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by tailrecursion 5y ago
You're assuming good intentions on the part of the authors, but the impact is people will take away that harassment of those outside a protected class is OK. The intentions don't really matter here :-)
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
This makes me think about those individuals who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons. Are the people who get angry from this story, the same people who are favorable to mandates and passports? The front line nurses who were heroes
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
I agree, I think this is a penetrating and fair question to ask. Some may feel it's dismissive of the complaints. But 95% or more of the complaints in the letter are characterizations, not descriptions. Take for example the HR execut
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
The spellings reflect different transliteration schemes that can be used for Arabic.
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
And the handout-mentality people want to give that abusive system more power by demanding handouts on which they become dependent, and demanding censorship.
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
It can be made less likely. It's the victim mindset that makes the victim believe it can't be prevented, which in turn prevents the person in question from making changes that will prevent problems in the future. Chicago cops fri
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
The problem I see is that the advertising business enables free services such as Google and Youtube, Facebook, Twitter to dominate. It's even more difficult for a potential competitor to gain users when competing against a free servic
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
The discord you're experiencing in your career is real, and to some extent it comes with the profession. Companies are in the business of making working software on time. But you can't always make software work on time. This pu
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
In order to influence your boss in this case requires understanding what is intended, so you can offer a better alternative. As you know, setting a deadline doesn't require that management believes bug fixing is predictable. They coul
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
My guess is over time most free apps that depend on tracking will refuse to work unless allowed to track. And most users will acquiesce, just so they can use an app that they want to use. Even the Facebook app itself could refuse to work u
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
I wrote a couple Forth compilers for the Forth chips of the 80s. Yossi (the author) does a great job conveying how attractive Forth can be, and also how it fails to encode algorithms that are less than dead simple. I wonder how much of the
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
You requested from scratch, but also look into "metacompilation", which was typically how it was done.
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
People interested in learning what Forth is all about could examine Chuck's cmForth. Both its metacompiler and the Novix chip (or RTX 2000, both versions may exist) are pretty interesting.
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
It is indeed challenging to make a hybrid. In an all-electric, though, one must have a larger battery that can supply the car's range. That's the challenge that Tesla's met and Toyota has not.
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
Yes, this is how I read the OP's comment about the days of BS being over. In the past, newspapers had exclusivity not just in access but in voice. Their frame was THE frame. Today, anyone with a phone can be a journalist. Anyone (n
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
Do the people who are downvoting this comment believe that sympathy for Scott's class of people IS trendy at the moment? What's the objection to the comment.
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by tailrecursion 6y ago
For example, one thing about the Gigatron is that it uses static RAM. Static RAM is fast, but expensive, and back in the early 80s even dynamic RAM was dear, and static RAM was several times more expensive than that. All the early 8080 an
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by tailrecursion 7y ago
Has Nina Teicholz's book been debunked? I see comments here that appear to assume that these meat substitutes (Beyond Meat) are more healthy than beef -- is that really true? Animal meat is scientifically reported to be extremely nutri
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
> Saying "fuck that and fuck you" to anyone who supports that system is a reasonable reaction, in my opinion. Why is saying "men can't be women" considered hate speech, and "fuck you" is not. One conve
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
Ben Shapiro acts respectfully when answering students and debating BLM or other persons. I've seen so many instances of bad behavior on the part of his conversation partner, yet Ben remains cool and professional. The worst I remember
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
I think Amazon is determined to solve a hard problem. Fraud and counterfeiting are very difficult problems to solve, and many buyers are happy to buy a knock off product. In a way, many buyers and sellers are cooperating to optimize one m
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
What I see here and elsewhere are people talking about engineering a just society who have no knowledge or experience in engineering just societies.
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
Thank you for adding perspective to this issue with police and drawing it out of exclusively-race territory. I would suggest that perhaps, part of what's happening is that the police are optimizing for a particular metric. We can hope
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by tailrecursion 8y ago
Middle America is chock full of towns, full of middle class white people who perceive almost zero opportunity. We have startups, Youtube, online university materials, and enthusiast groups that will assist a motivated, energetic, optimistic
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
I don't think social media is a mirror of society. Social media's focused on attention and addiction, and is not designed or measured on presenting an accurate picture of what's normal. Not only the population on Twitter is
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
We're all ignorant of something, and most of us are susceptible to manipulation in one way or another. Does anyone believe they are immune to every trick in Cialdini's book? In general it seems counterproductive to protect people
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Instead of making demands the 99% would do better to start their own companies, prove why the above even matters, then start their own incubators to compete with Stanford or Sand Hill Road or whatever. Whining how other people aren't
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
So true. In addition, once they see that you're so accommodating they'll adapt by inventing new offenses.
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Women should start up their own companies and show men how to do it better. They can make a company that pursues financial rewards and also balances humanity, compassion, does not seek to enrich itself by hurting others. The fact that corp
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by tailrecursion 9y ago
Is this change in distribution over time being measured using income tax returns? In the 1950s the highest marginal rate was about 90%, and there were many loopholes and special rules. How do we know those rich people back then were accur

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