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Not every gas station, convenience store and pharmacy is stocked with aisle after aisle of cocaine. I don't know I would call it 'evil' but I agree it is a system most people are f…

We call this "code archeology" at my company. We're more diligent about ticket descriptions these days, but we weren't always. Obviously the best is to be able to to talk to people…

You can absolutely disincentivize unethical behavior through legislation though, whether they believe it at the core of their being or not. See slavery, murder, rape, robbery, etc.…

A little tangential since this is more about gating white supremacist content than violence or sex, but I was on 4chan when it was being infiltrated by genuine white supremacist or…

> It cant be abused for euphoria Depends on the drug, vyvanse can't really be, but focalin can.

That's not really whataboutism. They're not justifying it, they're supplementing the relevant point by saying development in areas of moral controversy are quite common even in mor…

I've also read about various image hosting tools, such as apps for creating wallpapers, being overrun by pornography because communities where pornography is banned found it bypass…

Unfortunately the sunk cost fallacy is often rational when you consider reputational consequences of the individuals making decisions within the company. It's pretty easy to spin a…

I feel like that might be an organizational problem. At my company the designers will present their figma designs to engineering and we'll have a meeting to go through them and bri…

It's a low effort SEO technique. Google uses time spent in site as surrogate metric for quality, so Goodhart's law applies.

I think Amazon Robotics does some of this stuff.

I would recommend "Software Foundations" also by Pierce. It covers a lot of the same material but in Coq. I found it much more approachable not having as much of formal background.…

Very neat. It reminds me of the writer monad.