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7 years ago
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on: Another Side of MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women
Rape and sexual assault come to mind, since that's what happens far more often than blackmail for petty ends. Plenty of studies have shown how bunk your claim is. It is a sexist conspiracy theory.
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7 years ago
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on: Another Side of MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women
The professors ruining the students' life through traumatic actions done to the students, right? I'm sure that's what you meant.
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9 years ago
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on: Uber's 'hustle-oriented' culture becomes a black mark on employees' résumés
That's absurd and offensive on a lot of levels... The thing anyone in a protected class wants is to not be judged on that as a factor one way or the other. People working at Uber are "struggling" because their perceived ticket to the stars is looking kind of bad; they wish there were getting offers left and right for working there, because plenty of people get jobs on the basis of their last company.
You get judged in interviews, and it is a best case scenario if it is over recent stuff you had control over.
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9 years ago
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on: In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares
A lot of TNC drivers have cameras pointed into the car, some (but not all) with signs indicating the passenger is being filmed. It is even more standard in real taxis. The expectation of privacy is more that such footage in any of the mentioned circumstances would never be released unless it captured someone committing a crime or something similar.
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9 years ago
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on: Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
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9 years ago
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on: Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
Bear Stearns didn't fail due to fraud, it failed due to not adequately tracking and assessing the risk of its assets. It is worth noting that there have been serious allegations made a few weeks ago against Snap that they are lying on the S-1.
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (2014)
This last presidential race more or less started 2 years ago. If he were to run for President for the election in 12 years, he'd more or less start running in 10.
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9 years ago
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on: Study finds more extreme storms ahead for California
This story is about extreme storms. The example storm mentioned from 2014 occurred in the worst of the drought, caused all kinds of issues, but it didn't fix anything. Both future droughts and more extreme and frequent pineapple expresses can co-exist because of climate change. MIT et al. shouldn't have to explain that in every press release made involving the climate.
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9 years ago
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on: Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco
Uber has the garages for both Otto and these cars on Harrison, between 3rd and 4th streets, on the side of the lanes headed to I-80W/101S. When they need to park either, particularly the semi-trucks, they get people in vests to come out, stop traffic for pretty much all lanes of traffic, and slowly park their delicate vehicles.... Glad to see this story.
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest
Trump is also unique from pretty much anyone else in government with regard to conflict of interest law, as is part of the discussion now. Given the term mentioned was two years for Zuck, he couldn't be president and remain in control of Facebook.
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9 years ago
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on: The Manhattan Project Fallacy
The Manhattan Project had nearly unlimited resources at a time of scarcity, and it took enormous engineering risks. The risk component is something easy to overlook, but these were enormous infrastructure projects by any standard done at scale without much chance to prove them, and they were accomplished in incredibly short time-frames.
Could you imagine someone building a full-scale, power generating fusion reactor off a new and untested design in a about a year? More to the point, could you imagine someone funding that?
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9 years ago
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on: In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute
Soil liquefaction is the real risk during earthquakes. Clay absorbs the energy and shakes a great deal more, and the soil can potentially destabilize further and allow structures to sink in.
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9 years ago
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on: In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab
Facebook's hardware also includes the open compute project, which is quite the opposite of locked hardware
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9 years ago
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on: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
Ballot props are far more regular in CA than headlines suggest. The requirement for signatures keeps dropping as voter turnout drops, and it doesn't take that many resources to get something on the ballot. An appealing title and description make it fairly easy to get a lot of maybe not so great spending passed, despite reasonably good efforts to keep voters informed. I don't know that the overall function is that different from what you describe, given that there isn't really a strong opposition party in the state, but it is hard to get the majority of people to really think critically about 5 different obscure spending packages.
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9 years ago
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on: California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down
These are baseless associations. Perhaps Diablo Canyon and PG&E aren't flawless and honest, but you aren't establishing risk. Do you have some reason to believe there is a meltdown risk?
I don't really think a reactor being retired at 40 is the worst thing (though I'm sure it could be run longer), but have you spent as much time worrying about the oil refineries within miles of fault lines all throughout the state (think the numerous oil refinery explosions that occur regularly worldwide)? What about oil train explosions (think the other oil train explosions)?
People express serious concern for some of the most outlandish, obscure risks on any project if it somehow involves the word 'nuclear.' Every project. A lot more lives could be saved if the same effort was used to create real safety standards on oil, coal, and gas.
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9 years ago
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on: California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down
That there is an earthquake risk doesn't mean it isn't properly dealt with. The plant is built to withstand significant seismic risk, 10 times more than the faults around it could produce. That's right there in the wikipedia article you linked to.
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9 years ago
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on: This is not a place of honor
The funny thing about the horrible post-dystopian future scenario is how many far greater nuclear threats could exist. Assuming the cause of said horrible future isn't caused by nuclear war already, what would happen to all the more potent nuclear material and weapons scattered about? These places are comparatively quite accessible, and the sites communicate that the objects are highly valued. You're right, focusing on the wrong things.
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news feed, documents show
If you look at the totality of content many news organizations put out, there are a great number of slightly edited corporate press releases of the sort you are mentioning, and people read such things.
It is also worth noting that FB trending topics can be tuned.
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10 years ago
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on: Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him
With roads north of the arctic circle. It looks like it would be difficult to do that without crossing into either Sweden or Finland too, which would be an issue for Snowden.
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10 years ago
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on: Should All Research Papers Be Free?
Nationally-funded research that's published in expensive journals is still very much available to the rest of the world. That's true with about anything that's published...
