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What?! Everybody is very slow to update their outage pages because of SLAs. It's in a company's financial interest to deny outages and when they are undeniable to make them appear …

Obviously this is "hey HR we need to layoff 900 people, what can we do to make it their fault?" Maybe it's a reasonable cover your ass move but comes off very slimy.

Also if it works it works. I think people worry too much about a solution being a placebo. Yes, it may be that your solution only worked because you believed it would work. But tak…

Unlikely but if they offered it on their own stuff it could create a trend. And increasingly they are losing the quality content that they didn't produce themselves.

What would you blame/credit this problem too? On the flip-side. Since I've had 3 or 4 years of experience on my resume, I've gotten interviews for about 1 in 10 applications I sent…

Haha yeah. What an asshole move.

Absolutely. To be really certain you'd have to test your soil. I don't think you could test seeds without destroying them. But if your soil was clean then you could grow a plant fr…

I thought the Colorado law was about base pay? Personally I don't care about stocks on a job posting. I consider stocks to be worth 0 when considering offers unless it's a public c…

I think you hit the nail on the head. This seems to be aimed at investors more than anyone else.

But to what end? Gathering more data on a problem you don't know how to solve won't give you a solution to solving it. We don't have any evidence to support that current AI is capa…

This would be easy to fix with legislative that makes property taxes much higher for investment home properties. I don't think I've ever heard of a politician even talking about th…

Context is everything. Writing an app that going to do like 3 things? Keep it barebones. Writing an app that will eventually be 100k lines of code that runs a business. Spend a lot…

Great thing about using DDG is you can have both. In my experience DDG is fine for general information but Google is better for very specific information. But DDG supports !Bang. S…

And what did censoring the theory do? It made actual researchers and scientists shut up to not hurt their reputations. And made internet conspiracy conspiracies go crazy in all dir…

I think this is the best argument for these lists that I've heard. Forcing this stuff out into the light helps the system get fixed. This is a pattern I've seen in internal tools d…

And reality isn't a heist movie. Most heirs are not going to attempt to murder for the money. They normally are already enjoying that wealth. And if the money maker stays alive it …

SpaceX employees haven't gone to space. Just NASA astronauts on SpaceX rockets. And this privately paid for mission coming up. I don't think it's the CEO's job to be a test pilot. …

No. But it's just a demo. In perfect conditions if you run it 100 times this is the result. In the real world they have no application as they fail pretty much always in real condi…

I would take this a step further and say that all social media recommendation algorithms should be publicly reviewable. The claim is that this algorithms are neutral. But we know m…

Court precedence. Like pretty much everything else judges would have to define the lines over decades through court cases. I'm not sure if it should go that way. I don't like the i…

Michael Crichton wrote a great piece on this called "Why Speculate?" https://americandigest.org/long-read-week-speculate-michael-... Experts are so often wrong on their economic pr…

> and that governments and other major interests will go to almost any lengths possible to keep distorted markets propped up. This here is pretty key. Those on top will do just abo…

Yes. People see something dumb and decide the designers and business people involved are idiots. But often the business people and designers have very different goals and know that…

Personally I find it pretty predictable which queries duck duck go will fail on. Basically very niche ones. So I just prepend based on what I'm searching for to begin with instead …

The entire idea that "x workers don't care about safety" is just dumb. Yes some individuals care less than they should. But every job has some people who are smart enough to value …