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788 karma · joined April 20, 2016

Feel free to email me about whatever: <hn-username>@proton.me
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ebcode··on Solving All the Wrong Problems
>Homogenous, largely white, largely male, largely safe people are not going to detect the problems the author appears to be implying are going untreated.

What you said was both racist and sexist. You're saying that a group of people (based on race and sex) are "not going to ..." do something. Speaking in generalizations using these classifications is generally regarded by most folks as racist/sexist.

It can be tricky though. You might be right, but you'll still be called out for it. For example, the peoples of eastern asia are statistically less tall than their counterparts in western europe. Nevertheless, "asians are shorter than europeans", is still a racist statement.

Unless you can see, as well as explain, how the generalizations you're making benefit the conversation, it's probably best to avoid making those types of statements in the first place.

Racism itself might be "wrong", but that doesn't mean you can't be racist and still be "right" in your assertions. That's the tricky part.

ebcode··on How to teach computational thinking
On the contrary, if you know that modern cars are overly-complicated, you can choose to not buy one, and instead buy something more like a 1984 volkswagen bug.
ebcode··on The Internet Should Be a Public Good
Internet is a private good => private corporation claims general regulatory powers over what goes through the Internet.

Thank you?

ebcode··on A giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain
ad hominem. don't shoot the messenger...
ebcode··on Reactors: Foundational framework for distributed computing
You might check out http://actor-framework.org/
ebcode··on Bell Labs Centenary Homage to Claude Shannon
download pdf points to google.com?
ebcode··on MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model
Persona -> Percona
ebcode··on Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
The problem w/ ranking people (in general) is that it embodies this idea of "the best". At SO, it appears this ranking system is internalized by the employees who are consistently ranked below "the best" (5). So why bother trying to be "the best", when it's made to seem so impossible by the ranking system? Ranking is demoralizing.
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