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by kweingar 4y ago
I will admit to this. I was so angry at how Musk treated his employees, and I took them at face value when they predicted outages. I still think that we will see outages in the coming weeks and months, but probably not in spectacular fashio
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This isn't what Arrow's theorem says. It's not just that there is always someone whose vote happens to match the result (like a fixed-point theorem would). It says that there is a ballot that determines the result. In other
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This is the argument that I circle back to over and over again as an adopted child, and like with your comment, people mostly choose not to engage with it or just flatly assert “that’s different and you know it.” But it’s not different. All
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I would be interested to hear which web apps with 100,000,000+ users would run fine for weeks/months without hiccups if 80% of the people running it left overnight.
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> Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention? Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs? If not, why was it not properly engineered, and who needs to be fired for that? I would encourage
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> Just implementing one of them is a nightmare. Going from one to another is an exercise in the philosophies of ontologies. Good thing there are lots of competing implementations! It would be a shame if these files were actually portable
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Either you opened your mind a touch too much or you’re just being contrarian. Hard to tell. I would be very interested to see any published definition of “musician” or “music” in a dictionary that would exclude drums. The comparison of drum
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by kweingar 4y ago
Negativity is an extremely broad concept. There is no chance that “negative” tweets will be uniformly deboosted. Will Elon deboost tweets from Ukrainians condemning Russian war crimes? Will he deboost his own negative tweets toward US polit
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Further in the thread he names some banned accounts that will be reinstated. A couple weeks ago, Elon said that Twitter’s content policy (and account reinstatement) would be decided by a moderation council composed of people with diverse vi
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I don’t really understand your dilemma. Why are drummers not musicians?
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Are drummers not musicians because they don’t play melodies and harmonies?
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The tech has to be solid to serve timelines, video, etc. to half a billion people
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Digital rubbernecking
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I don’t get nervous with leetcode interviews because to me it’s just a coin flip. I feel that I have essentially no control over the outcome of the interview. I was much more stressed about exams in school because I felt that I “ought to kn
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There should be a prediction market for this so people can put their money where their mouth is. A market like “will Twitter report a major outage during the course of the upcoming World Cup?” would be interesting to follow.
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This is what I worry about. One of the great things about tech culture is that management can’t just openly dominate engineers. “Because I told you so” is not an answer that engineers will accept. If you treat engineers this way (without wo
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I work at a company with a similar code review culture. I have about 2 blocks of meetings per day on average. I usually check my assigned code reviews in the morning and when I come back from the meetings. Once I’m done with those then I mo
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> inventing new bureaucracy to send out checks We already have an efficient system for sending out checks—the Social Security Administration
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I’m guessing that person who flagged this felt misled by the title, since Americans read the phrase “welfare program” as “benefits for the poor”, while this article describes a benefit for homeowners.
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> I'd hardly call a reduction in "money we take from you" a "handout". This always ends up being a metaphysical debate. It’s all relative. Suppose I make $100,000 and after taxes $80,000 is left. After a new law
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Why not just bet it all on red and get your life-changing generational wealth without all the drama?
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> The reality is most people outside of the HN bubble trust billion dollar companies. Crypto or otherwise. I’m not sure about this. Most people I know outside of tech and finance do not trust crypto at all. They inherently mistrust the c
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> I think the reason a bunch of them got fired because they had created this complex mess without proper reasons. They got fired because costs needed to decrease immediately. It’s hard to attribute these firings to poor performance when
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HN is full of strong comments like this. A lot worse has been said about many tech people on here (Larry Ellison comes to mind). Part of the cost of being a public figure and a multibillionaire is that people will talk about you without the
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If we were watching the same videos, they showed themselves getting lunch, getting coffee, going to the gym, and hanging out on the roof. None of these videos suggested that these activities totaled anywhere close to 6 hours in a day. Maybe
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Is it invalid to criticize any policy ever that a company imposes on its employees?
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> careers/jobs were just a necessary evil because it's almost impossible to survive without money I don’t think this is incompatible with caring about your career. My perspective is that I am very fortunate to have a job as a s
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> can survive easily with about half of its employees gone in a heartbeat A bit premature to make this claim imo
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This rule was rarely (if ever) enforced when people would change their account name temporarily as a one-off joke. Also from the page you linked: > When we receive a valid impersonation or trademark report about an account that is not in
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It was previously a Twitter norm that you could temporarily change your display name to “impersonate” (satirize) someone, with your handle being the giveaway that it’s not real. This norm seems to have been summarily overturned. I thought t

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