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I love how they say the content that users dislike is "relevant to the recipe", rather than admitting its SEO fodder.

You aren't addressing the question. The poster asked what specifically tech workers could do. You are giving examples of things _anyone_ could so to help fix the situation, aside from "just stop working for them".

I think you are misreading the parent comments. The authors are saying they believe it should be a crime, that the action is bad enough that it should be criminal.

Phenomenal idea! Really great approach to forum UX. I sincerely hope you keep working on this, I'd love to see how it evolves.

In the end its going to be very much like influenza. We get yearly flu shots primarily because the flu is different variants every year, and secondarily because over time immunity lowers.

Its not easy, but I agree with the above poster on this - it can be learned. Maybe we all have different approaches. Here's one of my tricks:

When stepping away from a technical task, I often jot down a bunch of notes that really only I could ever comprehend - words, doodles, whatever scrawl. Usually its related to the problem I'm trying to solve, but I often suspect it doesn't even matter what I wrote down. Because of the fact that I wrote it down while my brain was steeped in the technical task, reviewing the notes helps me get back into that headspace.

You learn to do what you need to, in time.

You were supposed to expect them to fail his interview because he didn't give the "right" answer (manhole covers are round so they can't fall in the hole). Instead, he completely disagreed with the "right" answer, but did so in a way that was incredibly convincing. So, they decided his primary value was not in his intellect (leading him to a job in engineering), but in his ability to convince people of things (leading him to a job in marketing).

That was actually fun to think through for a minute. Easy, but I can see how a young me nervous at an interview might have stumbled.

Its why I hate those things. They aren't testing analytical or creative ability, they are testing grace under pressure - a quality I have found is gained through experience.

Neat! It's definitely crashed right now. I think we hurt it.

The docs seem very light on actual examples of writing/structuring syntax or outputs - does anyone know of an example generated site in the wild?

This is a great idea - signed up :)

Sure, but the idea of mass collective action is always a bit of a nuclear option, because it takes a huge bit of motivation to actually make _everyone_ do anything. So, could they? Sure. Will they en masse? No.

Everyone could have stolen cable back in the day and caused a decrease in cable prices and increase in customer experience. They didn't.

So wait, your solution is to encourage all consumers to break the law and put themselves at legal risk, rather than have reasonable legislation focused on consumer welfare and encouraging competition?

Conversely, if proton is creating a much larger linux gamer market (its on of the big reasons I switched to linux as my daily driver), might this new market not soon be able to exert pressure on developers for first-class linux ports?

Bit of a potential chicken and egg problem with developers supporting linux natively that proton might help solve.

There's a fine line between presenting your ideas in a clear and effective manner, and "framing" the presentation in a way that makes it more likely others will agree with you (a manipulative technique). Think of a good salesman: if the product's values sold itself, the salesman wouldn't really matter - but they do.

Often people using these manipulative techniques don't even realize they are manipulating - they just think they are "charismatic" or "persuasive".

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but "praise in public, punish in private" is a saying for a reason. Praise is more effective in public, and praising one person on the team publicly benefits the entire team, not just that person.

"No significant safety concerns have been reported, but nothing, including paracetamol, is 100% safe."

Is it just me, or is this language very irresponsible? They are just talking about having small side effects, like headache and fatigue - just like the flu vaccine has. Likening this to "safety" seems incredibly dangerous to me, as it will give people already predisposed to dislike vaccines more ammunition to speak out against them and refuse them.

NPR listeners != large percentage of the general public.

Also, people believe what they see, on an instinctual level. Hell, people believe what they hear, mostly. It will take a lot of education and time to untrain that.

Run ESXI on my laptop, got it. That sounds reasonable for most users ;)

This 100% describes me. Desktops are better in every conceivable way, except for the fact that I do most of my computing outside of the office while sitting in my living room with my family. Sure I'm SSHing into a server downstairs a lot, but I'm not willing to hide from my family just because I want to play a game or work on a side project while socializing.

Exactly. Don't complain about someone being a jerk to you if you didn't get a restraining order against them. If you want to restrict them interacting with you, get a restraining order. Very simple and obvious.

Think of it this way - often when people become extremely wealthy, they turn to philanthropy. Because they want to give back. If someone becomes ridiculously wealthy and gives nothing back, we as a society tend to think poorly of them. Why? Because they are extremely fortunate and highly successful - and they could so easily help others without any negative impact to themselves. That ease makes us unhappy with them _not_ giving back. Because in their particular circumstance, we generally consider it _right_ to use their resources help others. Not required, but right.

Same thing with a company like Amazon. They are enormously wealthy. So we look poorly on them when they don't give back to those bringing them even more wealth. Because they easily could. Because it wouldn't hurt them at all. Because it is right.

I think you have expressed my sentiments better than I did.

Even agreed-upon contracts can be predatory. Maybe there should be a license that says "free and clear for everyone but trillion-dollar companies, because they should really compensate developers for value".

I personally think it would be a great look for Amazon if they made it a policy to compensate developers from whom they derive significant economic value. Because they can, and because the developers deserve it.

I honestly think there's room for more than gratitude with, as you said, a trillion dollar company. I know its hard to find a balance when we want free and open tools, developed in a spirit of sharing and enabling innovation. But something feels slimy about an enormous company deriving a huge amount of revenue from a FOSS project, when they could easily compensate developer(s) with barely an impact to their bottom line.

I know its not required by licensing - but "legal" doesn't always mean "right".

Actually even more complicated than that. Say we adopt the personal liberty premise. If I am at high risk, I stay in my house and have everything delivered etc. Then my furnace breaks in a way I can't fix, and its winter. If I don't want to freeze to death, I need to get it repaired. If the repairman was willing to "take their chances", I could be forced into exposure and infection.

It really is a group activity - individuals can not take their own risk without risking the lives of others.

Accessing maps and directions through a web search, though? That hasn't made sense for years on mobile. Sad to say, they need an independent DDG Maps app to make this viable on mobile.

I have some experience in that area. If I'm reading this correctly, they don't know race, only ZIP code. They are extrapolating race from zip code. They also seem to be deriving results for extrapolated black/hispanic populations based on using the other populations as a control.

Its really just a question of whether their sample sizes are large enough to justify a conclusion about the overall population. They are reporting a 95% confidence interval. Real back-of-the-napkin math (read: don't take this to the bank) would say that a sample size of 9,604 could get you a 95% confidence interval with a 1% margin of error on a population of 100 million. So it seems they are doing ok, but this is not to say there are not a bunch of other possible issues or confounds to consider if someone dug into the study.

I want to sooooo much...

This rings so true to me. I got engaged during the last 6 months of my PhD student tenure, and lo and behold, I defended my thesis in the same month we got married. In the same vein as above, the added perspective and fire under me resulted in a number of novel solutions to problems that probably would have been major issues in the past, including a full change in direction of my research conclusions after realizing a substantial issue in the practical application of the technology.

I credit my now wife with the (passive) motivation to shave at least 6-12 months off my time in grad school.