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> Effective altruisme is a smoke screen term to make legislators and the public believe that tech companies have humanities best imterest at heart. I think it's a smoke screen term…

> They are registered as a 501(c)(3) which is what people commonly call a public charity. Why do they do that? Seems ridiculous on the face of it. Nothing about 501(c)(3) entails p…

No. Proper "reform" entails reorganizing our economy. We will all die before this happens.

I completely disagree; discipline is only optional in C++ if you want to ship broken code. Even the top poster in this thread that actually cops to the productivity overhead of C++…

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Doesn't really matter after compression unless the bulk of your code can be culled from the end product. Tbh the largest business value this has is slowing down people trying to us…

Speak for yourself: I'm not returning to the world of "discipline" (aka lost productivity) without a damn good reason to carry on existing codebases. It's just a waste of a good co…

I'm pretty surprised to see Scott mixed in with these folks. I love me some Alien, but his other works have a noticeably looser quality and shallow worldviews. As a director or to …

Penrose is obviously wrong and has been repeatedly criticized for his shoddy thinking when it comes to cognition.

It would help if anyone believed Silicon Valley was capable of producing a non-profit of any value to begin with.

Hat tools does any of us plebs have in this country have to compel reasonable behavior from board members? As far as I can tell in this country you're not even legally allowed to b…

I mean that's at best a wildcard when it comes to saving us from our own laws; it's not like our judicial system has literally ever consistently demonstrated good judgement. It's b…