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I would not be concerned about them having my workplace's information if they did not have my personal information. I'm fine with them having personal information, or workplace inf…

Yes, because I use Duck Duck Go for browsing and my personal emails are generally not very revealing. Google certainly has a good deal of my personal information, but I purposefull…

Nope, the concern of the parent post was that they would link my work and personal profiles behind the scenes. I don't want to see work-related content pop up, but it's a secondary…

I try very hard to separate my work life and personal life. This would make me do one of two things: - Stop using facebook for personal purposes and treat it like a more featureful…

On the other hand, I've just been at a place where "invented here syndrome" masked crappy developers to the detriment of the business. One tester spent 3 days tracking down a simpl…

Anyone can cook. Will people pay me a living wage to cook? Will that wage cover lost income from being on government programs? Does cooking (given the relative difficulty of becomi…

Thank you for the link. I suspect we agree more than we disagree. It's good to be reminded that we can only falsify theories, not prove them. It's also good to check assumptions fr…

It's a form of culture jamming to disrupt the cognitive processes by which we accept things as "truth" or "reality". Can you express this a bit more clearly? "Culture jamming" is n…

Depends on how you look at the game. The point of the game for users is to catch pokemon. The point of the game for Niantic is to have users wander around, so they can make money v…

There is a big difference between pain you can reasonably expect to go away and pain you cannot reasonably expect to go away. Suicidal ideation is due to the latter, not the former…

I'm happy to admit it, and wish others were. But it seems there's a lot of convincing to do first.

2) I have some issues with (though I agree with the general direction). I would still describe science, art, etc. as a job (or at least any successful system will have to). There i…

(Disclaimer: I will vote for some candidate this election, but I would write in a name before voting for Trump.) I see this conflation in almost all the election news I hear - peop…

The important thing (which no fork can really change) is that the assumed likelihood of contracts having bugs went way, way up as a result of finding one critical bug so quickly in…

Agreed on the consensus; the nice thing about making decisions with a currency is that people can vote with their money. But I can buy other state-backed currencies today, some of …

Yep - I don't see the draw for new investors now. We know they will rollback contracts that are financially damaging enough, except with ETH there is no legal recourse in the case …

But it's a critically important minority - it's well researched that CEOs, bankers, and other highly successful types in business have sociopathic traits. (I attach no moral judgme…

"given that empathy is wired into our cerebrum" is not a universally true statement. What about sociopaths?

"I believe it is part of our human nature to care for other humans." That only works for some people. Where do sociopaths fit into your worldview?

"I was horrified to see how a society so prosper can be so dehumanized." In fairness, where should their morals come from? I'm not religious myself, but it seems that for all their…

I would fire them too, with these reasons: 1. The interns saw a dress code violation and escalated immediately, without informing the out-of-line employee. From the original blog p…

"Keeping everyone in shape to handle crises they're likely to never actually see is, arguably, an enormous waste of money." This point, while true, depends heavily on the consequen…

Why are their targets other AI fighter pilots? That's a very, very big assumption. Can we safely assume that the AI pilot won't target buildings/ships/etc.? Even if we assume a wel…

I imagine that a lot of leave voters hoped that this will make them richer in the short term (though reality seems to be sinking in). I think the more compelling argument is one th…

But it is wrong. And Theil got revenge by backing a lawsuit which stood on its own merit - which also isn't illegal.