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by formulaT 11y ago
Did Ray DeGiorgio skip his ethics classes while earning his certified engineering degree? Did he further to wear his iron ring on the day he approved this part? I'm trying to understand how all these safeguards failed.
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by formulaT 11y ago
Getting grant money and government contracts is the real reason. Edit: actually it seems like they plan to rent it out to people funded by grants money and government contracts: Pegasus plans to rent the facility out to parties interested
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by formulaT 11y ago
Netflix engineers are better than the average engineer (even in a given job title), so the prevailing wage calculations don't represent the true economics. But in any case, H1-B visas can lower the wages of engineers without H1-B holde
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by formulaT 11y ago
The blame also lies with the study authors and the peer reviewers for allowing the article to make these claims based on their results. E.g. from the abstract As a consequence [of our hypothesis], people overestimate the extent to which r
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by formulaT 11y ago
All imports are "cheap" whether labor, steel or iphones. Cheap is good, because if you can get something cheap it means you can get it with minimal resources. The only reason to limit immigration is externalities. For example, I
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by formulaT 11y ago
Actually the article is completely wrong. If you make money "squarely" as described in I-IV, then you have created some value. Cashing out in section V is simply consuming that value. All we can say (given the assumptions in I-IV
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by formulaT 11y ago
I really liked the compassion and care that MMM shows for his kid. In too many articles like this, it's clear that the author cares more that the child adopts the parent's ideology than that the child is actually happy. The goal
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by formulaT 11y ago
There is an inversion in politics, where the left are more anti-Asian than the right. Letting people express anti-Asian sentiment (even though equivalent sentiment against other groups would be verboten) is both a convenient escape valve f
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by formulaT 11y ago
In case you thought the United States lacks this kind of prosecution, an American student was charged with "one count of conspiring to violate civil rights and another count of using a threat of force to intimidate African American stu
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by formulaT 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "clinical" in this context, but I don't think the prescription thing was a charade to add some extra placebo effect. Rather, it was probably because once you start claiming to treat depress
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by formulaT 11y ago
Just think how much worse the WASP landlords are, given that the WASP elite are the ones with actual political power.
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by formulaT 11y ago
Existing welfare addresses the problems of unemployment. Not as well as welfare in other English speaking countries, but it still ameliorates the problem. My position is that even with the current welfare system, technologies that increase
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by formulaT 11y ago
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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by formulaT 11y ago
Be inspired, as we were, by the terrible and strange creations at the original (NYC) Stupid Hackathon. And the topics (the problematic ones of which I listed) clearly suggest they are anticipating similar content. If you want to defend b
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by formulaT 11y ago
If by safe you mean you can ridicule anyone as long as they are a cis white male, then I'm sure they are keeping it very safe.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't care. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy where any remotely sexual imagery[0], comment[1] or performance[2] in tech results in controversy, firings and apologies, and yet events like this are ok because they wear progres
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by formulaT 11y ago
This isn't even sex-deprived male cisgender nerds, most of the sexual content is created by females of various ethnicities. That's precisely my point. I don't think that it's ok that we have one set of standards for s
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by formulaT 11y ago
Whatever issues I have with your hackathon, I gotta hand it to your for trying to pull off George Bush jokes in 2015. Same for Mitt Romney.
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by formulaT 11y ago
See my footnote at the start of this thread. And please stop progressive-splaining to me.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't believe that the difference is serious vs non-serious events. It's pretty clear that no company or group would dare to create a light hearted hackathon featuring sexual content, if it hadn't been proposed first by a
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by formulaT 11y ago
see http://stupidhackathon.github.io/ and http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521510
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by formulaT 11y ago
But we don't owe it to make sure that no one is ever worse off. There are people who never had jobs in the first place. If a trucker loses is job because of technological change, why is the trucker now entitled to more than the perso
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by formulaT 11y ago
What other tech events did you have in mind? And if you check out the hackathons website [0] and the previous hackathon [1], they are showcasing exactly the offensive content that I was describing in my post. [0] http://stupidhac
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by formulaT 11y ago
Your point was that one consequence of having a large Somali community was great restaurants. This kind of statement gets repeated so often (and posts like mine repressed so often) that people start to believe that diversity really does ju
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by formulaT 11y ago
This hackathon is a good example of the hypocrisy of the progressive movement. Because the hackathon is clearly motivated by progressive politics (making fun of what is considered to be a White cishet male dominated startup scene), they ge
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by formulaT 11y ago
Not sure if that fully compensates for the 5x greater crime rate among the Somali community [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMgsiPmf2eE&t=1m06s
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by formulaT 11y ago
Care to expand on this? If you mean to imply that this means automating trucking would be a bad thing, I disagree. According to mainstream economics, jobs are not an externality (although they are during a recession). The total amount of
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by formulaT 11y ago
I never quite got why it's ok for the stupid hackathon projects to be negative, demeaning, and have NSFW content, even though these things are completely verboten in every other tech event. Is there some kind of certification[0] that
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't see the logic there. Either branding is cruel or it isn't. This issue should be decided on its own merits. Maybe castration should be done with anesthetic, or not done at all. I read the article, my point was that you c
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by formulaT 11y ago
Not saying that this is the reason people are doing it less, but branding seems like a cruel act that should be avoided if at all possible.

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