ImSkeptical

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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
Where I work the security guards greet you as you walk through the gate. I've always thought this was a mechanism for making sure the guards were paying attention. If someone comes in you have to look at the screen that shows their nam
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
I think it really depends on the team you're on at Amazon. (well, the vesting, free drinks etc doesn't). I never found the NYT article to be even slightly representative of my time at Amazon, and the group I was in at the time mad
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
No, I couldn't live in such a city. If there was nobody to take out the trash we would have to raise more money to increase salaries for garbage men, etc. Some of it, I could live with less of, and some I'd pay more for. Letting t
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
To me, that reads as passive aggressive. "It's unfortunate you didn't do your job..." I think it's a better approach to say "The problems are X. We know this because of Y. My proposed solutions are Z. If you ag
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
How about "Mind Makers". I think many people will have a natural resistance to joining a community named after how smart the members are. Imagine wearing a button that says "I'm the smartest".
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
The unnecessary verbosity of these books makes me so mad I could just tug on my braid.
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
Earlier today I was reading an old AMA by PewDiePie on reddit. A recurring theme was asking him how he got so successful. He talked about how he was there at the right time, had a good niche, great fans, got lucky, etc. Someone replied to
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
>If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale? People are in that situation where prostitution is illegal and they do it anyway. What&#x
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by ImSkeptical 8y ago
I'd agree with you if people were forced into prostitution - and of course what you say does apply correctly to victims of human trafficking who are forced. But I don't think that's always the case. Take a young woman who doe
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I have thought about building a project that would try to maintain wealth after my death. I imagine the components of this as being... 1. Logic to accumulate wealth. This would need an API to create and manage an investment account for stoc
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I don't think anyone is opposed to having a high-speed rail line. What people are opposed to is the insane cost, the schedule delays, and the poor output. If you compared this to high speed rail in Japan or China - it would come out lo
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Suppose the shooter was shooting at public buses though. Would you still expect nothing to happen? The key difference between your car and a bus is that with the bus the safety of thirty people is involved, plus the willingness of many more
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
While in New York, I was frustrated with my cousin because she got caught multiple times trying to get off the subway. People kept getting in her way. I told her to just walk out the exit confidently and directly. If people get the sense t
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Why is it ethical to ship a low quality product to generation one customers? I think you're breaching ethics anytime you aren't providing a decent quality of product. Some products are a great fit for releasing something quick an
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think there is probably something to this explanation. One reason I've seen for why women prefer not to go into start ups, for example, is that it's more of a high risk, high reward, gamble - which is typically more interesting
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Communism is the typical alternative to capitalism.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Why can't we respect human dignity like those communists who murdered and starved tens of millions of people, ruined economies, and consigned countless people to oppression and deprivation?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I have the same experience with ads all the time. Like, I get ads from Google to buy the Pixel XL 2 while I'm browsing the web on the Pixel XL 2 I recently bought from Google on the same account I'm currently signed in to Google w
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I thought the same thing. It's not just impolite, there are safety implications as well to being revealed as a potentially really rich person. Plus, the person "identified" may or may not have the resources to defend themselv
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I would be curious to know how this failed, if they did try it. Are captcha automatable? You could make it a bit better by challenging every X actions, and have X decline with a failed captcha.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Seems like, if you detect a bot, you should impose a captcha on every x actions. Not enough to ruin your customer's experience, but enough to make botting harder.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Zunger clearly writes that what Damore has done makes people want to punch him in the face. Of writing the memo Zunger says "What you just did was incredibly stupid and harmful" and later "its [writing the memo] impact on you
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
>but had made tweets like "kill all men". Personally, I have no problem with people saying things like this, especially in their personal lives. I like banter. But part of banter is that both sides are allowed to play. If someo
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If a product earns money, then hopefully it is providing value to users. If the number of users increase, more value is provided. If the number of users is arbitrarily limited, then people miss value they should get.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'm sure that plays a part. However, there are small cities around Seattle, with similar climates, that have very few homeless. My interpretation is that these places have less services and the police are more likely to move the homele
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Another confounding factor is that the workforce tends to be left leaning. Left leaning population, plus new money for taxes means more social services for the homeless. More social services means homeless from less accommodating communitie
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If you want to make this argument, then guns, shelter, food etc have no inherent value, if you don't value survival. Gold, and jewelry, have been appreciated for millennia as pretty objects. Pretty objects improve life quality - and so
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
It's a strange form of chauvinism to assert that the US is responsible not only for it's misdeeds, but also the misdeeds and deficiencies of others. By claiming that the US is more responsible for the problems of Columbia than Col
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I absolutely think drugs should be legal or decriminalized depending on the drug. However, blaming this on US drug policy is an overreach. The United States has illegal drugs, but no encampments of slaves and child sex slaves destroying the
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
In my original example the dilemma was between denying a suspected terrorist the right to consult with a lawyer and risking a nuclear terrorist attack. I gave this as an example of when idealism and pragmatism are in conflict. When you ob

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