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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> I don’t think you could code at a high level if you were actually smoking weed every day Ah, but on the contrary, I can confirm, based on what I consider a “high level” of coding, that some people cannot code without smoking weed every
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This article is megalomaniacal. Insisting that your company with 200+ employees will only hire people who will work themselves to the bone without any mention of how those people will be properly compensated is wild corporate propaganda. I
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I'm not sure how the government's messaging during the pandemic affects a private company, with global shareholders, claiming efficacy of a product whose results will be plain to see for all of those shareholders. You cannot lie a
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This is rich. This throwaway account is going around posting short dismissals that don't add to the discussion, which is against site guidelines because it causes problems with reasonable discussions, and then uses these guidelines to
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Let’s say I own a bullhorn shop. In fact, I have purchased every bullhorn shop, distributor, and manufacturer of relevance in the world. Someone, a self proclaimed Nazi, comes to me, the owner of every bullhorn, to buy a bullhorn in order t
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I don't see how that would be possible. If you say you like working someplace, we know that you work there. You couldn't possibly be hiding who is paying you. I don't think that is a fair accusation. I think it would be much
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
In my experience, stories like this are par for the course. While at Stripe, a few of my close friends and former co-workers were treated so poorly during the application process that I stopped referring anyone over a year before I left.
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I would argue that it is inaccurate to summarize Freeman Dyson’s work as “some cool thought experiments that only showed up in scifi” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
The criticisms in this thread of Dyson’s wrongthink on climate science show us a lot about the current moment and how hard it is to have an opinion outside of the mainstream. Sure, he appears to be quite incorrect now, but dismissing a mind
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I want to point out that the crux of my argument, the very reason I posted, was that I could not "draw the line" from the previous argument. There is no actual rebuttal or new information in the reply, just a restatement of the pr
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> it could not do so for a revenue-related reason While this might sound good, this would be impossible to enforce in practice, as everything a company does is revenue-related. Any rules the app store or iOS have are directly related to
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Interesting. Rippling is the only company I’ve ever interviewed at that, with full knowledge that they were doing so, offered me a job working more hours for significantly less pay than I was currently making. When challenged, they calmly a
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I thought a bit about this argument here, and I just want to sum it up, so we can understand where this landed. The sum of the final argument is “I believe that you should do whatever the gunman says, so much so that I don’t care if they ki
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I might add that insulting people might not provide a way to encourage “intellectually mature discussion” either.
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
There are videos where we can clearly see these unmarked agents (yes they are unmarked if they have no name or number) attacking and detaining medics without reading them their rights. Those are the violations of civil liberties we are disc
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Yes, but the point is that we should do that first before polluting the night sky. There are also reasons for humans and animals to not want new, moving stars for reasons other than pure utility. At the very least, these shiny beacons are a
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
It is interesting that these doctors in the UK are claiming that tactics that have already worked elsewhere don’t actually work, while their country continues to suffer a massive outbreak of the virus. On the other hand, here is a study sho
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
The suggestion that everyone who is pro- aggressive disease containment has not had their life turned upside down by the global pandemic is lacks logic. Shutdowns are necessary to contain the virus, and the economic damage done from not con
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> Do what you're told. Why do we all need to conform to every order from every police officer, even, and sometimes especially, when that order is unlawful? When the police are using unlawful orders to escalate violence, and then jus
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
The argument that some people die so it’s ok if more people die is not only horrific, but it makes very little sense.
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This “shut up and do what I tell you” mentality is remarkably similar to that of the management in the consulting firm I was in, and is a big reason I left. They hired experts, asked them to give their opinion, then ignored it and/or s
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> Are either of these consultants going to turn down the work and point out the real problem of missing market research? This comment is extremely real. I was hired as a software engineer for a Big 3 Management Consulting firm that was b
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I'm trying to be as inclusive as I can be, and I have been told that BIPOC is an inclusive term. If there is a better term here, please let me know so I can use it. I was discussing American society in particular, so the Sami might not
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> b) it's the seven billionth "minorities in tech" story in the past month I would urge people to stop and question that if they are tired of the "billion"s of stories about BIPOC, what must BIPOC be feeling abou
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I deleted my replies to you because I didn't think they added anything to the conversation, and did not raise the level of discussion. I do, however, feel that I now need to point something out. > Sloppy thinking gets people killed.
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
I agree, and did not mean to imply judgement against anyone who dislikes "Fountain" and other, similar pieces of art. I don't even know how I truly feel about "Fountain" either; all I know is that it is quite though
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
This is a great tip, thank you! I find the best museums and exhibits help you get into this mindset; I'm reminded of an exhibit I saw at the Tate Modern about Picasso in 1932. It provided not only the context to his art, but to him as
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
Oh boy do I resonate with this. Thank you for sharing this! I remember the first time I saw "Fountain" by Duchamps, which, for the uninitiated, is a urinal, on its side, signed and dated by the artist. For years, decades, I cast i
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
We seek to replace things that are not working all of the time. Sometimes it takes more creative solutions, but usually we can fix systemic issues we have created ourselves, as long as we have a little imagination. Defunding the police woul
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by wbronitsky 6y ago
> Trump as if it's a foregone conclusion that he's a racist sociopath You are totally correct. I do think this. I have ample evidence that backs up my case as well. I think the quote "when they start looting, we start shoo

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