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by mbillie1 9y ago
> As a founder, I don't necessarily have to think about solving a problem or making money. I just need to gather enough users. Once I go past a certain threshold, I can sell the company (with the users being the main value), and thi
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by mbillie1 9y ago
> But by American standards, her platform was well left of the average politician. Again, only if you entirely discount her economic positions, which are the core positions of any "left" figure. You're free to paint with h
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by mbillie1 9y ago
I would dispute that Hillary is a left candidate whatsoever - she is a centrist, hawkish free-market neoliberal.
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by mbillie1 9y ago
> The American sense. With no economic components I'm genuinely curious what you consider the "American sense" of the left, in the sense of actual policy. Pro-choice, I guess?
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by mbillie1 9y ago
Except that the google engineer this article refers to was not punished or fired for supporting Trump; he was fired for circulating a memo which claimed there were immutable biological reasons why approximately 50% of the workforce was unfi
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by mbillie1 9y ago
"I have found a single sample from which I will generalize broadly about the entire country."
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by mbillie1 9y ago
In what sense could that possibly be "left" then?
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by mbillie1 9y ago
"Silicon Valley’s politics have long skewed left, with a free-markets philosophy and a dash of libertarianism." This is not in any modern sense "left" (please don't bother pedantically bringing up "classical li
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by mbillie1 9y ago
TSA Precheck, assuming you can pass the background check, is $80 and is absolutely worth it if you have the extra cash and can fit an appointment into your schedule.
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by mbillie1 9y ago
> They shouldn't have to serve that content to people who aren't actually their users. So put it behind a password. It's not reasonable to expect to get only the benefits of publicly-searchable data without any of the draw
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by mbillie1 9y ago
From the presentation: > Can I hide in my data by generating noise? (e.g. via random page visits) > Usually not
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by mbillie1 9y ago
> Travis is not without his flaws but he created an awful lot of value for them. Valuation != value
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by mbillie1 9y ago
Their video not playing in Chrome does not inspire a great deal of confidence.
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by mbillie1 9y ago
That's not really how food distribution works, in the US or most other first world countries, so no.
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by mbillie1 9y ago
> What I really don't get is why isn't the free market working? That is an excellent question that you could ask about many of our modern social dilemmas. The beginning to an answer might be found in Piketty's Capital in
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Please document some of this case law!
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by mbillie1 10y ago
No, I would not. Freedom of speech pertains to legislation from congress preventing political speech. Most companies already prohibit employees from discussing salaries, under penalty of termination. Any business can ask you to leave, as a
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Way to see the bigger picture for employee rights here.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
How is this bad for "freedom of speech"? Please elaborate on this ludicrous claim.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
The amount of abuse and low-quality-of-life we'll put up with in exchange for the fantasy of becoming rich is shocking. It's like buying scratch off lottery tickets for "intelligent professionals."
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Alternate headline: workers to receive appropriate compensation following accurate interpretation of state law.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Yes. I recall learning that the clinical trials proving the effectiveness of Effexor, among other things, being shown to have been faked/not actually completed, which lead to a recall of the drug.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
This is just rich-people worship. What this has to do with tech, other than that a bunch of tech people also worship the rich, is beyond me. Pass.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
They plainly do one-off manipulations in some cases e.g. recursion.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Good.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Particularly when you are inundated in valley slave culture, being busy all the time is a sign of your importance - you're busy disrupting the market getting ready to IPO, and if you have 10 spare minutes a day in which to regain some
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by mbillie1 10y ago
> Sometimes I'll go 3-4 days doing nothing but work and sleep In all seriousness, this is tremendously unhealthy. Get up and go for a walk, a light jog, something. The health consequences of even just being sedentary for that long a
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Here, in a nutshell, is everything that is wrong with the toxic valley startup culture.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
It's almost like working 60+ hour weeks churning out CRUD apps to get a rich person richer isn't the secret path to happiness or something.
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by mbillie1 10y ago
Absolutely - it's less about left/right and more about "I can discredit reasonable sources as biased by recalibrating what bias means based on these extreme outliers"

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