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by methodover 8y ago
> I've never seen any of these ideas openly expressed in the workplace, or for that matter, anywhere. Animus against minorities is real. It's not made up. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it isn't re
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by methodover 8y ago
There's not, because there wasn't any. It's like an angry drunk complaining that all the bars he's banned from are coordinating to ban him. It's like, no, you were an angry drunk separately at all of them.
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by methodover 8y ago
“Those are not gay rights they are human rights” You are misusing the English language. When a minority is targeted with animus and their rights are systematically violated, we tend to label the campaign to fight back against those things:
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by methodover 8y ago
1. No one's saying that companies ought to only advocate for gay rights and leave behind every other issue. 2. I am tolerant towards everyone. It's actually not that difficult. 3. You seem to be a little confused on what gay right
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by methodover 8y ago
You might not realize this, but you come off a little bit anti-gay in your post. > Why are companies promoting "pride"? First of all, you don't need to put pride in safety quotes. Second of all, gay rights are human rights
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by methodover 8y ago
The moral isn’t that you should try something new. It’s that if you’re trying something new and not doing great with it — and feeling embarrassed about it, keep soldiering on. Embarrassment is a natural part of the process.
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by methodover 8y ago
> 6. We have other flaws before our eyes, but our own flaws behind our back. There has to be a typo here, right? I marked this as “bullshit” because it doesn’t make sense. But the link says it’s not bullshit...
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Meet the deaf Destiny 2 players who raid using a custom-made comms app(pcgamer.com)
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by methodover 8y ago
> From your perspective, you are already fully vested So, um, about that. I should not have said I have 1.8% in the bank. I actually just have about half of that vested so far. I won't be fully vested until three years from now. I d
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by methodover 8y ago
Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right. I'm in an incredible position, and yet, it still feels unfair. I'm 90% sure that it's just that I'm petty and greedy. And yet, like, at the end of the day the engine that drives
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by methodover 8y ago
That 1.8% figure I gave includes shares that have not vested yet. My original stock compensation was significantly smaller. I've received small stock option bumps over the years, including a significant one last year. I have about h
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by methodover 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the equity I have is already incredibly generous for an employee. But yes, I did bring up the issue a couple weeks ago. He doesn't believe we're in a position to go to the board and make any changes to stock c
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by methodover 8y ago
The allocation of profits in startups, at least, feels... problematic. I was the #2 engineer hire when I was hired five years ago. Since then, we haven't become super successful -- yet -- but we're at least at breakeven. We have t
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by methodover 8y ago
I’ve wondered for a long time about crowdsourced “therapy” — a kind of it, anyway. I don’t want to just hear myself talk for an hour, which is usually what therapy amounts to for me anyway. I want other perspectives. I want to hear other pe
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by methodover 8y ago
I don’t understand how affordable housing isn’t a huge political issue. It’s missing on the left and the right. Housing is way more important, most people would think, than say, free college tuition (left) or reducing immigration (right) —
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by methodover 8y ago
Seriously. The first thing I found myself thinking while reading the article was, what was the appropriate response to a society like that? If you’re part of a 16th century expedition, and you’ve come across a nightmare society like this, w
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by methodover 8y ago
About Pickle— If we pickle a string which comes from an untrusted source, that’s fine right? There’s no way to format the string or anything such that it exploits any kind of vulnerability with pickle. Right?
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by methodover 8y ago
There’s nothing in Trumps exec. order about a space force[1]. It’s not clear if Trump was speaking extemporaneously about something they aren’t ready to pull the trigger on or what. 1. https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/sta
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by methodover 8y ago
This is a great comment. As an adult, the way I’ve come to learn is exactly the same as you. It’s way more efficient, too: if you begin with the end and work backwards, you can ignore the things that aren’t very useful. Like if you’re learn
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by methodover 8y ago
Things are honestly still pretty secretive. Even here in SF. Anti-gay bias is everywhere and pushes many gay people to just quietly hide their sexuality. Fun fact, one of the two times I was ever called a faggot by a stranger was on an SF M
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by methodover 8y ago
Do we know any details about what specific trade secrets were “stolen”? This is legitimately scary to me. If I change jobs how do I know what the line is between applying past experience and copying trade secrets?
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by methodover 8y ago
Um. This isn’t nefarious. We’ve used inspectlet from time to time to help figure out where there are problems in our UI. It tracks mouse movements as part of a complete session. It’s been really helpful.
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by methodover 8y ago
Ahh, okay. So, it's basically a tax avoidance idea. If my stock buyback costs 20% in taxes on overseas profits, or 10% interest in bonds, then I'll take the bonds. But wait. Taxes are a one-time thing, right? You pay the 20% (or w
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by methodover 8y ago
> least a third of the shares are being repurchased with borrowed money What?! That is insane. Right? Like I know I’m just a lowly programmer who doesn’t know jack all about finance, but I thought the whole point of a buy back was that y
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by methodover 8y ago
That same quote jumped out at me too. In another sentence they say they don’t have a list of words that trigger demonetization. Well, YT, you do. It’s just in your ML model. You let a pattern recognition algorithm create the list for you. (
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by methodover 8y ago
No, the user's interest. Users were logging into these devices, presumably. They wanted to access their Facebook account on them, Facebook and the device manufacturer figured out how to do it. It sounds like everything is working as in
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by methodover 8y ago
> - How on earth does Facebook justify giving direct API access to information that users have, in every setting possible, marked as private? The user logs into Facebook on the device. This log-in action the part of the user is effective
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by methodover 8y ago
This sort of stuff actually does matter. There are teens and young adults watching Twitch from all over the country, and in many places being gay is not accepted. When I was a teen, companies for the most part delicately avoided homosexuali
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by methodover 8y ago
> Facebook the website doesn't have much to offer :thinking_face: Facebook offers an event planner, a blog platform, photo hosting, video hosting, news aggregation, venmo-like payment system, de-facto single sign on service for most
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by methodover 8y ago
Reddit frightens me way more than Facebook ever did. Reddit gives the impression of what ideas are popular with its rating and comment system. But those systems are remarkably easy to manipulate. Imagine a Russian troll farm operation makin

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