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by strawpeople 4y ago
> you are pushing something that nobody sane would believe: major owners of a company would have no say in the company steering and management?? No. I’m saying you’re just wrong about them being major owners. If it was true, you’d be ab
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by strawpeople 4y ago
I assume that wasn’t meant as a sincere apology. If that is what you are up to, let’s end at this point.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
I guess it depends on whether you consider alcoholism to be a mental illness. It is listed as one in the DSM-V.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> Vanguard and blackrock are the major share holders across the whole of big tech. This is simply a false statement. Holding a single digit percentage of a company doesn’t make you “the major shareholder”. > As I said, this is public
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> No where do I see dang claiming he trusts Hersh. You're just putting words into their mouth now. I’m not putting words in anyone’s mouth. Given that it’s clear he wouldn’t give this post special treatment if it wasn’t from Hersh,
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Presumably not with just anyone who reported that claiming to have a source, but only because it’s Hersh. As far as I can see your position evaluates to ‘dang trusts Hersh‘. Since it’s 2023 and we use machines to do our thinking now, I cons
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by strawpeople 4y ago
What could explain the increase in suicides if not mental illness?
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by strawpeople 4y ago
If the story isn’t true, then it isn’t just making you think about what the US government is doing. It’s making you fantasize about it based on an unknown person’s political agenda.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Saying what amounts to ‘we’d never be in that position’ comes across as pretty evasive. Also saying Hersh only writes this kind of thing supports the idea that Hersh is biased enough to be taken for a ride by a source with an agenda.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> we are seeing things like declines in lifespans and increases in suicide, but I don't think mental illness is increasingly nearly as much as the stats would lead you to believe at face value. This just seems like a flat out contra
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> If I recall properly, vanguard is usually the biggest major owner something like between 10% and 20% and blackrock not far behind Wrong. Just as you are wrong about Blackrock or Vanguard having the ability to fire Google’s CEO, or havi
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by strawpeople 4y ago
You’re confusing leverage and political positioning with competence and capability. Not that all managers are incompetent. Some are indeed inspired and or excellent. However these are rare. Just as there are many average engineers who ar
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> I meant they do implement what the owners of the company want. This is circular. You are claiming this but haven’t shown any evidence. You ignore the fact that you’re just wrong about who chose the CEOs of Apple and Google. And, you d
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Blackrock and Vanguard didn’t choose Tim Cook, Jobs did. Sundar Pichai was chosen by Larry and Sergei, who still have control of the voting shares in Google. Even if they did have the power to fire one of these CEOs, that doesn’t give them
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Do you honestly believe that chickens are a good animal model for human behavior? I don’t think you do.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Teens with anything that can be considered to be a weakness face more bullying. Adults too. Schools are responsible for bullying and should be held to account.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Are you seriously claiming that Google, Microsoft and Apple’s strategy are set by Blackrock and Vanguard? That seems highly unlikely to have any truth to it.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Article is total and utter bullshit. For example: > Scams have been around as long as technology, and even the original Apple iPhone demo was completely faked. The mock-up didn’t work at all; Steve Jobs followed a carefully constructed c
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Ahh ok - so it’s good for low powered hardware. That’s a useful answer. Edit: corrected ‘old’ to ‘low powered’.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> I would suggest a minimum of a workday. This is key. An emergency disrupts your scheduling and easily justifies a workday as a minimum.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Since when does VSCode cost an arm and a leg to operate? Also saying it’s one of the best doesn’t explain why . I’m asking whether there is something distinctive about it.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Why Kate and not VSCode?
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> It has nothing to do with difficulty. It’s not a leveling up game of leetcode. Then you should reply to the parent comment and not mine. > No it’s not. They will roast their subordinates but unless the org is completely dysfunctiona
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by strawpeople 4y ago
There is no evidence that management problems are harder to solve than coding problems. Not only that, but when coders make mistakes the impact can be large and the responsibility clearly falls on the coder, whereas when managers make mist
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by strawpeople 4y ago
> I'm to the point where I'm willing to eat the rest of the initial investment just to get some space back in my garage. Perhaps if they were leather this would be more reasonable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Basically because there is no clear dividing line between what was called Asperger’s and Autism. It’s not as simple as ‘no intellectual disability’ because there are non-verbal autistic people who have no intellectual disability.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
OCaml doesn’t need interface files.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Why does the amount of money someone has lessen the impact of overwork?
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by strawpeople 4y ago
Presumably there are humans flagging the inappropriate questions, and these are being fed into a training set for a smaller and more frequently retrained part of the model that provides a signal not to answer the question.
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by strawpeople 4y ago
If you are someone who has experienced personally harmful racism (e.g. a black boy getting in trouble at school for things that white boys routinely get away with), then it is helpful to see a counterexample of what is possible in society

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