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> This is false. Bridges are large and have failure cases that managers and government officials understand. They only think they understand. > Software is invisible and has failur…

I don't think emotion on its own is bad or good; but it's not something that a computer can emulate. You may get better decisions in some scenarios with certain stakeholders, and w…

You're really telling me that because you can't become a bazillionaire, you'll have no motivation to make money? You can structure a progressive tax such that the 83% rate only kic…

This is exactly the kind of centrist bullshit that caused the mess we’re in.

For better or worse, our economy is based on utter selfishness.

Absolutely agree — a computer algorithm can never capture the complex motivations behind human decisions. Two humans can have exactly opposite reactions to the same situation. Any …

Huh? Not sure what you’re trying to say, but privilege isn’t something to shame someone over. In my mind, understanding my privilege simply means that if I want to live in accordan…

I mean, excuse me for wanting to dismantle social security because I’ll never see a dime from it.

I’m not necessarily against a for-profit pharmaceutical industry... but I certainly am when the entire cost burden falls on us because the pharmaceutical companies band together to…

A citizen science model — which is what we de-facto have for anything that isn’t cancer — is more efficient and cost effective. As it is, if someone finds a new life-saving use for…

The biggest problem with “human intelligence” is that our memory is so short and influenced by emotion. Though judging by the amount of data created and lost over the last decade, …

I have a feeling that without the US market capable of paying a hundred thousand dollars a patient, many of those cost-ineffective treatments never get developed. People could stil…

I wouldn’t say it’s “just” a benefit of their business model; it’s the entire point. I don’t see Samsung making any of these moves. Any good product organization (and Apple is one …

That’s why I think whatever trust solution we come up with will have a heavy audit component to it. I know everyone here hates SOX compliance, but the entire goal of SOX was to inc…

Yeah, Apple had the foresight to see the next big thing in tech was going to be privacy. But I think it’s reflective of a larger societal problem: we don’t know who to trust anymor…

It’s pretty boss on a Vive Pro. You’re right, the extra resolution and screen refresh really help.

Because Elite delivers on a lot of the promises of Star Citizen, and it’s a mature, actively supported game with a dedicated player base that you can buy today. The fact that you c…

Yup, this is the real reason behind concepts like “10% time”. Play with new stuff on your side projects, not on production systems.

I would simply argue that traditional “system administration” is now the responsibility of development teams rather than ops teams (yeah yeah DevOps, but the “ops” part has changed…

The problem with blockchain is that a significant percentage of people who are bullish on blockchain are only bullish because they think it will negate the need for governance. The…

Agree in all cases. Bamboo was actually ok for a little while; but then they got rid of the cloud version which made it a bit more niche. I also like to plug VSTS in these conversa…

There is immense value to the intern just for being around; the biggest things software dev interns learn isn’t how to code: it’s how to code as part of a team . So check-ins, CI/C…

Most real internships pay under market rate, but not insanely low. A few years back, going rate for an undergrad CS internship was ~$25/hr or so. If you’re recruiting on campus, yo…

So that means we should encourage low-wage slavery?

Yeah; it’s actually pretty easy work. Interns have a lot of uncommitted time, and they’re going to leave soon so you don’t want to integrate them into the team too much. It’s also …