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This is obviously not what people mean when they use the word. You've "resolved" the difficulty by just avoiding it.

A company is not separable from the regulatory environment and culture in which it's based. A British company opening a diamond mine in Botswana is a very different story from a Na…

> If it is legal in the US, it should be legal for everyone That's a strawman. No one is arguing against that. How a resource is being used by foreign corporations is an important …

It's wild to me that we frame legitimate concerns as xenophobic. The second sentence explains why the nationality matters: > Some farms are foreign-owned and are shipping the crop …

> I didn't notice anything different about addresses I mean.. they don't have any. So maybe you didn't pay attention. Sure, if you're typing in the name of a tourist destination, t…

Indeed. If former employee startups were the major concern, they wouldn't pay so much. It's financial independence from working at faang that enables lots of devs to leave to start…

This may be true, but it doesn't explain the problem. If there's a bigger problem with bullshit today than in the past (and the article certainly does zero work to convince us of t…

Maybe tell us how?

I prefer it more concisely: It's all about incentives.

> if Obama and Pinker are bullshitters, I'm not sure the label has much meaning They aren't. Nathan J. Robinson (author of this article) is. Here's the full quote from the Obama sp…

Systems of Engineering Management. Leaving out the of makes it sound like a much more interesting book, IMO ;)

> In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT. But why? These ideas are elegant but usually not practical. Performance usually ends up forcing us back to ole faithful (mu…

The fact that it could not be otherwise doesn't make it incoherent to say that you didn't choose your genes. What's the underlying point you're trying to get across? It doesn't see…

> The child is more akin to the reward the lottery gives out than the person getting the lottery. You seem to be missing the point that we are stuck with who we are. Our mental and…

Nothing about the parent's comment assumed a metaphysical identity. It's unambiguously true that no one chose their genes or their childhood environment. That statement doesn't req…

It's just a dumb name to represent an idea. "an era of increased skepticism towards the idea of objective truth" is the idea.

I think it's more correct that people appreciate being liked. If you don't feel liked by this person, you'll gravitate to a different person. Calling it "servility" is really stret…

It needs to be subtle. So maybe "profuse" is the wrong word. For example, throwing in phrases like "with your experience, you would know that..." or "that thing you said was hilari…

Servile or mysterious? That doesn't resonate with me at all. Could that be a function of your personality and not a widely applicable thing?

> there will be some blur for anyone with less than absolutely perfect eyesight. Computer graphics are meant to be perceived through human eyeballs. So we can count on the eyes con…

> I can't just read every document the company has on the topic in vain hopes for the answer. If your documentation doesn't have a search feature, that's the first thing you need t…

This article doesn't support its claim. It references an article that claims Google asked managers to rate a certain percentage of employees as poor performers . But the claim that…

First thing I always wanna know with these things is what happens with my data after your servers die? Why? How often does anyone do anything with the data they've exported from so…

> The code is not transformative because the quoted code is not used for some other purpose like as part of an article discussing whatever the code does, it is used to do exactly i…