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by room500 6y ago
Their algorithm is their speech. If users had to address their videos to each other and they were delivered FIFO without priority, I would agree that they would be neutral. But TikTok (and all social networks) are using algorithms to promot
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by room500 6y ago
I disagree. Pay should be relative to the market rate for their skills - capped at your value to the company. If a company needs to buy some widget - and this widget is worth $100 to the company - the company would be foolhardy to ignore th
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by room500 6y ago
> They need to start censoring content based on the Chinese government direction. That's what Microsoft, Apple are doing. This is overly simplistic and there are a number of additional regulations in place. For example, Netflix (eve
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by room500 6y ago
Just one issue - there are timers on connections regulating how long a connection can be kept alive before a packet is required. Larger timeouts are better for phones, but require more resources on the servers/networks. Google/App
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by room500 6y ago
Good point. That was probably not the best example :) Though I would point out that government subsidies are more to do with the guarantee of the food supply and less to do with incentivizing individuals to work the farms. My point was more
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by room500 6y ago
If having children is such a biological urge (and I would agree that it is indeed a biological urge), why would society have to incentivize it? Society should only incentivize children if society has a need for those children and nobody w
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by room500 6y ago
> If all of a sudden, say, 50% of the people having children now... This is assuming that people are only having children out of a sense of duty. Do you think that 50% of parents are having children out of some sense of duty to society?
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by room500 6y ago
I don't understand this sentiment. Farming is critical for society. However, we don't require everyone to pull on their overalls and work the land. Security is critical for society. However, we don't expect every person to pi
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by room500 6y ago
Do you think that could be solved by disconnecting salary from title? A 10x junior engineer should be paid a lot - more than most senior engineers if everything is fair. But the rockstar junior engineer would still benefit from mentorship a
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by room500 6y ago
From a technical standpoint, I agree that good people can reach the bar of senior engineer very quickly - potentially right out of school. However, there are aspects of a senior engineer role that are not commonly learned in school or by ha
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by room500 6y ago
Advertisers are willing to pay way more for targeted ads. If an app is relying on advertising revenue, the inability to target ads will directly cause the app to generate less revenue.
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by room500 6y ago
I wonder if that is a more natural (and long-term) structure though. The current tech formula seems to be "build the biggest moat possible - worry about profitability later" While that is driving some of the fastest growth in hist
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by room500 6y ago
I never said that I misunderstood. I said that your comment was implying other things. You are hiding behind technicalities, knowing full well what you had implied. Hypothetically, if I commented on a fashion blog "people that wear blu
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by room500 6y ago
That's a fair point. I think the impact that parents have is much larger than location. Period. I didn't mean to imply that big city = success, small town = giving up. My apologies if it came across that way My experience was that
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by room500 6y ago
No - I can't say that I agree with the way you are using this data. Your original comment implied causation - that different races have different intelligences BECAUSE of their race. You are hiding behind a technicality of never explic
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by room500 6y ago
Everyone has their own set of values - I don't judge your decisions at all in this case. However, to give some perspective, I grew up in a rural/suburban "flyover" town. There are parts of my childhood that I would love
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by room500 6y ago
It was a snide remark. My apologies Can you respond to the rest of the comment?
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by room500 6y ago
I am not concerned about the definition of race - that was a direct quote from the Wikipedia article that you pointed me to. Somehow the goalposts got reversed and I am now responsible for disproving your theory. Let's go back to the o
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by room500 6y ago
I asked for your source because most studies have been refuted and I was curious if you found a legitimate one. Pulling up a random link on Google is not helpful to the discussion. The Wikipedia article that you point to refutes it on almos
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by room500 6y ago
Yes, it is an assumption. Unfortunately, this situation is unprecedented, so everything we do has to be an educated guess. I would also note that you followed it up with an assumption of your own ;) It is well established that physical dist
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by room500 6y ago
This argument seems strange to me. Only 300 people have died because of the policies that were put in place. Relaxing those policies will increase that number. Now there could be debate about whether that new number is "acceptable&quot
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by room500 6y ago
After dealing with many legacy projects from "creative" developers, I don't think standardizing on some basic practices would be a bad thing
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by room500 6y ago
Staying in Bay Area for now. If I move away, I am concerned that my career progression will stagnate - not just at my current company, but also the opportunities that would be available if I decided to switch companies. My plan is to work h
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by room500 6y ago
Source?
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by room500 6y ago
1. You are assuming that they are not already taking non-racial attributes into account. Intersectionality is a well-understood concept and sits at the heart of most diversity initiatives 2. We can argue all day over which categorization sh
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by room500 6y ago
No - hey.com tried to have an outside subscription model and they were rejected from the app store. Netflix and Amazon have special deals in place - the Amazon deal was made public in the recent investigations. Apple claims that the special
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by room500 6y ago
The other fields have various ways to filter out people. * Accounting has CPA exams/certifications * Law has the bar exams/law school * Medicine has the USMLE/medical school Tech prides itself on the fact that "anyone&qu
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by room500 6y ago
If Congress cannot, who can? I think treaties must be able to be reneged. And since Congress is signing the treaties, they should also have the power to renege. Now there might be consequences for those actions (the counterparty might att
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by room500 6y ago
The grass is always greener... Someone out there is wearing haute couture hand-sewn by artisans. Your hundred dollar shirt is laughable to that tier. But for the majority of the world, I think Nordstrom would largely count as "luxury&q
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by room500 6y ago
Are Apple employees scum of the earth for working for a company that uses Chinese factories? Are Facebook and Google employees scum of the earth for tracking user data? Are Netflix employees scum of the earth for getting your kids addicted

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