kweingar

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by kweingar 1y ago
The aggregate demands of the administration are confusing and contradictory. They seem to be simultaneously asking for: - an end to diversity initiatives - a new diversity initiative for diverse points of view - a new policy of not admittin
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by kweingar 1y ago
That would make sense if OAI were the leader.
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by kweingar 1y ago
Let me know how many people contact you and give you their information because you wrote this.
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by kweingar 1y ago
> Combined with the prestige of Google on his resume he'll land back on his feet in no time. I wouldn't count on that. The job market is really bad.
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by kweingar 2y ago
BYD cars are much more affordable than Teslas. It's not all about politics.
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by kweingar 2y ago
If you read the complaint, the allegation is that controlling for performance evaluations , members of certain groups were preferred over others for promotion.
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by kweingar 2y ago
If you read the title of this submission, this was not about getting a job at Google but rather treatment of Google employees.
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by kweingar 2y ago
If you want private sector work ethic, you gotta pay private sector salaries. (Many federal employees have a better work ethic than the average private sector worker. But you can't make that an expectation if you're paying less th
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by kweingar 2y ago
The CLA just gives Google a license to use the code your contribute (and a license to any associated patents). You still own the copyright, and Google cannot sell the rights to your code. https://cla.developers.google.com/ab
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by kweingar 2y ago
I've brought this up before, but I never got a response and I'm really interested what people think the business case is here. I keep wondering what a buyer would actually value beyond Chrome's userbase. Chrome is just Chromi
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by kweingar 2y ago
If the government was a dynamic work environment, it would burn just as much money. But instead of saying "the project went over budget", they'd say "we executed a strategic pivot." Instead of employees "stagna
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by kweingar 2y ago
> The most creative part of internet ignores copyright royalties. From open source, to wikipedia, open scientific publication and even social networks, if everyone demanded royalties none of them would be possible. Notably, in all of the
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by kweingar 2y ago
~98% of people employed by the federal government work in the executive branch (if we count military, postal service, etc.)
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by kweingar 2y ago
Coalition building is not a problem, but it is still very difficult to govern in the US. In order to enact meaningful legislation aside from a budget, you need a majority of the House of Representatives, 60 Senators (in practice, because of
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by kweingar 2y ago
How should free webmail work?
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by kweingar 2y ago
I wonder who would buy "Chromium with a Google skin." You'd get a massive user base, but what would you do with the product? The only thing that distinguishes it from other Chromium-based browsers is integration with Google a
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by kweingar 2y ago
Yeah, Chrome is "Google-flavored Chromium", just as Edge is "Microsoft-flavored Chromium." If (say) Meta bought Edge, then they'd get the userbase and the trademark, but the product seems pointless. Why would Meta w
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by kweingar 2y ago
What does it mean to sell Chromium? Chromium code is Copyright The Chromium Authors. It contains a substantial amount of code not written by Google, which isn't Google's to sell. I suppose Google could sell the rights to their p
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by kweingar 2y ago
That's a very good point. Mobile OS vendors should allow for user-defined search engines the way that desktop browsers do.
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by kweingar 2y ago
Here's something I don't understand. If you want to switch your search engine for Safari on iOS, you open Settings, tap Safari, tap Search Engine, and tap your preferred search engine. Not many users do this, and the conclusion is
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by kweingar 2y ago
It is frustrating that the conversation around DOGE becomes "well we can all at least agree that efficiency is needed, right?" The government is openly lying about nearly every aspect of its efficiency efforts, and this is not deb
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by kweingar 2y ago
For some of the cuts there could be a profit angle. You can fire government employees and replace their functions with favored contractors.
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by kweingar 2y ago
On one hand, you have a a group that is working very quickly to make irreversible changes (likely in violation of many laws) before the judiciary catches up and enjoins them. On the other hand you have an internet user calling them a bozo.
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by kweingar 2y ago
If you're a maintainer and reciprocity is an important value to you, and you think that people who don't give back are freeloading, then why did you specifically choose not to use a GPL license for your project? Your point about t
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by kweingar 2y ago
The thing about the tragedy of the commons is that you are actively hurting everyone else by depleting a non-rivalrous good. When I accept a friend's hospitality and don't reciprocate, I am taking their time and resources. When I
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by kweingar 2y ago
I see this mindset more and more, and to me it seems against the ethos of open-source software. There's something philosophically odd about saying "you are free to use, change, redistribute, or sell this with basically no restrict
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by kweingar 2y ago
I'm not sure what this has to do with Elon breaking most of his promises and being constantly wrong about the government he claims to be fixing
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by kweingar 2y ago
I'm confused, I thought we were talking about laying off federal employees. Now we're talking about contracts?
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by kweingar 2y ago
Elon breaks almost every promise he makes and has constantly been proven wrong on the claims he's made in the past month. It astounds me that someone not connected to him would trust him at all
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by kweingar 2y ago
Without the backing of government, the only way unions would be effective is through violence or destruction of property. I don't think enough business people understand that having a well-defined legal framework for labor disputes is

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