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by pcmoney 5y ago
Germany currently has many laws restricting free speech, I am not sure what WW2 has to do with this debate today?
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I don't think you understand free speech in the US context, Twitter is protected by the first amendment, it itself has freedom of speech and of association. It does not have to allow anything it doesn't want on its platform. It co
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Democratic as in protected by free speech laws as it is incorporated in a democracy. Not socialist as in no you don't get a say on how a private company operates as it also gets the right to freedom of speech and association.
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by pcmoney 5y ago
Reasonable in fascist Germany sure, on a democratic platform? Not so much. US companies need start saying "screw you" to more countries (the US included) when asked to violate their values. We need to be telling China to pound san
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by pcmoney 5y ago
I am somewhat confused how a middling social network of ~200M (generously) active users with a message limit of 280 chars has a lot of power? Celebrating government strong arming is an interesting take and only nice when its going your way.
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by pcmoney 5y ago
I took 3 months off paid for parental leave and will have taken about 4 additional weeks this year and it has not hurt my performance reviews or career trajectory at all…
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Defining quality of life can be hard and subjective but at a US BugTechCo you typically work 35-45hrs, have top shelf insurance, unlimited vacation (that people use and sometimes paid paid vacation where you get paid while you’re on vacatio
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by pcmoney 5y ago
Be careful with averages. Sure FAANG engineers can commonly make $200-600k. But the last equivalent tech co I worked at had 3 per 1,000 applicant acceptance rate (sure they probably also had a lot of people applying without a prayer) I wond
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by pcmoney 5y ago
Declaring/Designating and protecting personal IP when joining BigTechCo is standard practice. As long as you are not using tools and internal IP on your project and it is not a competing product it is typically fine. This idea that Big
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I dont see why disabilities necessitate a mobile armored living room? Maybe an electric scooter or golf cart sized apparatus?
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by pcmoney 5y ago
I think cities should become linearly more car hostile every year. No free parking. Single lanes. Large protected bike lanes and walking areas with trees and shade. Prioritize plowing sidewalks and bike ways. Then limit total decibel emissi
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by pcmoney 5y ago
From my understanding code reviews are one of the few rituals in modern software development that has been empirically shown to provide benefits. It seems the proposers of this might have had a dysfunctional or even toxic culture. Code revi
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I am not saying the suit has merit or will or won't get dismissed. I am saying Google's dominance in search and its willingness to use that to suppress/influence should make everyone want that to be a more competitive market.
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Move?
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by pcmoney 5y ago
Thank you! I am also not even saying Google _should_ be a utility just that the standards for what makes something a utility candidate are not standard but rather arbitrary. Most utilities came about through lobbying one way or another not
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You really think someone couldn't build a business out of YouTube independent of Google? Just because it is hardly profitable _now_ as managed by Google in support of ads doesn't mean there isn't another model there.
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by pcmoney 5y ago
You have multiple choices for water, dig a well, buy it from the local grocery store. Same for sewage because self composting toilets exist. Also electricity isn't a utility just use a stationary bike as a generator or buy solar panels
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by pcmoney 5y ago
To clarify I think the biggest driver is how driven and self-taught the individual developer is. I don't think going through the paces of a bootcamp or CS degree is a great indicator in and of itself and all else equal IMO the bootcamp
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I would push back a bit on this. Bootcamps are established and have records going back about a decade now. While I am sure some never re-skill. I don't think it is an endemic problem to bootcamps more than other backgrounds. I know boo
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In my experience that is not the case. Increasingly the CS grads know a lot of CS and related trivia while the bootcamp grads are fearlessly able to jump into things and figure it out. Most of what BigTechCos use is non-standard anyway. Big
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I think we are at the tipping point where for many roles in many organizations a Bootcamp grad is no longer just an alternative pipeline to hire with some caveats but increasingly the better hire. At a larger tech co I am consistently seein
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by pcmoney 6y ago
They can they just typically don’t want to go roll about the muck once they have achieved full galaxy brain. Mostly trolling but I do think following XP dogmatically early in my career gave me an accelerated appreciation and understanding f
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LOL! However, in that discipline I feel it is the only thing?
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I would never claim “just” however I would say for an area that dovetails well with studies in micro-aggressions, context, bias, and the importance and nuance of words they are shockingly bad at naming things. Maybe you’re right maybe they
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by pcmoney 6y ago
DARPAnet is as far from Twitter as the Wright Brothers Flyer is from a 747. There is no implicit social or legal contract. A gift is well a gift. No backsies.
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They just typically default enforcement guidelines to mirror them. Feel free to test that theory with burner accounts or look up moderation policies.
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They exist to maximize shareholder value within the bounds of the rules of law. I think you are right, content that was controversial and highly engaging/debated became a massive liability. When an asset becomes toxic you dump it.
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Twitter’s only duty is to maximize shareholder value like good capitalists without breaking laws. It isn’t breaking laws. It is making a bet that kicking of certain people will help the platform in the long run (same bet that AWS, Google et
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by pcmoney 6y ago
Amazon is a private company and can do whatever it wants. It could ban apps that don’t use the oxford comma in written communication just for giggles. Parler repeatedly refused to take down TOS violating speech. As far as 99% vs 1%, well pe
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by pcmoney 6y ago
Hopefully condemnation of violence and the removal of digital systems that enable violence is bipartisan? If it isn’t then morally they should side with the party who is against violence. If it isn’t then financially it is prudent to side w

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