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by mqrs 6y ago
I maintain that we don’t need this article to be true to debate with the response about assuming good intent, precisely because ”assume good intent” is a statement on its own and it is being positioned as general advice, therefore it is ind
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by mqrs 6y ago
> why are you engaging in this creative writing exercise? Because I'm responding to the very top comment about assuming good intent and the people already agreeing with it. I'm not arguing that what happened in the article is v
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by mqrs 6y ago
I don’t understand your point here—if I’m traveling to a foreign country and I’m asking about what’s offensive because I don’t want to offend the locals and be an annoying, insensitive tourist, then I’m just automatically being “woke” inste
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by mqrs 6y ago
You don’t have to make any judgment about the parties involved in the story. If you want to critically think about both sides of the argument, you’re going to have to ask anyway whether there exist “good faith” motives for pointing out a ne
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by mqrs 6y ago
> Google is an international company with lots of immigrants not familiar with modern American norms Still, doesn’t the responsibility of understanding the sensitivities of an unfamiliar culture fall onto the foreigner who’s coming in?
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by mqrs 6y ago
What “good faith” motivation could possibly arise from pointing out the color of one’s skin in America though?
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by mqrs 6y ago
Check out your iPhone’s Settings > Privacy and scroll to the very bottom. You’ll see “Analytics & Improvements” and “Apple Advertising”, which both contain toggles and details about the data that has been gathered so far. There was
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by mqrs 6y ago
You can still parameterizethe API calls if you want to attribute user activity to a specific flow, and that way you wouldn’t be “feeding the beast” that is GA.
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by mqrs 6y ago
Yes but it’s not necessarily Google analytics.
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by mqrs 6y ago
If you’re just using analytics to look at how effective UI designs are in making business conversions, couldn’t you still measure that by checking the backend and looking for a spike in activity towards the API endpoint that the UI invokes?
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by mqrs 6y ago
Are we really supposed to be thinking of all currently available land as being flexibly provisioned for landfills.
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by mqrs 6y ago
“Do what you love” is not so much a privileged thing to say. It’s just an ideal to aspire towards, a north star of sorts, even if you’re currently in a position where you’re only doing what pays the bills. Doing what you love is life advice
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by mqrs 6y ago
> Espousing a desire for any change will always be offensive to someone, and so wanting any improvement necessarily includes being deliberately offensive. This is not true. Whatever you’re disagreeing with another person, you don’t have
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by mqrs 6y ago
> We're going to see more fragmentation Whenever people say this, I wonder whether they are considering the possibility that once the internet goes in the direction of fragmentation, more states would swoop in with regulation to bar
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by mqrs 6y ago
> A more apt comparison would be a group in a corner having a conversation at a rock concert. Suddenly this argument appears less apt. This is a tired old argument and it isn't convincing or effective. There's a big difference
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by mqrs 6y ago
I mean, I didn’t sleep through 2016 onwards but people threatening violence still get banned, people with bigoted views still get called out or damage their real-world offline relationships, and it’s possible that there’d be even less peopl
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by mqrs 6y ago
It's really not a correct model even at the scale of the phenomena for which it is correct, that's why it can't explain what's beyond its scale, nor can anyone draw a line to clearly define the boundaries of the scale in
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by mqrs 6y ago
Doesn't the fact that Twitter posts (mostly) stay incentivize conscientiousness, precisely because it doesn't take away the reality that words have consequences? It's still not an excellent representation of how forgiveness a
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by mqrs 6y ago
Newtonian physics is only coincidentally correct. It’s not “wrong” in the sense that the math isn’t sound or that experiments aren’t reproducible within earth, but it’s not the correct model for what really happens in physical phenomenon r
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by mqrs 6y ago
I wonder if removing the Touch Bar has something to do with prepping up the line for gaming. I personally don't dislike the Touch Bar except when I'm playing video games, and Apple Silicon is on a trajectory to be able to run game
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by mqrs 6y ago
> Were a less material society now Genuinely curious as to what led you into thinking that.
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by mqrs 6y ago
I haven’t read Epictetus and I can’t tell exactly what he meant by that proverb, but the nuance that I can only react to cockroaches differently under conditions perfect to me must not be lost. That nuance is what’s lacking in the article
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by mqrs 6y ago
It raises way too many questions about where to draw the line for the concepts of control (as in the above example), detachment, and what is natural, and I don’t like inherently ambiguous worldviews because they become way too prone to high
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by mqrs 6y ago
> If so, then why was the waitress not disturbed? It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the group. I realized that, it is not the shouting of my fathe
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by mqrs 6y ago
> perhaps the best way is to topple inefficient slave societies through full-spectrum competition, from military to economic. This pressure incentivizes efficient human resource utilization. Isn’t that what’s already happening though? On
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by mqrs 6y ago
> Video games are more likely to give you real world skills. As more and more of the world moves online, skills that you pick up trying to get games to work or trying to make them run faster can be valuable. Online etiquette is another t
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by mqrs 6y ago
I was coming from mobile app development when I tried Tailwind (with Vue) and I knew right away that it was architecturally sound. It's the only CSS framework I've ever used since, and I think it's very future-proof. That sai
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by mqrs 6y ago
> there is rarely a chance to go back and refactor I wouldn’t say that this has been true in my experience. I’ve worked on multiple products that evolve over time and it often happens that a new feature touches on previously built featur
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by mqrs 6y ago
Even if you could resolve the ethical issues, the only thing that a study would prove is that “people tend not to care for children that aren’t theirs”, and not “biological relation is necessary for a parent to be able to care for an adopte
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by mqrs 6y ago
Since we’re at the topic of eloquence, might I add that horribly-written codebases are unbearable to work with during this time, or perhaps even during regular times for as long as the set up is remote. I get it that codebases inevitably ro

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