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blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: What's the future of Servo?

> Thinking that the topic that concerns you personally is somehow universally special among the others is despicable arrogance.

You can disagree about political issues if you have an alternative position - if I think we should have a robust social safety net and you think we should eliminate welfare because everyone should work, at least you've articulated an alternate position where people can still survive. You can want to privatize the post office and mail still gets delivered. The issue with arguing about people's human rights is that there is no alternative. You're just saying some class of people should have less than others with no remedy

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: What's the future of Servo?

> Heck, let me be blunt: if you cannot have a strong mutual disagreement (or even rivalry) with someone, but cooperate with him on the unrelated topic if it is mutually beneficial, it means you are a child and your opinion shouldn't be listened to anyway

As another gay person, this is such a damaging view that cis het people take. My humanity isn't the basis for a "disagreement or rivalry". I don't owe anything to people who don't believe I should have rights. It's not an interesting topic to argue about at the bar, it's my fucking life.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus

STEM includes hard science and mathematics - is there that much more demand for math or biology majors than for any of the social sciences? A math undergrad seems just as likely to end up in a call centre or as an office manager

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams

IME the issue is that startup data modelling ends up in some ad-hoc framework that enforces a specific paradigm. When you try to adopt a standardized tool they don't ask "does this produce the right answer" but "can this do exactly what the old tool did", and usually it's not the case. Nobody can actually reason about the whole set of data from first principles anymore so they're forced to mechanically repeat the same exact process to get consistent results. Hell, the results might be wrong, or nobody uses them, but you don't have the tooling to detect that and you're too afraid to adopt it

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: ‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names

Or gay and trans? You can be both

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

I mean, 136MM is a million every two days so OP is dead on.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: TSA considers new system for flyers without ID

Have you read about all the improprieties at the NRA under LaPierre? He hired his wife and daughter and then expensed private jets for vacations because they were "doing work". He hired a contractor to pay his credit card bill to hide the fact that he was expensing hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothing.

You'd think people dedicated to gun rights would be mad that millions of their dollars went to enriching a dozen already rich dudes, instead of whatever the charity is for.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: That coworker who never stops refactoring

Personally when people move into the "dev tools" role they often seem to lose sight of the forest for the trees. They'll argue for an idealized workflow - everything has to have 80% test coverage, everything has to have tracing, everyone's editor needs an exact set of plugins. They start out fixing papercuts they've personally experienced and end up building tooling to solve problems nobody has.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should a Startup in the messy middle change TOS on every turn?

Drowning companies with mandatory binding arbitration claims is a relatively new tactic - when the ToS was written arbitration was favored because it had better outcomes for the companies writing the ToS. It's unlikely Patreon's lawyers could have predicted this very common contract provision would backfire.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India

How does this compare to the zoning process in America? It sounds like OP is trying to build a factory from scratch on land that isn't zoned for factories? It's actually surprising one person can just run back and forth and get all the paperwork versus hiring a lawyer to do it.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

The most powerful collective negotiator should be the government which represents the entire population. But the Republican stance since Reagan has been that the government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway

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blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway

My reading of OP is that it's bad to have a goal of "more Black founders", etc. because it's "unnatural" and "goes against meritocracy". We should simply continue the status quo because OP believes the system that rewards them must be the best and most just, equal possible system.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway

When you live in a country that was founded on racism, Jim Crow and redlining, where the president is saying we need to "take back the suburbs" (for white people only), how do you react to that? "Not my problem?"

When you see 1% of tech founders are black, you think that's just their preference? They don't feel like founding tech companies? Or do majority white VCs not offer them funding, and their majority white peer group doesn't take them seriously? Or maybe it's because Black households have tens of thousands of dollars less wealth on average because of discrimination

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: License Zero: Comments on “The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free”

I don't understand what this is even about? They didn't bother to get the original author's name right ("Nathan Robinson"), and they seem to be arguing with some strawman that every piece of creative output must be compensated? But there's no substance to that argument either, just a bald assertion that sometimes you don't get paid for things?

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue

"Make sure there's no black people depicted in the media by banning blackface". If only there was a way to buy ethnic food made by people from the culture and not a house brand with a white dude playing dress up.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: My Custom Payment Implant

There's a real difference between chopping a car in half and injecting stuff into your body.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

Time frame - if you need the money next year your risk tolerance is very different compared to if you need the money in 10 years. You can't minimize both risk _and_ return, there's no free lunch

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

For the 30% of Americans who rent it's not any of their net worth. But I agree it's weird to pick real estate as the only asset class. Introduce a progressive wealth tax and eliminate capital gains taxes in favor of taxing all income at one rate.

blahbhthrow3748 | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

You have to work with good companies that have a track record and clear policies. My last employer was pretty generous and timely AFAICT, including sometimes paying for stuff that was useful but clearly out of scope for the program.