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by tachyoff 9y ago
Precisely. The Overton window for this topic seems to have shifted pretty far. The default position should be one of positive consent and assumed privacy. But then again, I think it’s all moot considering that Facebook’s existence is predic
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by tachyoff 9y ago
It has to be Quicken, right? They're the largest outfit I can think of. They’re obviously not primarily software, but I think they employ most of the tech workers downtown.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Do they count even though they’re headquartered in Campbell, CA?
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> The trip, which took place on a luxury bus outfitted with a supply of vegan doughnuts and coal-infused kombucha, was known as the "Comeback Cities Tour." I live in Detroit. It’s a city that has been pushed to the edge of obli
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I think there are other places to work besides the Bay Area.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Check the client-side JavaScript just to be sure. ;)
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> “Despite working in Silicon Valley, where a 1100sqft home with no yard costs $2m...” You could buy roughly 667 acres of land here in Lower Michigan for that much money, which provides plenty of room for wine and chickens. ;)
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by tachyoff 9y ago
The internet was readable before AI/ML. I don’t think bikeshedding should be that complicated.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I refuse to let a simple phrase like that become verboten just because a certain configuration of it was used by someone that our circles of friends dislike. Personally, I think it’s a funny reappropriation. But either way, this isn’t parti
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by tachyoff 9y ago
A little nihilism legitimately helps me. One day, the sun will expand and, most likely, engulf the inner planets. Save for a few hunks of metal and bursts of energy, all that was, is, and will be of earth will be incinerated, and rather spe
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I've heard that argument, but recently I've started to disagree with it. I can only speak to my limited experience, but my three prior gigs have all wanted some amount of "passion", but never once was I expected to work
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by tachyoff 9y ago
She wasn’t powerful enough to avoid the consequences.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Except TangoTrotFox's original statement was: > The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. Which is absolutely factually false.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I'm going to quote my original post: > In 1663, John Twynn, was tried and executed in England for printing material that suggested that perhaps the monarchy should be beholden to the people.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> None of this is relevant to whether Twitter want to be complicit in publishing this speech which they are under no obligation to do. Grandparent was arguing that people can't handle free speech and that: > Speech needs to be pr
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by tachyoff 9y ago
First amendment jurisprudence, thankfully, disagrees with you. But first, some history. For most of modern history, speech has been censored in some form or another by governments. Naturally so, as any kind of divergent thinking can be dang
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Well-said. The more I see from Twitter, the more I try to distance myself from it. I think a combination of today's political environment and the nature of the internet (pseudoanonymity and not being able to interact with humans face-t
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> In my lifetime the vast majority of my acute health issues went away on their own without any particular medical intervention. I mean well over 99.9%. To be fair, if they didn't, you might not be here to talk about it, so there&#x
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by tachyoff 9y ago
That's because most Americans have no idea how probability or risk mitigation work. It's their body, dammit, and they want you to fix it!
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Under relativity, you can't simply add speeds like that, unfortunately (I believe this is related to the fact that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames). Here's a link that can explain it better, though: http:&#
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Here's a catch-22 comment from elsewhere on this post: > Avoiding women in workplace is essentially sexist. And for non-sexists there is no reason to do so. So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Given how eas
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation. It is absolutely a limit on effective travel (if we ignore things like wormholes for a second). Conventional motion through space is bounded by c for se
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Then those "perfectly reasonable" applications are free to eschew languages like Java. People do it all the time to great success. People also use Java to great success. But that's neither here nor there. My point is that it&
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by tachyoff 9y ago
$50,000 per year for 70 hour per week works out to $28,571.43 if it were a standard 40-hour work week. Oh, and no benefits and you get to pay for gas and wear-and-tear on your car. So I guess if you're okay spending almost every waking
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by tachyoff 9y ago
It’s funny you say that because my workplace is EXACTLY the dumpster fire known as Twitter. No, I don’t work there. Rather, all issues of “diversity” are pretty much the same ridiculous identity politics stuff you find on Twitter. The strai
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I can see the Buzzfeed story now: “White Tech Bro Rudely Interrupts Women To Mansplain Something”. There is absolutely a chilling effect. I mean, do you want men to approach you when you’re having a conversation or do you want them to stay
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I’m not a lawyer, so I’m curious (and I can’t read the article): are quotas legal? Irrespective of their efficacy or morality, they must’ve held up in court, right? I thought it was fairly obvious that organizations have minority quotas. Th
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by tachyoff 9y ago
You can't say "wow, look how much smaller the C program is" and then ignore why it's so much smaller in the first place (no runtime, no garbage collection, etc.) If that's the case, then we should hand-roll assembly
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by tachyoff 9y ago
That's such an unfair comparison, though (and really, with 8+ GB of RAM being the norm, 20 MB is still pretty svelte). Java has an entire virtual machine and runtime, whereas a C program is just a binary that gets loaded straight into
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Something something cut and paste.

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