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That's not fair. She left the Wall Street Journal because they didn't want her to write anti-Trump op-eds.
https://reason.com/2018/01/28/bari-weiss-it-was-heartbreakin...
She famously left the NY Times after defending the publication of a contrarian op-ed by (Republican) Sen. Tom Cotton.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5563786/bari-weiss-cbs-...
Although apparently not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel as a comedian, her Free Press objected to his suspension. "... the FCC’s coercion undermines our most fundamental values"
https://www.thefp.com/p/jawboning-and-jimmy-kimmel-free-spee...
And on the same topic, the FP editors wrote: "At last, something we can all agree on: Pam Bondi has no idea what she's talking about."
https://www.thefp.com/p/pam-bondi-vs-the-first-amendment-fre...
For president, she has voted for Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.
It's fair to call her a centrist.
But the gallery takes 50% leaving you a gross income of $12k. Then you pay for your supplies and work expenses. If that's all you do, you end up way below the poverty line.
But it was kind of nice being able to pay my mortgage and my kid's college tuition.
It didn't work that way on projects I led. Maybe everyone at Anthropic is a "10."
I was lucky when I had one person who could do that ("deeply understand the root goal and can autonomously choose the most important next things to work on"), who could take over if I went on vacation or got hit by a bus.
But I had reports who just wanted to work in their area of specialization, and had no curiosity whatsoever outside that. Or the guy who, no matter what I said, would never tell me when he had finished something - the only way I found out would be when I walked past his cube and saw him reading a science fiction book.
Don't tell me I should have just fired them, and gotten someone better. They did useful work, contributed to the project, and they were what the company had to work with. A big part of management is figuring out what people can do, want to do, are capable of doing in the future if encouraged.
Phillip G. Armour The Five Orders of Ignorance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27293624_The_Five_O...
I keep a paper notebook not because it is efficient, but because it wastes my time in a very particular way. The pen skips when I write too fast, the margin fills with crossed-out sentences I decide not to rescue, and every page records how sure or unsure I was when I showed up that day. None of this scales, and none of it generalizes into advice, which is precisely the point: the notebook proves to me that I was there, thinking something that cost a little effort to hold. A clean, fluent summary of my week would be more legible and more shareable, but it would also launder away the hesitation, the bad ideas, the lopsided emphasis that marks the difference between having an experience and reporting one. What I get from the notebook isn’t polish; it’s the quiet assurance that I didn’t outsource the thinking.
The ones that plug in to a lighter socket (which sometimes require the car to be running or the ignition switch in ACC position), or have to be clipped to the car battery are not as convenient.
Similar to one I heard about navigating this sort of thing: “People have to gather their own data.”
(I've been trying for a year with no luck - a few times I've gotten on the wait list for a purchase, but never successfully.)
I think this should also apply to people who come up with or choose the software development methodology for a project. Scrum masters just don't have the same skin in the game that lead engineers do.
In the end, if a junior is repeatedly not responding to appropriate guidance or advice, then that junior should be gone from that position. Same for a senior who is repeatedly dispensing inappropriate guidance or advice.
But it requires careful analysis of the situation before such a drastic course of action: is there a communication problem, a training problem, a mistake in evaluating abilities?
A senior should be able to navigate cultural and technical differences competently. A junior should understand that that the ones with responsibility for a project also have the authority to make decisions about the project, which should be honored.
I don't think so.
Look at sea level: 125,000 years ago, sea level was 8 m higher. 20,000 years ago, sea level was 130 m lower. [0]
So over the past 200,000 years sea level has varied ~ 138 meters. It hasn't varied that much over the past 100 years.
Mack was awarded the contract to build the truck in 1964 and by the end of the year, the unit was nearly ready to hit the streets of NYC.
Seems amazingly fast by current standards. Those were the days!
Israel analyst Dan Shueftan put it this way:
“I cannot imagine the actual disarming of Hamas. They're willing to go back to war to prevent it.
They're willing to have every Gazan die, literally every Gazan die to prevent it. And right now we're in the middle of a period in which they 10 days ago they had 28 bodies of dead hostages. They now have 13.
They are slowly releasing them one or two a night. Now, why are they doing that? They claim it's because that's how long it takes them to find them.
Nobody believes them. What they're doing is they're buying time because as long as they're handing up one body at a time, the first phase, the hostage release, is still happening and nobody moves to the second phase, meaning they're not violating the second phase as long as they're still bringing out those hostages. And what are they doing with the two, three, four weeks that they're buying by dripping out the bodies this way?
They're retaking the ground, destroying any opposition.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-haviv-anything/id1...
I'm here to tell you that you won't, unless you make an effort.
(Of course, I remember the guy who was in a group I ate lunch with in grad school who ended up running Google 25 years later; I don't know if he remembers me...)
In my long programming career I feel I did most of my programming nonverbally - large programs always felt I was sculpting a big chunk of stone rather than writing an essay.
