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by nrook 5y ago
Indeed. The Pokémon Company is running a children's casino: it's hard to imagine a business model less ethical than that.
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by nrook 7y ago
My favorite stupid Google April Fools joke was when they put out a "customer" blog post bragging that Contoso had switched to Google Apps. https://cloud.googleblog.com/2011/04/contoso-has-gone-google...
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by nrook 7y ago
In a previous startup's offsite, we were attacked by a bear. While this did lead to a significantly increased esprit de corps at the office, the risks are such that I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.
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by nrook 7y ago
There is a well-known strategy by which employees can exert influence over their employer and change the decisions it makes. It is called a union. Unionization has been slow for various reasons in the tech sector; when it comes to rich, wel
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by nrook 7y ago
This is wrong. Speed cameras save lives. A lot of research confirms this, for example: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/86567/1/sercdp0221.pdf The best way to save the lives of pedestrians and cyclists from the predation
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by nrook 7y ago
There's an insight here I haven't seen elsewhere. Everyone but the most blind ideologue knows 100% test coverage isn't a good use of your time. But it's hard to care about increasing coverage from 89% to 90%, or to feel
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by nrook 7y ago
It's because there is a wide distance between these two positions: (a) People who publicly support white supremacy should be imprisoned by the government. (b) Businesses should not make money by hosting or providing services to people
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by nrook 7y ago
Er, you definitely don't need to bulldoze everything. You "just" need to upzone everywhere and build lots of public transit. Upzoning has negative price (since you get more tax income). Public transit is expensive, and buildi
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by nrook 7y ago
I don't think I agree with your premise, but even if I take it as true--- it's the unit tests of the other modules that help me out, by ensuring I haven't managed to totally bust the module I'm working on. Some people ar
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by nrook 7y ago
Surprisingly, the article doesn't engage with this argument! Unless I missed it, the author never mentions that unit tests can make refactoring other code easier. In my experience, after code is checked in, unit tests have two main pur
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by nrook 7y ago
One possible fix would be to increase the requirements for car insurance. Currently, minimum car insurance requirements are nowhere near enough to cover a catastrophic accident. If car owners had to buy enough insurance to cover $1 million
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by nrook 7y ago
Does anyone here have good research on the difficulty of getting into elite schools as a transfer student? I tried to do a little research and found this page: https://www.collegetransitions.com/transfer-admission-rates Whi
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by nrook 7y ago
There are only two options here— either you can root against Tesla, or you can be indifferent to the death of Walter Huang. Tesla has been irresponsible with their rollout of self-driving technology, and someone has died as a result. There&
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by nrook 7y ago
I've always been curious if the internationalization of political discussion was behind the changing definitions of the word "liberal" in US politics. In the 1990s, "liberal" was used as a synonym of "leftist&q
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by nrook 7y ago
Meanwhile: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/10/18304717/shadow-housing-sf-p... San Francisco can either have housing, or it can have homelessness.
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by nrook 8y ago
I support the First Amendment wholeheartedly, and believe it's important that the government refrain from shutting down speech it doesn't like. You may note that Cloudflare is not a government.
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by nrook 8y ago
Before you register your domain with Cloudflare, please consider who their other customers are. Cloudflare today provides services for many white supremacist websites; they kicked off the Daily Stormer in 2017 after widespread criticism, bu
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by nrook 8y ago
If I am on a limited PTO plan, California law guarantees me the right to cash out my unused vacation days when I leave the company. It seems to me like it would be fair for companies to offer unlimited PTO as long as employees can cash out
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by nrook 8y ago
Washington has no state income tax, which is why their attempts to fund basically any program always seem so out there. If they just taxed like normal states did, they wouldn't look either goofy or regressive every time they tried to r
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by nrook 8y ago
I'm not sure I quite grasp this argument. Google is a popular, high-demand employer, and lots of people want to work there. But Google still found it useful to conspire with other tech companies[1] in order to hold down wages. The reve
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by nrook 8y ago
Collective action by employees can be more effective than a boycott. These Google employees clearly believe there is a chance they can change Google's actions by writing this open letter. Employee activism has changed Google's beh
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by nrook 8y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958
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by nrook 8y ago
This is required in some European countries. For example, in Germany, workers have a right to 50% of the board for companies with more than 2,000 employees. (Ties break for shareholders, due to the way the chair position works.) https:&#x2
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by nrook 8y ago
Google has a lot of tools are are best-in-class— if you spend a large fixed cost setting them up and get everyone to use them. Obviously this is easy for Google to justify: they spent the fixed cost once ten years ago, and now that everyone
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by nrook 8y ago
How much of the money donated to organizations like CNCF or the Linux Foundation goes to the individual contributors who build these products? They do help in some respects: I don't think Kubernetes would be as successful were it not f
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by nrook 8y ago
Here's a study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386 "Our results showed that overall, the use of Facebook was negatively associated with well-being." Naturally, even if this study is accurate it
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by nrook 8y ago
Google is a fascinating test case for Elizabeth Warren's plan to create board representation for workers. Googlers have a very distinct culture that would advocate for very different positions from the ones Google is making right now.
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by nrook 8y ago
37,461 people were killed by motor vehicles in the United States in 2016[1]. Whether it's more pleasurable to live in a city or a suburb is beside the point; our only options are to encourage the use of cycling and mass transit, or to
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by nrook 8y ago
Your solution doesn't have much to do with your problem. In general, the Republican party treats lowering taxes on the rich as a major policy goal. On the other hand, the Democratic party doesn't, and politicians and activists on
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by nrook 8y ago
Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave th

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