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by whakim 6y ago
The author's claim isn't simply that they were "used for evil". The claim was that they are much more effectively employed in the service of evil than otherwise. I'm not positing a solution here, simply pointing out
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by whakim 6y ago
To me, the author's point seems more complicated than that. No, fascists didn't come up with certain techniques, like military parades. But those same techniques seem to be particularly effective when employed as tools of the fas
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by whakim 6y ago
No worries, and I appreciate the back and forth as well. To be clear, I don't think that options have no value . I think that at a mature company they definitely have some value and you need to consider that. I think that as an early
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by whakim 6y ago
Why wouldn't there be a spread? You're an early employee at a company; by the time you choose to exercise, the company is presumably valued at a significantly greater amount than when you joined? > FB started in 2003 and went
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by whakim 6y ago
Stripe was founded in 2010. Robinhood in 2013. Roblox in 2004 (!). If you were an early employee at one of these companies, stayed two years, and were considering whether to buy your options, you'd have to spend a large sum of your own
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by whakim 6y ago
Do you have inside information that this was the case? Because I'm sure that would be quite compelling to hear. To clarify, I assume the generous severance you're referring to is not the generous severance Coinbase offered emplo
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by whakim 6y ago
I wasn't intending to engage in name-calling; I apologise if it came off that way. I agree that the earlier story should have directly mentioned the severance Coinbase offered to employees who left. That being said, the severance was p
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by whakim 6y ago
> They are not mentioning that one reason is that a team had transfered regions/states, and that might be the main cause of attrition on that team, and not the actual treatment. They did mention this: "When Coinbase announced i
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by whakim 6y ago
But this question assumes that the root cause of the problem is that Coinbase has a disproportionately high number of "bad apples." To me that's exactly backwards; it seems much more likely that institutional culture tolerate
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by whakim 6y ago
If there were important details that were omitted, Coinbase had the opportunity to surface them in their widely-publicized pre-emptive rebuttal. Also, the "if you're not with us, you're with them" mantra rests on the as
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by whakim 6y ago
Well, the article starts from the premise that an abnormally large percentage of Coinbase's black employees left over a short period of time. It then uses a large body of circumstantial evidence to (pretty convincingly, in my opinion)
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by whakim 6y ago
Not sure I agree that the NYT is particularly notable in the sense that they're a news organization with a perspective, and that perspective often comes through in the articles they publish. Every news org indirectly implies things in
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by whakim 6y ago
Agreed. The entire post is filled with vague language, such as talking about what the story will "imply". Also, I think it goes without saying that there are plenty of very understandable reasons why people don't file complai
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by whakim 6y ago
Well, there is a reason for that. The vast majority of primary sources were written by members of a nobility who inherited their wealth, and the nobility viewed wealth that wasn't inherited as ill-gotten. There's also the fact t
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by whakim 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that most of our primary sources are incredibly hostile towards the merchant class. (For much of history, the merchant class had an incredible stigma attached to them.)
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by whakim 6y ago
Well, you began by saying that "monoliths are universally bad in every imaginable way." You're now saying that a select few poorly-maintained, 25-year old monoliths are bad, which is an entirely different claim. That doesn&#x
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by whakim 6y ago
If you find yourself routinely pushing a bad binary that has (1) passed your test suite; and (2) passed whatever manual QA process you have on sandbox/staging deployments, then I would again suggest the problem is the process and not t
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by whakim 6y ago
In my experience, it's easy enough to have services which have a large blast radius themselves and can become points of failure for your entire ecosystem. I don't find this to be a huge point of difference from a monolith, althoug
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by whakim 6y ago
In my experience of working at startups, I disagree that they probably had a malicious motive when designing this feature. While I think they should allow you to delete the data, the genesis of this experience was probably (1) it took less
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by whakim 6y ago
As someone who learned Rails for the first time last year (previously worked on C++, C#, and Python projects), I concur. I find that most of the SO posts/other discussion of Rails stuff tends to be older, usually pre-2015, and that can
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by whakim 6y ago
The app store ecosystem clearly has value, and I think Apple are entitled to make a profit off of it. (See, for example, comments below about how difficult it is to cancel subscriptions to other kinds of services.) The problem is that the 3
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by whakim 6y ago
I find it absurd that subscription services don't offer a "Cancel Subscription" button somewhere. That being said, it's also absurd that I have to pay Apple a 30% premium for this "feature."
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by whakim 6y ago
Yep. Having gone through multiple review cycles with Apple, they'll look for any hint of a way that a user might wind up paying through a different mechanism and force you to excise that. A great example we faced was a feature that was
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by whakim 6y ago
Having built a cross-platform app recently as a very small team, I want to put in a plug for RevenueCat ( https://www.revenuecat.com/ ). They abstract away the differences between the Apple/Google APIs so you don't
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by whakim 6y ago
I'm not sure that self-driving cars would make the difference to Uber's profits that everyone assumes. Uber would probably have to own all the vehicles and pay all the costs associated with owning a huge fleet. Has anyone actually
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by whakim 6y ago
Yes, for sure. It's also the case that our understanding of ancient texts has changed a lot over the past 20-30 years as more archaeological finds have been discovered (e.g. Mawangdui). I once had a Professor who tried to discourage me
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by whakim 6y ago
Off the top of my head, Chapter 80 is a good example of the "idealized state." (I do think some things are often lost in translation; many of the freely available translations on the internet tend to read into the Laozi what they
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by whakim 6y ago
The way that the Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi discuss knowledge is subtly different. The Laozi is secretly a very political text and has to be read in the context of other philosophies which emerged around the same time. These philoso
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by whakim 6y ago
I saw this too. Great news if true (thank you, court of public opinion). Still a little bit unclear how Apple will know that my changes are just bugfixes; are they going to read my minified javascript?
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by whakim 6y ago
Yeah, this is the trouble with client-side solutions. If it's worth their time (for example, if there's a credit card field or something), the bad actor will first take a look at the request as it's sent to the server and the

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