gillianlish

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by gillianlish 9y ago
"space is hard" is a fucking lie. We knew why the Challenger blew up, we could have prevented it, we chose not to. We knew why Columbia disintegrated, we could have prevented it, we chose not to. None of this shit is hard. Enginee
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by gillianlish 9y ago
because then the entire idea of the american economy being based on a meritocratic system where good companies do well and bad companies that make no products fail, and the same goes for workers, is somehow an elaborate lie and a shell game
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by gillianlish 10y ago
lets be clear. rich people do not have to deal with this. denny hastert rapes a bunch of people and is still thought of as a good guy by the powerful and wealthy. how many more like him are protected? catholic church institutionalizes crimi
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by gillianlish 10y ago
well fuck me sideways, i thought the purpose of technology was to enoble the human condition, lift up society, and make our civilization better for the future generations. didnt realize that corporations profit margin is the only possible g
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by gillianlish 10y ago
we need to realize that social media experts have basically discovered a new form of addictive drug that is based on ideas instead of on a physical substance. "if it bleeds, it leads", but industrialized and backed by big data, in
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by gillianlish 10y ago
i think businesses actually prefer spreadsheets because they have No control, and therefore no responsibility. if something goes really wrong, they can fire the intern and caim they went rogue. it is much harder to shift blame to a departme
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by gillianlish 10y ago
the programming people i admire most just randomly seem to be the same people who never write angry rants about programming topics. took me 20 years to notice this.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
ironically, the unwashed masses that data science has 'targeted' for 'optimization' go through the exact same process and feel the exact same emotions. apply for 100 jobs, get zero response, and zero reason why. be told
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by gillianlish 10y ago
"Well, if he had nothing to hide then he had nothing to be worried about. " lol constitution wut
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by gillianlish 10y ago
heres a logical question. ISNT PUTTING SOMEONE IN A ROOM FOR TWELVE HOURS FOR NO FUCKING REASON A CRIME
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by gillianlish 10y ago
fuck all y'all, im still using python 1
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by gillianlish 10y ago
massive endemic fraud is not vital to the economy... although it is vital to destroying an economy.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
which is the taxpayers "troubled asset" which has to go into a "Relief program" which somehow translates into Socialism for the hyper-rich and indentured servitude for everyone else.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
also "subprime financial products bundled together and resold as low-risk investments to massive institutions" combined with "moral hazard" of said institutions knowing they will be bailed out again by the taxpayers wh
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by gillianlish 10y ago
funny how all those places were 'liberated' by the CIA
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by gillianlish 10y ago
except of course that some greeks were buddhist but whatever.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
he's just a simple cave man billionaire.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
that is assuming the stock market doesn't crash. if you bought an index fund in 1928 you would still be broke AF in 1935 and wouldn't get your money back until the 50s. buffett profited off the housing bubble and should not be tru
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by gillianlish 10y ago
Yes, there is absolutely no fucking way other than treating employees like they are garbage. Of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world, Amazon and Uber are the two most typical and everyone needs to follow them because obvi
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by gillianlish 10y ago
Here is my friend's linkedin post. "Every day that week, T. beat me up in the bathroom. He told me if i didnt say nice things about the company, he'd force me to get an abortion and have me deported. I told him I would post o
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by gillianlish 10y ago
Ahh basically yes you are. They built their entire business on destroying the employee-employer relationship so that they could avoid responsibility for employee behavior. That is their true business model - not ride sharing. Responsibility
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by gillianlish 10y ago
Ill see you that and raise you "And now i have something i can blackmail this person with, since i have all the records and evidence. I can control this person now, and count them on my team, so there is no point in firing them".
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by gillianlish 10y ago
If you want to understand the student debt bubble, you need to understand financial bubbles. Take any commodity that "everyone knows is valuable", figure out how to turn it into a financial instrument and re-sell it to a third par
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by gillianlish 10y ago
that is the fun. reminds me of programming on MSDOS.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
within a half hour of playing around on this site, someone posted goatse. and there is no way to report, hide, downvote, etc.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
guys i hate to tell you this, but it's Feb 15 here in New Zealand, and Google has cancelled Andromeda.
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by gillianlish 10y ago
This isn't about necessity. This is about sending a message. Message to Scientists - we value your work Message to the World - we are not all bad Message to future generations - we are not hopeless Message to Trump - good day sir
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by gillianlish 10y ago
disregard cmment