throwaway5250

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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I'm not sure whether Kavanaugh is lying, but I do now know that Robinson can't write. That's an epic wall of text.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I'm not discussing what Damore wrote here. Everything in Exhibit B was written by Google employees. Everyone should read it.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Read Exhibit B of the Damore lawsuit. It's a virtual catalog of this sort of thing.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Was picturing a piece of paper with seeds stuck to it that I could water and instant plant or something. Now wondering whether I can plug 20 1U servers into that thing.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I can't tell if that's a pun or not... (well played!)
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Most likely it's a fake interview.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Am old. Not hurt. (Nor rich, I might add.) But when one side is constantly taking shots at you, and the other side is welcoming you with open arms, well, it's hard to ignore.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
A key problem is that discriminated-against groups may actually do worse when evaluated anonymously merit-only basis. (There was a study, but I don't have the link.) Perhaps a better question would be, why aren't companies snappi
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
There's a lot to this. But in addition, the basic quality of journalism in papers like NYT and WaPo have fallen dramatically in the last few years. On any given day, I encounter a headline that simply does not match the story it&#x27
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
640GB ought to be enough for anybody.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
You probably shouldn't be using Gmail anyway, so consider it a feature. :-)
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
We need this nationally in the USA, _right now_.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Yeah, can relate. Wish the article had more ideas on how to deal with it, rather than just describing it.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
No, actually. There's nothing I can do about this situation, and reading an analytic summary of it later if I'm curious is a far better use of my time.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Good grief. Laugh--it's funny!
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Hmm. So why not use that technique _all_ of the time?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I guess that sounds good, though it might sound less good after a mass casualty collision. Wonder if we couldn't have "ground strobes" visible only to viewers looking downward at a significant angle.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I give up--why shouldn't airplane strobes be on while they're on the ground?
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I'd say it's a big deal because $850M donated to a worthy cause (e.g., GiveWell) could have made a big difference in the world. I've suffered far more for far less.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Example: https://twitter.com/coralineada/status/1042249983590838272 This pretty much rules out "good faith".
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I recall thinking it sounded like BS at the time, but the "misogynist" link seems prescient in hindsight.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
If you don't have kids, and don't plan to, the Bay Area could be a fun ride. And if it turns out not to be, well, you can just lick your wounds and leave. If you have kids, or think you might, you're doing them a grave disse
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
I've been reading ESR for decades and have never noticed him saying anything racist. Can you provide a few examples? (And I suppose using "old" in this way is against the CoC?)
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
It seems likely that most or all of the signatories would be in favor of the new CoC. (Perhaps some don't feel that it goes far enough.) Given the author's toxic Twitter comments, I'm suspicious of the motivations here.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Complexity kills. That's not so hard to see. The hard part is figuring out what simplicity is.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Years ago, I was around employee number ten in a database software startup. When the company was sold, my shares were worth about $2000. (Yeah, that was my last startup.)
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
Linus has spent decades of his life creating and tending one of the most socially useful pieces of software ever created. Now he's being vilified by a bunch of craven busybodies. Although he's treating it with undeserved grace in
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
The whole thing is very sad, but this is not a useful response.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
This seems to miss that a lot of alcohol use is a symptom of something else, rather than being a primary problem.
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by throwaway5250 8y ago
That essay is just plain creepy.

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