Fair enough, but there may be a small middle ground between "guaranteeing a return" and "never made a dime in profit and in fact is burning through millions or billions of dollars annually with no expectation to stop…
>After the election to the presidency a few months later of a white supremacist This is why skimming is important. It gives you a rough idea of what the author's voice, style, and opinion are; from that you can…
Disheartening. I grew up with absentee parents. This is an unwelcome spin on that situation. I can't even give an opinion on this that doesn't immediately fly into rage. I just hope I don't try to pair off with someone…
You shouldn't be building anything that relies on a google service unless A) Google would die without that service B) You're just fucking around and what your building could burn to the ground without consequence…
Is this another one of those companies whose S1 says "We're not profitable and may never be"? Why is that the right time to go public? Once the company has an obligation to move towards profitability, doesn't that…
It's dark, but you can manipulate and abuse people into staying through pretty much anything. See abusive relationships or this handy article http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
I work in QA and don't like the reduced focus on quality (selfishly, because I've got the skillset to get paid by assuring quality). The article shows a graph that indicates that, over the long term, teams that attack…
So? There's more than one party negotiating that rate of pay. Think it's unfair for one person to negotiate against a company? Maybe, but that's where unions become useful. There's ill will against them, and they're not…
Two kinds of people in this system. One of them thinks if you work hard you can climb your way out of poverty through your own self determination and hard work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader Certainly not a new thing.
>If you train an AI using data from a system that already has certain biases, then the AI is going to replicate those same systemic biases That's not what happened in the example at all. The example company isn't biased…
There are at least two problems with this: - "I'm sure there are managers and engineers crying in private in every big company out there": You're not excusing google here, just expanding the range of companies whose…
>I've heard stories of mid to high level managers crying in bathrooms because of poor reviews from their reports. These factors combine to create an environment where teams are actively working to make engineers happy…
You can't be the "???", italics, and caps guy if you're gonna be the "Woah. Calm down guy." guy. Either you're the one reacting strongly or you're the one chiding people for doing so. Doing both is poor form, to an…
The article talks about how chat used to be a protocol, so you could talk between chat clients. As though you could log into discord and start a conversation with someone who was only using facebook messenger, or…
A senate race costs a few million. 20 at most. Netflix revenue for 1 year was 845 million. Netflix can afford a few senators if they want. Instead they just lobby existing legislators and put bills on their desks.…
You're just using different words to describe socialism, which I frankly don't think needs any further arguments against it besides pointing at it's attempted implementations.
"It's ok to be greedy/selfish" is a clickbait title for the statement that you look out for yourself first and foremost whether you admit it or not, and you want things innately. In a well regulated capitalist…
>the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content. This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a…
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Same way slack and moviepass do: Not really. Unless you consider taking VC captial "making money"
Okay, so we've gone from "this is a national disgrace" to "everyone's doing it now" real fast.
>do what Europe does and tax middle class people who can't just move to a lower-tax jurisdiction Well, that's why Europe is blanketed in riots right now. Disenfranchised people enraged at the governing concept of…
>No shame in putting food on the table for your family. Balderdash. Don't construct situations where people just shrug their shoulders and go along with morally inequitable because they're getting paid for it. Besides,…
I'm in my early thirties and feel the same way. A lot of people do. Looking at something and saying "I don't think I would do that because it would be very embarrassing" is a thing adults can do.
Fair enough, but there may be a small middle ground between "guaranteeing a return" and "never made a dime in profit and in fact is burning through millions or billions of dollars annually with no expectation to stop…
>After the election to the presidency a few months later of a white supremacist This is why skimming is important. It gives you a rough idea of what the author's voice, style, and opinion are; from that you can…
Disheartening. I grew up with absentee parents. This is an unwelcome spin on that situation. I can't even give an opinion on this that doesn't immediately fly into rage. I just hope I don't try to pair off with someone…
You shouldn't be building anything that relies on a google service unless A) Google would die without that service B) You're just fucking around and what your building could burn to the ground without consequence…
Is this another one of those companies whose S1 says "We're not profitable and may never be"? Why is that the right time to go public? Once the company has an obligation to move towards profitability, doesn't that…
It's dark, but you can manipulate and abuse people into staying through pretty much anything. See abusive relationships or this handy article http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
I work in QA and don't like the reduced focus on quality (selfishly, because I've got the skillset to get paid by assuring quality). The article shows a graph that indicates that, over the long term, teams that attack…
So? There's more than one party negotiating that rate of pay. Think it's unfair for one person to negotiate against a company? Maybe, but that's where unions become useful. There's ill will against them, and they're not…
Two kinds of people in this system. One of them thinks if you work hard you can climb your way out of poverty through your own self determination and hard work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader Certainly not a new thing.
>If you train an AI using data from a system that already has certain biases, then the AI is going to replicate those same systemic biases That's not what happened in the example at all. The example company isn't biased…
There are at least two problems with this: - "I'm sure there are managers and engineers crying in private in every big company out there": You're not excusing google here, just expanding the range of companies whose…
>I've heard stories of mid to high level managers crying in bathrooms because of poor reviews from their reports. These factors combine to create an environment where teams are actively working to make engineers happy…
You can't be the "???", italics, and caps guy if you're gonna be the "Woah. Calm down guy." guy. Either you're the one reacting strongly or you're the one chiding people for doing so. Doing both is poor form, to an…
The article talks about how chat used to be a protocol, so you could talk between chat clients. As though you could log into discord and start a conversation with someone who was only using facebook messenger, or…
A senate race costs a few million. 20 at most. Netflix revenue for 1 year was 845 million. Netflix can afford a few senators if they want. Instead they just lobby existing legislators and put bills on their desks.…
You're just using different words to describe socialism, which I frankly don't think needs any further arguments against it besides pointing at it's attempted implementations.
"It's ok to be greedy/selfish" is a clickbait title for the statement that you look out for yourself first and foremost whether you admit it or not, and you want things innately. In a well regulated capitalist…
>the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content. This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a…
Yeah like : clackCLICK..... clack CLICK.. clack CLICK.... clackCLICK... clackCLICK.. clackCLICK... clackCLICK... clack... clack clackclack clack clack "damn I thought I had that one... okay your serve..." clackCLICK...…
Same way slack and moviepass do: Not really. Unless you consider taking VC captial "making money"
Okay, so we've gone from "this is a national disgrace" to "everyone's doing it now" real fast.
>do what Europe does and tax middle class people who can't just move to a lower-tax jurisdiction Well, that's why Europe is blanketed in riots right now. Disenfranchised people enraged at the governing concept of…
>No shame in putting food on the table for your family. Balderdash. Don't construct situations where people just shrug their shoulders and go along with morally inequitable because they're getting paid for it. Besides,…
I'm in my early thirties and feel the same way. A lot of people do. Looking at something and saying "I don't think I would do that because it would be very embarrassing" is a thing adults can do.