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I am none of those things you mentioned (employee, shareholder, other vested interest), and I also find it annoying. It’s something Zuck said when he was much younger. If his views…

I’d love to see a category like “productively salty” which would do something like an h index ranking. Your score is the highest number n such that you have n salty comments with a…

Good advice. Within Google, they have backups that depend on no production infrastructure. Something as simple as an IRC server that is always running on prem can be invaluable.

I didn’t see anything about this in the article, so I ask here in the hopes that someone more knowledgeable can comment: how are they controlling for selection bias? Is there any w…

> Most people don't have enough knowledge to make an ethical judgement about it. I can’t say I agree. People are more than sufficiently knowledgeable to form broad strokes viewpoin…

If you work at Facebook these days, people don’t like you very much at the bar, the wedding or on the train. That you earn a lot doesn’t really help you when everyone dislikes you.…

Before I have seen the musings of a fund manager posted, predicting the next downturn. Apparently he’s been doing this since before the last downturn. His fund is barely above flat…

Heck, they probably saved more than that over the years just by failing to implement the compliance program. I can’t imagine such a program would cost less than 250k to implement o…

I think this problem is best solved by requiring that the state make amends for arrests which turn out to be incorrect. You lose your job? State funds two months of severance (more…

Military drone operators will be found on military bases in military uniform. They will be easily identified as soldiers if captured.

I don’t really get what makes this an amazing IPO. Afaict they left 33% of the money on the table. How is that a good thing for the company or the shareholders?

Doesn’t this depend on the person’s combatant status? I do suspect that enemy combatants in uniform are afforded the protections you mention, but I don’t think Assange can reasonab…

Tl;dr: definitely yes, although two philosophers disagree in their prognostications about whether anyone will actually build it. One thinks it’s too dangerous and expensive. The ot…

> And if you (actually) believe in equality, those affordances should apply to all. Assuming one actually believes it’s an affordance, as opposed to a pointless inconvenience and c…

If Google were that smart, it would be pretty impressive. But I doubt we are.

I wonder if people making this comparison will appreciate the irony if someday it proves that the same situation applies here (I.e. user error).

Even if they hadn’t, the PS2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time. It would have been a difficult competitor to go against.

If the retail investors don’t like the price, they are not obligated to buy. Caveat emptor. They wanted to make a quick buck, and I guess that’s fine. It’s nice to want things. I f…

> It serves as an important reminder that amid all the hoopla around trading debuts, small investors wind up taking a lot of the risk. Speculators take on a lot of the risk, whethe…

Well, maybe. Or it shows that they hired people who were relatively comp insensitive, possibly due to being unable to command higher wages elsewhere. Hard to know.

I suspect this is just stale data. I can’t think why the most recent version of a browser would put me at one in a thousand.

Does it really provide that much entropy? Maybe back in the days when browsers didn’t auto-update, but intuitively it should only provide about four bits at most (os: Android iOS m…

I like the original more without your embellishment. The addition sounds like every attempt at follow up humor on reddit.

You say “however”, but doesn’t this just reflect the same problem? There are a lot of people with phds who want these jobs, so they are willing to accept these adjunct positions. I…

> What I'm asking is if we as a public really want our payment processors to be making these moral judgements? Apparently we do, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.