rmatt2000

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by rmatt2000 4y ago
People get layed off from companies all the time. Why is it the end of the world when it happens at Twitter?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. I mean, maybe the company culture really is broke
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> "I promise you: We will be able to do it." While the idea was almost certainly to warn Putin, it doesn't seem very smart to me to have said it out loud.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I suspect many countries know who did it, but think it is not in their best interests to either admit that they know, or let others know that they know. International intrigue indeed!
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I always read the story as a warning against forced collectivism. Specifically, forcing people to act against what they believe are their own individual interests, and instead sacrifice those interests in order to advance the goals of the
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Here is one of my favorite videos from the early days of the web. Two popular morning television hosts discuss the at-symbol and ask "what is internet, anyway?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
<ctrl>f office 0/0
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> to temporarily give the government additional power to deal with emergencies. I just want to point out that, according to the U.S. federal government, we are still in a "temporary" state of emergency, and have been for 30 mon
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical that giving more power and discretion to federal regulators will result in increasing freedoms for the American people.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Who are you gonna believe? Two forms of government issued paperwork, or your buddy on the other end of the radio? /s
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I can think of a spec for a simple application that would fix all the problems associated with "courtesy [sic] towing". However, it also seems pretty clear that any city government that would engage in "courtesy [sic] towing
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Twitter stores the IP address associated with every Tweet. If someone posts an illegal tweet (say, criticizing the CCP, or supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong or Taiwan), the Chinese government could combine the IP information w
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Or Cake by the Ocean Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VfJqHwYKs
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> Forcing private entities to host speech they don't want to goes against what I define as freedom of speech. What if the private entity is suppressing speech at the behest of the government?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
You should spend some time on a college campus. Shouting down speakers and deplatforming non-progressives is more common than one might think.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
If there aren't enough moderators, wouldn't the likely result be fewer rule-breaking accounts banned rather than more non-rule-breaking accounts banned? Maybe, instead of hiring N skilled moderators for $D, they could be hiring N
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
You mean like when your company faces an existential crises, but the CEO can't be reached because he's on a vision quest?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
In the political Twitter neighborhoods that I inhabit, there have been many cases over the years of people having their accounts yanked, with the only message being "You have been banned for violating the Twitter rules. This decision
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Licensure of physicians in the U.S. is controlled by medical associations through state licensing agencies. They have an incentive to limit the number of people who receive licenses to practice medicine.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I used to own a Ford Fusion with an early version of Sync. The car itself was great. The Sync software by Microsoft, however, was not. One of the innumerable bugs was in the voice recognition system. No matter what song I requested, abou
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Isn't that what the old-timers call distributed systems?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
If a private individual can do this, imagine how easy it is for the U.S. government to suppress content that it doesn't like on social media.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> For the people who buy one of each color and then return all but one Amazon's "try before you buy" encourages people to do just this, so I'm guessing Amazon has figured out how to make this shopping pattern profitab
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I think the problem is that Amazon returns are not inspected by someone associated with the manufacture of the product. I suspect that return handlers have to handle thousands of products and can only give a returned product a cursory insp
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
The clothing company LL Bean dealt with this same sort of issue. It used to be that if you weren't happy with a purchase, you could return any item you bought from Bean, at any time, for a full refund. One day, the CEO of the company
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
It's interesting that failed communist regimes often seem to be succeeded by kleptocracies. I wonder if any political scientists have studied this and can explain why.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> I'm not talking automated testes or anything. I'd love to see an entire thread on this topic alone.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
A few years ago, I designed an incredibly fast write-only file system, but for some reason couldn't leverage it into a commercial product that anyone was willing to buy.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> ... the credibility of social science in general is damaged. Umm, I have some news for you.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I wonder if the Univ. of Minnesota is has any potential liability here?

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