parafactual

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by parafactual 5y ago
Do you have a link? You may be right, but such a study seems very easy to bias, even unintentionally.
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by parafactual 5y ago
If you ask someone if they had a nice weekend and they give a one-word response, why not just not ask them questions like that? It seems rude to expect someone to put a certain amount of effort into conversation with you that you initiated.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Does it bother you if someone doesn't socialize at work? I don't understand why it would.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Can you give an example of how one would work against the structural and cultural biases stacked in their favor?
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by parafactual 5y ago
> If a guy like Bezos or Zuck were to tweet back at Sanders something to the tune "I've started a company in a garage and now it has the same credit rating of the US Government, what have you done with your life?" Aside fr
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by parafactual 5y ago
Do you think it's possible that in this article, what was meant by "all middle managers" was actually all of the ones that insist on things like working in person? (If so, of course that's not all of them but maybe it
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by parafactual 5y ago
I think it works less well on Twitter because of the constrained length of the replies. With, say, a few paragraphs, you can explain yourself well enough to garner sympathy. One lone sentence is just something else to dunk on.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Maybe not if OP, despite attributing an importance to "leftist orthodoxy" that I think is silly, does take into account factors beyond Good Side or Bad Side. I could imagine someone finding a subreddit that matches their opinions
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by parafactual 5y ago
Most of Reddit is left-of-center though, and prevailing opinions on Reddit can be pushed pretty forcefully. I don't think it's part of a broader problem of "orthodox leftist thought" but of Reddit being a place like no
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by parafactual 5y ago
And even though it seems basically fine now, I am not confident that Discord won't suffer a similar fate to Reddit.
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by parafactual 5y ago
I think there is something to this, but I don't think it's about "orthodox leftist thought". I am by any reasonable definition a leftist. I find Reddit culture (and similar) insufferable and would not be admired there.
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by parafactual 5y ago
I guess I see what you mean. I am more concerned with creating an equivalence when I see Replit's response as being much worse.
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by parafactual 5y ago
I'm not sure anyone is disagreeing with you. That is why they said to get another hobby or craft—so that you might want to write software in neglected areas. And of course financial compensation is good for this too, but I wonder if
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by parafactual 5y ago
It might be the only pragmatic choice, so I'm not condemning developers or anything, but that would make me a bit uncomfortable with the company itself.
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by parafactual 5y ago
That makes sense. I think it would suck less if less software overall were closed-source, which GPL seems to encourage in the long term. But one person can't do much, so it at least depends on what one thinks of that.
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by parafactual 5y ago
What do you mean by "free shit with no stipulations"? As I see it, that would describe permissive licenses, which even allow you to build on software and sell it without giving back via source code. The GPL requires you to abide b
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by parafactual 5y ago
I mean, of course companies don't like copyleft. It was individual developers that I found confusing.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Is that illegal?
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by parafactual 5y ago
I don't think that a corporation as large (structurally, not financially) as Microsoft can sustainably optimize for anything other than profit. With that and their track record, I find it very hard to believe Microsoft has good intenti
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by parafactual 5y ago
Yeah, I see a lot of ways to monetize FOSS. Providing paid support a la Red Hat, paying for hardware/cloud space, or even paid binaries if you think your customers won't bother to build from source. (Yes, one can build from source
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by parafactual 5y ago
This isn't snark, but a genuine question. What makes open source developers prefer permissive licenses to GPL and other copyleft licenses? What is the benefit in letting corporations use your work in proprietary software?
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by parafactual 5y ago
I don't think specifying "made up genders" makes much sense. The progressives and trans people I know, to the extent that they think tribally, do so with respect to ideology like anyone else.
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by parafactual 5y ago
They should, but they mostly don't. And I don't think it's easy; I suspect corporations do bad things despite the good intentions of employees. Each one, driven by subtle incentives, makes a somewhat less ethically sound de
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by parafactual 5y ago
Also, is social media really the best way to take action against terrible inequity? I would think if one believes the uninvolved are complicit, they would also look for more effective methods than saying something is bad on Twitter.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Why should he have to do that?
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by parafactual 5y ago
Is Java still an example of an especially "human-friendly" language? That is a strange comparison to me.
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by parafactual 5y ago
Maybe he wants to stand up to Replit/Amjad, and he realizes that if he doesn't make a scene and garner public support then he has no chance. That wouldn't mean that he's just in it for the publicity. How else do you prot
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by parafactual 5y ago
Is it really "petty" if you are receiving dubious legal threats from a large corporation? Even if one is confident that they haven't, say, infringed IP, legal fees can be crippling. It seems worse to keep quiet if you are b