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I get that. I'd be quite content to concede renaming master/slave in the linux kernel if that was the end of it. I think what I want to fight against most is the amount of distract…

Just to flesh this out a little, suppose my work has 5 Christians, and they all feel "abort" is an insensitive term? 1. Whose opinions count on the issue? Just Christians? All wome…

>> The trauma of being asked not to make rape jokes can't be compared to the trauma of being raped. ??? >>> Just do the right thing, is it worth the arguing? So I think your argume…

>> You don't get to feel ... I don't think you get to tell other people what they get to feel. I encourage working on your empathy here. Who gets to decide "what's polite"? What if…

I don't feel you're arguing in good faith. We should define "offensive language." How will we measure it fairly? Will we poll the english-speaking and set a thresh-hold? Because I …

My own take trying to express this dichotomy of second-hand versus firsthand knowledge https://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/682

Yeah, I'm curious if he burdens himself with our inane internet opinions (reads it)? Or if people manage to send him emails about it?

So thinking about that... One the one hand, suppose I log into reddit and see police officers clubbing some people drinking beers (this specific instance was in a foreign country).…

When I read this type of thing, I try my best to look for some basis to decide if it's fortune-cookie-nonsense or great advice. It's obvious to me that a person can care too much a…

>> But what if they fired them solely due to public outcry... It's interesting to me that this is always put on the outcrier and not the company itself.

Yes there is. What you do is have don't put any IO calls inside your pure functions, but rather pass in their results as parameters. Keep the impure code and the pure code separate…

One thing I've learned, is that unit testing seems much much more painful than it has to be when you are using too many classes. When you are writing code as pure functions (i.e. s…

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I hate this framing too. I don't understand all the hand-wringing over people losing money in the stock market. If you want to be mad about people losing money, be mad about the on…

I would turn down applicants who don't have this mindset. The last thing I need is a dev who never mastered postgres because they were too busy learning mongo.

- Don't delete accounts entirely when they are reported, just lock them. If it's not disputed delete them 1 year later. - Add a "reputability score" for every channel which is log(…

I don't know why you're downvoted, this is a pretty important topic. Well, I do know why you're being downvoted -- you're challenging an a very dear orthodoxy.

Ridiculous. Completely hypothetical argument devoid of any real-world considerations. Reducto ad absurdem -- A single crack-house can bring down the value of every house in the nei…

I've heard this hypothesis that groups tend to go down in quality for this reason -- 1. Group has an average quality. 2. People who have a much higher quality tend to avoid the gro…

As soon as those metrics are exposed though, people will start hacking them by purchasing older accounts, etc.

What are you talking about, that's absolutely a premise. To quote a huge heading "Should violent video games narratively justify their obsession with violence?" My response is that…

I absolutely reject a premise of this article, which I suppose is that violence in videogames is somehow bad or meaningful. They are best understood as toys or works of art, and th…

Yeah, but this is to some extent just an interesting side-note. At least I know several people who are liberals but don't agree with lacking "political correctness" being sufficien…

According to that article, those vaccines are on track for next year, which I believe is a year too late. >> Whether or not you quarantined, the economy would collapse because you …