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jedmeyers··on Amazon announce two new leadership principles
“perhaps Amazon is recognizing this as a real problem”

The real choices here seems to be:

- amazon is “stupid” and does not recognize it as a problem

- amazon is well aware, but does not care, since it benefits them in some way

jedmeyers··on New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display
Catching pokemon with those should be fun.
jedmeyers··on How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
> I don’t believe for a second this virus was in _any way_ engineered.

Does ‘selection’ constitutes engineering in your vocabulary. And if yes, then why don’t you believe that this virus was carefully selected during the gain of function research?

jedmeyers··on Washington state approves capital gains tax
If you are against the bill - you are against child education. It's that easy. And stop asking questions.
jedmeyers··on Programming is hard
> And the hardest part is when one has to write the complex pieces from scratch.

Oh, no, the hardest part is to modify the poorly written complex pieces so they continue to function properly.

jedmeyers··on Is There a Case for Programmers to Unionize?
> I am no allowed move my monitor or computer without scheduling it through the union

How about union workers call you next time they want to install a new app on their phones?

jedmeyers··on Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans
> Would you rather be shot or mugged?

Would you prefer to be mugged or a mugger to be shot?

jedmeyers··on U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent
Some states, like Washington, have already introduced permanent DST. The only thing they lack is federal permission to stay on DST. States can already permanently stay on non-DST time, like most of AZ does.
jedmeyers··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
> Anyways, in this interview I was being asked about Java and I answered every question by saying I don't really know Java. The interviewers were obviously getting annoyed. So I asked "Sorry, I thought this was a C# job?".

Are those types of exchanges still take place at the interviews? I was lucky enough to avoid them, having worked at companies that are able to afford to spend extra time training people. Those types of discussions often remind me of the Linus' quote: "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

jedmeyers··on Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore
Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore:

- running a service that can scale based on load

www.netmeister.org took too long to respond.

jedmeyers··on The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium
> So much of the official government response has been to support entrenched wealth.

There is a word that describes this kind of merger of corporate and government power, I just don't seem to remember it.

jedmeyers··on The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium
> Individual owners such in the article will eventually lose their properties to deeper pockets

How do we know that’s not the actual goal of those policies?

jedmeyers··on Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
> force those websites to publish against their will?

I would argue that the will of the websites is to actually allow publishing for the most amount of people. And they censor the opposing political views only because the government-aligned forces make them to. Basically if every corporation needs the government to survive they are going to do everything the government wants, even if they don’t admit to it. They would rather lose half the users than become completely defunct.

jedmeyers··on Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
> one of the main counterarguments is that people will just stop working

One of the main counterarguments to the universal basic income is that napkin math does not work out. You don't even need to get the "science" involved, just relatively simple algebra. Humanity does not have the resources for the majority of the population to receive benefits out of thin air. And no, $3200 AMZN is not really a resource most people would feel comfortable surviving on, unless they can exchange it for something of an actual value.

p.s. the Amazon bit is related to the "let's divide the wealth of the billionaires and we all will live happily ever after" mantra.

jedmeyers··on US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
And it might have been a wild virus extracted from animals that escaped from the lab due to the poor safety protocols in place. Not the first time this would have happened. Soviets released the anthrax spores due to the filter not being in place, for example.
jedmeyers··on Reddit’s ‘GMEBagHoldersClub’ Is Where GameStop Stock Buyers Admit They Messed Up
> Isn't it what WSB is all about?

I mean, yeah, the "bet" is even in the name.

jedmeyers··on It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects
> "and I can answer no further questions."

Of course you CAN answer further questions since you can speak. Thus you have just lied to a law enforcement officer.

jedmeyers··on Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
> And doesn't Robinhood have the right to sell margin stocks bought on margin?

Only if they issue a margin call. But what if they were the ones responsible for the conditions that lead to the margin call in the first place (blocking buys on a specific stock)?

jedmeyers··on The Battle of GameStop
> And I'm sorry, the moment you use "socialism" to describe the government backing private loans from institutions that are privately held you lost me

No, I am sorry. When government forces financial institutions to give loans to everyone applying without risk analysis it IS socialism, aka “democratic control over the enterprise”. No capitalist in their right mind would give hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for underwater basket weaving degrees and expect to see the money back.

jedmeyers··on The Battle of GameStop
> system is designed to give money easily to young people

Who exactly designed the system that way? Banks (aka capitalists) were not very keen on doing this exact thing for the risk reasons, and now the government ended up backing most of the educational debt for some reason (aka socialism).

jedmeyers··on Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
Punching people in the face for disrespecting him was his job? I guess you can say shooting people was Billy the Kid's job, then.
jedmeyers··on Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
"Law enforcement made Mike Tyson all way too comfortable with punching people in the face and not getting shot for it." – Billy the Kid, apparently
jedmeyers··on Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
> I personally think the limit is around 50

Incidentally, I personally think the limit for communist societies is around 50 people or so.

jedmeyers··on Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
It's possible but the majority of stakeholders need to be actively engaged in managing that entity. Otherwise it will be taken oven by the bad actors trying to primarily benefit themselves.
jedmeyers··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.
jedmeyers··on Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect
Probably because he considers nine children to be a luxury he cannot afford.
jedmeyers··on Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill
> You. Must. Vote.

Of course, but there is very little utility to it when the vote counting is hidden behind an opaque software system, and you have no way of confirming that the vote counting is secure. So sure, go vote, but with absence of verified and secure counting it's almost pointless.

jedmeyers··on Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms
Since those who are concerned about the legality are not using. Now they have a good opportunity to start.
jedmeyers··on Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them
I agree. In addition regulators have zero incentives to serve the interests of the regular people. They do, however, have a huge incentive to block the market for the new competition (aka regulatory capture) and then comfortably rest and vest in a major corporation after quitting their government job with full benefits.
jedmeyers··on Firms That Imploded Have Something in Common: Ernst and Young Audited Them
And the other one was Arthur Andersen, but we all remember what happened to it.
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