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811.
by yibg 5y ago
Probably because for most people they estimate the risk to be low enough (correctly or not). If I was a politically sensitive person in China for instance I’ll definitely be more weary.
812.
by yibg 5y ago
Given the current attitudes towards vaccines and individual rights, it's doubtful we'll be able to have another achievement like the elimination of smallpox and polio. What happened in the last few decades? Increased mistrust of g
813.
by yibg 5y ago
Is this an absolute or relative thing? If I have Ebola and actively contagious, would I still have to right to peacefully assemble in a crowded venue? Or is there some cut off of potential harm where this is true?
814.
by yibg 5y ago
Also very easy to justify as obvious after the fact only.
815.
by yibg 5y ago
I can see the confusion but users also should be mindful of the context of using an app. Often times there is no exact location for example so “routes” should be taken as a general guide rather than specific path. If I use google map to nav
816.
by yibg 5y ago
These alternatives exist though, they are just not popular. We can’t very well force people to adopt these alternatives to make them “global”. It’s also not clear to me what these alternatives should do differently. Should they just host an
817.
by yibg 5y ago
I think this is one of those things that sounds nice on the surface but isn't really tenable in reality. Should they only host or also surface "everything"? Is deranking something censoring? What about not promoting something
818.
by yibg 5y ago
Perhaps. But isn't google (and facebook, twitter etc) also in a bit of a no win situation? They implement these types of measure and they get accused of censorship and being "arbiter of right vs wrong". They don't and th
819.
by yibg 5y ago
Problem here is "favorable" and "political position" are pretty subjective. Who's to decide what is favorable to whom and what constitutes political position? Is saying wear a mask a political position? These days i
820.
by yibg 5y ago
That'll just be a social network full of spam and trolls.
821.
by yibg 5y ago
But that isn’t the choice right? The choices here are meddling from just an American executive or from both an America executive AND Indian government.
822.
by yibg 5y ago
I mean, yea it is. My mother is not going to set up a RSS feed for herself of a list of forums that interest her. She does know how to log on to Facebook and look at the feed.
823.
by yibg 5y ago
Every posting about one of the larger scale companies have to have a “why does it cost x / take y engineers to run this thing?” comment. It’s like everyone at google / Facebook / Amazon are too stupid to realize they can run
824.
by yibg 5y ago
Apparently it works though. Since both examples are described as "industry leads".
825.
by yibg 5y ago
Serious question. How common is it for a group of people to have this level of self determination? Eg if people in California decided not to be part of the US, can they?
826.
by yibg 5y ago
I have no love for the CCP but I think this type of caricature simplification is both wrong and not insightful. The CCP members are not some cartoon villains bent on world domination.
827.
by yibg 5y ago
Anecdotally I've observed older people around me who retire early for various reason have much earlier decline in both mental and physical health. Where as the ones that work until much older age tends to be healthier. And it does seem
828.
by yibg 5y ago
This is me. FIRE was one of the dreams / goals from many years ago. I'm technically able to retire now but I'm still working. A few reasons I think: 1) Sense of (in)security. There is the thought of, what if my investments lo
829.
by yibg 5y ago
Clearly not reading my resume and sending me a job that's obvious not a good fit even given a cursory glance.
830.
by yibg 5y ago
I care less about codifying beliefs than about if those beliefs are true or not. I may not have the cognitive tools to recognize all the secular ideologies that I have adopted, but at least there are mechanisms in place to examine if aspect
831.
by yibg 5y ago
I think you might be the odd one out here. I don't have stats for it, but looking at myself and people around me, most didn't really know what they want to do for a career after school. School typically doesn't really prepare
832.
by yibg 5y ago
Japan (and other Asian countries) have been doing this for a while now. Seems to work for them.
833.
by yibg 5y ago
Not to mention, why would 5 google engineers dilute almost 50% right off the bat just to get 1 year of L3 salary?
834.
by yibg 6y ago
I assume this is more true for men than women.
835.
by yibg 6y ago
Weren't delivery and taxis mostly (or at least a major portion) contractors before this as well? And can't uber drivers use the car they want as long as it meets some criteria?
836.
by yibg 6y ago
Yea time off is a bit iffy here. Some of the gig companies currently (due to covid) provides some level of "paid" sick days. But yea as a contractor it's probably less relevant than retirement and healthcare.
837.
by yibg 6y ago
Isn't the solution here to turn contractor vs employee issue into a question of choice and benefit for the employee vs the employer? If retirement, time off and health benefits are also equally available to contractors then people can
838.
by yibg 6y ago
A lot of those don't apply to the likes of uber and doordash though. An uber driver can't choose where the work gets done because the where is part of the gig itself. The how as well, as that's basically part of the task. See
839.
by yibg 6y ago
To be clear I'm not arguing for or against the merits of any particular policy. I continued with the quota example because that's what started this branch of the thread. I agree the issue is complex, and my one sentence response d
840.
by yibg 6y ago
The Asian students that can't get into Harvard despite higher scores disagree with you.

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