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by tovej 6y ago
The main point of this discussion seems to be the old "don't concern yourself with material things"-spiel. And I agree with the general idea. I also agree that to succeed, you can't just follow rules of thumb blindly, yo
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by tovej 6y ago
No, he really does speak like an undergraduate that doesn't have much to say about a subject but has to write a 10 page essay on it. As someone who writes academic texts, this is painful to listen to. I understand every word, but quite
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by tovej 6y ago
I'm 2:40 in and he invents the word "prescriptionize" instead of using the perfectly useful "prescribe". My gut is telling me this is likely to be a bullshit self-help lecture.
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by tovej 6y ago
Rereading the sources, I think Pierson's statement tells the story of current conditions the best. Pierson tried to stop production at a 737 facility due to safety concerns, he was shut down hard by top management. Here's some hig
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by tovej 6y ago
I've written about this before, in relation to the 737 MAX, I'll just post it verbatim: --- In 1997, Boeing merged with McDonnel Douglas. This led to some changes in management, and as a result, culture[1, 8:20]. McDonnel Douglas
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by tovej 6y ago
>So no actual evidence of anything. Yes, you have correctly identified the paper as a review on current theories. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat#Criticism Yes, there is debate about these things
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by tovej 6y ago
Sure, but in the analogy, the person "speaking freely" wasn't a member of the public but someone renting a store.
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by tovej 6y ago
My rules (society's rules) are entirely orthogonal to the issue of discrimination against groups of people. If individuals do not follow the rules, they should be punished, that's fine. If you apply the rules differently depending
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by tovej 6y ago
"You see, freedom of speech and expression must be absolute." That's pretty extreme. First, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence of speech. And second, freedom of speech only applies to public forums. Why would a
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by tovej 6y ago
It really amazes me how otherwise smart people are ready to just dismiss researched knowledge for their own intuition when it comes to gender issues. EDIT: if it's unclear, this refers to the immediate parent of this comment.
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by tovej 6y ago
I think this is almost common knowledge by now. It even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_education_in_STEM And if that isn't enough, a quick search on the web found a number of published
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by tovej 6y ago
You are confusing a whole lot of concepts here, and at times it seems you are arguing against yourself(?). First you argue against great concentrations of capital also being great concentrations of power, in this "yes, but no" sen
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by tovej 6y ago
I concur. I also wouldn't consider the idea of online social repo systems to be synonymous with git. Git is a source control tool, "Git news" would suggest to me either news about the development of git or a news platform som
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by tovej 6y ago
bayindirh is raising valid points of criticism, which I think you can tackle without trying to raise a stink. The point about scope e.g. isn't "weird dogma" imo, but very valid, because it has security implications for an ini
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by tovej 6y ago
This is absolutely not a dumb myth. It's obviously true that open source is not sufficient to good software quality, or even necessary, but it does correlate, especially for open source projects with many users. I often read through th
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by tovej 6y ago
Biological mechanisms like this are not directly related to human behaviour patterns. This is a pretty big non sequitur. And a conflation of "identity politics" with sociology. And a misrepresentation of sociology!
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by tovej 6y ago
It is more specific to say "pathname of the working directory", you are right about that. What I meant was: It is redundant in the sense that the pathname is the identifier of the working directory, and if I ask someone to identif
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by tovej 6y ago
The man page is ambiguous, two words beginning with p appear in the description. I personally trust the Multics etymology. The original developers of UNIX had worked on Multics after all. "pathname of working directory" is redunda
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by tovej 6y ago
Every addition of a new consumer in a food chain brings with it a high rate of energy loss. The cow will need to use its energy to live, only a small portion of the energy is left in the steak you eat. 75% is a good approximation. In genera