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I won't argue whether it's accurate, but I think you missed the point. You can swap words around, and get the same for any demographic. The friend's perception of the poster would …

I think what this needs is a proper scan and vectorization. Author has a nice repo with other doodles: https://github.com/girliemac/a-picture-is-worth-a-1000-words I really wish th…

No. This is not true, and I think I provided a good reference to that effect (it's really quite a good documentary too). A US surgeon engaging in child abuse is a statistical anoma…

I think one of the problems here is a reality and perception don't align: - Apple has over a billion devices out there. - Child abuse is a rare problem, but with over a billion dev…

I think we'll see more globalization, but I think people overstate the level of the transition: 1) Done well, remote work is at least as effective as office-based. However, my expe…

For the Olympics, this impression is incorrect. It's at least as much a show as an athletics competition. Billions of dollars are on the line in the Olympics, and that's what it's …

If the athletes don't show up, there are plenty of others who will. Expecting athlete pushback to solve this is a doomed strategy.

Sex sells. The Olympics is fundamentally about eyeballs. Is it okay to have strip clubs? Is it okay to hire scantily-clad women for ads? In movies? Where are the lines? I'm not sur…

Perhaps not. 1) "Potential readers" is limited to people who can afford newspapers. NY Times runs around $520 per year in paper, at 2020 printing and delivery costs, and around $10…

I'd compare to other industries. My experience is perceptions of abuse and abuse are very different. What passes for abuse in software engineering would be a dream job in e.g. reta…

GOP isn't a person. It's a loose confederacy of people. For small government freedom-loving Republicans, go to e.g. parts of Texas. Utah is a religious conservative. That's an enti…

I cringed on every third sentence in the Google post. E.g. "People shouldn’t have to accept being tracked across the web in order to get the benefits of relevant advertising." This…

> Yes, but I guess I wouldn’t label them as scientific processes, which I would assume be in line with the scientific method. It's that exact assumption which is common, incorrect,…

This was not what I expected. I expected the standard line about how the general public should trust scientists, and a fight for a greater role of scientists in decision-making. It…

If they release 3D CAD models, connector part numbers, and circuit schematics, I'm buying one as my next laptop (when my current one fails or goes obsolete; not as soon as it's rel…

> I still, frankly, trust Google's Security more than Amazon's, but I don't encourage folks to use GCP the way that I used to. I trust virtually anyone's security over Google's. I'…

Maybe I went at the wrong time.... I went once, and decided to never come back again. Perhaps things improved.

No, I don't, and I advise other people not to. The baseline dozen-or-so services are awesome (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.). The massive number of newer services are propriety, often buggy, …

I haven't found AWS to be predatory. Or Azure for that matter. GCE also isn't so much predatory as incompetent and apathetic. If a Google failure wipes out your startup, you're a s…

Yeah. AWS is probably "losing" tens of dollars per month hosting my personal account. They've made a few million dollars in sales as a result. I've personally started several proje…

I think a lot of this discussion hinges on two roles of HR: 1) Risk management and mitigation, in which it acts like a police department. There are few checks or balances on HR pow…

Same-day shopping, returns, being able to look at things, and talk to people count for something too. I can't count the number of times when I bought a motherboard, and didn't real…

> Usually it's a win win, unless you value keeping control (which can be quite valuable) My experience is that it's usually overvalued. An external, focused company will usually do…

You don't read Frozen. You watch Frozen. You watch it in first grade through maybe through eighth grade, but probably at that point, you're too embarrassed to go to a little childr…

Frozen teaches kids all the wrong lessons. Shirk your responsibilities. Ignore your community. Focus on yourself. "Let it Go" is like an ode to everything I dislike about American …