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"reasonable exchanges only happen with reasonable people."

is a pretty brilliant quote.

"Bitcoin began as a cryptocurrency. It has ended as a cryptoasset"

And Slack was originally meant to be an RPG. Point is, this is not a bad thing. As long as Bitcoin and crypto is useful, people will build on it and evolve it, and I for one am excited to see where it goes as more and more people take it seriously.

I was on the fence about this, but reading the comments convinced me it was the absolute right decision.

The fact that all these institutions just allowed this horrible hateful speech for four years, in the name of free speech etc, despite all the harassment, harm (mental and otherwise) it caused to so many people in America actually emboldened so many to the extent that now that they crossed this invisible line, they can't even really understand the ramifications of what happened. That what gets me.

To be hyperfocused on the free speech or "big brother" aspect of these bans, not the fact that a small group of rioters were just a few feet away from irreversibly staining American history with the blood of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the chain of command of the United states of America, as well as overrunning the seat of power of the most powerful nation in the world, on national TV ... just tells me that things really went too far and should have been shut down much sooner.

I'm sure a lot of the people at the capitol that day have the narrative running in their minds that they are the heroes of America democracy, but the reality is that there is simply no justification for any of this, that can be told. A smarter group of individuals would take all this on the chin, make penance in some way while staying under the radar to regroup and reconfigure their message/approach instead of citing private business overreach as some sort of justification for what happened

yes, because they didn't literally overrun the seat of power and threaten to topple the government. Seditious is spot on.

Why ... so you can be labelled a malcontent, non-team player, denied promotions and eventually managed out of the org at first opportunity? :)

Something similar to this actually happened to Neil Degrasse Tyson too ... the University of Texas basically failed him out of his PHd, he went to Columbia, got his Phd and the rest is history https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/02/star-power/

Same thing at Uber

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/27/is-uber-...

right, but of course to do that, you'd have to grab the content to parse it :)

What do folks think about implementing a web crawler that you can send to a website and it indexes every internal url on the site. I remember sitting down to write one 100 years ago now, and finding it to be much trickier than I thought it would be.

This x10000%. I've been telling my friends this for years that I'm angry at trump but I'm genuinely afraid for the next more refined iteration of him.

Hopefully this four years will encourage us not to put our guards down again.

Thin air. This is the internet after all.

I feel that this is also a strong prerequisite for companies that do well at remote work and those who don't.

If you have a leader who is a clear and strong communicator via their writing, it turns out that clear and strong writing becomes a highly prized asset in the company, and people who are very good at communicating their thoughts in that way tend to do much better with remote work setups ... Leaders who constantly want to get everybody in a room, hold a meeting or talk though it (emphasis on constantly) ... spread that mindset through the company, and as a result have a culture that's much less accustomed to doing remote well ... just my anecdotal observation

I'd like to chip in with a slightly different take ... as a minority engineer, one of my greatest sources of frustration and disillusionment is how an occupation that is ostensibly lends itself to much clearer and objective outcomes and approaches is anything but.

There is an unfairness that is so hard to see if you're not a minority in tech, that leads to lots of minority men just saying 'fuck it, this isn't worth it' (there's even an article about this https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/27/toxic-wo...), and recently I've been finding myself on that same path ... at least till my fortunes changed and I got a different more understanding manager.

But the bitterness of my experiences with previous managers, the powerlessness you feel in the face of being treated so differently never leaves you. It really sucks to find out that the whole idea of it just being about the code, meritocracy blah blah blah ... isn't really true. And worse still, that quite a large group of people, don't really buy that this stuff really happens.

I think its just you. Lots of people use Heroku, I have like 4-5 apps deployed on it, and I know quite a few smaller companies that were completely on it last I checked.

> Have found this to be the trend in general or the trend for supporters of certain parties/ideals only?

oh in my experience, definitely one sided against trump and anyone who voted for him.

