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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Mozilla lost me today. It's no longer an organization I can support. Let this be a lesson to you. Don't indulge the perpetually offended. They will never be happy. Their presence is a cancer in your organization. Should they apply
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
There is no problem in education. Our only problem is that we keep lying to ourselves about it. Not all children are equally gifted. Not all _groups_ of children are equally gifted. The only reason we have such a hard time tackling with con
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> lots of the work developers are tasked with doing is really quite repetitive, intellectually unchallenging and uninspired. Then why the fuck isn't work automated away? We're developers, for God's sake! We develop things!
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Alternate theory: "BigCo"'s internal processes have poor ability to distinguish talented developers from commodity developers, so all the good developers evaporate away, leaving BigCo with a poor of mediocre developers and a
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Well, they are, aren't they? Cynicism isn't somehow automatically wrong.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> What skills in which areas are routinely worth north of $250k? Anecdotally, it's not a specific skill, but a talent for solving problems using any tools and skills necessary. The 10x developer is real, and he's not afraid to
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
$200k doesn't stop incompetents from applying. It does, however, tempt competent people to add themselves to the running.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I've always viewed these persistent and ridiculous claims of a tech-industry worker shortage through a lens of class. To a Harvard MBA, that we programmers earn six figures is prima facie evidence of a worker shortage, since there&#x
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Why shouldn't I be able to mention biographical details in a personal account? I should be able to mention being from Milwaukee, liking hot dogs, or working on Redis if I want to.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The issue hinges on the meaning of "represent". Merely mentioning in the bio of a personal account that I work on a certain open source project is not the same as asserting that this personal account represents the project. Reas
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
How exactly is this effort supposed to demonstrate that Hunt is wrong?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
My brain does biometric identification. Are you going to outlaw my brain?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
And a big segment of the French public loathes nuclear: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/energy/article/French-bill... The shortsighted and fearful German Greens are making that country shut down nuclear pla
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Irrational and emotional European paranoia on privacy chills technological development. Look at all the silly cookie warning on the European web. Now imagine having to "warn" users before applying basic algorithms to data they wil
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> we need the US to catch up with Europe Europe is on a path to technological stagnation and demographic collapse. There's a reason its economy is depressed, its electricity fantastically expensive, its people angry, its programmer
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> It isn't because people who do well on IQ tests tend to be wealthy and well-educated, which produces better life outcomes. If IQ tests worked as you described, then in studies of twins going adopted into different households, we
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Whatever you think IQ tests measure, it correlates incredibly well with life outcome.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
What chart? The linked PDF goes back to May 2012. The title claims 15 years.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Not per capita it doesn't. Come on, that's a novice error.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Historically, IQ tests have "proven" that whites are smarter than other races. Why the scare quotes? On average, whites score a standard deviation higher than blacks on IQ tests, and East Asians score half a standard deviatio
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I don't care. Our goal should not be to equalize rewards to effort, but match talent to opportunity. It doesn't matter where that talent comes from. Trying to account for these "unfair factors" is itself hugely unfair, c
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Yes. You can't distinguish that case from a lack of innate ability, and history is full of examples of poor people doing well in academia and elevating themselves. Standardized testing, not affirmative action, is the great equalizer.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
There is no higher ideal than a pure meritocracy. We want to allocate the best educational resources to the people most able to put them to use benefiting all humanity. I'm not willing to compromise on this principle. Admitting the les
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Please, just leave. You're not doing the world a favor by shaming single men.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Popescu is waging a pathetic little personal war against FetLife [1]. He's a textbook example of a self-deluded crypto-narcissist who, if there's any justice on this earth, will see his comeuppance. People like him always do. [1]
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Would "Two pairs of RSA keys having a common factor found" do? Yes, that works. There's potentially a serious RSA keygen issue here, but nobody's broken RSA itself, and the headline does a very poor job of communica
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You shouldn't be surprised to see blatant lies from Mircea Popescu, who also claims that he's a billionare, that English literature literally does not exist, that bitcoin literally makes states and laws obsolete, and that nuclear
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
How about "work on the same project"?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
"Deliverable" is one of words that provokes a "nope" reaction from me. I am not a resource that produces deliverables. I am a human being.
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by rewqfdsa 12y ago
The previous period with a comparable employment-population ratio was before women entered the workforce in large numbers.

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