Of course it's easier. It's also easier to make money when you're working for Facebook. The question is whether or not it's worth the ethical and professional stain. Different people will make different calculations.
I've got good news for you. You can contribute to these projects (and put your contributions on your résumé) without having the Facebook taint. e.g.: * https://github.com/facebook/react/pulls
It makes sense when you understand that those at the top really don't view the rest of us in the same terms that they view each other. We're not accorded the same hopes, dreams, desires, needs, etc. They're special;…
It's not really outside the Overton window. Universal healthcare has strong majority support right now. Employers and shareholders benefit significantly by reducing options for workers and by making it difficult for…
Stepping outside the walled garden is complicated when the walled garden constitutes 70% of the market share in an industry with negligible competition.
In the US, many retail stores will give you a plastic bag for a small item that you can carry in the palm of one hand. It's just automatic, without any thinking involved. Some places have enacted a fee for single-use…
As a user, I hate that AMP means that Google search results give me Google URLs instead of what I’m actually looking for. As a developer, I hate that AMP is just another one of Google’s tentacles with which I have to…
>No one doubts anymore that app-based cabs are the future and traditional taxis business is pretty much done now. As a counterpoint, I haven’t used a ride-sharing/bike-sharing/scooter-sharing app since about 2016,…
Did you even read the article, or did you just skim it? Seems like you skimmed it. The article directly addresses your vague, inchoate (but somehow not naive) impression that anti-trust enforcement (which has a…
Career advice I wish I'd been given when I was young 1. Don't organize your life and career plans around listicles 2. Your life and your career are different things 3. Your career is just a job 4. The goal of a job for…
You're grossly exaggerating the effort involved in moving stones from soil you've tilled and laying them in a straight line across a field. This isn't masonry. It's literally a pile of rocks.
The stone walls in New England are not ancient, they're from early settlers who cut down the forests and created pastures and farmland. The soil in New England is very rocky, so tilling it produced lots of rocks. The…
It's not FUD if it's direct evidence that provides an accurate representation of how he thinks and how he views his product (which it is). Your mention of FUD is just FUD. It's a FUDception.
Yeah but imagine how awesome higher education will be with private equity/VC firms determining how to price-discriminate majors in order to increase their returns
No, we couldn't get to that point without A/B testing. That's why A/B testing is used.
Popup or not, I think you're overestimating the average user's familiarity with these concepts.
Where do you think universal ethical labor standards come from? Organized labor is the source of the vast majority of the things we now take for granted. You know, like "the weekend." People actually risked their lives…
I really don't get this, and I'm a very lazy developer. You can't ship code painlessly if you don't consider any of the operational concerns. Operational concerns are application concerns. It doesn't matter how…
Just minutes into this thread and people are already talking about turning the _Sahara_ into a forest or constructing continent-sized artificial islands in the ocean in order to plant forests, as if (1) either of these…
There's a reason why denaturalization usually only happens if you perjured your way into citizenship: it's an extremely severe action that is not meant to be a punishment, but rather to correct a mistake (according…
The assertion that needs to be proven is "pesticides in the amounts that currently exist in the food supply chain do not have adverse effects on human health," wise guy.
This isn't really saying that much. It's like saying an orange is similar to a planet because "they're both spheroids." It's true, but it doesn't really tell you much. In principle, Bitcoin can be used as a medium of…
>It was shit and I will never take an Amtrak again. All Amtrak lines are operated a little differently, AFAIK. As far as the West Coast is concerned, I find both the Pacific Surfliner and the Coastal Starlight to be…
You may have addressed it, but it doesn't seem like you understand it. People get away with operating small businesses in residential zones because the businesses they usually operate tend to operate unnoticed and…
Zoning regulations are a tool of civic planning. The fact that racist civic planners use them to enact racist zoning regulations does not mean that zoning regulations in and of themselves are racist or always end up…
Of course it's easier. It's also easier to make money when you're working for Facebook. The question is whether or not it's worth the ethical and professional stain. Different people will make different calculations.
I've got good news for you. You can contribute to these projects (and put your contributions on your résumé) without having the Facebook taint. e.g.: * https://github.com/facebook/react/pulls
It makes sense when you understand that those at the top really don't view the rest of us in the same terms that they view each other. We're not accorded the same hopes, dreams, desires, needs, etc. They're special;…
It's not really outside the Overton window. Universal healthcare has strong majority support right now. Employers and shareholders benefit significantly by reducing options for workers and by making it difficult for…
Stepping outside the walled garden is complicated when the walled garden constitutes 70% of the market share in an industry with negligible competition.
In the US, many retail stores will give you a plastic bag for a small item that you can carry in the palm of one hand. It's just automatic, without any thinking involved. Some places have enacted a fee for single-use…
As a user, I hate that AMP means that Google search results give me Google URLs instead of what I’m actually looking for. As a developer, I hate that AMP is just another one of Google’s tentacles with which I have to…
>No one doubts anymore that app-based cabs are the future and traditional taxis business is pretty much done now. As a counterpoint, I haven’t used a ride-sharing/bike-sharing/scooter-sharing app since about 2016,…
Did you even read the article, or did you just skim it? Seems like you skimmed it. The article directly addresses your vague, inchoate (but somehow not naive) impression that anti-trust enforcement (which has a…
Career advice I wish I'd been given when I was young 1. Don't organize your life and career plans around listicles 2. Your life and your career are different things 3. Your career is just a job 4. The goal of a job for…
You're grossly exaggerating the effort involved in moving stones from soil you've tilled and laying them in a straight line across a field. This isn't masonry. It's literally a pile of rocks.
The stone walls in New England are not ancient, they're from early settlers who cut down the forests and created pastures and farmland. The soil in New England is very rocky, so tilling it produced lots of rocks. The…
It's not FUD if it's direct evidence that provides an accurate representation of how he thinks and how he views his product (which it is). Your mention of FUD is just FUD. It's a FUDception.
Yeah but imagine how awesome higher education will be with private equity/VC firms determining how to price-discriminate majors in order to increase their returns
No, we couldn't get to that point without A/B testing. That's why A/B testing is used.
Popup or not, I think you're overestimating the average user's familiarity with these concepts.
Where do you think universal ethical labor standards come from? Organized labor is the source of the vast majority of the things we now take for granted. You know, like "the weekend." People actually risked their lives…
I really don't get this, and I'm a very lazy developer. You can't ship code painlessly if you don't consider any of the operational concerns. Operational concerns are application concerns. It doesn't matter how…
Just minutes into this thread and people are already talking about turning the _Sahara_ into a forest or constructing continent-sized artificial islands in the ocean in order to plant forests, as if (1) either of these…
There's a reason why denaturalization usually only happens if you perjured your way into citizenship: it's an extremely severe action that is not meant to be a punishment, but rather to correct a mistake (according…
The assertion that needs to be proven is "pesticides in the amounts that currently exist in the food supply chain do not have adverse effects on human health," wise guy.
This isn't really saying that much. It's like saying an orange is similar to a planet because "they're both spheroids." It's true, but it doesn't really tell you much. In principle, Bitcoin can be used as a medium of…
>It was shit and I will never take an Amtrak again. All Amtrak lines are operated a little differently, AFAIK. As far as the West Coast is concerned, I find both the Pacific Surfliner and the Coastal Starlight to be…
You may have addressed it, but it doesn't seem like you understand it. People get away with operating small businesses in residential zones because the businesses they usually operate tend to operate unnoticed and…
Zoning regulations are a tool of civic planning. The fact that racist civic planners use them to enact racist zoning regulations does not mean that zoning regulations in and of themselves are racist or always end up…