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by beager 6y ago
I have no problem with folks doing this but it feels like hollow, performative grandstanding that allows tech folk to feel like they’re helping without doing anything that will make them truly uncomfortable. How many companies will do this
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by beager 6y ago
A lot of people are rightly concerned here that Facebook will run this arm in a cutthroat way so as to stifle innovation and competition. Though they might, I have no reason to believe that’s because they want to usurp and control every tec
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by beager 6y ago
One aspect of systemic debt that tracks well with technical debt (and most forms of "debt") is that paying down that debt requires you to confront the risk-averse and fearful tendencies of your organization/nation. The more f
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by beager 6y ago
I have to be internally consistent and agree that it's at Zoom's discretion as a private-sector company whether to host specific content or provide services to specific people and viewpoints, just as it is for Facebook/Twitte
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by beager 6y ago
I rather like the comparison of social media platforms to amusement parks.
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by beager 6y ago
I’ve worked at a global-scale platform for user-generated content doing anti-abuse and anti-spam tooling. In my experience those researchers do exist in-house and there was an imperative to remove abusive and spammy accounts. The difference
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by beager 6y ago
VC money being geographically concentrated in SV seems like the kind of ingrained inefficiency that VCs themselves clamor on about disrupting excessively. Dealflow is a solvable problem for distributed futures.
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by beager 6y ago
The implication from this litter of thinkpieces on HN is that proximity to a tech hub (SV/NY) is your only competitive advantage as a knowledge worker—your butt is close to their chair. This runs counter to the other prevailing wisdom
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by beager 6y ago
Thank you. The naive, incorrect view is that private entities restrict your constitutional rights by refusing to host UGC or by editorializing/annotating it. An evolved, but still incorrect view is that a private entity is legally or c
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by beager 6y ago
Disagree that what you wrote constitutes "career suicide". - Being targeted for layoffs says more about the company you work for and less about your own career. - Passed over for promotions is again saying a lot about the company,
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by beager 6y ago
> Our app designs have become soft, sweet, inoffensive. Bank interfaces use pastels, rounded corners and soft drop shadows to make mundane or unpleasant tasks more "fun.” Animojis have taken over our chats, and our productivity tool
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by beager 6y ago
It would be fun to compare the timeline of stock transactions by legislators with the timeline of public statements by those legislators and their colleagues pertaining to the companies’ stocks they’re selling, or those companies’ industrie
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by beager 6y ago
I think a smart approach will be to deploy these “emergency brakes” as TFA mentions, but preferably far before it seems necessary, because of the cryptic transmission and long incubation period. And a lot of comments here talk about restric
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by beager 6y ago
That sounds relatively fantastic. I interviewed with a few larger companies many years ago that had a similar thing. Each "pod" (or scrum team, or what have you) had an office with a door that closed, semi-private cubes within, th
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by beager 6y ago
One interesting aspect of Twitter is that the restriction on tweet length requires serialization of complex ideas. Faced with this, authors are forced to either simplify their ideas or spread them out across tweets. An emergent dynamic of t
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by beager 6y ago
Is he really though? I feel like the tweets of his that grow the longest legs merely sound deep. I don’t get the hype.
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by beager 6y ago
I mean, they’re the differing opinions of two people who are each successful for reasons that are complex and different.
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by beager 6y ago
Somewhat related, most academia is not focused on source code quality or its suitability for posterity. If you absolutely need to mime or plunder academia to succeed in your startup, pair that with a software industry veteran who can scale
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by beager 6y ago
Population density is a factor to be sure, but the government response was a bigger factor in failing to contain it in my opinion. The CCP’s culture of fear and retribution pushed municipal officials to suppress reports of a novel outbreak,
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by beager 6y ago
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by beager 7y ago
I've seen chloroquine come up a ton and am hopeful for the efficacy of its use in treatment of COVID-19. It's surreal to be observing the global impact of a novel pandemic, and anything that can save lives or blunt the propagation
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by beager 7y ago
“If the service is free, you’re the product”
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by beager 7y ago
Yep there’s still no “open” tracking on PDFs, at least afaik from a pixel/beacon standpoint. Entire businesses like docusign are built with that value prop in mind.
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by beager 7y ago
A good way to enable delivery tracking for PDFs over messenger, I guess!
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by beager 7y ago
Definitely. You vote with your attention, your pageviews, your own voice. And you vote with your vote, as does everyone else who is legal to vote.
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by beager 7y ago
Ideals are unfortunately insignificant here. Companies are all about doing the legal minimum, especially if that is in line with profit maximum. Right, wrong, or indifferent. Also, I believe they have absolute editorial latitude. They’re no
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by beager 7y ago
An effective razor for what I presume will be a lively discussion here: Your first amendment rights don’t compel a private sector company to host your speech, or require them to accept your ad dollars for your message
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by beager 7y ago
There’s plenty to criticize Python about relating to performance and developer operations (pypi, virtualenvs, cumbersome version juggling), but most of these language features mentioned have a valid need to exist, or are purely stylistic, a
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by beager 7y ago
Thank you for being candid and straightforward in your responses. If you can get this to work really well and make it easy to deploy, I think it can be a great service to the FOSS community and also a profitable support/enterprise busi

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