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by to_bpr 8y ago
If the goal is equity of outcome above-all-else, ignoring for any differences derived from the data, then why are we bothered investing so much time, money and effort into this area?
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by to_bpr 8y ago
This might have been true 18+ months ago, but not now. HN now more closely resembles, and more closely acts like, Reddit in 2018 than HN in 2016.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>While obviously not a bad deal, it's a far cry from options/RSUs and other standard annual bonuses offered at other tech companies. Nobody is forcing people to work there.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
You can't vote in Canada unless you've citizenship. You've to be physically present in Canada 3 years of every five to retain PR, not so with citizenship.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>personally I'd say wait until profitable or >100 engineers Personally I'd say delay until you can find an area causing such a performance or scalability issue that it justifies its own repo(s), build pipelines / devops
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by to_bpr 8y ago
There's no shame in wanting to differ from the status quo maintained since time immemorial, but don't pressure others into it. Valid?
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by to_bpr 8y ago
It's disappointing, but not surprising, that the focus seems to be entirely on the "wrong" side of the "desired" outcome. At this point it amounts to fighting very hard to find any reason to undo a democratically
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by to_bpr 8y ago
I'll put it in a mildly hyperbolic manner, to match the quality of the source this article came from: Toronto gets the sloppy seconds of America's tech industry; the Canadian tech grads who couldn't move to the US, the Indian
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>Jesus, this paper is so biased it's palpable Absolutely, but I don't think any media entity is portraying itself as unbiased these days? Regardless, their desperate banner ads begging for $1 warms me inside.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>Did the media write about email being used negatively when it was taking off? When email was taking off, the media was still making vast amounts of money from print editions. Now that this part of the industry is rapidly dying, it has p
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by to_bpr 8y ago
I got about 3 paragraphs into the article and tired of the "white folks be like... but black folks be like" narrative. Do better.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
Doesn't take much to see this is a poor clone of indiehackers, whose content is written by someone who does not mainly use/speak English.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
NYT's business model seems to have turned to latching on to whatever sentiment is currently popular and beating the metaphorical horse for clicks until it's a bloody pulp, before moving on to the latest "outrage" of the
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by to_bpr 8y ago
Bleating anonymously online about your own race in an attempt to garner internet points from racist strangers is “helping things”?
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by to_bpr 8y ago
You're so virtuous. swoon .
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by to_bpr 8y ago
It's this vicious rhetoric and finger pointing that lead to the election of Donald J Trump.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
If the comments even here are an indication, it’s because people have absolutely zero level of understanding into the level of data Google produces and has access to on you.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>their jackass developers who think they're saving the world with their "innovation" May want to target the psychologists, behavioural economists and similar who come up with the gamification to drive some of this narcissi
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by to_bpr 8y ago
It's tribalism, and it has become absolutely rampant on this site recently.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>You could simply make it mandatory time off. Then I won't notify the company when I've had a child. Simple as. Don't consider going down the road of "you must declare what is happening in your private life to your pr
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by to_bpr 8y ago
This is incredibly dystopian and would be massive government and corporate overreach. I would hope a reasonable person would never advocate for such intrusion.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>As a society, we've decided that being able to continue the population is more important than the fortunes of any particular startup. Err no. It wasn't long ago that a family could survive well on a single income with the moth
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by to_bpr 8y ago
Unfortunately, HackerNews has had a significant influx of users over the last 18-24 months from other sites that shan't be named, and it has resulted in the same toxic behaviour/tribalism/feels-based-voting that exists on the
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>There is no more manly profession then working in tech for collage educated people. Please state the culture for context. This is absolutely not the case in the West.
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>everyone with a new child gets (very long and equal) parental leave. Is offered or is forced to take?
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by to_bpr 8y ago
>We're talking about running a business, not a safe space. Most seem to have become disconnected with this reality in the era of our massively inflated economy (and tech industry). It will be interesting to see the absolute meltdown
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by to_bpr 8y ago
1: I'm not advocating in favour of spending it front of the TV. Both are a waste. 2: The damage being done by social media and the rise in narcissism, toward society at large, towards children and towards mental health, is pretty well
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by to_bpr 8y ago
Strive to be better, Robert. This is Reddit-tier content and behaviour, maybe you would be more comfortable staying there?
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by to_bpr 8y ago
Interesting point. I don't think behaving more like kids is something confined to dads, or even men as a whole either. It seems modern adults are maturing far more slowly or even showing some signs of regression now. I don't have
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by to_bpr 8y ago
If a startup is running on tight runway then female staff getting pregnant could be massively detrimental. In many civilized parts of the world, a female employee getting pregnant will mean disruption during the pregnancy to accommodate doc

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