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931.
by xvector 3y ago
> Some of the worst teams I've been on have been behind some of the most grueling & "selective" interview processes By this process we should just drop hiring bars altogether. But for every team I've worked at, hi
932.
by xvector 3y ago
I am fine with different competent people at the workplace. I am frustrated with having to forcibly hire a no-hire candidate to meet a diversity quota. I am annoyed by the fact that DEI is not targeted by layoffs but ostensibly contribute l
933.
by xvector 3y ago
Yes, hiring a no-hire engineer to meet DEI quotas is completely unacceptable, but who is going to risk their job to suggest that? A culture of fear has been created around speaking out against stuff like this. Your coworkers probably agree
934.
by xvector 3y ago
> DEI [ensures] a firm or company attracts a diverse pool of talent, hires and promotes people without bias, and fosters positive working environments so all individuals can thrive. What an incredibly biased take by the author, who clear
935.
by xvector 3y ago
The fact that it got as far as it did is incredibly problematic and does not paint the EU as an organization that respects rights.
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by xvector 3y ago
If you can't keep up the pretense of a free market, you get sanctioned. The EU can regulate US companies out of the EU but it won't end well for either faction.
937.
by xvector 3y ago
There's a reason the EU barely has any successful tech companies over the past two decades. And yet, people will still say "the EU has done nothing wrong!" Tell that to the literal trillions of euros in growth the EU regulate
938.
by xvector 3y ago
The EU's attempts to regulate these externalities impose literally impossible burdens on American tech companies. And similar attempts to do so with the AI Act are impossibly flawed and technically impractical. Conditionals keep on bei
939.
by xvector 3y ago
We absolutely need to sanction this clusterfuck of an economic bloc. The EU contributes nothing to consumer technology (outside of ASML) and yet seeks rent on American companies.
940.
by xvector 3y ago
That teens like iMessage and are dumb enough to cyber bully each other over it is not Apple's fault in the least. Their idiocy definitely does not constitute market abuse on Apple's part.
941.
by xvector 3y ago
How is Apple abusing their market position?
942.
by xvector 3y ago
M&A has done far more good for society than damage to it. A lot of human achievements are only achievable with scale. It makes zero sense to discourage a non-monopolistic M&A.
943.
by xvector 3y ago
It's not just "regulatory action" that the FTC under Khan is embarking on - it's outright hostility and refusal to even work with companies she personally doesn't like. There is a difference between enforcing laws a
944.
by xvector 3y ago
Not a good thing when it's taken to absurd lengths. See Lina Khan's attempt to block the Within Unlimited acquisition. The problem with the current administration is that there's no good-faith path forwards to get anything do
945.
by xvector 3y ago
And foolish regulators take Beeper's side. Klobuchar is a clown.
946.
by xvector 3y ago
You could apply the same argument to normal people. Normal people eat meat, which causes incredible, extreme amounts of torture and suffering to over 70 billion land animals per year. The average person's dinner involved a tremendous a
947.
by xvector 3y ago
(a) Sometimes the wrong people get put in prison or solitary confinement for life too, which is effectively decades-long torture. It is arbitrary to draw the line at the death penalty, which generally causes less suffering. (Read statemen
948.
by xvector 3y ago
The death penalty works extraordinarily well in plenty of countries. Singapore, for example, has a marked decrease in drug crime post-death-penalty - interviews with dealers, mules, and criminals cite the death penalty as the reason they av
949.
by xvector 3y ago
It's not about expense, it's about the fact that they do not deserve to live. Plenty of countries can economically work with the death sentence today, simply because it is part of their societies and law.
950.
by xvector 3y ago
Death sentence is absolutely not too much. It's an extraordinarily effective deterrent (see Singapore), and I don't know where the narrative comes from that it's not. Some people simply need to die.
951.
by xvector 3y ago
The mishmash of systems and the 50+ years of rules is not something to be proud of, it's a cancer that speaks of incompetence and regulatory capture. Neither the government nor the banks can compete with tech startups in, well, tech, s
952.
by xvector 3y ago
This might be one of the worst videos I've ever seen. 30 minutes of video for about two paragraphs worth of content. Mind-bogglingly poor information density, it's like the video was deliberately stretched to 30 minutes for no rea
953.
by xvector 3y ago
There have been 0days in sshd. Typically automatic attack scanners don't bother with nonstandard ports when carrying out these attacks. So I would say yes, it's worth it.
954.
by xvector 3y ago
Does it really even matter in a world where NSLs exist and that search warrants are obtained in via rubber stamp in secret kangaroo courts? Until Apple makes APNS E2EE by default (instead of making it opt-in) we can assume they simply don&#
955.
by xvector 3y ago
Luckily I had no severe biomarkers. Some minor ones, but nothing I didn't know already. I loved learning about my ancient ancestry, though (ie migratory patterns 300k years ago.) On balance, was the utility worth the cost (of a breach)
956.
by xvector 3y ago
I don't really care whether it's natural or not. Maybe if you ever have a NDE you will understand.
957.
by xvector 3y ago
I am a security engineer. When I signed up for 23andme, I assumed with certainty that it would be hacked and all data leaked at some point. I balanced that with the value of knowing potentially important health/genetic bio markers. In
958.
by xvector 3y ago
The log structure is 476k years old and the tools are 390k-326k years old. Does this mean that people might have been living at this site for up to 86k-150k years? That is mind-boggling.
959.
by xvector 3y ago
I do not know where the collective delusion that strict punishments do not work has come from. The data shows they work exceedingly well globally.
960.
by xvector 3y ago
At the very least it cleans up the streets. I really don't care to see people shooting up every time I leave the BART. Enabling that is not a good use of my tax dollars.

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