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by mcrad 4y ago
Twitter is a beast. I think it would be a mistake to evaluate what it "stands for" based on some edge case of who/what/why behind a single tweet. Consider the fact that most execs at the top of this thing we call capital
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by mcrad 4y ago
To champion the little guy has nothing to do with rhetoric, right? In my exprerience it's the uneducated masses that pretend to champion the little guy but don't understand that their actions have unintended consequences that ofte
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by mcrad 4y ago
Twitter has a responsibility to its shareholders to protect its information. Why on earth are people jumping to the conclusion they would take on any similar responsibility for another company??
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by mcrad 4y ago
Why does it matter how vital the info it is? You "oh, please" people love to split hairs until you miss the overarching point.
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by mcrad 4y ago
Implicit judgment? Remarkably condescending? It's a statement of fact that many WFH advocates are paycheck-grabbers who want to extend the least effort for the most pay. Maybe the worst part about WFH is the increased tendency to cherr
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by mcrad 4y ago
Great question! And what about the distain for MBA degrees (where management ethics are taught) among so called software engineers? And what good is a code if you have to be an "underling" to follow it?
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by mcrad 4y ago
We used to require degrees. Now days "techies" are throwing around medicine and trades experts in the same analysis and we end up with low standards across the board.
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by mcrad 4y ago
Do pizza chefs have a significant social responsibility by virtue of my massive appreciation for the profession?
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by mcrad 4y ago
Strawman argument then? I'm simply disagreeing that cable TV has a similar kind of mental health impact referred to in the article, just because there are similarities in how they operate as economic/social entities. I have no re
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by mcrad 4y ago
Well engagement implies a certain amount to decision making and real-time action. TV watching is pretty much passive, and I just have a hard time believing the brain is impacted similarly but such different types of activity.
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by mcrad 4y ago
Engagement with broadcast TV vs with hyper-personalized apps is a specious comparison.
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by mcrad 4y ago
Oh yeah? I've never seen a marketing department with a decent understanding of microeconomics. Most in fact are trying to maximize budget ie. expense.
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by mcrad 5y ago
No power BI users?
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by mcrad 5y ago
Just irks me this improper use of the term supply chain. To supply theft? It's like writing from legal bizzaro world.
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by mcrad 5y ago
I've found that the vast majority of stakeholders want a dashboard either to (1) spend other people's money and feel important or (2) create opportunities for multiple "version of the truth" and thus prepare multiple nar
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by mcrad 5y ago
Very hard work and often takes a lot of creativity. I always thought measurement was the essence of engineering but these days find it to be a lost art. Too often the market for the measure takes priority over the scientific piece.
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by mcrad 5y ago
Okay so do shareholders of public companies encourage the management to commit fraud and deception?
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by mcrad 6y ago
Well said but the fact remains it's easier to feign people management when attending to technical Tasks. Tracking Responsibility tends not to fit the mold of HR mandated performance accounting.
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by mcrad 6y ago
How is it possible to legislate electricity caps on google, according to some imagined threshold of "harm to environment"? Sounds like the number of lawyers involved would be the real harm in this scenario.
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by mcrad 6y ago
All businesses run on financial incentives (or what you call 'greed'). How is it possible that profit motive and associated laws that facilitate buying/selling be written off as unethical?
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by mcrad 6y ago
Not very sophisticated corporate world? I'd argue it's very sophisticated to be loose with the meaning of scientist. We have a global debate happening about pseudo science due to some widespread acceptance to call anyone with a de
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by mcrad 6y ago
Sounds pretty cagey to me. HR gives out the label scientist to someone who cherry pick data that supports the shareholders thereby ensuring accountability loopholes for the management. Nice work, techies!
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by mcrad 6y ago
One is R&D, and one is operations. Obviously there are situations where it makes sense to combine them, but most successful companies with any real technology to sell will not treat R&D this way.
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by mcrad 6y ago
Right - sounds like you have more of a production support role vs. a data analysis workflow kind of task. Tacking on "exploratory" is helpful but I'm still concerned that you misuse the overall concept of analysis. It's
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by mcrad 6y ago
Maybe I don't understand web dev; only meant that when you have many users besides yourself (analyzing data) then performance matters more. It's important to remember, wtf?
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by mcrad 6y ago
Obviously engineers and managers ought to have completed some study of ethics. To describe "data ethics" as a new niche as if to make up for poorly trained data scientists looks like window dressing to me.
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by mcrad 6y ago
Not "suddenly" and not "all" but the point is perverse incentives and unintended consequences. Some scholarship of a conclusion you reached there :)
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by mcrad 6y ago
Checking in, then when did "equity" become the buzzword for your team? Equality wasn't clear enough?
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by mcrad 6y ago
Agreed mostly with you about negative impact of the gig economy. However, not seeing how the slavery element goes away with your proposal. Better regulations YES, but wouldn't you just be reinforcing the power of the slavemaster by con
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by mcrad 6y ago
I find it ironic that many are refuting the article based on semantics, or trying to explain what it "really means" to be an expert in tech. The topic of regulating tech is as much about financial management as about algorithms. O

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