acts you don't like is more speech, not censorship. It's not like white nationalism is on the rise in the US--that's a complete media fabrication in an attempt to discredit the T
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though? Your faith in big government is completely misplaced. The truth is, you can't trust any entity with consolidated power to be forthright and favor humanity over all other
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Not only that, but the companies you have listed are all to eager to get in bed with the Chinese government and then for efficiency reasons, they start moving everything to that least common denominator of free expression. We definitely ha
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
I used to think this but then I was required to work with two people who have what I understand to be Borderline Personality Disorder. No matter what you think you can do to get along with people with this problem you can't--they will
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It is not toxic nor dubious to point out the outlier and wonder why.
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It's a good article, but it's all that you will find about them, no real details on how they are beating the markets over and over again. It's simply not possible to be that successful for so long. The article states that s
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
So does your hedge fund beat the market every year like clockwork or do you have losses sometimes?
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Do you know the story of LTCM? If not, do not lecture me on this subject. I'm sure in time I'll be proved correct. I'm sure you've heard of Bernie Madoff and how he "beat the market" for so long, yes? I don&
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
AlexTheParrot--then home come they are the only one?
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Here's how this always goes: Someone thinks they have a killer algorithm and it works and makes them money...for a time. Then it suddenly doesn't work anymore and they lose more than they gained. It is not possible to beat the
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
Do you understand investing at all? People have been attempting to "beat the market" for decades and nobody has been successful. There is always the "reversion to the mean" issue in every case. People with algorithms
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by justadeveloper2 9y ago
It doesn't matter if you can do it once. You have to do it consistently over years, which is not possible. I know about Renaissance Technologies, but I suspect they have insider information or some other angle and it's not all a

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