1MoreThing
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Comment · 5 years ago
Why shouldn't the creation of knowledge and expertise come with a price tag? The question is "is it cheaper to create a system that creates new expertise than it is to hire someone with that expertise?" As long as the cost of the system is less than the cost of the generated expertise on the open market, it's a worthwhile investment.
Comment · 5 years ago
IME, both Apple TV and Amazon Fire stick devices do this too.
Comment · 5 years ago
This gets at one of the core beliefs lots of people seem to have about socialism: that human nature means it will be implemented poorly.
It's pretty hard to test that out, though, when one side of the political spectrum is so convinced it will happen that they devote a significant amount of political effort to making sure it happens, preventing us from ever finding out what a well-funded and run socialist experiment would look like in the US.
Comment · 5 years ago
> neighborhoods or people to try to protect, to the detriment of everyone else wanting to live there
Wait, you have a problem with a city government trying to serve the people who actually live in a neighborhood rather than potential new residents?
That's the whole point of a city government. To serve the people living in the city.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy...
That doesn't seem like a personal attack so much as pointing out that this belief lacks empathy and is callous, which I tend to agree with. The standard argument, which I'm sure you're aware of, is that some controls and regulations on the ownership of firearms is a net good for society by reducing accidental deaths, suicides, and murders.
Guns aren't responsible for any of those things, people are. But guns dramatically change the scale at which they happen. Ignoring that because of a belief in absolute freedom from regulation for machines designed to kill is callous and un-empathic. Or, to use a synonym, psychopathic.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's clearly not the kind of research that's going to be done.
Funding of gun studies means we can make arguments backed up by data instead of partisan bickering. Calls to arm teachers in classrooms or mandate trigger locks on guns have real world effects, and both sides think they're right about it. Funding for studies of specific actions and policies help us as a society make more informed decisions.
More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993411/
Comment · 5 years ago
These rules were created specifically because so many people were profiting off the ad revenue of music in videos. There's not a simple way to determine if the audio just happens to be in the background or if the content producer is benefiting from the inclusion of music they don't have rights to.
Comment · 5 years ago
The creation of a trueRandom function certainly seems to solve this problem more than taking away a useful tool for cases where pseudo-random is good enough.
Comment · 5 years ago
Agreed, MFA is so important that a company should be willing to pay for it.
Comment · 5 years ago
It tells me that you didn't bother paying attention to the spellcheck in your writing tool, probably didn't take the time to carefully re-read a document for errors, and likely had no one else look at your resume for feedback.
None of those are things I'm looking for in an engineer on my team. I want an engineer who uses their tools to make their work more efficient, who pays attention to details, and believes feedback is a way to improve the quality of their work.
Source: am a FAANG-adjacent hiring manager.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is kind of hilarious how often rent-seeking behavior is called out as evil when it comes to software companies, but actual rent-seeking with real estate is seen as virtuous investment.
Comment · 5 years ago
Detecting wrong answers doesn't tell you anything about how many right answers there might be.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's a lot longer from zero (or negative, in you have student loans) to a quarter million if you're working outside the SV/software engineer salary bubble.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is the downside of having an AG who has been indicted on criminal charges for thee last 6 years. How much can you trust the guy?
Comment · 6 years ago
Managers aren't for bookkeeping or commanding; they're for leadership.