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I have evaluated it to the best of my ability and don't believe it's a majority by any stretch. Why would I reject the null hypothesis when there is no evidence for another one? Th…

Yes it is a straw man. In Atari's case the people working there enjoyed the culture and didn't have an issue with it. You can't say the same thing about slaves.

I don't understand why the standards[0] of 2018 are relevant to the culture of a startup in the 1970s. [0]: And these standards aren't broadly shared. Rather there's a vocal minori…

I doubt these ethics courses do anything to change people's behavior.

That's a poor approach to life. I've tried it.

I think you underestimate your capacity to commit a bad deed if you're in a situation to do so.

The only thing I use it for is messaging people whose phone number I don't have and a couple of groups that have events near me.

There is (or at least used to be) a menu next to people's posts that lets you stop following similar posts (or unfollow the person completely while remaining friends).

> Any way you look at doing software development as a career you come to see that it stinks. I'm not going to recommend it to my kids. What are the alternatives though? Lawyers wor…

Yep, I switched from fintech to another industry (still software development) and took roughly a 50% paycut to do so. It let me live in a much nicer part of the country (given my n…

This is the most perceptive comment in the thread. Based on moving from NYC to a much smaller metro area without any major tech companies I think you're right. Compensation here is…

Is there any evidence that people would be more productive without Facebook? I bet they'd just watch more Netflix. Edit: Plus, it's really not that hard to not use social media onc…

NYC metro area population is ~21M. It's way more dense than Colorado, so it's not surprising that a large company moving into NYC doesn't change it much.

I meant that having a publisher or distributor provides a lower bound for quality, not that it indicates high quality. There's plenty of crap published by legitimate publishers and…

I'm not saying the current system is perfect, but a lot of these "gate keepers" are performing useful functions. Particularly for things like books and movies a major publisher or …

No, I meant interest rates. There's an inverse correlation between interest rates and asset prices. Most governments have been keeping interest rates low since the financial crisis…

There are lots of problems with today's democracies, but the problems of the 20th century are on a completely different scale than the ones we're dealing with now.

I'd be interested to see the value of the stock market compared to interest rates. My bet is the market is only a little bit high if you account for how low interest rates have bee…

I didn't say anyone should be deported. I said immigration has downsides and you can't talk about it openly in the US.

This is absolutely true, and obvious to anyone open-minded who has spent time in those countries, but good luck trying to have any discussion about the downsides of immigration in …

You can't not play. Not playing just means losing faster because you don't know/don't care about the rules.

It's odd how little skepticism any of Musk's claims are met with. I can't imagine the situation would be the same for anyone else. (Not to say he hasn't had many impressive accompl…

I agree, and it also helps that most clinical psychologists try to get you to examine your own life and see what is going wrong in it to cause you to feel depressed or show you how…