> It seems that the political left (which usually drives these movements) would rather put the onus on the companies to change while taking millions in lobbying money, than hold them accountable for their actions.…
> suppress voting by low income and minority voters Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens? That seems classist and/or racist. Are there…
To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) when deciding rather than merely…
My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that's 230M people. At 1% mortality, that's…
> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous. How often have those experts been wrong?
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective…
> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming. Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of programming in societies where they…
It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's what caused CNN's ratings to collapse,…
> "Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot. So my bath tub…
Environment activists have been bombing things for decades. If anything, they've calmed down.
Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory? If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be that other things that can be explained…
Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't mention a bigger country, like the US…
Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.
Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-fraction land.
So, you don't actually know how either. It's trite and cheap to demand change you don't know how to do.
Docker has had a surprisingly quick turn from "new community software that's worth supporting" to "clearly sabotaged for 'enterprise' sales".
Only if there's also transparent hours and risk factors accounted for. Real life example: the male member on the cleaning crew was the only one certified for certain toxic chemicals -- because the women didn't want to…
Because "minimum wage" is the floor of the economic spectrum -- and basic economics dictates that if some people have more money, they'll drive their desires purchases above the price someone with less can afford.…
Two year old news that they developed the capability to launch targeted attacks, which can use devices with a microphone? Yawn. There isn't any evidence that they used this capability domestically (as other comments…
I don't think you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when someone is speaking into a recording device, after intentionally saying a word to start recording.
That situation devolves into violence against people. Visit Seattle: there's needles all over the city, trash strewn everywhere, and mounds of human feces. Society can't exist with feces on the street and strewn out…
Your comment is slander, but people of your ideological persuasion are habitual liars. Look at the repeated slander of rightwing figures, particularly by those from Silicon Valley companies. The "multiple accounts" are…
> Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions?…
We are in the middle of applauding the Microsoft CEO for supporting racism against whites and Asians. I don't think that works as a theory for how to respond to this, unless we're just going to dislike everyone.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, which addressed both the suppression of whistleblowers about racism at Microsoft, and the racist philosophy underpinning the "diversity" movement. You're truly a deep thinker, who…
> It seems that the political left (which usually drives these movements) would rather put the onus on the companies to change while taking millions in lobbying money, than hold them accountable for their actions.…
> suppress voting by low income and minority voters Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens? That seems classist and/or racist. Are there…
To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) when deciding rather than merely…
My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that's 230M people. At 1% mortality, that's…
> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous. How often have those experts been wrong?
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective…
> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming. Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of programming in societies where they…
It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's what caused CNN's ratings to collapse,…
> "Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot. So my bath tub…
Environment activists have been bombing things for decades. If anything, they've calmed down.
Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory? If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be that other things that can be explained…
Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't mention a bigger country, like the US…
Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.
Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-fraction land.
So, you don't actually know how either. It's trite and cheap to demand change you don't know how to do.
Docker has had a surprisingly quick turn from "new community software that's worth supporting" to "clearly sabotaged for 'enterprise' sales".
Only if there's also transparent hours and risk factors accounted for. Real life example: the male member on the cleaning crew was the only one certified for certain toxic chemicals -- because the women didn't want to…
Because "minimum wage" is the floor of the economic spectrum -- and basic economics dictates that if some people have more money, they'll drive their desires purchases above the price someone with less can afford.…
Two year old news that they developed the capability to launch targeted attacks, which can use devices with a microphone? Yawn. There isn't any evidence that they used this capability domestically (as other comments…
I don't think you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when someone is speaking into a recording device, after intentionally saying a word to start recording.
That situation devolves into violence against people. Visit Seattle: there's needles all over the city, trash strewn everywhere, and mounds of human feces. Society can't exist with feces on the street and strewn out…
Your comment is slander, but people of your ideological persuasion are habitual liars. Look at the repeated slander of rightwing figures, particularly by those from Silicon Valley companies. The "multiple accounts" are…
> Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions?…
We are in the middle of applauding the Microsoft CEO for supporting racism against whites and Asians. I don't think that works as a theory for how to respond to this, unless we're just going to dislike everyone.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, which addressed both the suppression of whistleblowers about racism at Microsoft, and the racist philosophy underpinning the "diversity" movement. You're truly a deep thinker, who…