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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Power dynamics are real, and the legal system deals with context all the time. So do humans, they handle it quite well in fact (hence why our languages are not context-free). I know computer people want consistency in rules. However, do yo
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An interesting fact is that the hotspot team went back on their 20-year conviction that load-barriers reduce performance too much. I guess improvements in CPU and VM designs has changed their minds. This is a big deal, and a major departur
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This is very different. In the American case, private emails in the dnc were talking about preferences of officials. Don’t forget that Bernie Sanders isn’t even a Democrat! So the officials had a preference for a Democrat to win, whatever.
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Disagree that the concerns raised were legitimate. It was a hodgepodge of cherry picked science, and motivated reasoning and slander against all of his female workers. Sunday agrees with me. Maybe you’re the one who’s wrong about what was i
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Disagree with the whole “shoildnt Socially engineer” - this makes no sense! We live in highly constructed environment! Socially constructed. Laws, physics design, social structures, etc , etc. We do not live in a world where “social pressur
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Again, selection bias. Not every employee is going to be happy at every company. And as I noted in a different comment, there are axioms at companies you just won’t be fruitful arguing against. That’s a hard fact of working for someone else
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i agree with everything written here. The culture articles on the wsj are bizzare. I think they can be chalked up to good old journalism selective sources (happy employees aren’t running to tell all), combined with a “where there’s smoke th
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Well your first statement is just your opinion! A core mission of google is to foster innovation, at the big and small levels. The company considers itself driven by innovation. So how do you grow the next billion users, which is a business
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Google isn’t really that much different. It’s not a hotbed of political discussions and arguments. There are focused discussions on politically relevant topics: such as immigration. It’s a given at google that immigration is a net benefit t
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
This is a reaction to the rise of the trolls. Trolling your coworkers and engaging in bad faith argumenting has no place at work. It represents a profound disrespect of your colleagues, it is counterproductive, and is distracting. It’s not
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
at the time they picked HBase because it was easier to repair missing replicas. Hdfs namenode juat schedules block replication. Cassandra (at least the version they were considering) had to work a lot harder at replacing a missing replica.
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You’ve just also proven health insurance doesn’t work!
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"scientific" might be a better way. I am continually disappointed at people who use the summary of a scientific article to prop up their justification, along with what I call "the world is a binary logic puzzle" fallacy.
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I am not surprised. Hackernews is filled with entirely too many 20-something boys. I've been getting fairly disappointed with this place for several years now. Sadly the rest of the internet is even worse somehow!
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I hate these kind of sophisticate-cynical arguments. Yes you are technically correct, and thus get to revel in Being Right. Drinking a celebratory champaign. Yet we are still having negative outcomes that are highly problematic. And you h
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
I mean come on, your argument is just weird and makes no sense. We are talking about the 2nd most powerful biological drive after survival. You wouldn't say "as crazy as this sounds, continued existence is a clear choice" -
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So what do you do when you have high risk scenarios that are semi-rare but semi-predictable, combined with a high loss when they happen? It's called insurance. That's the private/"market" based solution to privatizi
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Other solutions, since we aren't going to see policy solutions in the US anytime soon, might include: - insurance to help companies pay for parental leave - state level policies (eg: California, but it only has 6 weeks which is hilario
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I hate to be rude but why are you surprised? Companies are not a single person and that goes extra for big companies. It’s possible for all of the above to be true. Don’t forget local managers and do things against company policy which caus
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... and the original organizations aren't held liable for the sites. In many cases the companies aren't around, but the investors, and the investor's estates are. The point being that LLC has shielded people from the conseque
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This is easy - because of limited liability. Technically owners aren't on the hook for losses, LLC structures and LLC-like structures (C-corps) limit the loss possible. They are only risking what they put up - presuming they don't
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Also, there's some evidence that higher minimum wage drives more dollars thru the local economy, because minimum wage earners spend most/all of their wage, typically locally. This seems like an obvious outflow of monetary policy a
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
Could you justify your first sentence some more? Your claim is that Apple is a monopoly - over what I wonder? Neither Mac OS nor iOS are a monopoly. Monopolies do trend towards efficiency of effort on their behalf and so-called 'ren
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
What if you were giving up $100-150k a year? Would that move your needle? Or what if you were actually giving up $200k a year? Yes, money isn't everything, but that's no reason to let someone take advantage of your excitement. I
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I’m sorry but I don’t buy it. Startups employees are squeezed out by vc dilution and lack of big exits. Those $1m total equity cash out from startups I fear are fairly rare. Whereas working for faang type companies, a l5 is more or less gua
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Is there any room in your cynicism for any other view? For example, maybe Google leadership did hear the complaints, then realized what was happening and what could happen, and decided that something needed to be done to create and uphold v
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I don't think people appreciate how much effort Google does to minimizing cookie leakage. It's good security and privacy hygiene, and it also speeds requests - transmitting sizable cookies isn't free, and takes up time, espe
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The point of naming convention isnt to be painfully pedantically correct, like this comment. It's to provide a useful guidepost to humans, who know LAX but don't know about SMO. Why didn't you mention ICAO codes, they'd
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by ryanobjc 8y ago
No, this isn't domain fronting. This has to do with PTR records, reverse DNS. Domain fronting is all about the forward lookups, normally you wouldn't be making PTR requests in a normal web request. Putting all your infrastructure

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