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by seneca 4y ago
Why do people post this nonsense? Are you hoping to gawk at your outgroup and their silly ideas? You learn nothing by doing that. You'd be better off looking at yourself and questioning what equally silly ideas you hold.
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by seneca 4y ago
Yeah, basically came to say this. While I appreciate the effort, I think this list is way off.
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by seneca 4y ago
No, not at all. It unsurprising that an open source project has positive mindshare. I just think that the spree of articles, all with the same anti-Unity bent, being posted within hours of each other isn't a coincidence. That doesn&#x2
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by seneca 4y ago
Boy, there sure are a lot of pro-Godot and anti-Unity posts on HN today. Some marketing group is having a fieldday.
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by seneca 4y ago
The biggest concern I've heard for hybrids is lifetime maintenance cost. You have both the legacy ICE and transmission, as well as electrical components to maintain. That's a major hypothetical disadvantage to all electric. Does a
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by seneca 4y ago
Dead on. Helicopter money while at the same time forcefully shutting down production lead us where we are right now. Constraining actual economic output while pumping up demand with cheap money. "Inflation is always and everywhere a mo
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by seneca 4y ago
> Homeschooled children have always had a reputation for being quite a bit “off” socially This is often by design. People homeschool a lot of the time because they don't want their children to pick up many parts of mainstream cultur
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by seneca 4y ago
Ironically, the way the phrase is applied depends on the time period. Historically, federalism meant what you're saying. That is to say Jay and Hamilton were Federalists, and advocated a strong federal government. In modern parlance Fe
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by seneca 4y ago
> We probably shouldn't turn this into a Roe v Wade thread Yes, you're probably right. It's not likely to be productive. > ... but perhaps they were talking about the state legislation released by the court, which is ap
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by seneca 4y ago
> With Roe V Wade overturned recently, this seems a bit tone deaf. The beliefs are being much more than represented, they’re being mandated and legislated and protected unfairly. This is actually the opposite of reality. Roe was the mand
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by seneca 4y ago
I do a lot of hiring and I dont particularly value them, except for near entry level jobs. Certifications rarely test real skills or indicate the ability to actually do a job. For low seniority roles they indicate dedication at least. Where
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by seneca 4y ago
This peaked this morning, not tonight.
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by seneca 4y ago
This post violates a pile of posting guidelines. Please don't post lazy flamebait here.
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by seneca 4y ago
Giving the state a monopoly on weapons manufacturing seems like a road to serfdom, exactly the opposite of maintaining a Democracy. One of the critical steps to every dictatorship is disarming the population.
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by seneca 4y ago
Yes, that makes sense, and is fair enough. Can you see how that stands out as a strange decoration on an otherwise sound argument though, and why someone may point it out? I also feel the need to acknowledge that I'm slightly entertain
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by seneca 4y ago
> What gives merit to an argument is whether something has been researched and the accuracy of information behind it, not the occupation of the person presenting it. That's not really the point. I'm not disputing the correctnes
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by seneca 4y ago
John Oliver is a comedian. Referring to him as a source isn't something that gives merit to an argument.
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by seneca 4y ago
"Except my special bugbear is special and should be exempt from basic social norms. Everyone should have to agree with me". The issue is that any and everything can be claimed to be racist, and therefore transferred to your specia
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by seneca 4y ago
This is maybe the strongest out-group bias in elite circles in the US currently. I believe that is largely because it is acceptable, or even required, in the current elite ideologies that dominate corporate and academic entities currently.
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by seneca 4y ago
I think the disagreement here is around different uses of the word "difficult". Engineering is a job that demands more skill. It is difficult in that fewer people are capable of doing it. QA, and to a much greater extend the other
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by seneca 4y ago
I think that's a apt and succinct analogy. Completely agreed.
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by seneca 4y ago
"All people being treated with respect" and claiming a secondary role is the most difficult are no where near the same thing, and the emotionally manipulative equivocation is lazy and puerile.
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by seneca 4y ago
> From my experience, QA, especially game QA is looked down upon by leadership and developers - peers - alike. If you have a dedicated QA team that is staffed by people who don't write software, those people are at best technicians.
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by seneca 4y ago
What an absolutely absurd comment. It strikes me as fairly offensive to a lot of people to suggest that rules about maintaining your yard and not trashing your property are inherently associated with "whiteness".
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by seneca 4y ago
It depends on the size of the company, and how deeply HR has managed to force their influence. Most companies under maybe ~1000 (give or take a few hundred) people, the managers still have some influence. Even a few large companies that are
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by seneca 4y ago
Sorry, I should have phrased this better. I don't mean to say environment has no impact. What I intended to say is that the degree to which IQ is genetic vs environmentally influenced is unclear and the subject of debate. Calling envir
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by seneca 4y ago
This is an open debate, and claiming that there's a conclusive answer isn't really accurate. As usual, there's more nuance. Further, the heritability of potential for high IQ isn't really in question. Put another way, it
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by seneca 4y ago
This whole interaction, on both sides, is childish and makes our entire profession look bad by reinforcing the stereotypes peoples have of us. I would avoid working with anyone involved in this.
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by seneca 4y ago
You won't see citations for these for the same reason the citations in Demore's memo didn't matter. Facts have no relation to articles of faith.
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by seneca 4y ago
Blindly offering solidarity with absurd claims makes everyone involved look petulant. Be careful who you cast your lot with.

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