Once it was done, I had no problem describing it, discussing it, documenting it, etc. But the actual task of programming felt like it was going on the non-verbal part of my brain.
These were mostly big programs, by the way: hard-real-time, or machine control, or threaded C++, or scientific data processing.
I found my style to be generally incompatible with pair-programming - except for pair debugging once my or someone else's code was written, that I did find useful.
"Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive against Gaza in July and August 2014, according to a new report by Amnesty International."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestin...
This Al Jazeera reports on the subject of the above Guardian article adds significant additional information regarding the potential origin of these bodies:
"It remains unclear whether the bodies were dug up from cemeteries by the Israeli army during its ground offensive or if they belong to detainees who were killed during the Israeli assault. Throughout the war, Israel’s military has exhumed bodies as part of its search for the remains of captives.
...
Many appeared decomposed or burned. Some were missing limbs or teeth, while others were coated in sand and dust."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gaza-medics-signs-tortur...
Not exactly.
A conservative Arab party was part of the ruling government coalition in 2021. They joined with a wide spectrum of political parties seeking to defeat the Likud Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Indeed, Israel is a democracy, and things have in fact changed over time. These changes in Israeli public opinion have been based largely on the actions of the Palestinians.
There was optimism about peace in 2007, after the withdrawal from Gaza: 70% of Israelis supported the two-state solution. After the Hamas massacres in 2023, there was 70% opposition to the two-state solution.
I don’t think people who leave school being unable to read are likely to end up with a very good life either.
But I cannot accept an off-hand suggestion that Hamas is in any way inclined towards peace with Israel. That is completely untrue, and I consider it dangerous to let that pass unanswered.
Falsely thinking that Hamas does want peace is an attitude that will not lead to peace, it will lead to more wars in the years to come.
That's something that the UK, Canada, and France all recognize, by the way. None of them want to see any role for Hamas in the future either.
You are, perhaps, not alone in thinking that Hamas has or has EVER had "peaceful" intentions, so I felt it called for a detailed justification why that was an incorrect position.
What's laughable, is to complain about "one-sided list of grievances" in a post on this issue. Have you seen any of the discussions on HN on this topic in the past two years?
What movement towards peace?
June 10, 2003 — Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi says in an interview with al-Jazeera: “By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews’.”
June 25, 2006 — Hamas militants enter Israel via a tunnel, disable a patrolling Israeli tank, kill two of its four-man crew, seize another crew member, Gilad Shalit, and drag him back to Gaza.
June 7, 2007 — Hamas wins a brief but bloody civil war against Palestinian Authority rule in the Gaza Strip and ousts all Fatah officials.
January 4, 2010 — For Hamas, power is more important than leadership, according to al–Ahram: “Here, we have to direct the following question to Hamas and its leaders: Is power more important to you than the suffering of the Palestinians which you claim to be concerned about? If the Palestinian people are suffering terribly, then relinquishing power, in fact merely returning the PA to the [Gaza] crossing points, is a small price to pay. If not, then this means that the [Hamas 2007] coup and capturing power is more important to you than that suffering.”
April 8, 2011 — “The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth because they have displayed hostility to Allah,” former Hamas Culture Minister Atallah Abu Al-Subh says on Al-Aqsa Television.
December 8, 2012 — Less than three weeks after Pillar of Defense, the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, marks the anniversary of Hamas’ founding by reiterating that the organization will never accept Israel and by calling for its elimination. Israel’s demise remains a core element of Hamas ideology and fervor.
May 5, 2014 — Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy chairman of Hamas’ politburo, says in Al-Monitor: “Hamas will never recognize Israel. This is a red line that cannot be crossed. We would have spared ourselves seven years of misery under the siege and two wars in 2008 and 2012 had we wanted to recognize Israel. … The al-Qassam Brigades’ weaponry is of national importance to confront the occupation. Hamas’ position in this regard is clear, and it will not allow any tampering with the brigades’ armament, under any circumstances, because it is a strategic asset for all Palestinians.
July 25, 2014 — Former head of Saudi intelligence Turki al-Faisal holds Hamas responsible for the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip because of its arrogance. He writes in the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat: “The knowledge that the people of Gaza would be subjected to a savage bloodshed and suffering should have put limits to Hamas’ arrogance, but it did not. Moreover, Hamas’ readiness to cause a huge amount of suffering before the inevitable return to a truce or a cease-fire clearly exposes the abyss of unconcern into which it has fallen.”
July 14, 2019 — “There are Jews everywhere. We must attack every Jew on planet Earth! We must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help,” Hamas politburo member Fathi Hammad says at a rally on the Israel-Gaza border, as quoted by the Gatestone Institute.
May 26, 2021 — “I’d like to use this opportunity to warn the Zionist occupation and its leaders. We support the eradication of Israel through armed jihad and struggle,” Yahya Sinwar says
I think everyone knows what happened in 2023.