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by trentnix 5y ago
The US would import lots more illegal immigrants (because they aren’t subject to wage laws, being illegal and all that), unemployment of unskilled labor would go up, and everything would cost more. And whoever owns Boston Dynamics would get
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"I'm not a biologist." It's an answer good enough for the Supreme Court of the United States, but I'll bet it wont be good enough for Wokeware.
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A small, extremely loud, and extremely sanctimonious part of the population will not accept that. They will consider your lack of political motivation for your work distasteful and eventually immoral. You'll be asked to support movemen
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I'm not sure if you being purposely obtuse, but the idea that you'd build your software on top of a technology or platform that might introduce instability due to the whims or politics of its stewards is absolutely and obviously a
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I live in a very, very, very conservative part of the country and it’s nothing like the caricature you just mentioned. It is, though, safe, polite, and friendly. And people are happy to leave other people alone.
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Because he has and continues to provide interesting and useful advice to software professionals. Leave cancel culture to the idiot class.
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Yet, software engineers have no ethics or standards to speak of. Nonsense - engineering ethics have been discussed, codified, and taught for decades. Why are engineering ethics insufficient to cover building software?
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> The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust. Exactly the problem search is supposed to solve. Google doesn’t seem to be very interested in solving it.
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And when it's possible to track what they think, they won't be allowed to think.
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If you do decide to become a plumber, be sure to remember the two golden rules of plumbing: 1. $#!7 flows downhill. 2. Don't bite your fingernails.
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Maybe he bought a house in the neighborhood. Maybe he really likes writing COBOL. Maybe his spouse works there as well. Maybe he is simply extremely risk averse. There are a number of good reasons somebody might decide to stay put, even if
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I think you've nailed it. Prospects, if they can overcome the flattery of being offered a title beyond their skill and experience, should actually recognize such as a warning sign. After all, a company willing to do such a thing is lik
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> I'm really confused about your apparent conflict with having quit a toxic employer. After only two weeks (and having never experienced such a thing before), it seems pretty natural to second guess one’s intuition.
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My first thought reading this is that I'm happy Glassdoor is actually having an impact. 15 months ago I started work as a Software Manager at a large arts and crafts retailer. Much of the job seemed completely in line with my interest
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A Google search will provide lots more examples, but here’s an example: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-47057787.amp
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Yep. In all the talk of racial or gender privilege, the most beneficial privilege a person can enjoy is the benefits of a loving, supportive, traditional two-parent household (there is insufficient data on non-traditional two-parent househo
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Casinos will take your grandmothers last dollar and throw her out on the street when her credit runs out. Somehow the regular people are smart enough to know the lottery is entertainment but they aren’t smart enough for investment wizardry.
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But the same people excluded by the government from investing in early stage tech companies are encouraged by the same government to buy lottery tickets and visit casinos.
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First of all, at 35 you're still a baby. Tap the brakes on your anxiety around running out of time. Second, most everyone is recommending other self-interested pursuits and I don't think you'll find the best fulfillment there
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Are you arguing with me? You must be argumentative. I'll bet you go to school board meetings. That makes you more likely to cause an incident on the plane. You must go on the list. Expect a visit from CPS to check on the welfare of you
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Seems pretty awful to suggest that the government-managed 'no-fly' list should be used for anything after watching how poorly it was used and abused as a security measure. But considering the airlines look to the government to sol
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I can agree with that. It might be uselessly imprecise. But the parent suggested asking one’s race was fundamentally racist. That’s absurd.
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You’re being pedantic.
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I agree. But that’s a problem with how one’s race is being asked, not whether it is out-of-bounds to ask.
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You don’t seem to understand what race , as it’s used in this context, actually means.
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It has helped politicians. And that means if the problem is ever solved, politicians won’t benefit anymore. So lots of tax money is spent but the problem remains purposefully unsolved.
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There are genuinely different risk factors and biological predispositions that are impacted by one’s racial background. The idea that we should pretend race is only a social construct is completely unscientific and absurd. To argue asking a
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Apples and bowling balls. As I said in another comment: While substance abuse is an illness and should be treated as such, it's not leukemia or muscular dystrophy. It requires an active participant to make a concerted effort to obtain
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Once again, I think that's a fun thing to see because it's always nice to dunk on the broader culture, but that's genuinely not been my experience. People are generally very understanding and considerate of substance abuse si
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While we're at it, let's de-stigmatize the abuse of substances and treat it like a real mental health issue. Literally everyone involved in the treatment and support of substance abuse does that, whether it's treatment faci

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