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811.
by sershe 6y ago
This is defense in depth. We are way too lenient on the people who are not safe enough to be in society IMO, so it's good to have another mechanism. Recently, it's even worse than it's used to be... e.g. in Seattle they quick
812.
by sershe 6y ago
USSR went thru the periods of warming and crack-down on art. An example of "soft" Soviet censorship from the same "good period" as the above, and the same authors, is Escape Attempt; it involves a prisoner from a concen
813.
by sershe 6y ago
Heh, I just go on my phone in meetings that are truly useless, especially these days when it's an audio call (my camera is off). Or better yet I can just work on something not requiring an entire brain/focus.
814.
by sershe 6y ago
Excluding the Revolutionary war, it would only characterize a small subset of these movements, often acting explicitly against the wishes of its spiritual leaders. It's not really about values; I am an atheist and I believe that the wo
815.
by sershe 6y ago
Why, from the first principles, though? It's a slope and not a switch, but even in the case of "regular" crime, I'm not entirely convinced someone showing willful, unambiguously intentional disregard for basic social co
816.
by sershe 6y ago
It's not execution; in many/most states, you are allowed to defend life, health and property with deadly force. It may be getting watered down these days due to unfavorable public opinion, but a law in the books in WA is/was,
817.
by sershe 6y ago
Yeah, I should have clarified that other effective means of dispersal/incapacitation are also acceptable. However, I believe Draco of Athens was right about this in particular, so I don't personally think there's a differenc
818.
by sershe 6y ago
First, there was tear gas, and in fact there were rioter(s?) shot by police. Then, you are comparing one protest to hundreds. There were tons of protests in Seattle where a group of a few dozen would go around marauding and looting and poli
819.
by sershe 6y ago
You lost me at "What if the rioters are legitimately trying to prevent a fascist regime from taking over?". I bet many at the Capitol believed they are "legitimately trying to prevent a communist regime from taking over"
820.
by sershe 6y ago
So what would you do instead? Being able to write some code on a simpler problem vs real-life code is an equivalent of a 40 yard dash vs rushing for a touchdown (or whatever). Being able to find special cases, or design, or figure out a sim
821.
by sershe 6y ago
Well, how were they supposed to prevent it? I personally support killing rioters (of both political wings), but that is not palatable anymore. The building is not exactly and armored bunker. If they don't use force, there's quite
822.
by sershe 6y ago
Sorry, I was offline for the break. You have a singly linked list with each node having a "random pointer", an extra field that points to another node in the list (including itself or null). You need to make a copy of the list, in
823.
by sershe 6y ago
Heh, I once was introduced to a particular interview question. It has a solution that is hugely better than the best naive solution, but is basically a giant gotcha that seems obvious in retrospect. I couldn't find it myself even thoug
824.
by sershe 6y ago
So you are basically describing a malfunctioning meritocracy, where the function that determines merit is corrupted by biases. Seems like the solution would be to remove biases (e.g. in case of coding interviews, do blind interviews instead
825.
by sershe 6y ago
The unfair advantages compound, though. Kids with stable upper-middle-class parents would probably be better at things than poor kids, just because they have more resources and time, less stress, better role models. That is why equity advoc
826.
by sershe 6y ago
So what is your take on that? I am genuinely interested, because coming from a country where everybody started with more or less the same crappy housing, cheap transit, no-frills healthcare, and ok education (and where 95% of my classmates
827.
by sershe 6y ago
Working "for money" and "for the dreams of others" are not mutually exclusive. Every canonical non-tech immigrant success story involves either working crappy jobs, or starting a boring low-margin business like a grocery
828.
by sershe 6y ago
The latter is probably not causal - poor Americans have no money for either insurance or dental care, whereas non-poor would pay for retail dental anyway, but they also mostly have insurance.
829.
by sershe 6y ago
The reason healthcare is not a free market in the US are not market's fault etc. The govt restricts supply, subsidizes demand directly, and also created the system where insurance is tied to work so the major consumers are completely p
830.
by sershe 6y ago
Well, in that case there should be legislation for "minimum participation" akin to minimum wage, restricting property rights of the owners. There's no such legislation, which I think is a great thing, so that is the reason em
831.
by sershe 6y ago
Silly question based on every other comment; value judgments aside, isn't teaming up with a competitor in the same market (ads) for legal assistance serve more of a proof that they don't have a monopoly (there's a competitor
832.
by sershe 6y ago
Fair enough, although I wonder how big this niche is compared to people using IDEs or various editing software from powerpoint to photoshop, or even just playing games (or using that browser for smth like metrics dashboards that require mor
833.
by sershe 6y ago
Another aspect is whether these numbers from what kids want at age 10 are worth considering at all. When I was 8-10 I quite seriously wanted to be a soccer player, even though even to a 9-yo me it was starting to become obvious that the shi
834.
by sershe 6y ago
There is/was a trope that an average Apple user only uses Safari so there's no need for this or that feature (starting from when Jobs was against having an appstore for the first iPhone), that's the only way I can think of th
835.
by sershe 6y ago
The original question was "Why is it reasonable for management to be political activists but not the workers?" The reasonable labor law is generally about what contracts are and are not permissible and enforceable. For example, mi
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by sershe 6y ago
The only "social construct" involved here is "private property". If I hire someone to install carpet and pay them $X, we sign a contract about that and that only. They don't tell me how I should paint my walls; and
837.
by sershe 6y ago
Because management (or rather, shareholders) pay workers to do work, and not the other way around. Abstractly, workers telling shareholders how to run the company (out of the scope of what shareholders hired them for) would be similar to sh
838.
by sershe 6y ago
People are demonstrably not afraid to get together in public places... whatever public places I've been to (mostly in deep blue states, and also Nevada) are as crowded as they can be. Actually, outdoor spaces were overcrowded, more tha
839.
by sershe 6y ago
For CA, ISOs and RSUs are prorated if holding requirements are not met. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html , it has a summary at the bottom
840.
by sershe 6y ago
No, you only pay for time worked in CA. The only exception I found are options/RSUs granted in CA and vested after you've left, these may be taxed in proportion to the time originally worked in CA after the grant.

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