birthdaywizard

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by birthdaywizard 7mo ago
Not every gas station, convenience store and pharmacy is stocked with aisle after aisle of cocaine. I don't know I would call it 'evil' but I agree it is a system most people are forced to exist in. If we're appealing to
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by birthdaywizard 8mo ago
We call this "code archeology" at my company. We're more diligent about ticket descriptions these days, but we weren't always. Obviously the best is to be able to to talk to people, followed by documentation, either expl
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by birthdaywizard 8mo ago
You can absolutely disincentivize unethical behavior through legislation though, whether they believe it at the core of their being or not. See slavery, murder, rape, robbery, etc. There will always be loopholes people can exploit, but that
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by birthdaywizard 10mo ago
A little tangential since this is more about gating white supremacist content than violence or sex, but I was on 4chan when it was being infiltrated by genuine white supremacist organizations and Russians that talked about how manly Assad w
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by birthdaywizard 1y ago
> It cant be abused for euphoria Depends on the drug, vyvanse can't really be, but focalin can.
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by birthdaywizard 1y ago
That's not really whataboutism. They're not justifying it, they're supplementing the relevant point by saying development in areas of moral controversy are quite common even in more controversial areas.
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by birthdaywizard 2y ago
I've also read about various image hosting tools, such as apps for creating wallpapers, being overrun by pornography because communities where pornography is banned found it bypassed various automatic censors. If arbitrary image hostin
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by birthdaywizard 2y ago
Unfortunately the sunk cost fallacy is often rational when you consider reputational consequences of the individuals making decisions within the company. It's pretty easy to spin an easily reversible decision as "complicated"
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by birthdaywizard 3y ago
I feel like that might be an organizational problem. At my company the designers will present their figma designs to engineering and we'll have a meeting to go through them and bring up concerns with exactly those sorts of issues e.g.
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by birthdaywizard 6y ago
It's a low effort SEO technique. Google uses time spent in site as surrogate metric for quality, so Goodhart's law applies.
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by birthdaywizard 6y ago
I think Amazon Robotics does some of this stuff.
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by birthdaywizard 7y ago
I would recommend "Software Foundations" also by Pierce. It covers a lot of the same material but in Coq. I found it much more approachable not having as much of formal background. Having proofs machine checked with error messages
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by birthdaywizard 8y ago
Very neat. It reminds me of the writer monad.