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by zpallin 8y ago
Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone is judged by these factors, and so in order to achieve your ideal world, we must actively encourage participation from people of marginalized demographics.
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by zpallin 8y ago
That's actually a false dilemma. Both are compatible goals. The idea is that the more people with these skills, the more innovation can come from it. On that note, I don't believe "sacrificed quality" can come from an in
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by zpallin 8y ago
But maybe old people shouldn't be living alone in a giant house. Maybe we need to establish rules where their children - or a community - are more incentivised to take care of the elderly than the elderly are incentivised to isolate th
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by zpallin 8y ago
This is the modern "Modest Proposal".
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by zpallin 8y ago
I've been working at startups -- small and medium -- exclusively since I got in the field. I don't know if I'd have it any other way. When I visit my friends at the big companies, something about the rigidness and massiveness
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by zpallin 8y ago
They aren't. Almost most innovation they've tried to implement in the market have gone underappreciated or forgotten. That means they're "not known" for their innovation. I don't think Nokinside is saying Micro
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by zpallin 8y ago
> Google essentially has just one, and it’s based on diminishing user privacy to the maximum extent possible. You seem to be defending Proven, so why do you think this is correct? Google does not have just one single product. It may have
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by zpallin 9y ago
But the technology for these speeds were available 15 years ago. The ISPs did not offer them or build them out to consumers, and this attributed to the lack of competition. Without Google trying to enter the scene, most internet consumers w
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by zpallin 9y ago
This might be a bit off topic, but it seems folks still want to use the word "disenfranchised" in the wrong context. To be disenfranchised, it means you have lost the political privilege to vote. It is not a synonym for "disi
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by zpallin 9y ago
Ah thanks.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Incidentally, this is exactly the bill that https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dragonwriter and I were talking about. Once again, dragonwriter's comment is that this bill "does nothing", and I joked about i
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by zpallin 9y ago
Right, that was my suspicion hence my uncertain language about it. Related to that is my praise of California. It's more mockery than anything. Our state does not know how to write concise legislation. ;)
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by zpallin 9y ago
Somewhat related, Montana may have beat most states to the punch so to speak, but theirs was actually just an executive order (which can be reversed). Washington, too, has already got a start on this, but unlike Washington, California looks
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by zpallin 9y ago
Agreed, which is why cities should ensure a certain level of population density around retail.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Some corrections... Tokyo is not a super dense city like New York. It has half the urban density as New York and doesn't even show up in the top 20 most-dense cities. You also cannot put Los Angeles and Brasilia together. Brasilia has
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by zpallin 9y ago
Even better, look at Hong Kong. Almost every single high rise has a mall at the bottom with a dim sum restaurant.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Damore's lawsuit specifically claims he was being discriminated for his conservative political opinions. In his own memo, one of his bullet-point suggestions was "Stop alienating conservatives". This has been about "soci
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by zpallin 9y ago
I'm not saying he did. In fact, I have already mentioned in another thread here that the leaker was wrong. However, code of conduct at Google basically doesn't want employees marginalizing other employees. That is what Damore did.
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by zpallin 9y ago
I agree that the person who leaked the memo against Damore's intent should be punished similarly (and I hope Google did). However, the death threats and misrepresentations of his text were not simply a factor of it being published glob
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by zpallin 9y ago
This is good information for people to reflect on this discussion. There is a lot of speculation in this thread and it's what is ultimately leading to the divisive arguing. However, I don't think Google did what you have pasted he
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by zpallin 9y ago
And this is the crux of the problem with his lawsuit. Political views are not a suspect class in US law afaik. What Damore may be trying to do is establish a legal understanding that the political discrimination (which definitely happened)
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by zpallin 9y ago
It's required because it's supposed to help inform the FCC of pending legal challenges. FCC and other government agencies are supposed to take those comments seriously to avoid implementing bad rules and attracting expensive lawsu
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by zpallin 9y ago
Just because it's not the FCC's "job", it doesn't mean that overwhelming support for Net Neutrality is wrong.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Ajit Pai and his cronies are an affront to humanity.
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by zpallin 9y ago
So, I didn't realize coin miners are using peoples' browsers like this until Strudel sent me a link to his repo. I wonder how people feel about this; is it ethical?
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by zpallin 9y ago
Adaptive regulation, leaner legal code, and regularly scheduled trust busting.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Shots fired. That ending was an incredibly well delivered stab at Deutsche Telekom. This is why I love vigilante security.
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by zpallin 9y ago
Allow me to add. I have loaned people money in the past who never paid it back, but I also have a few friends who I will loan money because they always pay it back . But those people and I have strong trust relationships, ones that are ver
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by zpallin 10y ago
I found this article to be humorous and informative.
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by zpallin 10y ago
Came here to say exactly this. We are all engineers and can understand the concept of a patch versus a refactor. Yes, a refactor may be harder, but there is never an excuse to rely indefinitely on a patch; that's how you get burned wit

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