I think one way to define math is “the collection of symbols we use to precisely explain natural phenomena”. I can say “that rose is very pink” and that is accurate enough for most people. But if I want to know how much…
Mailers can’t risk getting blocked. Misinformation often looks like spam and needs to spread quickly in order to work. The people behind this type of media don’t care if they get blocked after the messages go out,…
>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events. There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one…
/r/ConsumeProduct was antisemtic? I never saw that in the posts of theirs that made the front page. It was always memes about over-consumption, they might make fun of disposable make-up wipes for example ("And when…
The message this sends to girls is that if you’re pretty, this is the easiest way to make a lot of money. It damages the work of people who have spent decades trying to get women to be valued for things other than their…
Just to add to this comment; It's one thing for software developers in the government or a large "essential" corporation like a bank or telecom company to unionize. Those places get toxic because the work has to be done…
You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem…
> According to Xu, more than 100 martial artists looking to avenge Wei challenged him in the aftermath of the fight. Xu took out a pencil and paper, ranked his challengers in order of priority, and set about in earnest…
Can confirm, hated homework. I understood things too quickly so I never had push myself to learn, thus homework felt like a chore or a petty punishment. This burned me later in life because “remembering what the teacher…
What do you consider actual work? I work for a bank, and internally, we refer to ourselves as the worst run software company possible. You could remove 80% of our staff and our clients would not notice at all - the…
I call this method of team building the "island of mistfit toys", it is something I practice on my team since I was a misfit toy myself. I disagree that training juniors keeps them loyal. When you bring someone the…
Google leadership, up and down, is filled with people who are of Jewish and Israeli heritage (or are married to them). What did you expect? Find me a Palestinian in any of their leadership team. I'm not suggesting…
> Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy. Wrong, that is a loss of 10% market share. In other markets, a drop like that would put you out of…
Essentially all this does make the property owner pay a protection fee to prevent their property from being bought by someone else. It's a terrible system because a billionaire could come in and scoop up thousands of…
"Stop eating so much red meat" - What the American Cancer Society should be urging. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-meat-a...
I got the details wrong, but my point was that nutritional information isn't always "truthful". Yes, they're true to the labeling requirement, but they are not true to reality - there IS sugar in there. Get a person…
It hurts to watch you child starve because they are being picky. I had a teacher tell me she didn't want to eat peas one night, so her father sent her to bed hungry. She woke up a few hours later, went downstairs to her…
Too small, completely useless. I don't need a dishwasher to wash a couple of glasses and cutlery. Those take 2 seconds to do by hand. I need a dishwasher because 20 people were just over and I don't want to be up all…
Society has lost its way if arguably one of our most fundamental, carnal functions is too burdensome to carry out. Whether the burden is monetary (day care, cost of goods) or social (sports, parties), there's got to be…
Divorce is a relatively new thing. You used to just work on your problems and stay together for the family. Family courts are the symptom not the problem. I think western society causes (or promotes?) a bit of…
What the heck are you storing that you've used 20-30TB? I don't really get it. UHD Movies? Why would you save those in the age of streaming? Family pictures/videos? At 20TB, you must have hundreds of thousands of…
I call this the "pace car" when driving. You can do anything the pace car does because he'll get caught first - he sets the pace. Uber is the pace car and the police pulled him over, Lyft saw this and applied their…
Looks like something I've written a hundred times. It's a common pattern, you could "steal" this just through organically writing a program. The more I hear about this case, the more I realize it's just a bunch of…
This is taking interviewing and hiring in the wrong direction. At my company, we have a relatively short interview process, followed by a 3 month full salary probation period. The interview is used to weed out "red…
I think one way to define math is “the collection of symbols we use to precisely explain natural phenomena”. I can say “that rose is very pink” and that is accurate enough for most people. But if I want to know how much…
Mailers can’t risk getting blocked. Misinformation often looks like spam and needs to spread quickly in order to work. The people behind this type of media don’t care if they get blocked after the messages go out,…
>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events. There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one…
/r/ConsumeProduct was antisemtic? I never saw that in the posts of theirs that made the front page. It was always memes about over-consumption, they might make fun of disposable make-up wipes for example ("And when…
The message this sends to girls is that if you’re pretty, this is the easiest way to make a lot of money. It damages the work of people who have spent decades trying to get women to be valued for things other than their…
Just to add to this comment; It's one thing for software developers in the government or a large "essential" corporation like a bank or telecom company to unionize. Those places get toxic because the work has to be done…
You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem…
> According to Xu, more than 100 martial artists looking to avenge Wei challenged him in the aftermath of the fight. Xu took out a pencil and paper, ranked his challengers in order of priority, and set about in earnest…
Can confirm, hated homework. I understood things too quickly so I never had push myself to learn, thus homework felt like a chore or a petty punishment. This burned me later in life because “remembering what the teacher…
What do you consider actual work? I work for a bank, and internally, we refer to ourselves as the worst run software company possible. You could remove 80% of our staff and our clients would not notice at all - the…
I call this method of team building the "island of mistfit toys", it is something I practice on my team since I was a misfit toy myself. I disagree that training juniors keeps them loyal. When you bring someone the…
Google leadership, up and down, is filled with people who are of Jewish and Israeli heritage (or are married to them). What did you expect? Find me a Palestinian in any of their leadership team. I'm not suggesting…
> Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy. Wrong, that is a loss of 10% market share. In other markets, a drop like that would put you out of…
Essentially all this does make the property owner pay a protection fee to prevent their property from being bought by someone else. It's a terrible system because a billionaire could come in and scoop up thousands of…
"Stop eating so much red meat" - What the American Cancer Society should be urging. https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-meat-a...
I got the details wrong, but my point was that nutritional information isn't always "truthful". Yes, they're true to the labeling requirement, but they are not true to reality - there IS sugar in there. Get a person…
It hurts to watch you child starve because they are being picky. I had a teacher tell me she didn't want to eat peas one night, so her father sent her to bed hungry. She woke up a few hours later, went downstairs to her…
Too small, completely useless. I don't need a dishwasher to wash a couple of glasses and cutlery. Those take 2 seconds to do by hand. I need a dishwasher because 20 people were just over and I don't want to be up all…
Society has lost its way if arguably one of our most fundamental, carnal functions is too burdensome to carry out. Whether the burden is monetary (day care, cost of goods) or social (sports, parties), there's got to be…
Divorce is a relatively new thing. You used to just work on your problems and stay together for the family. Family courts are the symptom not the problem. I think western society causes (or promotes?) a bit of…
What the heck are you storing that you've used 20-30TB? I don't really get it. UHD Movies? Why would you save those in the age of streaming? Family pictures/videos? At 20TB, you must have hundreds of thousands of…
I call this the "pace car" when driving. You can do anything the pace car does because he'll get caught first - he sets the pace. Uber is the pace car and the police pulled him over, Lyft saw this and applied their…
Looks like something I've written a hundred times. It's a common pattern, you could "steal" this just through organically writing a program. The more I hear about this case, the more I realize it's just a bunch of…
This is taking interviewing and hiring in the wrong direction. At my company, we have a relatively short interview process, followed by a 3 month full salary probation period. The interview is used to weed out "red…