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> I'm curious how one goes from Reagan to US Progressive.

The common conservative critique of progressives is progressives say "affirmative action, affordable housing, wealth redistribution are all great, unless it affects me."

Do you hate your kids or something? Maybe you want them to never want to program.

This is a bit like a lot of consumer websites. The value is in the loyal community of users.

Around a year ago, I was convinced Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine because the West would find new energy sources, starving Russia of key income, and Sweden and Finland would join NATO. Not only that, Russia is now confirmed to be the the junior partner in its relationship with China.

In hindsight, I do buy into the argument that NATO grew too much to the east, and there would have been wisdom in creating an "DMZ" between NATO and Russia. The growth of NATO left Putin feeling trapped. It would have been better to slowly move Western resource sources to better sources and friendlier countries.

Windows 7 was the last good Windows. Windows 10 was the last adequate Windows.

I can't decide if it's a feature or a bug that there are at least 3 major type checkers for Python.

I'm looking how diverse candidates from Ivies meaningfully differentiate themselves. Ivies admit to discriminating against Asians, so on average, a BIPOC from an Ivy will be less qualified than an Asian. Why would you hire them, then? The pitch for diversity is always that diverse teams make better decisions, but it's not racial diversity that does it, it's different lived experiences. Companies exist to make money, so how can they turn someone's insight from an underprivileged background into sales when poor people buy less? This was also in the context of an MBA program where the whole purpose is making money. It'd be different for a PM of an app where 100% reach is the goal.

> the BIPOC people I know haven’t been able to reap any professional benefits from it

Probably because there's almost always an Asian who's more qualified or a white with better connections. The problem is the key insight you get from a BIPOC is BIPOC tend to not have much money (set aside equity and vicious cycles for another day), so unless they're your market, you're not interested in marketing to people who can't afford your products.

I've been having on and off conversations with my manager and her manager about career aspirations. I'm at a terminal level, so I can hang out where I'm at as long as I want. What I didn't tell my managers is the promotion game sounds like a lot of work for 6 months to a year for a possibility that I'll get a job with more work I like less and somewhat more pay. You also start running into the issue where big companies only need so many super senior engineers, so you can't play that game forever. You're also playing it against people who will play it forever because the title means something to them.

> ...software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000

That's 1-2 years' salary for a software engineer in Seattle. It isn't a lifestyle step function, and when you factor in the consequences of getting caught, the EV is very, very bad.

> In total, Zulily’s team said Castro had sent over 1,000 items sent to his house.

This makes the EV even worse. The single address makes it more likely you get caught, reselling 1000 items will be a part-time job on its own, and it'll take the $300,000 to $150,000.

I follow the author on Fetlife and remember when she was fishing for people to fill out a survey.

From what I've seen at a few places I've worked (you'd know the names), regulatory compliance is good enough to make the auditor happy, but that's about it.

It's not just that, it's that it has to get the details right. Even for "order post-its," it's not clear what color you want, maybe you want extra sticky, or jumbo.