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by kentm 4y ago
This is a pretty condescending post that assumes quite a lot about my work. > You simply working on a project isn't useful to a company, what's useful is working on the right project. No, my project was measurably useful to the
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by kentm 4y ago
I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted. Woe be unto you if you worked on a "leaf" system -- something that consumed internal services but did not expose services to oth
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by kentm 4y ago
My impression when browsing your site is that your product is in the same space as MS Access. It may be that your target audience is typically not on Hacker News. I don't want to be critical but do want to give some advice. The fact
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by kentm 4y ago
> and all he was sued for (according to the prosecutor) was publishing the family's information This is incorrect.
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by kentm 4y ago
Also doxed a Tesla short seller on Twitter and tried to get him fired. Also lied about some other person looking into Tesla and claimed he ran over employees in the parking lot, taking him to court. Elon has an extensive history of vindicti
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by kentm 4y ago
Just a point of clarification, he hired the private detective before he was sued.
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by kentm 4y ago
I like that response; its a point of view with proper consistency. Twitter is also a private so another view is that you can ban them both and it’s also consistent and within Musks rights. Of course it’s also within Musks rights to ban one
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by kentm 4y ago
ElonJet also just reposted public info. I’m saying that there’s a double standard being applied by Elon and within this Hacker News thread.
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by kentm 4y ago
If you consider doxing as a real tangible harm then what about vulnerable groups coming under harm due to being singled out? LibsOfTikTok made claims about Boston Children’s Hospital that caused tangible harm and yet they were unbanned. Yo
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As a percentage of the total volume?
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This is a serious worry of mine. I often let my elementary kids walk home from school by themselves because we live close enough and they have good sense around what little traffic there is. But I always worry that someone will throw a fi
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by kentm 4y ago
That’s not confirmation bias in the slightest. It’s taking a claim and making observations and then noting that the observations don’t match the claims.
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In addition to pumped hydro, you can use flywheels or even lifting heavy weights really high up.
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by kentm 4y ago
Gonna tag onto your statement here because I like it. I'm a little bit floored that people still believe Alex Jones and Barnes' (Barnes is an InfoWars contributor) claims about discovery. They were caught in the trial itself wi
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by kentm 4y ago
> and only complete idiots think his misinformation has power. You do realize that the Jones Sandy Hook thing caused the parents in question to be stalked, harassed, and even shot at because Jones platformed this nonsense? And before yo
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by kentm 4y ago
Did those media outlets state that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist as a factual statement? Admittedly I don’t follow the mainstream news outlets that much, but I never recall seeing that. Some opinion columnists might have wrote an opi
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by kentm 4y ago
> This seems like basic statistics but maybe I'm missing something. Yep, the thing you're missing is that it was 100 samples per week, over a quarter, so 900 samples per calculation. I don't remember the margin of error c
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Their stated methodology isn't weak though. It's pretty good actually,
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I agree that I'd prefer those sorts of job programs.
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I'm taking the claim of "sharing porn on social media" at face value. I have nothing against producing, sharing, and consuming pornography but its typically done in private. A social media persona is public. It is inappropr
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by kentm 4y ago
Militaries get funded in the USA because it’s a massive jobs program.
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by kentm 4y ago
Musk hired the investigator before the diver sued. The diver sued because Musk basically said "No it wasn't just an insult, I really believe he's a pedophile and I have evidence" to multiple parties. Musk tried to
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by kentm 4y ago
Maybe you missed the part where Musk hired a private investigator to prove that the guy was a pedophile. The investigator lied about the evidence, and Musk did no due diligence but directed his PR team to leak those lies to the media, and
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by kentm 5y ago
But you haven’t verified little understanding and crypto proponents never do. It’s always “skeptic of crypto = little understanding”. You’re doing that exact thing here.
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by kentm 5y ago
It seems that way because it tracked how the pandemic played out really closely, but they wrote the script before the pandemic started. It was meant as commentary on climate change.
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by kentm 5y ago
> A synchronous approach is more error-prone, harder to debug, and harder to recover. Many industry professionals pass this option over. That's the complete opposite of my experience.
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by kentm 5y ago
Anything online funded by primarily by advertising will necessarily turn creepy or exploitive. Advertising always demands more engagement so there will be teams of people trying to game you for that engagement.
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by kentm 5y ago
It's not so much that null is used but that every reference type is nullable in practice for languages that have it. Languages "without null" specifically mark certain variables as optional (same as nullable), so you're
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by kentm 6y ago
What does your typical stack look like?
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by kentm 7y ago
> Alternative title: Majority of Americans are not rich, and therefore see no downside to taking from those who are Thats unnecessarily reductive and dismissive of peoples' beliefs. Probably more along the lines of: 1) The rich hav

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