dbsmith83

There is a difference between dominating a field and being a pioneer in a field. Competition is coming for Tesla. We'll see what happens soon enough

If it gives you pause, I'm satisfied with that.

Well thanks for your concern, but I would imagine many people here would consider your reminder as being quite patronizing

Of course, and what is the issue with that? Propaganda has a vague definition, and basically any published opinion piece trying to persuade could be technically considered propaganda. At least it is labeled as an opinion piece, so what is the point about crying "It's propaganda!"? So what?

I have a problem with propaganda disguised as a news article, but that is not what is going on here.

> Turns out, well-written articles get input from all interested parties and include any opposition research so that readers can look at the information presented and decide what the report means.

You do realize this is an opinion piece, and not a news article, right?

Oh that's it.. no wonder why I couldn't find it. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.

I have seen this phrase in several places, but cannot find the origin of the phrase. Where is it from?

That still doesn't fix the compatibility issues. Postgres has features/syntax that sqlite does not have, so you can't test postgres syntax with sqlite sometimes

But is that the value of the building, or the land that is increasing for yours? My home (building + land) value has gone up a ton due to the housing shortages in tech centers, but on the assessment, the building value has gone down, while the land value has shot up a lot.

I've seen both sides of this. Everyone's idea of a 'sufficient solution' is different. Sometimes good enough for one engineer is not good enough for another. The opposite of the engineer who adds to much complexity to try to solve it too perfectly is the engineer who has a solution that is 'simplistic' rather than just simple. The simplistic-solution engineer is content to overlook details of the problem so that it can never be 99-100% solved/automated or extended. It's like the bad kind of laziness.

> Google's not obligated to figure out exactly where the line of legality is.

Sure, but it is in their business interests to have a good approximation for where the line is, hence why they have lawyers. My point is that from everything I have read about it, it doesn't even seem like they were close to said line

> Title VII carves out several opnions as, by law, not "valuable" in the sense that expressing them constitutes either harassment or creation of a hostile work environment. And doing business in America means complying with that law...

Yeah, but the thing is that what Damore did was nowhere near the criteria of title vii hostile work environment. You're making it sound as if there was some legal obligation for Google (or any other American business) to let him go, but there was not. It was cowering to activists which lead to the termination, not any legal obligation for doing business. The argument that it had anything to do with title vii holds no water for me

Agreed, though that is what I am criticizing Google for (being overzealous). As unfortunate as it is to lose 2 candidates, I would value employees who can tolerate people with opinions they don't like

We are not talking about if the termination was legal or not, we are talking about title vii. Damore's opinion does not meet the criteria of a hostile work environment

I don't think you can read the law in good faith and make that claim

That sounds nice, but then look at James Damore. I don't think he treated anyone less than human. He had an unpopular opinion and Google cowered to activists

gah, I knew I should have pushed out doing mine one more day so I could have read this first. I guess there's always next year!

> Chinese social media inside China is actively directing youth towards vigorous / productive / pedagogical endeavours, whereas ticktock outside China heavily promotes pointless endless innane naval gazing such as pranking, gaming, influencers etc.

This would be interesting if true. Do you have any sources for this or is it just an observation?

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I thought your reply was at least a lot more thoughtful than the average one here. It seems like in this topic:

<personal anecdote or opinion> pro 4-day workweek = upvote

<personal anecdote or opinion> skeptical of 4-day workweek = downvote

I guess it is human nature to dismiss skepticism of an outcome when the outcome is strongly desired

I think you're missing the point. Nothing is wrong with deprecation, but it should be done properly. Ideally, breaking changes should correspond to a major version increase

Woosh

Yes, continue shouting at everyone who has a different opinion than you that it is barbaric. I'm sure it will change hearts and minds and make everyone think you're a mature adult.

Other people can have different ideas about what is morally correct, and it isn't some barbaric idea that an unborn person should not be allowed to be killed. You may not agree with it with your moral calculus, but it shouldn't be unreasonable to see someone else's perspective. You really need to step out of your bubble and tune your hostility way down because it comes off as very childish

> The recent abortion ruling disagrees with you.

How?

> what if everything is probabilistic analog math?

you said every thing which implies discreteness. Also, probabilities are probabilities of an event (read: something discrete) happening

I could crank out a mile easily. At least a person can just run slowly. 100 pullups though? That just ain't happening

> It's speculative, whether an alien species, with a perceptual and cognitive system evolved entirely elsewhere under other pressures, would have an understanding that intersects with our subset of reality. I personally think it's unlikely. What that would mean is that we wouldn't be able to communicate, never mind trade technology and mathematical ideas.

I mean, maybe, but this is conveniently unprovable, much like the flying spaghetti monster, since you are saying we could not communicate because our slices of reality don't intersect. I disagree and think that most likely we would live in a reality that was largely the same, but I guess we'll never know!

How do you explain the current UI shit hole that we live in these days then? It surely wasn't to increase productivity or user experience. UIs in the 90's were more functional and flexible than the UIs of today.

> Mathematics is most definitely a human endeavor, and so we can’t really make claims about its existence in the universe independent of humans.

Can you give an example of a mathematical concept which could be different?

I believe that math is universal. We may use models to understand it (infinity, perfect circles, etc.), but the underlying mathematical truth is independent of humans. The same is true for science. There are physical laws which we look to discover. We use models in science to understand them, but the models are not the same as the underlying truth

Point still stands: there was no good reason to make the statements because those are obvious. You said nothing of any value: "bad people who do the thing which we as a society have deemed bad are bad!"