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It's also bizarrely tone-deaf metaphor-mixing.

the pejorative "basement" refers to an adult who doesn't have their own residence, and so lives in extra space in (but near the edge of) their parent's home, while pretending it is a separate residence. It doesn't make any sense to call a 14-year old a "basement"-dweller, they would have a regular bedroom.

> work each day trying to make their city a little nicer, or pay teachers a bit more, or cut down on crime, etc.

These are examples of very local politicians, except maybe the last one. Interesting.

Oh, I thought you were going to mention http://sivers.org/1pct

Sad that Cheney was the most famous and morbid believes in the 1-percent fallacy.

You might be interested to learn that radio waves can travel well in excess in of 90mph. as can helicopters. In fact, many jurisdictions ban high-speed chases, specifically because they are more dangerous than they help.

Number of times I have stopped for gas on a 30-mile stretch of local toll road: 0.

Why would someone stop, just to get an excuse to speed later, at the same average? The few people drag-racing, maybe. Not the vast majority who want to to arrive at destination ASASP.

You are conjuring up a ridiculous hypothetical and claiming it is the common case.

> And, machines tend to have no discretion.

This a feature, that protects and racism and classism.

> we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.

And we should be more worried about the "watchers" than the "watched".

He is running on a much stronger system (with respect to syscalls and hardware support), but it's basically the same language.

> Compensation is a big deal, and should have been mentioned in the slide deck IMO. I don't care how perfect my job is, if I feel like there's a 30-40% gap between my comp and market comp, I'm going to up and leave.

So, replace the whole slide deck with just one slide:

$$$$

That's a great diagnostic. Paint ASPERGER on everyone's back. The ones who don't care to remove the mark are likely to have Asperger's (or be John Asperger).

'for these people,' is just as offensive. What do you mean, "THESE people"?

The meaning and intent matters, not the phrase.

If you are self-aware of these things and able to make an effort to change or work-around them when they give you trouble, you are extremely high-functioning.

I can rattle off a list of problems that short people have (trouble reaching things, inability to chase down a bus, etc), and realize that I am short, so I have to make extra effort in some parts of life to cope with that. (And in some areas of life my particular height is an advantage.)

> "gratitude, on any medium, is still gratitude, this is a difference of culture, but to disregard my sentiment is to deny my humanity, not just my culture."

And some people prefer to be compensated in dollars, not bitcoins.

Giving is about giving something that the recipient will enjoy, not about what the giver wants. Gratitude is such a gift.

"the rules define them as an adult. "

Define them, or guide them?

If your pension fund doesn't day-trade, you never pay those fees for liquidity.

Liquidity isn't free, and no one is forced to buy liquidity (unless your money is managed by an incompetent/corrupt manager due layers and layers of your employer-sponsored pension contracted to a bank....)

When do we blame the pension fund managers for taking on risks they don't understand?

Figure 3-12 on http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/figures.htm#ch3

says that only 10% are involuntarily not employed in their field.

And everyone who could be a good software engineer is succeeding? None of that talent is wasted on excessive obligations, or crime, or malnourishment?

Or they are reading the same marketing textbooks he is reading.

People don't spend real money?

Parent wrote:

"Any two identical literals"

The second 'a' is not a literal.

The "Rap" in the name might have clued you to the game

> but why would anyone want to admit a student who comes off as entitled, smarmy, ignorant, and racist?

The author might find the reason for her non-admission to Brown there.

The piece has some good ideas, but the racism is dialed up a bit high in there.

> How can this immensely vital symbol be communicated in a timeless form so we never have to go through this again?

How about by picking a form that will always be in the past, and already well-documented and broadly understood, instead of trying to guess which of today's fads will be remembered?

but wtf is a "folder", now?

But Google's domain name isn't misleading. github.io still gives the impression of github-backed content.

What happens if someone tries to prosecute you for "intentionally" causing millions of dollars of damage?

> The business impact is that companies are evaluated and funded on the basis of metrics like Daily Active Use, Monthly Active Use, Impressions, Visits. Notifications happen prior to all of these metrics.

These are all vanity metrics, not revenue metrics. There is no problem in adding a new one to the list: "Notifications served" and assuming they are received by engaged users. Just like page views and visits, as good and as bad.

Spamming ads to the notification bar is a popular technique on Android. Zynga loves to do it, as do others.

Chrome has a hideously awful alternative though: The tab icon throbs when AJAX updates a page (Gmail, etc), regardless of the web developer or user's preferences.