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This tends to come up every time flat structures are discussed and it seems like such a failure of imagination that anything other than strict hierarchies could work, despite plent…

This is why we can't have nice things.

Given the top 10% holds 87% of shares, it seems clear the stock market is primarily a tool to compound wealth. Having a surplus of money is table stakes to play.

What if, and hear me out, we asked the people a new employee has been onboarding with? I know, trusting people to make a fair judgment lacks the ass-covering desired by most legal …

American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.

Unfortunately many providers don't expose all the state used to create certain resources through the API, so there's no way to download the real source of truth after the fact.

If your only exposure to static typing is six months of TS, what you are missing is experience. You're still on the learning curve and thus the cognitive load of explicit types is …

A poor manager in a structureless org is only going to have as much influence as their popularity allows. While this may cause damage, it pales in comparison to a bad manager in a …

I agree people are reaching for the limited power available to them, but the objections to cancel culture aren't usually around voluntary consensual boycotts but rather the use of …

Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.

Because nationality is an accident of birth and being unconcerned with causing harm to others is sociopathic.

If it's clear someone is not acting in good faith, I can think of three options: 1. Find out why and try to fix it 2. Fire them 3. Embrace the low-trust environment by trying to mi…

If Mastodon is any indicator, the Fediverse is already well optimized to create echo chambers.

I hate to say it but from my 20+ years in the industry, this is the norm.

Why should a small group of activists get to decide for everybody which statues are allowed to stand?

It tells you the company values process over efficacy. Interviewing, like practically any complex task is dynamic in nature. Following down a line of conversation with a candidate …

These kinds of attempts at language revision rarely have anything to do with the people supposedly offended by them; they are an excuse to gain moral standing. The goal is to advan…

Neutrality does not "implicitly support the status quo" unless you believe the status quo is stable or exists in a local maxima. That clearly isn't true however because the status …

I dry clean my suits. I thought that was the only way to clean them... am I missing something?

I think most people don't realize this given how normalized it is. Wealth is a mechanism of distributing limited resources, and thus profit seeking without concern for externalitie…

I have known very few managers who didn't routinely lie. The advantages of subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation are too tempting when trying to get something from someone.

One I'm interested in is graph databases powered with linear algebra (see GraphBLAS and RedisGraph). Putting the graph structure in a sparse matrix in GPU memory and doing matrix-m…

It's a fascinating set of priories that lead to these policies. "We trust you enough to run your code in production but we can't let you read another team's code because you might …

I wish they hadn't phrased it as "less advanced forms of life", but rather "earlier forms of life". It's a common misunderstanding that evolution favours what we humans would consi…

There's also this less generic lint: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#un...