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He's really just deflecting from Intel dropping the ball. He didn't talk about how we got here, he's just campaigning for support for a company that's had a hard time executing by playing the politics card.

I'm not an Intel hater, but this lack of ownership and deflection isn't something I like to see in CEOs.

There was /r/jailbait. There was also the time the CEO defended /r/thefappening and copyright infringement. It got awkward when some of the girls in the pictures said they were minors when the pics were taken. Oops.

Not CP, but there was also /r/creepshots. Ironically, that was more legal than /r/thefappening.

None of the major cloud providers let you lease a mainframe, either.

> My homophobic boss

This is either the opposite of how people used to say things that weren't cool were "gay," or you just added a useless detail to the story for I'm not sure what reason.

If you read "drivers" as "employees," this is much more mixed and can get scary fast.

Do you think there's any chance hell stories become a self-fulfilling prophecy?

> 37%...22%

Metrics for particular degrees would be more helpful. Some of those 22% are in accounting.

> So why are tech companies so strikingly white

Um, what? Maybe for early-stage startups. If you'd said "strikingly white, Indian, and East Asian," I'd agree.

I can't say I enjoy interviews, but they're really not that bad. Reading the comments here, you'd think everyone gets paralyzing anxiety during interviews. They're a chance to show off how smart you are.

> Hiring more black people

It's not like there's a large, untapped pool of talented black software engineers.

I'm at a large tech company. There was a team I worked with for a big with some really talented people, the sort of team where really smart domain experts go. There was a black guy on it who asked questions showing he wasn't an obviously talented domain expert. I found out he was recruited for coming from an unconventional background and was spending time with different teams.

Large tech companies are trying really hard to finds diamonds in the rough, and they're taking chances on people that aren't talented enough.

The other issue is blacks are only 13% of the American population. Seattle is only 7%. Now imagine you're an even smaller minority. It's about people not being assholes, not "hiring more x people" because that will always fall short for some group.

I wonder if anything will ever happen with reverse discriminatory hiring practices like this. They're all seem so barely legal, and if even one in ten people in HR disagree with them, there could be a #metoo-like flood of issues once a high-profile case goes a little too far.

Those were at least legally questionable. Remember thefappening? They defended what was at least copyright infringement as free speech. It turned out some of the girls were underage when the pics were taken, so they facilitated distribution of CP.

In related news, the US seems fine with bombing Iran-backed militias in Syria, but when news about MBS OK-ing the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi came out, crickets.

I get where you're coming from, but you have to remember how hated Microsoft was 20 year ago, and remember that Zuck is already doing charitable work.

Calling it now: for all the hate Zuckerberg gets now, he's going to be Bill Gates in 25 years, and they only people who won't trust him are the vaccine mind control nuts.

One thing I'd like to see is competing unions. The UAW supplies labor to the big three US automakers, putting them in an unfair negotiating advantage; the UAW can easily bully them around. The UAW ultimately hurt themselves because it put the Big Three at a big competitive disadvantage. Some manufacturing left for right-to-work states, and some business left for (mostly) Japanese automakers.

I think printf/format and interpolation/fstrings both have their place, and it's nice when languages support both.

Not sure if this reference really applies. If you're not good enough to do the job, you're not good enough to do the job. We do seem to be overproducing college grads, but I've heard nothing like that for CS grads.

Could you elaborate on CS graduates getting turned down? I've seen how much trouble companies have hiring, so the only reasons I'm coming up with are these graduates aren't willing to relocate or they studied CS because it pays well, but they're not actually that good at it. Something very underappreciated, and possibly the cause of the classic CS class bimodal distribution, is how many students live the stuff outside of school, so someone academically good at CS ends up competing with someone who has random open source projects, sysadmins a linux server, knows how to set up a network, and has a CS degree.

Seriously. If you're working class or higher, you have to try to not get a high school diploma.

Because people like GP see "Boeing" and "engine failure," assumes Boeing was at fault, and sells or shorts. It makes sense if you don't realize Boeing doesn't make the engines for these planes.

I though these bits were interesting. There seems to be a paternalistic attitude among various experts, and I don't think it helps the situation.

> I have argued for months that we could save more American lives if those with prior Covid-19 infection forgo vaccines until all vulnerable seniors get their first dose. Several studies demonstrate that natural immunity should protect those who had Covid-19 until more vaccines are available. Half my friends in the medical community told me: Good idea. The other half said there isn’t enough data on natural immunity

> Some medical experts privately agreed with my prediction that there may be very little Covid-19 by April but suggested that I not to talk publicly about herd immunity because people might become complacent and fail to take precautions or might decline the vaccine.

This doesn't explain why new cases started surging in early November, unless you want to put that on Halloween. Even then, new infections where rising all of October. I'd also argue there weren't clear post-holiday surges beyond people delaying tests.

Likely some, but I suspect it won't matter in terms of repoening. Lockdowns have been premised on a light at the end of the tunnel. Humans are too social to live like this indefinitely, and the virus, especially if the vaccines are only somewhat effective, will be good enough.

That said, the vaccines all seem to offer some degree of protection to the variants, naturally acquired immunity probably will too, and the virus will have to adapt to multiple vaccines and natural immunity very quickly to continue spreading.

The real question is why would you join an ethics team that's obviously for PR purposes, then complain about it being for PR purposes.

These resigned/fired researchers might be good in their field, but they're pretty dumb when it comes to their jobs.

I have no idea why the media (people through this word around, but in this case, it's a lot of major outlets) keeps reporting it as her getting fired when she clearly threatened to resigned as an ultimatum. Maybe Google making it immediate changed things, but saying "fired" is pretty disingenuous.

Margaret Mitchell got fired, though. 100%.

No need to bother with a gun. Just threaten to take 100 points off their social credit score or ban them from WeChat.

The mid-size players I have friends in marketing at all have decent success with running ads on Facebook, and they're all tracking ROI. I've heard the platform isn't as mature as Google, and I suspect a lot of issues are rooted in "move fast."

Agreed; they're both really dated. There's potentially more to worth with when redesigning the meatball because it's not just a wordmark, but it has too much going on, and simplifying the elements doesn't give you anything meaningful.

I agree with the qualities that make a good logo, but it's also very much a product of its time. SF Muni adopted a worm logo around the same time, and it looks equally gimmicky and dated.

> If we want to fit the universe into a box, its sides would have to be twice that size. That is 5.4 × 10^61 Planck lengths.

206 bits is enough to address the precise position of anything in the universe.