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According to Wikipedia, Uber has about 12,000 employees. Especially given how bad things apparently got, it seems reasonable to require a few layers of oversight to achieve lasting positive change.

You might want to check out Stoicism, the philosophy, which has a lot to say about emotions. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci is a pretty good intro. You can also try diving right into original sources like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, or the Enchiridion by Epictetus, or something by Seneca. There are many translations for all of these.

These are not mutually exclusive.

From the article, third paragraph: "But funding for classrooms has been shrinking for years in this deep-red state as lawmakers have cut taxes, slicing away hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue in what some Oklahomans consider a cautionary tale about the real-life consequences of the small-government approach favored by Republican majorities in Washington and statehouses nationwide."

This article isn't at all about how sad the author is. It's a fairly abstract essay about the rise of alogorithmically-defined identity, and some of the ramifications of that.

Here's one bit of anecdata in response. I've tried to disconnect from social media and get out in the real world. I took an improv class in NYC with about 15 other people, a range of ages & backgrounds. On the last day of the class, a number of the students were asking around for Facebook profiles to keep in touch. When asked, I replied that I didn't have a Facebook account anymore and it was...awkward, to say the least. Like, giving someone an email or a phone number seems much more formal and/or like more of a commitment, I think. Anyway, I came out of it feeling a little disillusioned about the viability of an offline social life. Though this was a group of mid-20 to 40-something people, without the teens you mention.

Yay diversity! FYI, though, I think this ad is contrary to EEOC rules. My understanding is that its okay to encourage diversity in applicants, but not to state a hiring priority based on race, sex, age, etc.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/#job_advertisements

The Orchard actually is a film (and music) distribution company itself. The idea is that transparency is a competitive advantage against other distributors.

The Orchard is developing a film transparency platform that addresses pretty much exactly this problem.

http://transparency.theorchard.com/

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/orchard-transparency-platfo...

(disclosure: I'm working with them as a consultant.)

> It's the original sense.

Nope. The original "censors" were Roman magistrates who enforced public morals. They're called censors because they were also responsible for the census. The government part of censorship has been baked in from the very coining of the word.

There's a ban on "fake news"? Do you have a reference on that?

This paper has been public for years at http://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste....

Thanks for sharing that. I am a moderator of an addiction-related subreddit, and recently a commenter made a short list of things they had struggled with which included (unsurprisingly) alcohol, tobacco and drugs. But they also included an unhealthy dependence on 'self-help' which was my first encounter with this idea. So you're not alone!

This needs a (2015) added to it.

It sounds like a keto diet, which I adopted about a year ago and have lost about 50 pounds on (from ~185 to ~135). I learned about it most from /r/keto on reddit.

The "Antipatterns" section of the site is the verbatim text of "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis" [1], which is one of my all-time favorite books, but doesn't seem to credit the original at all. Is this site ripping them off?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arc...

In the absence of other information, I'd chalk that up more to the client. This is a shopping site for the US arm of a German manufacturer. Cutting-edge design was probably not of high importance to them. Also, I don't see any claims by this person that they were a designer.

What your criticism reads like is a pretty good example of how things like ageism, sexism, or racism sometimes play out. Take something, find some fault with it, exaggerate its significance, and ascribe the source of that fault to an immutable characteristic of the person involved.

Flagged for politics

My interpretation of dang's experiment is that we should flag those things on the border of politics-or-not for this week. For example, pg makes many direct and indirect reference to "political correctness" which might lead to unwanted discussion of a political variety.

Flagged for politics

Flagged for politics.

This building makes me think of the currently popular "Microservices Architecture" and wonder what many of the systems that have adopted it will look like in a few years.

Particularly, this paragraph: "There are dozens of tiny problems that contributed to its decline, each one of them minutely nudging utopia into the grot of reality. There’s no hot water. The capsules were initially lined with a three-centimeter layer of asbestos for insulation, but within a few years, the toxicity of that substance was a matter of public knowledge and as a result, the large ventilation systems taking up a significant chunk of each living space had to be permanently disabled. Rearranging the capsules turned out to be much more expensive than originally anticipated and very rarely happened. The promise that they could be upgraded or replaced over time was never fulfilled; the original and occasionally very shoddy materials are still in place. (For instance, the paper blinds that once decorated the tower’s portholes have mostly rotted away. Now, some residents paste newspaper to their windows to keep the light out.) But all these swarming problems just feed into the singular, large, incontrovertible one. The idea was beautiful but unworkable; it wasn’t at home in the world."

How does he know these are competitors calling and not legitimate complaints?

Your comment is a comment of the form "this is an article that has form X "and gives reasons why.

I'm sure you believe it. Everyone always thinks articles that agree with their opinions are superior.

The best way out is not to play. Why have any opinion at all about "articles?"

Architecture has been using rule-based language since long before the advent of modern science. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius

The song was recently found to be in the public domain. See e.g. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is...

The title of this article has little to do with the content. Luddism isn't ignorance of technology, it is fear of and hostility toward it. This is just an article about how Clinton and Trump don't use technology as much or in the same way as your average post-Boomer office worker, but says nothing about hostility toward it.

Actually, you'll hear plenty of "yinz" in the greater Pittsburgh area, but more often in the outlying rural areas surrounding the city.

Do you mean Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0

It's basically a follow-up to a story from two months ago, which is more in-depth: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/us/recruiting-students-ove...

I guess India is highlighted because most/all of the students were recruited from India?

As a counterpoint: internment of Japanese Americans.