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I worked on a compliance effort for a large-ish American tech company. Imagine a lot of boxes and arrows diagrams and plausible deniability. I was told we had to "balance risk", wh…

Even for the behemoth companies that are able to harness AI, it seems like the domains are a) heavily constrained b) fault tolerant. For example, voice assistants - they have very …

Anything can go to the supreme court if you try hard enough: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mandamus But also yes, the Supreme Court has discretionary appeals jurisdiction over an…

Versioning schematics and manuals is actually a great place for version control in manufacturing. One of my first projects out of school was a web app where our engineers could doc…

But compare that to trying to say whether that system is "Democrat" or "Republican". Either party could advocate for that policy, or the inverse policy, and they could change their…

>Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and worke…

The situation is similar in Canada - a significant number of people would support the NDP, but they're viewed as a spoiler. In my parent's riding, for instance, 55% of people voted…

> I’m not a liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, socialist, capitalist. I’m an independent individual, not a category, and I can vote for whoever I think is best. "Socialis…

Anecdotally, a lot of people I know who have trouble losing weight drink diet soda. I don't know what mechanism would cause that, but metabolism and satiety are complicated enough …

You seem to badly misunderstand what "data engineer" means. IME the role is basically infrastructure up to custom ETL jobs. It is a specialized strain of software engineering.

The protests have been very small, despite the media doing their best to promote them. If you look at someone like Doug Ford, the extremely conservative, pro-business premier of On…

What are personal health metrics but the inverse of personal mortality metrics?

My value is "I want to have enough money to provide for my family". One way of achieving that is by getting a big lump sum payout, at the risk of future employability. The other is…

People can be unhappy about more than one thing. My point is that the "value experience over comp and comfort" perspective was drilled into me when I was starting out, and it defin…

To be clear, I'm not being anti-semitic. Jon Stewart, to me, is emblematic of everything wrong with liberal politics in the United States. He spent 8 years dunking on George W and …

One anecdote: I had a very cushy position at a post-IPO startup that was taking off. My initial RSUs had appreciated by 5x by the time I left. Every time they vested I took the mon…

> how there were no “umms or likes” I observed (makes sense, they would be intelligent speakers) Some of the justices get their questions out ... very ... slowly. I don't know if y…

> The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher So this guy is like a pre-cog for detecting smug assholes? How can we harness this power for good?

Those things are so unrelated, maybe you should just meditate on why your mind went there? They do make pills to change your gender, you know.

> A report claims women in immigration centers are being given unnecessary procedures that can leave them unable to conceive. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/unwant…

> The US has concentration camps for blacks, native americans and immigrants, where they reeducate you to follow a tyrannical political system? What do you think the school-to-pris…

Pastors explicitly preach about morality. TV writers and producers make TV shows. Those happen to influence the boundaries of public opinion, but they don't explicitly profess to b…

I have the inverse - I started at a place that has hundreds integration tests that require a database, k8s, the whole shebang. No mocking anywhere. Tests take an hour to run, are e…

Not a lawyer but as a Canadian working in Canada you don't. You will want one when you travel to the states to meet your team, but you can do that on a TN issued at the border prov…

The Bloomberg website is 100% a vanity/halo project that makes Bloomberg (the man) and Bloomberg (the company) seem relevant. The terminal business is such a cash cow that they can…