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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I laugh at 120k offers in SF, that's like making 65k in a reasonable city. Even if you think you can easily do better, you shouldn't "laugh" at salary offers in that range. The vast majority of people in the U.S. won&
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Is that like, a hobby? Actually it was, for a while. And I actually did read a lot of these works; and considered their points, very carefully; and debated them with their adherents, very patiently and thoughtfully. Until I figured out
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I've seriously started to wonder if many of these people wouldn't just starve (or take to begging in the streets) if there wasn't such a profession as "recruiting" laid out for them. Given the alarming cognitive def
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Fired Google memo writer gives first big interviews to rightwing YouTubers(theguardian.com)
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Par for the course for recruiters, actually.
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Right - there's that, too. Maybe next time, Salesforce should think twice about sending its executives to DEFCON. Without some basic introduction as to what it's actually about.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Right. Even if he legitimately felt the engineers were out of line in some way -- firing them at a public conference (and not just any conference - but that industry's leading annual conference) is just dumb.
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The unnamed Salesforce executive is said to have sent a text message to the duo half an hour before they were expected on stage to not to give the talk, but the message wasn't seen until after the talk had ended. Which said unnamed e
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
To me what was interesting was that even the CEO had to not only denounce it, but also cut his vacation short to hold a staff town-hall. Most likely because, whether the author intended it that way or not, the memo was draft in a way that
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
There was way, way more to his "manifesto" than what's in your summary, actually.
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I don't dismiss it because I have no idea what it's about. The church he founded was one of the major annoyances of the latter half of the 20th century. If you're interested in the general history of Really Bad Ideas (and
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
From the context it sounds like you're talking about the actions of some hypothetical teenage son, here. Recall that the employee that was fired is an adult (and apparently in his 30s, at least).
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Let's say this is about the Google memo. Let's just say this - whatever one thinks about Google's snap decision to fire that guy, he ain't no Kolmogorov. Or even a "little Kolmogorov". And as to the suggest
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So you didn't actually read it, Did you ever actually read L. Ron Hubbard's seminal work, Dianetics ? I mean, really read it? Cover-to-cover? No, you say? And yet you dismiss it? That's crazy.
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Your statement on the other hand has zero quotes to support your claim. Whether a claim (or other statement) someone makes is "scientific" or not is, fundamentally, a matter of the soundness and logical coherence of the overall
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This is a dangerous level of indirection. "The whole of the message". Sounds like you are reading into what it says, ... No, it's called "assessing it qualitatively as well as quantitatively". Which is a very usef
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So you know that it's entirely possible to write something that's "based on facts" -- with nice diagrams and all! -- yet when we consider the whole cloth of what's being said, it turns out to be fatally flawed -- an
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Right, but I from what I understand the statutes that project against coercion on the basis of "political behavior" define it fairly narrow terms such as endorsing candidates, making donations and so forth. Which do not apply in
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Neah, kinda just skimmed it. That is, "really read" a select paragraph or two. Enough to make a basic determination as to what he's driving at -- and to note that we've seen variants of this message from other sources,
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A perfectly reasonable question to ask. Proving once again that on HN, sometimes downvotes are really upvotes.
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Does it really deserve a reaction of "You can't do that here"? Google's decision was most definitely not in response to that graphic you linked to.
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their unwillingness to work with the person that believes in science Actually I found his piece to be distinctly unscientific. It parades as scientific, for sure. But when you break it down, and consider the whole of the message it imp
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I highly doubt that any judge (or sufficiently informed jury) would find that Google acted in response to any political activity on his part, per se.
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I would wager that none of the people calling for this person to be personally ruined, expelled from society, terminated from their job and forever vilified as an outcast ... Maybe some people are calling for stuff like that. But that&#x2
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Why I quit: local newspapers can needlessly ruin lives for empty clicks(theguardian.com)
1 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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Google employee fired over diversity row considers legal action(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
So if, hypothetically, dark matter had some detrimental effect in those parts of the universe where it appears in overly high concentrations (making the universe less "interesting" in those parts... less able to produce life-beari
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USDA is censoring use of term 'climate change', emails reveal(theguardian.com)
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Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech(theguardian.com)
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Actually I don't follow any of these tools closely to know whether they're currently "leading" or not. It's just that, wording-wise "the leading open source X" exudes marketing-speak, which I find language

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