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The American occupation of Japan may have been less punitive than Germany’s, but it was arguably more invasive: Japan’s postwar Constitution was largely drafted by Americans, with …

Nice! I haven't read Axiomatic yet, but this has been my "Greg Egan year". I have read Permutation City and Diaspora: maybe the two most stimulating scifi novels I have ever read.

Not totally related, but I wanted to make a question. Iam sure this post will host quite a lot of Culture fans. With which novel should I start with The Culture? The main two candi…

That quote from Banks only tells us that The Culture is his personal utopia. Fair enough, but Banks does not have authority over interpretations on his work. One man's heaven is an…

Location: Barcelona, Spain Remote: Yes. Also open to hybrid. Willing to relocate: no. More than happy to make periodic visits to any office, though. Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Java…

Location: Barcelona, Spain Remote: Yes. Also open to hybrid. Willing to relocate: no. More than happy to make periodic visits to any office, though. Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Java…

> I’ve noticed lots of rails developers optimize so heavily for making things DRY, they make the most hard to debug monstrosities full of meta programming all so they could write a…

Your experience is very different from mine. I rarely interviewed white candidates, but they were still more common than Hispanic and Black ones. The majority of the candidates wer…

I don't think that most of proponents of DEI share my opinion, but for me, the endgame of DEI (and antiracism in general) is the destruction of race as a social concept. IMO, race …

Could you share which supplements?

It must be terrible to live with this level of self-hatred.

Author of the presentation here. While you are right that sharding is an incredible tool that makes our lives much easier, not everything in our system is/can be sharded. Also, we …

Author of the talk here. Thank you, you made my day by sharing my presentation. :) One thing I would like to add after reading some of the comments here. The "1 billion requests/da…

I think he meant particularly Ginny and Clarence Thomas, not people of different races in general.

Spaniard here. Over 50k is definitely possible, particularly now with so many remote opportunities available. Unfortunately, those positions are highly-coveted, so prepare for long…

I'm sorry, but exactly which "medium-sized European city" has more expensive housing than SF? I'll be moving back to Europe this year, and I find your comment quite funny, given th…

I think that the racialization of Hispanics as a group has been pretty bad for "non-white" Latinos too. 1. You are right that someone that doesn't visually appear "white" will be r…

I read that book when I arrived to the US: really interesting. IMO, the activists that pushed the idea of the "Hispanic" race/ethnicity into the American mindset made a huge mistak…

I am a "Hispanic" that lives in the US. I am also European. In my experience what qualifies as an Hispanic varies incredibly from institution to institution, from person to person.…

I doubt that it can be taken seriously as a medical question, as some of the American "races" don't cluster genetically. Hispanic is probably the worst offender, but Asian is prett…

And yet Spain (and Italy) are relatively stable first world countries. Damn, I live in the US, and I would say there is way more hustlery here than back in Spain.

I kind of agree here, but the problem is that big tech is not even matching the "demographics of the people obtaining the necessary skills to work in that department". According to…

> It always felt condescending to me. I completely agree with you. Pity is a particularly disturbing version of contempt. But if you think that this contempt is only reflected in t…

You don't have to. It just helps significantly.