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by crusso 6y ago
I actually spent a bit of time searching for a letter she sent with an ultimatum to her management. I've seen this referenced multiple places as "the email that got a Google researcher fired": https://www.platform
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by crusso 6y ago
I got that book based upon a HN recommendation. It's fascinating reading and made me think carefully about how much sleep I was getting. I used to think of sleep as something that I could put off on a whim and catch-up on over the wee
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by crusso 6y ago
No, the jump/push analogy is too contorted to be meaningful. Employers and employees have a relationship that has processes that have common meanings and names like "resigned" or "fired". There's no accepted r
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by crusso 6y ago
I agree that it could be viewed as firing language, but only if we had no context. However, we have context. We know that an ultimatum including a resignation threat was given. Accepting that resignation and making the termination of their
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by crusso 6y ago
I'm just going by the CNN article and her tweets, which include the response from some manager, Megan: As a result, we are accepting your resignation immediately, effective today. https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/
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by crusso 6y ago
As someone who just learned about this kerfuffle a few minutes ago, that doesn't make sense to claim that she was fired. If you offer to resign if new conditions of employment aren't met and the company accepts your resignation wi
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by crusso 6y ago
Because this particular job does require a certain independence to do it properly Does it also require a certain intellectual integrity to do properly? Because claiming that you were "immediately fired" online, then later having
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by crusso 6y ago
There's a lot of truth in that, but it's not strictly true. And yet, rayiner's comment appeared faded-out from down-voting when I came upon it. And that's the real problem. He had truth and thoughtfulness in his comme
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by crusso 6y ago
Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office. Yes. Some people can, some people can't. Some people can, but they don't really need to in order to do the job that they get paid for.
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by crusso 6y ago
I know. If it were still a thing, I'd probably play it today. /C++
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by crusso 6y ago
Efficacy is still tested with vaccines because there is a statistical expectation of contracting a given disease. If you give 40,000 people a random mix of placebo and vaccines and then monitor whether or not they contract the target diseas
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by crusso 6y ago
If you're not in one of the early target groups, I would assume that tens of millions will have received it before you - in the USA alone. We should have a lot of data to look at in a short amount of time.
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by crusso 6y ago
I ignore all of the COVID vaccine messaging histrionics. The level of ignorance and political maneuvering out there is astounding. When I'm afforded the option to get the vaccine, I'll make an assessment of risks based upon data
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by crusso 6y ago
Bolo was a cult phenomenon back in its heyday in the early-to-mid 1990s. It was a game with a great deal of tactical and strategic depth that it allowed a huge range of player ability. It definitely wasn't the kind of game where some
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by crusso 6y ago
Andrew Welch had an intense Bolo addiction for a while. It was in the latter part of my own Bolo addiction, but we played quite a few games together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(1987_video_game) Ah, Bolo.
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by crusso 6y ago
I've been kind of astounded at the number of people I've seen who claim that they won't be taking the vaccine, no matter what.
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by crusso 6y ago
Nice article. It manages to explain the uneasy feeling I've always had when people authoritatively talk about "decoupling HTML and CSS". The coupling is somewhere, and where it is causes tradeoffs that need to be considered
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by crusso 6y ago
The real puzzler is how they used both spellings in one headline.
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by crusso 6y ago
You're right. That would be a counter-example because of non-biological second-order effects. But in this context, we're talking about first-order biological effects that aren't accounted for because of race. If race doesn&
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by crusso 6y ago
If it's a social construct, then it can't have a biological impact on the efficacy of a vaccine. You see the paradox?
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by crusso 6y ago
Your scenarios depend upon narrowly assumed premises that fail as soon as you put real people in the mix. Sure, if we lived in a perfect world where your woodworking moderators knew for a fact when libel was taking place or Nazis were post
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by crusso 6y ago
If I, as a user of social media, want to belong to a community that removes misinformation around the election, government shouldn't ban such a platform from allowing to exist (since without 230, You continue to indicate that you hav
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by crusso 6y ago
The Republicans are pretty clearly wanting to remove legal protections of section 230 of the CDA for social media companies that are acting as quasi-publishers by suppressing the speech of users on their platforms. The Democrats want more e
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by crusso 6y ago
If you watch the hearings, you'd know that both of your contentions are strawmen of what each side claims to want.
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by crusso 6y ago
It happens. It's whimsical and seems often to be based upon media-generated hype. Important decision-makers like Comey and Clapper both lied to Congress in significant ways and never faced any repercussions. A little nobody like Roge
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by crusso 6y ago
The Left and the Right used to agree that freedom of speech was fairly sacrosanct.
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by crusso 6y ago
Because you want to be on record as having notified an attorney and law enforcement of the problem and your intention to experiment with the company's permission. You want things on record in any way possible. Just getting an emailed &
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by crusso 6y ago
Always involve an attorney and possibly law enforcement rather than trusting that these companies will do the right thing.
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by crusso 6y ago
You're claiming a "both sides" problem in a system with extraordinary power imbalances. Businesses in a free market aren't writing laws and regulations that can put people in jail. With government's great power sho
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by crusso 6y ago
Perhaps the Raspberry Pi is used to control a robot, collect sensor data, whatever. Perhaps it was just for the fun of it. I've used similar techniques for doing a wide variety of operational tasks, so it can be worth it to take the t

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