cdmcmahon

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by cdmcmahon 3y ago
Equality of opportunity after centuries of slavery and then legal discrimination in a society that allows (and even outright promotes) inherited wealth and opportunity is not possible. Imagine my ancestors stole all of your ancestors stuff
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by cdmcmahon 6y ago
Rich Hickey's talk "Maybe Not" has some interesting thoughts on this: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
He's still on the board...
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree about the invasiveness. In the case of the lawsuit in the original post, it's the search of all your electronic devices. I consider that to be quite invasive. Furthermore, CBP and ICE both claimed t
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
I don't have a source at the ready, but my understanding is that the existing law and/or case law determined that traveling domestically entitled one to such protection. Various federal agencies have determined via rule making tha
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
I'll (possibly inaccurately) assume this is in good faith. The most obvious reason that profiling is bad, even in your inaccurate and simplistic hypothetical scenario, is that just because all airplane terrorist attacks came from peopl
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
> Say I use Uber to take advantage of HOV lanes going to and from work (and make a little extra cash) No one does this. This argument exists in a fantasy land.
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
I also think it's an attempt to ward off a nascent unionization push. Regarding a different, recent "olive branch" type proposal: "The one thing they don’t want to give you is the thing that you need to get. This offer f
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
The point of universal programs is that the "condition" for eligibility is existence [1] and thus there is nothing to optimize for, by definition. [1] This is obviously a simplification because of in reality the condition is citiz
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
My comment, and the article posted here, are about financial assistance to pay for college, not the admissions process. I agree admissions processes have problems, but I don't see how your comment relates to the issue at hand.
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
This is the strongest argument that can be made for universal programs when it comes to designing progressive public policy. Rich people have the time and resources to aggresively take advantage of any system that tries to implement means t
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by cdmcmahon 7y ago
Yeah, that's not what's happening with the people in this story...
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by cdmcmahon 8y ago
I agree. I think the quoted professor-authors' point in the quoted passages is to make a book like SICP, designed to teach deeply rooted computer science concepts more approachable to beginners without going to the extreme of "How
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by cdmcmahon 8y ago
I suppose it can be. The natural follow up is what you think it is about, say, engineering or law or finance or [insert field here] that men have a higher propensity toward? And why is it that nearly all of the most lucrative and powerful f
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by cdmcmahon 8y ago
I think nursing may be a field where certain stereotypes, etc. keep the gender balance of the working population a certain way. And I think you correctly point out that men do have _access_ to the field of nursing so it’s not ad much of a p
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by cdmcmahon 8y ago
If women aren’t having the same access to more lucrative positions or fields that men are, then that is discrimination — in education or the workplace or both. Unless you believe that something about women drives them away from such positio
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by cdmcmahon 10y ago
> So you tolerate that a complete sex shall be punished for former sins. You are not inoculated from the past sins of gender discrimination. So simply because you did not discriminate does not mean you did not benefit from past discrimin
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by cdmcmahon 10y ago
Unconscious (and conscious) biases on looks and personality and looks certainly do happen but the specific issue with pregnancy is gendered discrimination[1]. And while I agree that personally I wouldn't want to start a company while w
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by cdmcmahon 10y ago
So similarly, potential investors should screen all men to make sure they and their partner aren't expecting children anytime soon? This would maybe be a defensible* position if it were applied equally, but it's not. *But actually
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
I believe the author is female.
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
Yep. Growth almost never happens by continually attracting more users than you lose. It happens by not losing your current users and continually adding more.
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
This definitely rings true to me. The company I work for has been around for ~6 years and while we have made money and grown in that time, it wasn't until the last year really that we hit on exactly what our clients love about our prod
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
I thought it was against App Store guidelines to charge a different price in the app than one could get on the same feature outside of the app.
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
1. It sends an alert to your phone with the price and easy cancellation. (I was actually surprised at this feature, because I cynically agreed that Amazon would use this to constantly be trying to pull one over on customers.) 2. I also beli
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
I believe it said the default setting is that it will only register a click as an order after the previous one was delivered. I could have misread that, though.
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by cdmcmahon 11y ago
They say that the full API for this will be openly available in the fall. Am I correct in understanding that this means that I could make my own service to order things (for myself only) I'd like at the push of a button? Like could I s
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by cdmcmahon 12y ago
The government did this in the 1800s with railroads and various entities still built a shit ton of them.