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by lemmsjid 5y ago
Transgendered behavior has been recorded for quite some time. Advertising as a trillion dollar business is relatively new. How about applying Occams Razor? The simpler explanation of transgenderism is that the confluence of nature and nurt
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
I've been doing startups since 2001, with brief stints at larger places due to acquisitions, and then a sojourn at a FAANG. Something that irritated me well before Hacker News existed, and manifested as Hacker News came into being, wa
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
Thanks for linking these! They indeed capture that same concept and are quite beautiful, in a haunting sense. In this case automated technology seems to inhabit the same space as ghosts in a non-sci-fi setting. At least the type of ghost
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
I'm having trouble following you. The behaviors you describe above are neither 'unmasculine' or 'unfeminine'. They are behaviors that can be evidenced across the gender spectrum.
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
There's a powerful sci fi short story I read in an anthology quite a while ago (I believe called The Flying Dutchman) describing a crewless bomber being repaired, fueled, taking off, bombing its target, landing, and then doing the same
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
I believe fundamentally people are ill equipped to deal with this kind of complexity. When labeling people, rather than using a small set of discrete terms, it's closer to a probabilistic clustering problem where each individual is re
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
By focusing on shared experience of cultural context or upbringing, you're ignoring the shared experience of how people are treated by others. People do have things in common based on skin color. For example, my sister is Filipina.
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by lemmsjid 5y ago
Having been down this path several times (small company to acquisition to growth), if you actually sit down during the startup phase and list all of the features/processes that would make your product fully mature, you're looking
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
That is so true. I struggled to develop the habit and then ended up on a team that did this (mainly send silly emails from the victim’s account). It’s over a decade later and I still hit the lock combo every time I get up.
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I personally don't downvote opinions, but my assumption is that the OP is taking 'children in cages' out of context, and is also making a rhetorical point that all Trump opposition is based on personal hatred of him, and that
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
As a fellow American, I also just eat a few hamburgers per year. I actually prefer non meat burgers to regular, though I love high quality meat (though I don't it it very often). I like to primary source stuff and can't find a h
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Slave labor is also a colloquialism for poorly paid work. The Cambridge dictionary for example says it has an “informal disapproving” sense of “very hard work for which people are paid very little” and has an example sentence of “It’s sla
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
As I said, you can argue the research is not conclusive, and I have read the above article. Pulling demographic data like that is challenging and we should all take it with grains of salt. But you and I are not having the same type of argu
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
It's important, I think, to not toss out the baby with the bathwater. Are fact checkers inherently biased? Probably. Should we ignore them? No. CNN's fact checkers called out the distortion on the 'both sides' discu
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
The above statement is indeed exemplary of Trump's racism, and is a better example than the distortions. Research has shown that illegal immigrants do not commit crimes at the same rate as the legal citizenry. You can argue that the
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Being able to off-the-cuff use JMX to do realtime heap and stack analysis and then go deep with an offline heap dump (via Eclipse MAT, for example) is quite nice. On top of it you have a standardized interface for emitting counters and gau
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Much agreement here, and from the exact same usecase. Probably the easiest B2B API integration scenario I worked with in the past was XML + XML Schema validation. And I still think XML is more readable in many cases than JSON, because whil
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
It's interesting--I completely and utterly agree with out intellectually. But when I look back on many teams I've been on in many companies, daily standups achieve this sort of psychological weight of monotony. Even when they&#x
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Reddit is one of the largest sites that embodies the earliest and most Utopic use-cases of the Internet: largely anonymous parties discussing different topics. The size to which it has scaled makes it an inherently fascinating artifact. At
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I think there's a certain amount of risk each artist needs to take, in any medium, where on one side you see the intentionally accessible art of the television show, and on the other side you see art that challenges the audience in som
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Yep! I don't disagree with anything you're saying when I think from a particular context. It's really hard to generalize about the needs of 'science code', and my stab at doing so was certain to be off the mark fo
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
There's a ton of overlap, because science code might be a long running, multi-engineer distributed system and production code might be a script that supports a temporary business process. But let's assume production ready is a mu
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Here's my own-merits justification: Holding on to wealth is an inherently risky prospect. Let's say you are very wealthy but live in an unstable country. You're like a dragon sleeping on its pile of gold. Your wealth is a ta
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
>Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'. You are not representative of 'the mood of the nation'. In fact, you're an outlier. According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democ
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
Interesting how perspectives differ. Having used Jira for many years, I think it's straightforward for engineering work, but particularly hard for PMs and managers. Why? On the engineering side, it's pretty straightforward to in
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
That sounds ideal to me too, but you have the same data asymmetry in the supermarket example. Supermarkets are pioneering data aggregators, having the ability to observe foot traffic and having the final seller aggregations. They can and
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding, though, on what constitutes abuse (and thus an anecdote for your assertion). Amazon openly mines third party sales data to bolster its in house brands, just as Costco does with Kirkland, Walma
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
It's interesting how perspectives differ and I'm not disagreeing with yours. If you'd asked me before this discussion whether or not I felt, given those criteria, that Amazon was a store or a flea market, I'd say I&#x27
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
I'm honestly intrigued as to how this is so morally unambiguous. Walmart, any-given-supermarket, Costco, etc., have in-house brands (for example Kirkland with Costco). These became prominent in the 90's and there was similar disc
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by lemmsjid 6y ago
True, that was a poor argument on my part. I should say, lack of evidence that it did. Which weakens my argument, so thanks for pointing it out.

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