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Location: Portland, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primarily backend engineering - APIs, databases (SQL and NoSQL), making complex systems work together. …

Every guy named Gary is named after Gary, Indiana. Gary Cooper named himself after the town, and then got very, very popular.

Well, programming is a tool, right? There are clearly incorrect ways to program, but that doesn't mean there's one correct way to program - because it depends on what you're trying…

> 100% land value tax will get rid of those too. How many divisions does Henry George have? It's not really relevant to bring in radical overhauls to our economic system when peopl…

> Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin Yes, which is not remotely the same claim as > Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election [and therefore Zuckerberg neede…

> Gen Z were heavily supporting Trump in the recent election What on earth are you talking about? 18-29 year olds were the most Democratic age group, as usual. 18-29 year old men m…

Did you just arrive from Mars to judge our discourse norms? It's completely typical to expect someone who makes a surprising factual claim to back it up with evidence. You're talki…

Something being in a business's best interests is very far from a guarantee that it'll happen. I've worked on a team in a household-name big tech company where our mission was almo…

Is there a known mechanism by which that happens? Or was it just a weird idiosyncrasy of her body and her diseases?

"Doctors won't mention that losing weight and exercising more will make you healthier" is quite a take. I've heard exactly the opposite from any number of people: that if you're ov…

> The Cosmic Crisp is a cross between Honeycrisp and Enterprise apples. So it's enterprise-ready. But is it webscale?

> But it's also not appropriate to lump them together and say "Big Pharma's critics are in the wrong." And accordingly, I didn't ever say that this was a good bill or all its criti…

As I said in a sibling comment, the fact that there are real concerns about something doesn't justify ignoring the truth value of inflammatory claims about that thing. If one perso…

No. But "new cars will have mandatory automated controls to prevent drunk driving, which may be implemented insecurely in a way that creates major vulnerabilities" (very reasonable…

You and afh1 seem to be reading both the article and my comment as focused on whether it's appropriate to characterize a device that prevents a car from starting as a "kill switch"…

> Media rushed to say it's not really a kill switch, just "sensors or cameras to monitor the driver’s behaviors, head or eye movements" and "block the driver from operating the veh…

I really enjoyed this phrasing, from the comments on the post: > I suspect the careerization of Big Science and Big Academia has a lot to do with [unwillingness to plainly admit er…

I wonder how long that site will be up, given his death. Hope someone mirrors it. It's interesting to read the Nicholas Kristof op-ed from 2006 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03…

Sci-Hub complied with the order with the intent to actually argue their case (and possibly establish a legal justification for the site), rather than just defying the order and con…

I agree with you in general, but this part is off: > which is low since that 500k isn't cash comp and you wait for long term capital gains to kick in Stock that a company gives you…

"Galaxy" is from "galakt", "milk" in Greek - so, arguably all of them?

This is the entirety of the post's description of the interviewer and the interview itself: > He introduced himself and we settled into the usual ritual of a phone screen. ... He g…

Nope, you're correct: he runs a startup and apparently has been running startups since his early 20s. > Please tell us briefly about your background. > I grew up in the Netherlands…

What a bizarre response from Google, a couple hours after this was posted: > @Reporter: As we are not very clear about the issue being faced by you, could you please elaborate on t…