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>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation. Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and who…

You're confused by the fact that people are fed up with various elites pushing for restrictive policies, then routinely bypassing and ignoring those policies when it comes to their…

Yeah, that's an annoying typo. Fixed.

This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in contr…

Gaslighers gonna gaslight. You don't need a Ph.D. to see this "research" was guided by motivated reasoning rather than genuine desire to figure out what is going on.

More like "I'm tired of anticipating the inevitable, while being relentlessly gaslit about its probability". Whether or not edX is sold to a third party, the underlying problems ar…

This is an excellent question/framing. The security model used in the industry right now is insane and doomed to fail, and yet it is relentlessly pushed forth and defended.

Good. Less cognitive dissonance for me. I can now more confidently and accurately say that the higher ed in US is dead and produces little more than fake credentials and political …

ECS (which I have not used) sounds a lot like Traits. The name and core concepts for Traits were defined in 2003 in an ECOOP paper [1]. I think traits were first implemented by Squ…

1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend f…

>In all my experience with OOP, it's always been inheritance that is the root of all evil. It's not, though, and the fact that people keep repeating this meme shows that most devel…

Alan Kay spent the last 40 years educating people on OOP and system design. His talks and research papers are now widely available on the internet. There are free, modern and easy-…

After seeing how Twitter nuked Unity 2020 campaign[1] using "authenticity" as an excuse, and how that garnered zero attention from either tech or political media, I am hyper-skepti…

Why does every article on mis- and dis-information I see on HN these days starts with some primer that encourages the audience to assume that it's predominantly the product of the …

This is a horseshit reply that tries to counter an observation about how something actually works with a contrived hypothetical about how something else could work in theory. It ig…

You are smugly describing your personal benefits from the system that is also used to spread massive amounts of propaganda, organize campaigns to socially ruin people and to coordi…

MDN should be a separate company. Personally, I'm no longer interested in supporting Mozilla in any capacity. Their management behaves in a way that's consistent with the idea that…

That's assuming that those companies want outside developers to be knowledgeable. That's a questionable assumption. If anyone here remembers how old Microsoft used to operate and w…

>Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say …

More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions. Assumptions that either changed over time o…

Could have something to do with literally all major sources of information in US showing ideologically-charged garbage in front of people who want to focus on other things in life.…

>The blue badge is one of the ways we help people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. This is gaslighting. That's not how blue checkmarks wor…

I see that you didn't get the memo. If an algorithm or a mathematical definition is made by a white man, it's by definition racist and sexist because it was made by a white man. En…

>Smallish non Chinese or Taiwanese company producing a mechanical keyboard with replaceable keys, QMK firmware, LED's and you are most times at a price around this. Like I said, LE…

I rarely use Discord these days, but when I need to link something next time, I'll use this service. (Discord still doesn't support hyperlinks.)