jhgvh's comments

Yes, it’s overwrought.

The vast majority of these restrictions are not slippery slopes. In fact, slippery slope arguments are themselves a category of logical fallacy.

I understand that many people are driven by fear and emotions, but you should get ahold of yourself and stop supporting irrational hysteria.

It’s typical for KTLO (keep the lights on) effort to be under 10% of an engineering team’s total load.

Normally this is so the other 90% of effort can go toward additional functionality; but there’s always the option of simply firing a ton of people and reducing the amount of feature development.

The discussion around the twitter purge was dumb because basically nobody involved had experience as an organizational leader.

Not really. The typical SDE or SDM from these projects delivered a bunch of good, working software. The product managers might have a harder time proving that they did their job well; but there's really no penalty for an SDE who chooses to support a longshot effort.

That said, the idea that the davelimp organization is given carte blanche for headcount and resources is laughably inaccurate.

Can you please tell me which of these mandatory warning messages you feel fails to convey that cigarette smoke, on the whole, is dangerous?

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-st...

Tobacco companies have paid out countless nine figure sums, smoking in public has gone from universal to mostly illegal, cig taxes have skyrocketed, etc…

Tobacco has been treated as a crisis, and I have no doubt that if cigarettes had been invented by one specific family, that family would be hated.

Weird that you don’t know any of this.

Your response is extraordinarily obnoxious given the actual search results, which include tptacek talking about charges being possible nine years ago and about him not being certain.

Your lack of integrity indicates that you should be ignored on all topics for all time.

I don’t know what your issue is, but you are extraordinarily dishonest.

Most unethical executives don’t actually commit fraud.

They don’t just steal the customer money and buy themselves luxury real estate.

The fix guys are in trouble because they were both very corrupt and very bad at creating even the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability.