sololipsist

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by sololipsist 6y ago
Welcome to hacker news. I hope your first day is pleasant.
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by sololipsist 8y ago
I said: > horizontal or vertical
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by sololipsist 8y ago
And what if she's using the relationship to get ahead? What, are we going to pretend that women are powerless, agentless puppets that smart, capable men can use? If the company you're in doesn't prohibit relationships, if you
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by sololipsist 8y ago
So what? People who work together have sexual relationships, and people who have relationships will have conflict. "People who disagree with me are ignorant." Come on, man. Seriously? You sounds like a college kid on facebook. If
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by sololipsist 8y ago
..... And what if the accusation isn't credible, and it wouldn't actually hold up in court to fire him because of it?
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by sololipsist 8y ago
Rubin deserves to be punished for sexual harassment.... IF, in fact, he sexually harassed, right? A) What in the hell was his partner doing reporting to his place of business that she felt like he had compelled her to have sex with him in a
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by sololipsist 8y ago
Do you understand that if you perceive non-harassment as harassment, you're perceiving it as harassment, so of course you think you're not misperceiving it? Like, you get that reality is sometimes different from your perception
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by sololipsist 8y ago
That's an example, yes.
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by sololipsist 8y ago
> How much more clearly can you out yourself as biased garbage? Are you really surprised, or are you just pretending to be? This is par for the course for every major journalism outfit - from Fox to MSNBC down to NPR and PBS. There isn&#
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by sololipsist 8y ago
I have found over and over and over that when I read "memos" or "screeds" or whathaveyou coming from the tech industry I inevitably find that a huge portion of the media is pushing a narrative that is so uniform and so d
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by sololipsist 8y ago
okay mom ::rolls eyes::
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by sololipsist 8y ago
Some things don't deserve a response. In that cases it's perfectly acceptable to note this and move on with your life. If you correct every brain-dead thing people tell you on the internet, either never say anything remotely contr
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by sololipsist 8y ago
I didn't say a word about Kissinger. If you need to pretend someone is arguing something they've never argued so you can disagree with them, you really need to take a step back and ask yourself what the fuck you're really doi
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by sololipsist 8y ago
Appreciate it. It also reveals a weird logic I can't wrap my head around. If you vote, and you think others should vote, you believe that we have significant influence on politics. So if we abandoned our military dominance, what other
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by sololipsist 8y ago
> iceland has no military, and no real political or economic significance in the world. it has no genuine allies to whom it is worthwhile. why doesn't anyone/everyone invade them? nobody would risk a major war over them. they&#
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by sololipsist 8y ago
People forget that gunboat diplomacy is literally a violence deterrent . There is no better solution to geopolitcal mass-murder than to be so god-damn scary we can resolve things without death. Sure, you can do a lot of bad shit with gunbo
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by sololipsist 8y ago
Why? Air superiority is important for power projection. Edit: So I'm getting a comments here that are much lower-quality than I expect from this place. Geopolitics is not like interpersonal relationships. There is nobody governing go
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by sololipsist 8y ago
> The rest of us will continue to ~~learn and innovate~~ buy $tsla after silly controversies cause it to tank, and sell $tsla once everyone remembers they like money and it climbs again.
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by sololipsist 8y ago
I've got to say, I think this is parallel to the issue that faaaaaaar too many people are getting bachelor's degrees. Generic sales jobs require them at this point, which is nuts . One should absolutely be able to get a sales job
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by sololipsist 9y ago
You got a few. Satisfied?
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Okay. Sorry, I'm used to reddit were everything is a veiled accusation. Yeah, you can train yourself, but everyone does it nonetheless. Everyone does it by default, and I don't think it's reasonable to claim that anyone has c
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by sololipsist 9y ago
He says it's a problem that can be tackled, it just hasn't been yet. Like you look at a square block, and you need to get it in a square hole, you just haven't gotten to it. It's not the language of someone that isn&#x27
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Mhm. I try to. Why? Are you implying I prefer functional programming? I don't. I don't have a horse in this race.
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Motivated reasoning. He prefers imperative programming (or something other than functional programming), so he hears the "criticism" without hearing the solution. I mean, of course he physically hears both, but one is prominent in
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Eh, not really. I've learned over the years to avoid providing sources because more often than not the person won't believe you either way and will only use the source as a tangible target for disingenuous attack through motivated
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by sololipsist 9y ago
> Sending a troubled kid to a great private school probably will cause the kid to do better ... However selection bias already does this Funny thing, though. We've done a bunch of studies on this and it doesn't actually help. T
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by sololipsist 9y ago
I'm using "mastery" as a shorthand for what he actually said, not literally quoting the man. It's normal human communication that normal humans do every single day and there is no reason I should need to explain that. Yo
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by sololipsist 9y ago
> Saying "I know I am probably biased, so I will act on the margins to try to correct that" is in no way irresponsible. Whether this is true depends on your methods of correction. That's what this whole conversation is abo
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by sololipsist 9y ago
Whether or not it has value on it's own (which I'm not convinced of in coding). It doesn't matter. Meritocratic hiring has value on its own. The best person getting the job has value on its own. Not including OR discluding so
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by sololipsist 9y ago
> But what if there are still biases in hiring? That someone sees a woman and assumes this or that about her based on gender alone? Quotas are not the answer, period. It's not okay to deny someone a job to correct for some possible,

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