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by whakim 7y ago
Worth noting that Whitman has acknowledged the reporting was accurate and apologized.
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by whakim 7y ago
It wasn't just the word "grooming" - the source(s) leaked that she compared journalists to sexual predators and used the word "grooming". How much more detailed could a source be without a quote if the quote was s
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by whakim 7y ago
I don't agree with that. Obviously it's better to have a quote, but in many cases having an exact quote isn't possible. Most "credible journalists" write stories detailing "what happened" all the time with
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by whakim 7y ago
They probably don't have the quote. It's not surprising that they don't, because whoever heard it probably wasn't taking notes or something, they're just recollecting what was said. I think it's still pretty cl
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by whakim 7y ago
While there are plenty of problems with Silicon Valley, I'm not sure that we should lay slow growth and widening inequality in the US at tech's doorstep. For one, the timelines don't even align: inequality has been growing (a
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by whakim 7y ago
I'm not sure I believe that either. The reason that the article focused on 2018 numbers is that they provide a direct comparison pre- and post- Tax Cuts/Jobs Act. In 2018, Fedex paid less tax and invested less compared to 2017 - d
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by whakim 7y ago
1) They aren't disputing the "$0 paid in taxes in 2018," which is the main point of the NYTimes article (an article about how companies were responding to the Tax Cuts/Jobs Act). "Billions of dollars in tax payments
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by whakim 7y ago
I don't agree with your assertion that "the demise of news kingdoms happened when it became impossible for us to ignore what we were getting for our money," and I haven't seen any literature which would back up the argum
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by whakim 7y ago
I think your reply misses a powerful factor: economics. Newspapers used to rely on print advertising to make the majority of their money. And they made enough of it to do a good job. It's much harder to report original stories when you
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by whakim 7y ago
Background: I'm an engineer who has previously worked on research related to misinformation and built data tooling for news organizations, and I now work at a news organization myself. Journalism is in a bad place in the United States.
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I wasn't claiming that there isn't any software built 20+ years ago which hasn't seen updates and yet still works and still has utility. The point is there isn't much of it relative to the wider ecosystem. One particular
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What percentage of code written 20+ years ago is still in production - without any kind of updates - today? Also, many developers use Macs not because they're in love, but because of the practical conveniences of working on a Unix-base
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by whakim 7y ago
I do think that an agreement to work remotely for (cumulatively) multiple months of the year is pretty exceptional. That being said, in what world does the Eng director look good? Insisting on using SMALLINT (and thus necessitating a change
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Developing tools for news organizations(medium.com)
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