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by vkou 2mo ago
It's possible that they think they are doing good things according to their moral framework. There are hundreds of millions of people with truly insane moral frameworks. It's possible that their particular job was, as far as they
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by vkou 2mo ago
Not doing the strike would have had similar job losses. People who have nothing to lose can at least spread the pain out.
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by vkou 2mo ago
It'll probably happen the day after 'Thank you for your service' will take stock of the human misery that service has inflicted upon the world. I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by vkou 2mo ago
It's not a destructive force in this case, as it deters future malfeasance.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Punishments for bad behavior need to exceed the crime, otherwise there's an clear profit-positive incentive to do crime.
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by vkou 2mo ago
99% of Vancouver by area does not have anything resembling 'SF level drug disorder', and if your 'nice US suburb' didn't just punt all of its fucking problems into its nearest downtown, it too would have an East Has
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by vkou 2mo ago
It's very similar to trying to secure a human who has infinite tolerance for risk, zero empathy, and no sense of self-preservation. In other words, a toddler who was given a sword.
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by vkou 2mo ago
A particular Google product being shit is a data point, but is orthogonal to my opinion about why it is slow to launch products/features.
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by vkou 2mo ago
They can't, we are all living in a suicide pact of 'Let these guys do whatever they want, consequences be damned.'
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by vkou 2mo ago
Which would be disastrous to the conglomorate as a whole. It's good for Google that they can't.
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by vkou 2mo ago
The tooling is not the problem. If shit takes forever to launch, it's because there are many stakeholders that need to be satisfied (some for security, some for regulatory, some for the kinds of politics you get in a company that emplo
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by vkou 2mo ago
Korea. A lot of people have been gambling on margin.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Forests burn and grow back. Healthy forests (not poorly-managed monoculture) are carbon-neutral on human timescales.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Such are the wages of destroying trust in the supply chain. When you elect visibly corrupt people who promised to destroy that trust upstream, you double the burden for everyone downstream from them. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Whether is not copyrightable is not relevant to this. The parent poster's point is just as salient. The creator, not the sumbitter needs to meet the criteria in question. A clanker isn't a resident of Ohio.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Right, the Saudis have never destabilized anything, nor have their embrace of batshit-insane wahhabism created the environment and the people that flew two airplanes into some highrises a few decades ago.
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by vkou 2mo ago
I think they are finding that a bad peace was better than a good war.
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by vkou 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.
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by vkou 2mo ago
A devops friend of mine raises an intriguing point - he does not aim for many-nines reliability with dev infrastructure. He aims for people being able to keep doing their work when whatever service they regularly use is down. (Which also me
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by vkou 2mo ago
There are hundreds of billions of person-to-person encounters annually and almost all of them end just fine, yet people feel the need to: 1. Come up with a beautiful story about how they need to have guns to defend themselves. 2. Come down
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by vkou 2mo ago
He's been a turd that any reasonable person would endorse stripping of his wealth for years. Hasn't affected the bottom line one whit.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Their humanity does not serve the bottom line.
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by vkou 3mo ago
You can both test your code for correctness, while also letting the compiler enforce correctness, and communicate important information to people reading your code.
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by vkou 3mo ago
The quality standard expected for most work is even lower than what's expected in school.
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by vkou 3mo ago
The world is quite fine taking long-term Ls for short-term gains. That's the zeitgeist of the 21st century. The end result of that is a shit society to live in, but overall welfare is not what we optimize for.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Advance or regression is not the way you probably want to look at it. There isn't a lot of evidence for historical inevitability. And no, we have not been a liberal democracy for 'a long time'. We have been an illiberal democ
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by vkou 3mo ago
The law wasn't in the state that you ascribe to it for the other 99% of its history if you were, say, African-American. Other less-extremely obvious examples also abound. Liberal democracy with sometimes-fair application of it is the a
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by vkou 3mo ago
The courts are stacked against the defense, but that statistic in itself is not proof of it.
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by vkou 3mo ago
International attention has been on him before that debacle. Anything to prevent us from looking up, I guess.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Microsoft is in a better position (as their b2b ecosystem can realistically be made LLM-agnostic), but Google will be fine.

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