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by maxaf 7y ago
Is this what life is really like for most people? Are you all riding a firehose of incoming texts that need attention? Looking over the Messages app on my iPhone, it’s basically just: * stuff from my wife * iMessage group chat with my wife
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by maxaf 7y ago
I think "surveillance capitalism" better reflects the underlying incentives, and is less likely to be confused with some other nefarious phenomena, such as surveillance of employees, or surveillance of other corporations by their
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by maxaf 7y ago
In addition, the presence and close involvement of a loved one can have dramatic effects on medical outcomes. Here, the tradeoff may be choosing between saving a startup and saving a child. Seems a no-brainer when weighed this way.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I’d like to challenge the implied premise that the world needs Facebook to begin with. This is the premise under which Facebook seems to operate, but it doesn’t seem to concern with marketing the premise to users. What’s in it for any human
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by maxaf 7y ago
Could it be that it's you who doesn't know which way is up? You said it yourself: you're new to the job and the company, so your judgment being off is more likely than everyone else being in the wrong. See if you can tell t
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by maxaf 7y ago
No, people at work don't like me, and they don't enjoy my presence, but that's okay. I act professionally, I do my best to make good technical decisions, and I assist others when asked for help. I'm generous with my time
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by maxaf 7y ago
You’re saying that the system’s apparent behavior is by design, but wasn’t that design put forth by employees of the company in question? These aren’t natural phenomena we’re discussing. When a puma tears apart a rabbit, it does so without
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by maxaf 7y ago
> I'm sure there is no malicious intent behind this How can anyone be sure of this? This is only one of Google’s practices that seems to follow a pervasive pattern of eroding open internet standards while presenting Google’s own pro
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by maxaf 7y ago
Alright, I’ll take the heat for asking the obvious question: Who would ever need a folding phone? This sounds like a silly idea. Apart from the obvious party trick (“hold my drink - ima fold this phone in half”) I don’t see any reason for a
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by maxaf 7y ago
> But Python is not designed to be fast, and it is not designed to be safe. When decisions made by an algorithm can result in real monetary costs, one must always err on the side of caution. Only an irresponsible person would choose Pyth
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by maxaf 7y ago
Well, don't all just sit there: tell your children that social media is poison, and act aggressively to root it out. The current generation of young adults is likely beyond salvation, but the one after - the current <17 cohort, perh
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by maxaf 7y ago
So, SF is not a clean, beautiful, and safe city, considering that the part of it with all the interesting stuff also happens to be drowning in a putrid combination of feces and needles. It's just like saying that Earth is a lovely pl
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by maxaf 7y ago
> If I'm reading the subtext here, correctly, Bini was arrested but not charged with anything, presumably as a measure to keep him from orchestrating "retaliation". Hope they’re keeping him away from telephones: wouldn’t w
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by maxaf 7y ago
Running a persistent VPN to a pihole that’s constantly updated with new trackers as they come online seems like the only viable option.
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by maxaf 8y ago
Don't be so dramatic. The common person really does not have anything interesting to say. I'm sure you've seen Facebook: that's what the common person is like. This isn't new: people have been boring for a long ti
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by maxaf 8y ago
Professional guilds, such as those which have existed for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
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by maxaf 8y ago
I challenge the premise that anything needs to be “posted”. What is it with this incessant drive to give everyone a voice? It turns out that the majority of “user-generated content” is either trivial or outright harmful. Perhaps the time ha
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by maxaf 8y ago
Any word on US availability? There are plenty of people who don’t need an entire iPhone, or can’t comprehend one due to age or other handicaps. It’s good to have choices.
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by maxaf 8y ago
True, but that’s still a surprisingly progressive stance. Not 18 months ago I got rejected after crushing the interview because “no one at this firm would vouch for someone without a college degree”. This still happens to me now as often as
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by maxaf 8y ago
As a general rule I assume that most “open source” software released by companies is just a recruiting tool. Some projects manage to form a community beyond the mothership, so there certainly exist exceptions, but others are to be approache
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by maxaf 8y ago
Can’t the labor market do anything about this? I wouldn’t mind implementing changes to resume review that deprioritize degrees from “elite” universities. I’m sure I’d miss some legitimate candidates, but how much of a problem can that reall
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by maxaf 8y ago
I'm familiar with the feelings you describe, but the Golden State's citizens appear to be unconcerned with this. The book's timeline is preceded by unspecified terrible events which have destroyed the old world. These events
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by maxaf 8y ago
I'm a Vim user whose caps lock key is mapped to ctrl.
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by maxaf 8y ago
There isn’t any explicit notion of collaboration, and tagging can be accomplished by way of a folder structure. I haven’t tried symlinks, which is how you’d make multiple tags work on a regular file system. Syncthing’s purpose is to ensure
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by maxaf 8y ago
Has anyone else read the novel Golden State by Ben H. Winters? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39599913-golden-state He describes an extrapolation of our world's recent history, one in which "reality
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by maxaf 8y ago
Alright, I’ll bite. Are you saying that most inmates are serving time for alleged violations of law that have not actually occurred?
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by maxaf 8y ago
I think that Gravity’s experiment is a sign of society waking up to other viable operating models. Capitalism is just one way to do business, but it comes with some downsides that are now well documented. I doubt anything of value would be
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by maxaf 8y ago
The “flat rate” is the minimum salary: there will certainly be employees who are paid more than that, but there won’t be anyone who’s paid less.
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by maxaf 8y ago
Limbaugh is right about one thing: ongoing capitalism is predicated on labor’s willingness to operate within a framework designed to efficiently capture surplus value created by employees, and concentrate it at the top of a company’s hierar
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by maxaf 8y ago
My daughter is finishing 5th grade in a NYC public school. Homework is the bane of her existence: it’s given for weekdays and weekends alike, as well as for holidays. We can’t ditch it entirely because it affects grades, and perfect grades

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