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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
> Street art is beautiful! Don’t report graffiti and other street artists. If you see work that includes fascistic or hate speech, paint over it yourself or with friends. Uhhhh this sounds like terrible advice. If someone is vandalizing
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Elon Musk announces Hunter Biden story suppression drop(twitter.com)
9 points by thekashifmalik 4y ago|0 comments
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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
This is the salient point getting lost in a lot of conversations about Twitter and free speech. There seem to be a lot of people who not only want to control what they see on Twitter (understandable) but also want to control what others see
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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
> Protection of free speech, its intent atleast, is to protect citizens from governments. I believe you are describing the 1st amendment. Freedom of speech exists as a philosophical concept outside of the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment
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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
Freedom of speech exists as a philosophical concept outside of the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment is simply the application of that concept to the American constitution.
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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
Please follow the HN guidelines: > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sn
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by thekashifmalik 4y ago
I'm no fan of Facebook or Lockheed Martin, but that doesn't seem fair to me.
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The Scoop: Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineers(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
14 points by thekashifmalik 4y ago|1 comments
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
Exactly. Though to be fair I see 3 escalating levels of reaction when you come across content you don't like: - Level 1: Navigate/ignore away from the content. - Level 2: Block the person/content on the platform so you never
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
This particular excerpt resonated with me: > It’s hard to avoid a disheartening conclusion: Quantitative social science is barely relevant in the real world – and almost every social scientist covertly agrees. The complex math that rese
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
lmao This cracked me up more than it should have!
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Twitter's 'downvote' button test begins rolling out globally(engadget.com)
1 points by thekashifmalik 5y ago|0 comments
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
I don't understand the point of this conversation. > Your first post says that they don't actually say what the data shows And I maintain that the summary omits and misrepresents what the data shows. > I'm saying that y
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
I suppose the point I tried to make is that the conclusion presented in the summary omits asians as high-earners and that changes the take-away. My conclusion would have been: "With a broad stroke, male, asian and White/Caucasian
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
You know, I didn't realize that till I read your comment. Thank you.
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
Yes that is correct. What I'm quoting is in the summary paragraph above that. How you present data is important and I'm wondering why it's not presented there.
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
I saw that section. It's weird to me to use tenure here instead of industry experience or level since tenure specifically means how long you've been at the same job. In my experience in tech, staying at the same company (long-tenu
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
That's at least one use-case I hadn't thought of haha. I wonder if there are any legitimate non-dark pattern use-cases.
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
I swear, I don't know why people keep doing this. Are there any benefits to highjacking scrolling behavior that I don't know about?
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
Interesting to see the pay gap charts. > our gender gap data shows that companies are still struggling to offer their female and BIPOC workers equal pay for equal work Does this data account for levels or years of experience? For example
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
Please follow the HN Guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
This is one class of bugs that would not exist if V8 was written in Rust.
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How not to ban a prolific Git developer(felipec.wordpress.com)
4 points by thekashifmalik 5y ago|17 comments
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Blizzard president J. Allen Brack is leaving the company(twitter.com)
2 points by thekashifmalik 5y ago|0 comments
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by thekashifmalik 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow; sex and sexual activity are a part of the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Note, it's not intimacy but sex itself. Intimacy lies on the 3rd level.
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by thekashifmalik 6y ago
Since the other thread was a dupe: > The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity
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by thekashifmalik 6y ago
> The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity [sic] as well as fear of open confl
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by thekashifmalik 6y ago
> Or is it rather a few employees who, emboldened by cancel-culture, will toss their political agenda around the office while other employees, intimidated by cancel-culture, shy away from calling out the obvious BS? This is it. The intim
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by thekashifmalik 6y ago
I swear I was just thinking the same thing :(
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by thekashifmalik 6y ago
This is exactly it! If you spout liberal ideas at a conservative company, you will find disagreement. If you spout conservative ideas at a liberal company (most of SF tech), you will find yourself out of a job.

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