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811.
by tomp 4y ago
You can escape it by becoming a better software engineer. Up to the limit of your IQ, which is the real bias that everyone sweeps under the rug, especially all the bigtech companies espousing “inclusivity” (all lies, actually exclusivity,
812.
by tomp 4y ago
If he said it himself, then it’s not an unconscious bias, is it? The point of interviewing is bias in the first place - to find people who are good - and it’s not unreasonable to assume that “I want to be good” and “this potential hir
813.
by tomp 4y ago
Airflow can only do so much. If the whole atmosphere is hot day and night, there's literally no way to cool down without using extra energy.
814.
by tomp 4y ago
Maybe you should implement a "feature" that serves a simple static HTML page <p>This webpage is safe.</p> to "bingbot" and serve the real page to everyone else.
815.
by tomp 4y ago
"meet" isn't environmentally unfriendly some methods of meat production are but you can focus on environmentally friendly methods instead don't hate the product, hate the process
816.
by tomp 4y ago
> Researchers from Australia worked with families who said that their babies (ages 6-16 months) had a sleep problem. Quite a big caveat here. I’d never let my 1 week or 1 month baby cry at night (or during the day) and in any case, he st
817.
by tomp 4y ago
It’s usually invoked with the purpose of cancelling someone guilty of wrongthink, e.g. “Donglegate” or 100s of other examples of cancel culture .
818.
by tomp 4y ago
This view “if you don’t agree with me 100% you’re a literal Nazi” is very common and very despicable.
819.
by tomp 4y ago
Can you send me any such studies?
820.
by tomp 4y ago
I meant "almost all the time except when they're asleep". Fortunately newborns sleep a lot but they also feed every 4 hours (if you're lucky) so whatever sleep you're getting isn't "quality sleep" bec
821.
by tomp 4y ago
At first, kids need basically 100% attention & surveillance, except when they’re asleep. So between two people, one is occupied with a kids almost all the time.
822.
by tomp 4y ago
> they just need someone to take care of them, it doesn't have to be their mother. Wouldn't it then make more sense to require the mother to take care for the fetus/baby before the age of viability (as she's the onl
823.
by tomp 4y ago
Thanks for a sensible counterargument!
824.
by tomp 4y ago
This is a common fallacy. The US is the oldest and most stable democracy. It also works more-or-less as intended. On issues where there is broad consensus (e.g. COVID relief) it can move incredibly quickly. On issues where there is broad di
825.
by tomp 4y ago
> We do kind of have an answer to this, when it's viable outside of the mother's body. I never understood this argument. There is no baby that is "viable" (able to survive on their own) (well, to be honest, most adult
826.
by tomp 4y ago
What's your explanation for the fact that Moderna patented the very specific 19-nucleotide sequence that codes Sars-COV-2 furin cleavage site in 2018?
827.
by tomp 4y ago
How much responsibility does Google share for US wrecking Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria?
828.
by tomp 4y ago
Because Trump threatened to strike back. Putin was afraid of Trump, but he knows that Biden has no spine. https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/trump-talks-threatening-putin-... > “If you move against Ukraine whi
829.
by tomp 4y ago
> Remember Trump's first impeachment? It was literally about withholding military aid to Ukraine Don't fall for left-wing propaganda. The impeachment was all about politics, the "withholding military aid" was just a
830.
by tomp 4y ago
It’s where I’m from originally. Low salary and miserably low bonuses aren’t the only issues; others are high taxes and poor healthcare (no private insurance). Though from a local perspective even a “modest” salary of 2500€/month net en
831.
by tomp 4y ago
Well, not entirely. I moved to be able to have a family (more child-friendly & car-friendly environment) and found a better job. But then I realize I'm extremely privileged as a programmer and that most people don't have that
832.
by tomp 4y ago
Cry me a river. Facebook was banning people for suggesting that the "lab leak" COVID theory has merit. It was recently endorsed by the WHO. A taste of their own medicine. Hopefully they choke and die (the company, not the people).
833.
by tomp 4y ago
Yes. We didn’t start with zero. > There are 30m cows in the US, compared to 60m bison 150 years ago.
834.
by tomp 4y ago
No that’s not how physics works. If you keep pumping a constant amount of CH4 into the atmosphere, it keeps degrading into CO2, which is transformed into grass, which is transformed into cows. It’s a cycle. There is no long-term impact.
835.
by tomp 4y ago
Deforestation & water use aren’t a problem in the first world. Maize & soy are also made from captured CO2 like grass. Yes the remaining CO2 released is from energy & transport (oil) used, but that is solved not by demonizing me
836.
by tomp 4y ago
Not long term they don’t. CH4 breaks down into CO2 in a few decades, forming a natural cycle. The only long-term climate impact is from additional CO2 from fossil fuels.
837.
by tomp 4y ago
CH4 has a half life of like 10 years or so, so even if you deleted all cows from the world right now, in 20-40 years you'd be back to "only fossil fuel CO2 causing climate change". Furthermore, has CH4 from cows even increase
838.
by tomp 4y ago
I don't understand. All meat is made from recycled carbon dioxide (plants, e.g. corn & grass, take CO2 out of the atmosphere and "recycle" it, that's then fed to animals to grow meat). As I always like to says, cow
839.
by tomp 4y ago
Arguing for equality of outcome (“equity”) is evil. Arguing for “inclusivity” in a corporate setting is delusional wokeism (as companies are exclusionary by definition, they don’t hire most people)
840.
by tomp 4y ago
I always laugh out loud when people say that. Does Boeing and Lockheed Martin not have “actual engineers” and “actual factories”? Of course they do. Probably had more and better for most of SpaceX’s life. They just can’t utilise what w hav

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