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It’s not about feeling better but likely that the company had a Rooney rule. Your friend was how they got around that while on paper complying to avoid internal political issues.

Does that include those working for a company that gets tax breaks?

> Also in moderately big to big companies, is all about contacts and personal marketing, which could (and typically is) orthogonal to your actual work. As you go up the levels that…

I think the important distinction is "doing the responsibilities of the level above yours" and "doing them well." These are actually very non trivial since many people don't actual…

Were you simply doing more of the same or were you actually doing the job of the level above you? Those are not the same.

As I've seen it younger engineers simply focus a lot more on money and their career growth versus the product or whatever their own sense of "the right thing is". That makes the st…

In my lens the only true score is the collection perception of the score. Not a number, not a formula and not what you think the score is. There is no external absolute counter you…

It’s got nothing to do with values but value. Are you doing things that provide value. Once you realize the only measure of that is how other people perceive what you’ve done it’s …

There is no objective score and thus people are perfect at it since the score is by definition what other people think it is. Like the value of money or stocks. Once you realize th…

It’s not a scam. It’s a system that exists for people and made by people. Period. Money, outcomes and so on only have value because people assign them value. If you remove people t…

The negatives don’t change the inherent demand from people for AI.

Yet somehow ChatGPT has almost a billion users. Thats a lot of tech bros.

Or that the vast majority of people don't actually value their own productivity and time that much. Which given the popularity of social media and people not paying a few dollars t…

And that's fine, this site has rules and the mods follow those rules. I am free to say things but I am not guaranteed a platform to say them on. My usage of the term is just as ina…

The core of the argument is that they say the rules are X but the actually mean they are Y. That has nothing to do "freedom of association" but simply with being two faced liars. W…

We're discussing this in regards to an article where the obvious "solution" was found by the government to this very approach. You're free to build it that way and we're free to pu…

You cannot have true e2e encryption on a secure device and comply with a wiretap warrant without a backdoor of some kind somewhere.

> There were many decades where phones didn't have back doors. Your cell phone provider almost certainly will respond to a valid warrant and wire tap your non e2e encrypted phone c…

> bad faith > So we have a better sense of these things. Classic "bad faith, I'm done" when pressed into a corner after your No True Scotsman didn't land. > constantly inserting “o…

I find it fascinating that saying "we're not yet an actual dictatorship" is seen as complacency. > Of course, my family escaped a dictatorship and made our home in the US. So we ha…

They boy who cried wolf. We are a dictatorship and we are headed towards a dictatorship are not the same thing. Saying the former when the reality is the latter means your message …

Your point being?