> However, we all have our moments where we do dumb things. If you expect anyone to be perfect, you're in for a rude surprise. One has to look at the whole picture, and that incident was an anomaly. "our moments"?…
I know what the word "discount" means. When I say "what do you mean by 'I'm discounting'?", is "What do you mean when you say that I'm regarding a possibility as being unworthy of consideration?" What possibility are…
I'll ask again because you didn't actually answer my question. What do you mean by "discounted"?
What do you mean by discounting?
"pedo guy" was the thing that broke the camel's back for me. When you have millions of followers and billions of airtime on you, it's absolutely inexcusable to call a random guy a pedo. When he did that my view of him…
No, science was not hype. It's not like the fashion is over and now we're gonna go back to making worse decisions based on less data.
Another instance of google propping up puppet competitors.
You haven't answered the question. What is your definition?
What do you mean by educated? This is a person who is only able to entertain themselves by spending money. That doesn't sound educated to me. "Entertainment", in the sense that it's commonly used, should really be…
I'm a trader and we call it currency.
If the big boss happens to walk by for the 3 minutes you're taking a mental break and that is a problem, I would say the problem is the boss/culture, not the space. Think about it. You just said that someone "catching…
Again, I totally understand the "it's distracting" argument, I have made the same argument myself. I was pointing a finger at the "I don't like it when people can see my screen" argument.
> This smacks to me of an "If you have nothing to hide why do you care about your privacy?" argument. Which we should all know is a major fallacy. The fallacy here is conflating the two. To me the most important…
> We were already working from in open office, but at least I had a desk facing the wall behind me, so there was a modicum of privacy and psychological safety. Then management decided that it would “look better” if we…
> Most laws require, to kick off an expensive process, someone to (a) pony up to start a lawsuit or (b) convince a public prosecutor to take on the case. Seems like a lot of red-tape just to enforce some laws. Why…
I worked in advertising and I saw how scared AdSense publishers constantly were of getting banned by Google. I understand that Google has to defend their business, but some times they were really harsh on things that…
That's pretty clever.
So this seems to be a pattern. The link that I posted elsewhere in this thread and the occurrence there was precisely because of poor support. (Again, I'm not affiliated with that guy in any way)
Coinbase lost this radio show's money and won't take responsibility for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7FSs6oXak (I'm not the show host, I just enjoy the show)
> One could argue about the intention of affirmative action, but I don’t think one could argue that it’s not racist, using the dictionary’s definition of racism. As is often the case, the dictionary gives multiple…
> You are buying what the racists are selling - the idea that progress for minorities comes at the expense of white people. I didn't say that affirmative action comes at the expense of white people, I said (implicitly,…
> I’ve never met anyone who claims racism doesn’t exist. Perhaps I haven’t met the right troll? I think you haven't met the right troll. If you ask "are you saying that racism doesn't exist?", the sophisticated troll…
> Even if it was a case of affirmative action, their work still gets the chance to get criticized and touch people’s eyes. Arguably with no action it could have rotten in some binder in a desk, so isn’t “something”…
> In the words of Syndrome "if everyone is super, no one is". If every one has a BS/BA , masters, PHD then in a real sense no one really does. This is a very small minded view of the world. If I have a PhD, and everyone…
I was going to say "if I call washingtonpost.com links pro-American tilt", would you subscribe to that view? But then you'd say "but the RT is state-sponsored!" to which I would say "there are many mechanisms to…
> However, we all have our moments where we do dumb things. If you expect anyone to be perfect, you're in for a rude surprise. One has to look at the whole picture, and that incident was an anomaly. "our moments"?…
I know what the word "discount" means. When I say "what do you mean by 'I'm discounting'?", is "What do you mean when you say that I'm regarding a possibility as being unworthy of consideration?" What possibility are…
I'll ask again because you didn't actually answer my question. What do you mean by "discounted"?
What do you mean by discounting?
"pedo guy" was the thing that broke the camel's back for me. When you have millions of followers and billions of airtime on you, it's absolutely inexcusable to call a random guy a pedo. When he did that my view of him…
No, science was not hype. It's not like the fashion is over and now we're gonna go back to making worse decisions based on less data.
Another instance of google propping up puppet competitors.
You haven't answered the question. What is your definition?
What do you mean by educated? This is a person who is only able to entertain themselves by spending money. That doesn't sound educated to me. "Entertainment", in the sense that it's commonly used, should really be…
I'm a trader and we call it currency.
If the big boss happens to walk by for the 3 minutes you're taking a mental break and that is a problem, I would say the problem is the boss/culture, not the space. Think about it. You just said that someone "catching…
Again, I totally understand the "it's distracting" argument, I have made the same argument myself. I was pointing a finger at the "I don't like it when people can see my screen" argument.
> This smacks to me of an "If you have nothing to hide why do you care about your privacy?" argument. Which we should all know is a major fallacy. The fallacy here is conflating the two. To me the most important…
> We were already working from in open office, but at least I had a desk facing the wall behind me, so there was a modicum of privacy and psychological safety. Then management decided that it would “look better” if we…
> Most laws require, to kick off an expensive process, someone to (a) pony up to start a lawsuit or (b) convince a public prosecutor to take on the case. Seems like a lot of red-tape just to enforce some laws. Why…
I worked in advertising and I saw how scared AdSense publishers constantly were of getting banned by Google. I understand that Google has to defend their business, but some times they were really harsh on things that…
That's pretty clever.
So this seems to be a pattern. The link that I posted elsewhere in this thread and the occurrence there was precisely because of poor support. (Again, I'm not affiliated with that guy in any way)
Coinbase lost this radio show's money and won't take responsibility for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7FSs6oXak (I'm not the show host, I just enjoy the show)
> One could argue about the intention of affirmative action, but I don’t think one could argue that it’s not racist, using the dictionary’s definition of racism. As is often the case, the dictionary gives multiple…
> You are buying what the racists are selling - the idea that progress for minorities comes at the expense of white people. I didn't say that affirmative action comes at the expense of white people, I said (implicitly,…
> I’ve never met anyone who claims racism doesn’t exist. Perhaps I haven’t met the right troll? I think you haven't met the right troll. If you ask "are you saying that racism doesn't exist?", the sophisticated troll…
> Even if it was a case of affirmative action, their work still gets the chance to get criticized and touch people’s eyes. Arguably with no action it could have rotten in some binder in a desk, so isn’t “something”…
> In the words of Syndrome "if everyone is super, no one is". If every one has a BS/BA , masters, PHD then in a real sense no one really does. This is a very small minded view of the world. If I have a PhD, and everyone…
I was going to say "if I call washingtonpost.com links pro-American tilt", would you subscribe to that view? But then you'd say "but the RT is state-sponsored!" to which I would say "there are many mechanisms to…