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by mola 7y ago
But we can still try. Ideals are not meant to be achieved. We should use them as a compass. If we give up entirely we give free reign to a minority of bullies.
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by mola 7y ago
I believe ethics were thrown out the door once our industry adopted the distrupt everything attitude.
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by mola 7y ago
When you are on of a crowd, you don't get treated like a suspect. When you are 1 of five you get treated like a suspect. A criminal. That direct implications on your well being. 4 people out of 5 will be Innocents that get treated like
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by mola 7y ago
I find c# a great language, much better (more argonomic, less verbose, less 'patchy') than Java. I do believe that historically developing on .net didn't make sense for startups because of the huge licensing tax for the OS (s
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by mola 7y ago
Why do you take it as a fact that CRA help with the thing the claim to help with?
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by mola 7y ago
This is not cheap money, this is dumb money. When powerful people make stupid decisions, most people will, nevertheless, copycat their wrong decision. One way or another, reality will smack us in the face and a reckoning will come. The sad
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by mola 7y ago
That's not true. Trust is a major issue and is directly responsible for anti vaxxer movement. Major corporations and media outlet have made bending the truth (PR spins etc) a legitimate common place practice. Any talking head you see o
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by mola 7y ago
This is response is a total straw man argument. I was talking about robo calls, your response is about difficulties with email spam. The phone network is controlled centrally. Government can force handling spam by phone companies, the sam
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by mola 7y ago
If Robocalls are the problem, Truecaller isn't the solution. Regulations against unwanted harassment is. Robocalls are not a force of nature where our only recourse is a technological solution. They are a result of a human choice, wher
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by mola 7y ago
There's an actual solution, it's called a workers union
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by mola 7y ago
Humans are also consumers. Modern businesses think about people as consumers first and human second. This paves the way to many perversions, such as, huge industries bases on exploiting human weaknesses (e.g. addiction based online gaming)
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by mola 7y ago
I agree with most. But I find SQL to be a very bad example for a failed DSL. On the contrary, It is a highly successful DSL. In most large companies business analysts (with no programming education) do use SQL extensively.
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by mola 7y ago
No that's the unintended consequences of collecting data in the first place.
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by mola 7y ago
The business moat is irrelevant. It should be handled with anti trust regulations and not at the expanse of pro privacy.
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by mola 7y ago
Yes, an economy based on deception that uses it's customers in unknown ways, most of the time in ways entirely unrelated to the product, is failing after appropriate regulation. All consequences seem entirely acceptable. Businesses mus
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by mola 7y ago
We're still alive? Except those that died. The problem with the black list model is that companies come to considerable size before the dangers are known. And then they have the lobbying power to save their businesses on the expanse of
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by mola 7y ago
On the other hand, these businesses cause the public ignorance For example companies that offer all sort of AI solution as some magic bullet. While covering up the inherent "bugs" in such systems.
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by mola 7y ago
And in a few years we'll get to see why unions came to existence, yay. Hooray for forgetting about history.
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by mola 7y ago
That's a good thing. Too many outlets is chaos Too few is tiraney.
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by mola 8y ago
The problem is that without the greed of a few most of these charity acts wouldn't need to exist. Healthcare is extremely expansive and inefficient in the US because of the greed of a few. This false dichotomy between a freedom crunchi
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by mola 8y ago
As engineers we usually have a direct conscious intention for the details of our creation. Art doesn't work that way. The art piece is a piece of the artist and her surroundings. Including her conscious intentions, the naturalized soci
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by mola 8y ago
(software) Engineers in todays economy are privileged with the ability to choose their jobs. I think people with power should help fix wrongs inflicted on other people and not silently comply for a share of the pie. I turned down a few jobs
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by mola 8y ago
The sad thing is that this is being exported across democracies around the world. This subversion of the democratic process would probably bring to its demise. And the waters are so muddled with identity politics and false enemies ("B
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by mola 8y ago
Also Israeli, can also back this up. There are a handful of Israeli startups trying to build a large companies. There are exceptions, and large one at those. But it's the common mentality.
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by mola 8y ago
It's true. As an Israeli it's a very secreterian narrative was built around this endeavor. We have in Israel a very deep rooted siege mentality, which considering our history is not surprising. Our current powers at be foster this
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by mola 8y ago
Well, I'm Israeli, and hubris is not part of my personal culture, but it is prevalent in Israel. IMHO it's a real problem for Israel because people here tend to be euphoric and unaware of the consequences of our decisions. On the
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by mola 8y ago
Netanyahu has a tendency to credit himself with any Israeli achievement as part of his personality cult he is encouraging. I bet he made it obvious that he is going to be in the control room.
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by mola 8y ago
I'm not sure the US isn't imperialist by your definition. At the very least the second Iraqi war hints to the contrary. It appears the main agenda there was a grab for oil and not a security threat. Not to mention its behavior in
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by mola 8y ago
Moderate people did support extreme politicians. They accomplished the task by using good old fear tactics (which are especially effective, when actual rockets are flying at major cities and people get stabbed in the streets by people prono
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by mola 8y ago
I think because we can't afford to 'break things' with governance so we prefer not to 'move fast'. Seems like good thinking...

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