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by ralusek 5y ago
Social justice initiatives don't advocate for blind hiring, they apply what they consider to be a "corrective" bias. Very few people who have been responsible for hiring engineers in SV would disagree with the premise of the
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by ralusek 5y ago
Numbers being overblown? The protests from the left which have dominated the public consciousness have been motivated around the idea that unarmed black people are being killed en masse by the police, a fate literally less likely to happen
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by ralusek 5y ago
I don't watch Fox News, wouldn't know. But you're under the impression that the illiberal black bloc collectives do not exist in any serious capacity in Portland?
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by ralusek 5y ago
You are of the opinion that the "nut jobs" in Oregon are not currently residing in Portland, attempting to burn down federal courthouses for hundreds of days at a time?
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by ralusek 5y ago
I think that the amount of political/social information that people seem to divine from observing maskers/non-maskers, as well as the signal that people think that they are sending by being one or the other, is one of the stranges
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by ralusek 5y ago
In the Macbook Air there isn't. In the MBP there is.
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by ralusek 5y ago
The argument concedes nothing. I'm not asserting that the populations are the same or different. I'm saying that individual variance is sufficient so as to be better off simply dealing with an individual within their own capacitie
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by ralusek 5y ago
Typically the debate is between running two competing functions. One group's essentially takes the outcomes produced by two different populations, and takes any differences as sufficient evidence that the systems themselves are biased
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by ralusek 5y ago
Right. The argument against racism or sexism, for me, has never been founded on the belief that all populations are guaranteed to be exactly the same with their capabilities. The argument against racism/sexism to which I subscribe is t
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by ralusek 5y ago
Also rectum.
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by ralusek 5y ago
Demo is awesome but ironically I haven't been able to use it because I always want something from npm
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by ralusek 5y ago
Avoiding async in order to avoid parallel database calls literally only makes sense if you're choosing between blocking/non-blocking on a single process on a single server instance. The second you scale up to use multiple processe
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by ralusek 5y ago
It's strange, I look at my Google maps histories, and it showed when I traveled by car vs by motorcycle. In a state like California, where lane splitting is legal, I figured they might use [going faster than surrounding stopped traffic
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by ralusek 5y ago
The health/hygiene argument has been thoroughly dismantled. That argument is akin to saying that we should remove people's teeth so that they don't have to deal with cavities. The only time there is a difference in hygiene be
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by ralusek 5y ago
I agree that it's one of the best litmus tests we have regarding moral critical thinking.
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by ralusek 5y ago
The fact that circumcision of unconsenting infants is legal is insane to me.
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by ralusek 5y ago
I'm personally loving SC2 scene at the moment. Lowko is a great caster, Harstem too. Serral, Reynor, Has, Clem, Stats, Maru, Special, Scarlett...Florencio. I love it all.
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by ralusek 5y ago
It's not even security, just consensus.
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by ralusek 5y ago
People quit Google all the time. Big companies in SV actually have pretty short average retention times.
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by ralusek 5y ago
I was specifically responding to them because of the comment you linked here.
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by ralusek 5y ago
Harm reduction? Why not ban alcohol? Why not cap cars at 55mph? People have lost money in the stock market, so I assume you'd like that banned as well. What is your limiting principle?
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by ralusek 6y ago
Would you look at that, you really do say "ye gods" a lot.
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by ralusek 6y ago
If you have multiple applications accessing a database, you can have data integrity maintained using something like triggers in the actual DB, as well as constraints.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Correct, it is basic data model design in that it is only for handling basic data models. When you are dealing with complicated data models with many contingencies, you aren't always able to have a data model incapable of representing
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by ralusek 6y ago
It's a tradeoff. If you have an explicit finite state machine in which your model can only ever be in one state, then obviously an enum has its benefits. In order to avoid impossible states, I'll rely on something like hooks or tr
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by ralusek 6y ago
I have often found that multiple booleans are better than enums. processed: true confirmed: false in progress: false pending: false reserved: true It lets you capture more complicated state, such as above where this
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by ralusek 6y ago
It's hard to imagine a situation in which a normal person would want to find a hitman where some law enforcement agency dedicated to posing as false customers wouldn't be able to find them first. And the opposite side of the equat
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by ralusek 6y ago
Pensieve.
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by ralusek 6y ago
That's interesting that you say that because I actually have the opposite reaction. When I go to look for documentation and find that it's a PDF, I want to die.
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by ralusek 6y ago
The word "accident," as it pertains to traffic collisions, is actually just translated to "collision" in my head. In no way does my brain understand it to mean that "this was done unintentionally," it instead b

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