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by maehwasu 9y ago
This ignores the fact that the shortage exists for reasons beyond training. IQ/specific aptitude is incredibly important in tech. Being nice to everyone and pretending that aptitude doesn't matter is a recipe for disaster, and mak
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by maehwasu 9y ago
He said hikers were running, not hunters.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
This is like saying LeBron James is less important than Cleveland's role players, because you need five people on a side to have a basketball team. The question isn't who's "necessary", since everyone who is necessa
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by maehwasu 9y ago
The problem isn't that there isn't enough income to cover expenses. The problem is that expenses have grown along with rapidly increasing income. The two best explanations for this are: a) Wikipedia has spent that money in ways th
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by maehwasu 9y ago
Wikipedia has effectively done this with regard to employee compensation/additional hiring.
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by maehwasu 9y ago
This argument for increased centralization has become very tiring, on both sides of the Atlantic. "If you let people form smaller communities, some of those smaller communities might contain NAZIS!!!! Won't somebody think of the
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by maehwasu 9y ago
What information in his comment do you disagree with?
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by maehwasu 9y ago
The fact that Germany was conquered is an indisputable historical fact. Most people in the present day, myself included, are happy about that outcome. The fact, however, is clear. I'll admit that speculating about US influence over Ger
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by maehwasu 9y ago
The article really dances around the obvious answer to the question in the title: "because Germany is a conquered puppet state of the US."
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by maehwasu 9y ago
To what degree is Erdogan's regime a problem of not enough democracy, as opposed to a fundamental problem with democracy itself? (Where democracy = 51% wins)
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by maehwasu 9y ago
What is your disagreement based on?
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by maehwasu 9y ago
That's because virtually no one at the time of its writing would have understood the term to mean "wide-scale re-distribution."
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Time to free yourself from the moms.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
> Slack, et al, are based on synchronous communication, which discriminate against those who do not or can not take part of the conversation in real time. For example, real time chat discriminates against those who aren’t in the same tim
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by maehwasu 10y ago
VPN ftw
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by maehwasu 10y ago
"The more I listened to her story, the more I realized that, all this time, Lisa wasn’t trying to steal my identity. She was trying to find her own." Agree--the whole article has a very bizarre "I got a new pet, and sometimes
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by maehwasu 10y ago
let gets_complicated = "FDR is going to pack the court if I don't start finding ways to go along with him"
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Chatting for 40 minutes about cheeses sounds like a specially engineered form of hell.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
All Vox articles: "Why X Thing That a Mainstream Democrat Did That Seems Like a Big Problem Is Actually Not a Big Problem" "Why X Thing That Person Who Is Not a Mainstream Democrat Did That Seems Innocuous Is Actually the Mos
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by maehwasu 10y ago
> Seriously, I have never found a language that made refactoring as easy - or, dare I say fun? - as Go. Sounds like someone's ready for Haskell.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
You get what you incentivize. If you incentivize sob stories about women in tech, you get sob stories about women in tech.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
The author's argument boils down to: 1. Snowden didn't come back to the US, so he must be a traitor (rather than a non-idiot who knew exactly what had happened to Chelsea Manning). 2. Putin allowed him to come when the passport ha
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Is it completely obvious that it's great for society that everyone occupy a lot of brainspace with politics?
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Yeah, selecting for founders who are PC-compliant seems mildly retarded, to say the least. The charitable reading is that the guy has a way he wishes the world were, and is trying to impose that vision on people he funds; which I mean, go w
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by maehwasu 10y ago
a) It's extremely hard to defend against variants of social engineering, especially given the combinatorial proliferation of attack surfaces b) the NSA doesn't really care about that aspect much
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by maehwasu 10y ago
People focus too much on the husband and wife when making this risk assessment. They forget that the incentives for lawyers in family court are REALLY screwed up, and definitely not on the side of "dividing assets reasonably and fairly
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by maehwasu 10y ago
As Moshe_Silnorin demonstrated, the available examples would cause a complete mental shutdown for most people inside the Overton Window, which makes presenting them counterproductive. I do agree with your criticism though, and the author wo
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by maehwasu 10y ago
I agree, except that the fixed resource is votes, not economic resources (which everyone here knows are not fixed in any practical sense). Democracy is a vote market, and strong identities are the strongest persuasive tool available for acq
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by maehwasu 10y ago
It's really easy to see the negatives of things, but harder to see the positives. My gut reaction to national identity is "gross", but having seen the alternatives (personal identity politics), I'm starting to think that
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Ideologies more often exist to build teams/coalitions than to solve real problems.

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