I've found it very odd how freely and openly siding with a political candidate has become the norm since 2016 at the tech firms I've worked in. Even more so, has been the viciousness of the pushback when I've asked for such discussions to be funneled into private channels and forums, with the whispers being "oh he must be a trump supporter", which is pretty hilarious if you know me.

I think this article is a well articulated viewpoint and I hope that more companies move in this direction. There is a reason why for all those years that it was considered a social faux pas to discuss politics and religion in polite company and especially at work, the potential for division, hurt feelings and retaliation can very easily cause deep irreconcilable schisms in even the most talented workforces.

I just hope that this doesn't however transform into something more insidious, a way to muffle very important voices for change with respect to diversity at tech companies, though I have a sinking feeling that it will

You win some. you lose some I guess.

"We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors."

- Bruce Joyce

if you do find it please post it. that is an entirely fascinating idea.

Still no word on if they plan to make twitter bookmarks a part of the API. Disappointing

Been saying this for a while now ... since the Georgia Reopening, I've been monitoring a lot of state data daily, lots of places that started seeing spikes 3-4 weeks ago haven't even had as much as a slight trend upwards in deaths (Here's South Carolina for example https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/south-carolina-c...)

Wisconsin has seen a spike come and go and death rates have remained about the same https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/wisconsin-corona...

It just feels odd that this isn't spoken about enough, and I think its because the media narrative is a bit too invested in the "danger" part of this virus ... to feel they can't point out that simple observation for fear of undoing their reporting about the virus, which is a shame. I mean deaths are down nationally ... by a lot, even as the cases have ticked back up.

My hunch is that the folks who are most at risk are taking drastic precautions, which is what is keeping the death rates down. I guess we'll just have to see for sure in 2-3 more weeks.

Flu season is NOT about 2-3 months usually.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season.htm

The exact timing and duration of flu seasons can vary, but influenza activity often begins to increase in October. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May.

It also does NOT kill Millions of people per season

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/

Until recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the annual mortality burden of influenza to be 250 000 to 500 000 all-cause deaths globally; however, a 2017 study indicated a substantially higher mortality burden, at 290 000-650 000 influenza-associated deaths from respiratory causes alone

> The flu kills way more than that

The flu kills a lot of people over a long time, this is 500k in just a few months while everyone is actively trying to avoid spreading it. The flu definitely does not kill more than that.

I'd argue that a virus that can kill 500,000 (probably way more) people in a matter of months is a pretty big threat, and thats with most world economies shut down and actively trying to contain it. Imagining the damage that it could do without those containment strategies in place world wide, is why I'm convinced it is.

Also Github.

Very underrated effect! I've found myself finding it harder to work on personal projects in my spare time too over the last few years (as I returned to remote work) and I couldn't understand why that was until I read this comment and had an aha moment.

wow.

I think their anecdote is closer to the norm than yours tbh, at least in my experience with tech work.

Wow. At almost exactly the time that report was filed ... about 30-40 Minutes, my spotify ios app started crashing. I was listening to a song on my desktop, and wanted to share it on my instagram so I went to the app to do it. everytime I opened up the app it would crash immediately, I restarted my phone, tried it again, and it was fine for about 5 seconds and then crash ... crash ... crash ...

I filed a report with Spotify and by the time they got back to me, the problem had gone away ... I thought it was very odd, until I read this post ...

I guess now I know what happened.

Thats very difficult to understand when you're young and (largely) self-centered. It definitely has to be explained with a lot of patience and some creativity.

Was doing really well on a previous team with just one (usually) or two meetings a week, got assigned to a new team with a new meeting happy PM, and now I'm lucky if I have less than 3-4 meetings a week. It's driving me fucking insane. Theres a meeting for everything, and dude spreads communication out across several email chains, slack groups and channels and even google groups.

exactly, for my generation (right in between gen x and millennials) that's the marker. If someone uses snapchat, they're probably younger than we all are, by a fair amount. Nobody I know uses it, I signed up for it when I bought the stock, just to make sure I understood the appeal, ditched it and the stock about a year or two later.