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by kentm 3y ago
For the love of god please do not talk about your car at the station.
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by kentm 3y ago
For me, the Twitter Blue boost has really led to a general drop in quality. I find that Blue subscribers typically don't say valuable things and are some of the most uninteresting people on the app, and yet they get boosted right to t
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by kentm 3y ago
Those fake alien governments and alien racism are metaphors for real governments and real racism.
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by kentm 3y ago
A lot of them have trouble admitting that their cultural stances are increasingly unpopular and what they view as "common sense" is not and is actually reflective of their politics. Plenty of right-wingers like to talk about being
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by kentm 3y ago
There’s also a high chance they just rounded the number for the press release and it doesn’t reflect an exact amount.
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by kentm 3y ago
I didn't vote for Trump and know the election wasn't stolen, so no, not "the likes of [me]".
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by kentm 3y ago
Concerns about electronic voting machines go back decades. Not sure how old you are, but there was a lot of hand wringing in the day when an executive of one such company promised to “deliver the election” to George W Bush.
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by kentm 4y ago
Do you have some way for us to keep track of this, for when you release? Personally 70” is a bit too big but I’d definitely be interested in a quality dumb tv.
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by kentm 4y ago
Gay people can be cis. Cis describes gender identity vs biological sex not sexuality.
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by kentm 4y ago
You really think it’s ok for police to beat up people in their custody who are not an immediate threat?
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by kentm 4y ago
The employee tried to confirm the firing, which is relevant to his contract, privately with HR. After getting no response, he asked Elon about his employment and contract status publicly as a last-ditch effort. Instead of answering the qu
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by kentm 4y ago
> Yeah it’s sucks how he was let go. But he will get paid. Will he? Musk is currently stiffing Twitter's contractors and vendors, as he has done in the past at Tesla.
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by kentm 4y ago
Whether Twitter was "wrong" to fire him is not really relevant. The employee in question wasn't trying to get his job back, but just trying to get a straight answer about whether he was fired and whether Twitter would honor
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by kentm 4y ago
I think that this person is more trustworthy than Musk. After reading Musk's depositions he is not a person that I would consider to be honest and forthright.
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by kentm 4y ago
No it's not extortion. The employer isn't forced to hire or raise the salary; they could just tell them "Good luck at Meta." They're just negotiating from a position of strength, and for some reason you don't
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by kentm 4y ago
Facebook isn't a neutral arbiter, they make active choices in what their users see. And they frequently choose things that maximize engagement in order to maximize profit. Things that are inflammatory and divisive drive engagement, s
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by kentm 4y ago
It isn’t clear to me that social media is a winner take all economy given the multitude of social media sites out there.
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by kentm 4y ago
I think we're getting wires crossed. I know that, and I know that Cedar doesn't solve this use case. I was jumping on with Krab's comment mentioning why something that works like a policy simulator isn't sufficient.
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by kentm 4y ago
Ad hominem doesn’t mean personal attack actually. This is quite a frustrating misconception online. Ad hominem applies to an argument wherein you try to discredit an argument by discrediting the person making the argument. I.E. “Person A i
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by kentm 4y ago
A real use case I ran into myself was when trying to grant a minimal set of permissions for creating EMR Notebooks. The AWS documentation for the PassRole permissions was incorrect and my team kept getting generic permission errors (cannot
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by kentm 4y ago
That tends to be the common answer I hear, but I usually don't hear why its fake. What makes gender studies fake or unserious?
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by kentm 4y ago
Sorry, I was specifically asking about fake or unserious degrees, so its not really in line with what I was discussing. However, I would question whether removing Latin or Ancient Greek as a requirement meaningfully lowers the quality of e
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by kentm 4y ago
Which degree was that? I'd say that one degree program being less difficult than another doesn't make it fake or unserious though. It's just natural that some topics are harder than others. There's a qualitative differ
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by kentm 4y ago
He seems to have the raw capacity for intelligence and appears to have applied it well in understanding rocketry, but he does not apply it equally. He's said and done a lot of bone-headed things and ignored genuine expertise.
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by kentm 4y ago
Which degrees are fake and/or in unserious academic areas?
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by kentm 4y ago
Appliance makers can't seem to resist trying to push you into an "ecosystem" that they own rather than allow you to use open standards, and its super frustrating. I suspect a lot of their internal dev teams think they'r
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by kentm 4y ago
I'm not sure where I said that good engineers don't get promoted. Of course they do. They either worked for a good management team, aggressively self-promoted, or were in a visible project. What I am saying is that there are a l
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by kentm 4y ago
You see it on Hacker News quite frequently too. Quite a lot of people here silo people into "builders" and "maintainers". They then exalt the builders and talk down the maintainers.
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by kentm 4y ago
> If you choose to make it anyways, would you really expect them to reward you for it? A healthy organization should reward developers for making internal tooling that is deemed necessary for the functioning of the org and drives value,
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by kentm 4y ago
> Infra you're rewarded based on the impact of the product teams leveraging your infra - and product teams you're goaled on moving specific metrics. This was not the case for me. I was told that my project had significant posi

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