marcinzm

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by marcinzm 7mo ago
It’s not about feeling better but likely that the company had a Rooney rule. Your friend was how they got around that while on paper complying to avoid internal political issues.
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by marcinzm 8mo ago
Does that include those working for a company that gets tax breaks?
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by marcinzm 8mo ago
> Also in moderately big to big companies, is all about contacts and personal marketing, which could (and typically is) orthogonal to your actual work. As you go up the levels that is exactly the job (for better or worse) so doing that i
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by marcinzm 8mo ago
I think the important distinction is "doing the responsibilities of the level above yours" and "doing them well." These are actually very non trivial since many people don't actually know the former (what does your
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by marcinzm 8mo ago
Were you simply doing more of the same or were you actually doing the job of the level above you? Those are not the same.
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by marcinzm 9mo ago
As I've seen it younger engineers simply focus a lot more on money and their career growth versus the product or whatever their own sense of "the right thing is". That makes the stock go up and everyone is happy more or less.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
In my lens the only true score is the collection perception of the score. Not a number, not a formula and not what you think the score is. There is no external absolute counter you can point to because the collective view is the truth.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
It’s got nothing to do with values but value. Are you doing things that provide value. Once you realize the only measure of that is how other people perceive what you’ve done it’s a lot less frustrating. It makes thing more cooperative as y
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
There is no objective score and thus people are perfect at it since the score is by definition what other people think it is. Like the value of money or stocks. Once you realize that a lot of life is significantly less frustrating.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
It’s not a scam. It’s a system that exists for people and made by people. Period. Money, outcomes and so on only have value because people assign them value. If you remove people then what you do has no value or concept of value. Life is no
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
The negatives don’t change the inherent demand from people for AI.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
Yet somehow ChatGPT has almost a billion users. Thats a lot of tech bros.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
Or that the vast majority of people don't actually value their own productivity and time that much. Which given the popularity of social media and people not paying a few dollars to avoid hours of streaming ads per month seems fairly c
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
And that's fine, this site has rules and the mods follow those rules. I am free to say things but I am not guaranteed a platform to say them on. My usage of the term is just as inaccurate as your usage of "freedom of association.&
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
The core of the argument is that they say the rules are X but the actually mean they are Y. That has nothing to do "freedom of association" but simply with being two faced liars. Which people often dislike. And the thing called &q
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
We're discussing this in regards to an article where the obvious "solution" was found by the government to this very approach. You're free to build it that way and we're free to put you all in jail afterwards as a r
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
You cannot have true e2e encryption on a secure device and comply with a wiretap warrant without a backdoor of some kind somewhere.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
> There were many decades where phones didn't have back doors. Your cell phone provider almost certainly will respond to a valid warrant and wire tap your non e2e encrypted phone call. I'd be very surprised if the most common m
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
> bad faith > So we have a better sense of these things. Classic "bad faith, I'm done" when pressed into a corner after your No True Scotsman didn't land. > constantly inserting “outs” in your wording, So only y
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
I find it fascinating that saying "we're not yet an actual dictatorship" is seen as complacency. > Of course, my family escaped a dictatorship and made our home in the US. So we have a better sense of these things. Fascina
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
They boy who cried wolf. We are a dictatorship and we are headed towards a dictatorship are not the same thing. Saying the former when the reality is the latter means your message will simply becomes ever more ignored the closer to a dictat
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
Your point being?
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
Your comment is just another illustration that many people have so little experience with an actual dictatorship to not realize the difference. The US isn't perfect but that's a start contrast to an actual dictatorship. For now at
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
Yes, China is an actual dictatorship and the US isn't.
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by marcinzm 10mo ago
The Greater LA areas has 34k square miles of area. Germany, the whole country, has 128k square miles. In other words, the LA area alone is a quarter the size of all of Germany.
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by marcinzm 11mo ago
> EU is full of corruption Which I think many (the vast majority?) Europeans will fight you to the death to avoid admitting. The politicians just made some honest mistakes. No corruption at all. Just read the other replies in this discus
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by marcinzm 11mo ago
I suspect if you look at your full supply chain for your bare metal the people they also sell to will not make you happy either.
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by marcinzm 11mo ago
I'd say the core of their success is running everything in a single rack in a single datacenter at first (for months? a year?) and getting lucky. Life is simple when you don't need the costs and effort of reliability upfront.
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by marcinzm 11mo ago
They were running for a long time (months? over a year?) on a single rack in a single datacenter. Eventually they scaled out but the word is eventually. I think that summarizes both sides of this debate in a nutshell. You can move off of AW
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by marcinzm 11mo ago
And Trump isn't the first person to push for hiring in America or other such things. Under both Obama and Biden companies, government and academia significantly increased DEI spending. Multiple executive orders were signed by both to p

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