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by neilk 6y ago
There are a lot of people who have already taken pg to task over the rather thin chain of reasoning (anecdata about the Forbes 100 -> grand societal conclusion) But what about the initial claim, that inherited wealth now means very littl
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You seem to be new to this argument. Are you aware that we have had a bifurcated Open Source / Free Software movement since the 1990s? And how that came to be? There were real philosophical disagreements, and I'm not even saying R
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by neilk 6y ago
This is an interesting argument. So the existence of bad faith actors means that one should never address one's own harms?
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He's called himself "borderline autistic" in at least one published profile in the Toronto Star, back in 2000. But you're right, he's also walked that back too. In 2008 he described himself as mostly normal with &qu
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I don't think this argument makes sense. In fact if we follow it to its conclusion, it's an additional reason for RMS to be removed from his job. 1. RMS is not being punished by the FSF. He does not have any right to a particular
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Very much tracks with my experience. At a previous job, I built a sophisticated anonymization system for our candidates. While I think it helped somewhat, it wasn't nearly as efficient as just looking for candidates in different places
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I was basing it on the finest anecdata! But yes, I was thinking about artists waiting tables. My spouse works in theatre, and it's normal even for modestly successful actors and artists to be working service jobs. I have asked why they
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by neilk 6y ago
I'm not sure if "quitting their day jobs" has the same effect for an artist versus, say, a programmer. They deliberately work jobs like restaurants, not because they can't do anything else, but because they are easily qu
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I used to run an iOS testing-as-a-service thing. Few of our customers came close to the App Store limits. The ones that did were games and they are definitely not looking to optimize apps for the long term. We did have some unicorn customer
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I'm glad you recognized that your business model (VC-backed startup) wasn't compatible with your goals. For-profit health has a lot of the same issues, from top to bottom. But it seem like you built something that did good for som
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Read the article, she discusses that. > Although these approaches are rational under existing constraints, they’re neither particularly efficient nor particularly fair to the individuals subject to them. This doesn’t mean that we can’t i
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I think this comment could have been more substantive. It appears that you’re trying to say that the opinions and knowledge of a 5-year employee can be dismissed without any consideration, due to these signs. Is it the rational position to
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I don't see a particular number cited, but a whistleblower alleges that it occurred so often, a particular doctor was known as "the uterus collector". (Her complaint is largely about failure to follow proper procedures for CO
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1) It is nonsensical to ask to leave politics out of social and economic life. 2) Hootsuite is a B Corp. This means they've already publicly committed themselves to act with social responsibility, above and beyond whatever is currently
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Some context (edits for completeness & accuracy). If I understand the situation correctly, Hootsuite employees had been agitating against ICE contracts. As recently as yesterday, using very careful language, a Hootsuite spokesperson de
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Slightly offtopic, but the recent book "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson explores the concept as a frame for understanding social problems, beyond just India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_
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It's surprising to you because North Americans have gotten used to saying "people of color" as if they were all united. Upper-caste Indians basically see themselves as people on top of the racial hierarchy. In many ways they
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by neilk 6y ago
I think you might be experiencing what it's like to have, er, experience. Like, I could make the exact same complaint except I'd situate it about 10 years earlier, around the first dot-com explosion. And somewhat earlier than that
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by neilk 6y ago
That was Jaron Lanier. http://www.jaronlanier.com/ if you're interested in more. He was an early pioneer in VR tech, and is a person with generally interesting ideas. He is more known today for his critiques of the tec
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I noticed that too. The stricture “get it right in black and white” would help, but color-blind folks map colors to lightnesses differently. A color-blind co-worker believed yellow on white was perfectly legible, but a scatterplot with red
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by neilk 6y ago
Send me an email (see profile)
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Same here. My apartment windows only tilt upwards, so there was no way to use a window mount. A portable unit was the only way to go. But I created a wedge-shaped mount for the hose ports that fits in the triangular window gap exactly, so t
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by neilk 6y ago
Come on NYTimes! You can do better than email. Don't ask someone to admit to felonies over email. Tech employers have a LOT of power to investigate their employees' digital behavior. How about this instead: https://www.
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by neilk 6y ago
caralombardo: Please don't ask people to admit to felonies over email. That goes double for any FAANG employee; their employers have many options to surveil them. Your employer has a page listing better options https://www.w
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by neilk 6y ago
I think you're probably closer to the truth there. Even if it isn't an ISA university, my first guess is that it's a way of laundering government funding to create an institution under private control. (This is how most great
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by neilk 6y ago
PageRank was originally designed to track Usenet posts that referenced one another. The "pages" in web nomenclature is a complete coincidence.
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Vacaville, CA - vaca is Spanish for cow, and is home to cattle ranches. Despite many people thinking that it means "cow town", it's actually named for the settler Juan Manuel Cabeza Vaca.
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Contexts matter, and this is I guess what we're all concerned with. In my own experience, since the mid-2010s or so there's a steady undercurrent of elitism and fascism in techland that I had not been expecting at all. There are s
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pg has (for a long time) asserted that he has opinions that would get him pilloried in the public square. He's advocated that one shouldn't share those opinions. And he's continued to frequently allude to their existence. Hav
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You seem to be implying that OT requires a central server. OT was designed for peer-to-peer, at least as far as I know. My OT knowledge isn't deep; perhaps in practice, some implementations like Google docs use an authoritative node?

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