moduspol

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by moduspol 5y ago
The buck stops somewhere. I get that it's super easy to just claim white supremacy is everywhere, but implicitly the claim is that someone put it there and is perpetuating it. At a company of 58 people, you're pointing at a very s
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by moduspol 5y ago
No, it was just claimed to be. It's not the case that forming a committee that's over 1/3 the size of the company to do unprompted evaluation of vendor relationships for DE&I and approval of guest speakers follows logical
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by moduspol 5y ago
We also may be reading a lot into how large this committee was. If I were at a company of ~58 people, and ~20 of them were forming a DE&I committee to evaluate the company's vendor relationships, speakers, etc., I'd be tempted
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by moduspol 5y ago
Those things all came after. The only justification for the DE&I committee is this list. The only other evidence of white supremacy is (lol) one guy saying he doesn't think it's there in the company. Usually there'll be a
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by moduspol 5y ago
Not OP, but you'd have to have blinders on to not see the political left increasingly branding everyone they disagree with as evil / Nazis / white supremacists. That's what happened above, and you're rationalizing i
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by moduspol 5y ago
It blows my mind that we're now so far down the list of transgressions that "list of funny sounding names poorly handled by management" is being touted as some egregious sin justifying claims of white supremacy at the company
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by moduspol 5y ago
True, but none of this is by mistake or accident.
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by moduspol 5y ago
> And why shouldn’t they? A few reasons: * They weren't hired or asked to do that * It doesn't bring more value to the business * It contributes to a toxic working culture And it's especially bad in a small company, becaus
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by moduspol 5y ago
> Right, if you think DE&I consists of "new ways to suggest everyone else stop being so racist / sexist / bigoted", you're clearly not into it. There's no other way for 20 out of 58 people to spend any s
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by moduspol 5y ago
Nobody said it wasn't important, but 20 out of 60 people focusing on it in a remote company that builds unrelated software is absolutely off the rails. You're essentially paying 1/3 of your employees to come up with new ways
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by moduspol 5y ago
And I'm reading the company was ~60 employees, all remote. In a business that small, it's difficult to imagine how far the culture was off the rails to have 20 people focusing time and effort on something like a D&I committee.
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by moduspol 5y ago
Sorry--the goalposts are moving too fast for me in this discussion.
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by moduspol 5y ago
Refusing the vaccine is not the same as believing COVID-19 doesn’t exist. You are proving my point.
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by moduspol 5y ago
What theories? And how widely? Huge groups of people are being generalized as equivalent to people who genuinely believe COVID-19 isn't real. It makes reasoned discourse impossible. Though I don't think I'm letting the cat ou
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by moduspol 5y ago
Some people believe flat earth theories. It's still unreasonable to paint that as a widely held belief of those who disagree with you.
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by moduspol 5y ago
> When radar and vision disagree, which one do you believe? Vision has much more precision, so better to double down on vision than do sensor fusion. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1380796939151704071
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by moduspol 5y ago
> Money belongs to people, and those people don't tend to move. The tax isn't for their money, it's for their capital gains, which only happen when they realize those gains (e.g. sell assets). High net worth individuals ab
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by moduspol 5y ago
I think it's because investment money can be moved away easier and faster than labor. As a result, taxes have to be more competitive relative to other areas. I also don't think it's about incentivizing investing relative to l
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by moduspol 5y ago
Thanks. That helps a lot to clarify.
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by moduspol 5y ago
> At issue there is the "foregone conclusion" exception to the 5th amendment. The unclear part seems to be how strong the evidence needs to be that the device is yours and that the evidence is on there. In this case, his sister
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by moduspol 5y ago
IANAL but AFAIK you can be held in contempt of court if you don't provide it when asked if they're already convinced it's yours and has incriminating evidence on it. Article below, although it looks like fairly recent (not su
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by moduspol 5y ago
All of these are based on the assumption that the attacker has physical access to the unlocked phone, right? I'm trying to understand the risk profile here. I guess I see the value for, e.g., a border crossing, where they can inconve
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by moduspol 6y ago
> If our goal as a society is to ensure most people stay healthy and alive, perhaps yours is not a good approach in all cases. Prior to COVID-19, we used to be able to acknowledge that we make choices every day that do not maximize the n
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by moduspol 6y ago
I don't see a significant difference between founding a company from scratch and buying a fledgling tiny company with a cool name that has accomplished very little, when the significance is the 99% of what happened afterward. And neith
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by moduspol 6y ago
Yes. I think we're all aware what I meant and the ordering of Tesla's early founding and investment history.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Agreed on all points. The lack of competition was itself a reflection of conventional wisdom in those industries, though, which is my point.
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by moduspol 6y ago
I'm not sure the discussion benefits from debating that.
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by moduspol 6y ago
The point is that the company wouldn't have been started if he had listened to industry experts. The point was not that the company would never have benefited from other lessons from the industry at any other point.
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by moduspol 6y ago
> 5 minutes with an expert would have saved them years of learning the lessons everyone already knew. I'm not sure it's fair to make this statement without acknowledging the times he's been successful doing precisely what
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by moduspol 6y ago
Perhaps some of our richest, urban, and politically left states could show us the way. It's not like they don't have enough money or political support. Maybe unchecked immigration and a vast welfare state will work out just great.

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