How is there absolutely no further comment about that in their RCA? That seems like a pretty major thing...
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It’s the whole circle jerk about STEM being the ultimate degree fields in university, while humanities and liberal arts are looked down upon and sneered at.
Good engineers are right a lot very specifically within their technical competency.
Simply saying "good engineers are right a lot" has pretty clearly resulted in a large group of people who think that because they're right a lot about things within their field, that quality of 'being right a lot' extends to things outside of their field, and that is terribly wrong as often as not. The hubris and entitlement that I've seen engendered in people who take this creed too seriously is really something to behold. It's part of what directly leads to the 'techbro' stereotype.
No, Kyle, just because you're right a lot about all things relating to Rust does NOT mean you know a fucking thing about economics, healthcare, or whatever the hell else it is you espouse your strongly held opinion on.
My interpretation of OP's comments was as a call to sympathy. I'm saying I have very little.
Whether or not that’s enough to search him is another debate, but that’s what their thought process was when they decided to detain him.
If a researcher comes out and says, “Surveys show that people want X, and they do not like Y,” and then others ask the researcher if they surveyed people, the answer would be “no.”
Fundamentally, people wanting feedback from humans will not get that by using your product.
The best you can say is this: “Our product is guessing people will say X.”
As far as which instance to join, well, that’s kinda like email, too. Look at the instances that are out there (the email providers in this example, like Gmail vs Mailfence), see if you like their policies and moderation and community “vibe,” and join the one that suits you.
https://beehaw.org is a big one that I like very much. Not really any memes there, the user base tends more toward the mature and considerate, and overall the level of interaction feels much better than Reddit ever did, post Digg exodus.
If they paid their mods, it might be a different conversation.
No one on Reddit asked investors to come over and invest. They did so because they thought they could get a return. Well, that’s the risk of being an investor, isn’t it?
Reddit brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year ($550m is what I recently heard). Let’s not pretend that the community is at all taking advantage of Reddit, right? I’m firstly skeptical that a site like Reddit can’t turn a profit on HALF A BILLION dollars a year, but fine. Let’s accept that’s the truth. They could have worked with the community on this. There are things they could’ve done. They could’ve:
- engaged the community on the changes
- given devs more than a mere 30 days to figure something out
- responded to repeated requests by the devs to work together
- provided options to the community on various methods of getting more revenue in
They did NONE of those things. The CEO lied and spat in their faces.