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Cryptocurrency mining consumes the same amount of power as Argentina or whatever the figure is, for no benefit.

If wrapping a rainbow flag around it and studiously noting everyone's pronouns made that "ok", it'd frankly be even more perverse.

My band's name.

Cryptocurrency is a huge climate problem -- why is the opposition to coinbase all about social justice takes from twitter?

It's not political, it's fashion.

Noisy echo chambers are uninclusive to anyone who doesn't hold that precise political viewpoint.

We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot", its driven by people who are addicted to social media and perpetually pushing for another rush of outrage. I'd prefer not to be around that, personally.

Honest question, what do you do at your presumably more enlightened workplace instead to pursue your political beliefs?

From what I've seen, these people typically just want to treat the company slack like Twitter and persecute political enemies while still cashing their paycheck and doing nothing of material value for the disadvantaged.

Sure, but the motivation here is explicit, and it's not about making the test more accurate.

Busting your ass as an immigrant is only a "golden ticket" compared to staying in the third world.

Meanwhile, the people pushing these changes all have graduate degrees and incredibly privileged backgrounds. It absolutely is persecution and punching down for them to be going after poor immigrants.

You realize a lot of those Asians are from poor, immigrant families, right? You ever spend time in Flushing?

Rich white liberals should not be tearing them down in the name of "antiracism".

The current stats include a ridiculously large number of Asians, and the changes are racially motivated according to the proponents' own words.

It doesn't sound like the system was perfect, I'm all for reform that helps everyone. Hurting Asians to create equality isn't it.

It's a test. The test, as far as I know, doesn't include the question "are you asian".

Brought to you by the people who all parroted "stop Asian hate" for like 3 weeks last March until it fell off their social media feeds.

Kindergarten does seem a bit early to be permanently binning children into "gifted" or "not" but I am so sick of seeing people unhappy with Asians doing well.

Even without covid it's hard. We're in an atomized society where everyone's earning to their ability and then consuming services/goods from global corps, it's hard to build community. I don't have an answer here.. maybe we need religion again minus the homophobia.

If you're talking about actually being involved in the community, I'm all for that, although it's hard in the age of social media even before covid.

My ire is for the tech 'activists' who spend their time deciding which innocent turns of phrase should be banned or which marvel movies needed more representation.

You think kyrsten sinema or Joe Manchin care about hacker news comments?

Text on a wall should not have a major impact on your life unless you're already incredibly privileged.

There are a lot of people out there with real problems -- approximately none of them give a shit about hacker news.

Dude, the git master branch is divisive, somehow. There will never be an end to it, it's an entertainment/outrage complex with billions in funding.

Ignoring class divisions and real-world material conditions while we get rich and kibbitz about trivialities is the whole point, you can't run out of trivialities.

Spend that time figuring out how to change it to unit tests in your IDE, or making the deployment lighter weight.

Work on the meta-problem that makes your problem easier. After all, you've got time if the baseline is low-productivity. And the lessons learned are portable.

You have Pyrex at home, right? Ever break one of those? Boom.

I'm not OP, btw, I just noticed your insistence that the commie glasses you heard about 5 seconds ago MUST be fatally flawed and wanted to point that out.

Market failures are real, and society is poorer if we churn through more stuff that breaks instead of less stuff that holds up.

Ideology is a mind killer -- if this weren't attached to the word communist you'd probably be agreeing, yeah, too bad people won't use the durable glasses and waste energy replacing less durable ones.

They work to stay on top of the pile. Working for impact, or for the business or customers is a career limiting decision several levels below CEO with a few exceptions, usually original founders. Everyone else gets filtered out.

That functionality is mostly an afterthought in ext and ntfs, though. More of a big deal for Apple with hfs but still not something you'd build a database on.

Sure, but we're back to "I want this to be true" at this point. It's possible. But there are a billion rural Chinese who also could have gotten it naturally. Add a 1000x coefficient and you're down to a million to one.

There are many, many more human-animal contacts outside of that lab than inside it. It's literally a billion to one.

America needs a big bad.

It's not even "political" in the sense of domestic conflict, it's the consensus.

Occam's razor says it came from the same place as bird flu and SARS -- animal contact.

A lab leak is possible, it can't be disproved. But the fact is that people want it to be true in excess of the evidence we have.

But that's not a publicly salient culture issue in the US. It's a simple matter of do you want aipac backing you or your opponent in the next race. Easy calculation, no higher principles necessary.

Today's code-reviewed perfection is tomorrow's mess, unless you refactor as the domain drifts away from the original model.

Code reviews can only enforce existing practices and style, rethinking architecture is a different matter.

> because most of the time you read your own code

I think this is probably more true for you than it is for us corporate schlubs :)

For those of us with less talent at writing a unique piece of code, the process of diving in and figuring out a mess is actually a learned skill that we get better at over time, possibly the most important one.

Yeah, I think it turns into apples and oranges the more detail one goes into.

Mao was definitely more reckless, Stalin more paranoid, and it makes sense that Stalin's position would be more secure barring an assassination or something.

Mao was sidelined after the great leap forward and had to instigate the cultural revolution to take back the driver's seat. I was under the impression Stalin never faced any real threat of losing power?