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>Through its core design—short messages, retweets, engagement metrics—Twitter incapacitates the safeguards necessary for civil discussion.

Which is ironic because, not long ago, people were praising Twitter's character limit as a means of enhancing civil and intelligent discussion, believing it would force people to carefully think about and utilize each character, and eliminate wasteful verbiage.

But it turns out brevity is only the soul of wit for those who have their wits about them. Go figure.
Tried it. It works for a few days and then stops.

I've also had a frustrated government worker at a military ID office pull out the old-school ink and paper cards after failing to get a good read on their fingerprint scanner. I'm just a mutant :)
how can all companies be employee owned?

Is this rhetorical? I didn't say they could (or couldn't be). If you mean it in a curious way than let's start with 'how can a company...'

How is capitalism different from early human tribes?

It depends on which capitalism you mean, Marx's or Milton Friedman's. Also which tribe. If early human tribes were like modern ones, they had a lot of different ways of doing things.:)

For marx, you could probably stop at "they don't live in cities or work for wages" like they do in capitalist systems.

For Friedman's capitalism, they tribesmens affairs are probably dictated by customs and communal nterests, not private interests.

Idk, though. It's theoretically possible for ancient human culture to be capitalist under Friedman's definition, if their rules are compatible. Under Marx's it doesn't matter what they do, capitalism is an urban-industrial society.
You absolutely can implement an OS or a garbage collector in a GC-enabled language.
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The problem is that the opposite isn't much better. When budget becomes the driving factor in healthcare. That means things are getting cut out or rationed and you have long delays.

The trick is finding a balance between regular healtchare (flu, stomach pain and other illnesses) and then things like cancer treatment.

In my world the best mode would have people pay for all the short term stuff and then have the collecive paying for serious things.

I would be in favor of a completely free market as that would drive prices down but I don't believe we can get a completely free market so the above would be my second best option.
I suspect that lawsuits like this will show that trying to artificially influence diversity through hiring practices is an incorrect approach. When I'm in a hiring position, it's not like we sit around a table and say, "we'd prefer the white male." We just don't have enough women and minorities in the hiring pool to begin with.

The problem is that there aren't enough women and minorities entering our field. We just can't decide to hire more women and minorities when there aren't any to hire. Getting women and minorities to choose tech as a career isn't something that I honestly don't know how to solve. Ultimately, our employees reflect who's in our hiring pool.

The same happens in other fields, too. In pediatrics, there aren't a lot of men entering medical school, so there is a desire to hire more men.

Anyway, getting back to the original topic; I suspect there's more going on than we realize. I'm curious about how much this reflects Google actual policies versus a decision of a middle manager.
Everyone has a story like this.

I went in for a physical and even though they said to my face my insurance would fully cover a heart electrocardiogram (my family has a history of heart problems) I wound up with a huge bill, month long fight with insurance, and ended up just having to foot it.

Maybe if medical care was driven by some other force besides capitalism this wouldn't be such an issue.
HN seems to be mostly javascript web developers with a minority of all other tech fields sprinkled on top.
"So, for instance, expose someone to a lot of advertising and if they don't seek out the thing they are exposed to, then this theory (at least on this basic level) might be false."

I think the article was saying given person A has a goal of G and choices B,C,D with subtle(subconscious) previous exposure to option B they would choose B over C and D. all other things being equal.

Not that you can get them to go after goal G in the first place.
In many countries it is illegal if advertising is not clearly identifiable as such. That's why in newspapers, you'll often see the word "advertisement" above ads.
The claim was:

> the USA is the least liberal and democratic ( in the true sense of the word ) country in the world

Comparison to other countries isn't whataboutism...it's the essence of the claim.

You and executesorder66 are arguing against a strawman. The claim wasn't that the US is perfect. Obviously that claim would be easy to refute.
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Google is the first big company that I actually rejected after receiving an offer from them. I had a really bad experience, and just felt like the company was looking for things I am much more qualified from.

I was interviewed by engineers who were all just recent college grads, no managers, tech leads, or anyone I felt were probably more qualified to interview me. The environment felt toxic. Most people I talked to looked unclean, like they just got out of bed to work. Had red eyes like they were tired. And the workplace was just not as clean as I was hoping. There were a set of dirty plates in the conference room I was interviewed in, and no one bothered to remove them the entire time.

From people I have talked to, my experience was pretty unique, and most people have had good interviews there. But even as an outlier, I don't like the chance of it being exactly like my experience. Things like this really put stuff in perspective for me though. I still went through the entire process, but in the end, rejected the offer. I wouldn't want to work in an environment like Google's, it feels toxic, and engineers feel like they are overworking themselves to death.
The underlying philosophy of mandating coverage for pre-existing conditions is the idea that everyone should be able to have basic medical care. With that idea it's really not that tricky to say pre-existing conditions should be covered.
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I'd just caution you not to buy in too much to the narrative presented by one side of a law suit.

You'll pretty much never see a more one-sided presentation of a situation. It may bear out or it may not.
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I think they're basically considered white for diversity purposes, because of their stereotypical success in engineering roles.

IIRC, one of the main results of eliminating affirmative action in university admissions was to increase the proportion of asians in top schools. The affirmative action policies were used to discriminate against them and keep them out.
I'm not sure it would. Given the information asymmetries involved, how does it avoid the "market for lemons" problem?
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You can be sure of a counterfactual? Really.
Ivory tower elite have usually all the time to pontificate. Tell that to this girl who did not see the light of the day. https://nypost.com/2018/02/26/girl-dies-hours-after-doctor-t...
Twitter is taking itself too seriously, believing that if it could tweak around the edges, it could improve the quality of the debate in the direction of civility and understanding. Perhaps some nudges and UX changes could encourage these things (I remember a long article about Facebook tweaking their "report picture" function to encourage messaging the person to talk about it before reporting).

BUT

I hate to break it to @jack, but Twitter conversation simply reflects the nature of humanity in an adversarial political system. Attempting to "elevate the debate" will never work, since the debate has never been "elevated." There were no good ol' days of citizen-statesmen calmly discussing their political differences and coming to reasoned conclusions on policy.

No. Politics is always adversarial. As a libertarian, both "sides" of the American political divide feel threatening to me, since all proposals out there are for one form of authoritarianism or another. All proposals involve me giving up a little more of my personal or economic liberty. Will @jack do anything to alleviate my fears that my liberty is being attacked every single day? Probably not.

He's devoted to "collective health and civility," which reads like a 1984 thought-police handbook. Of course, the debate always seems civil after the dissenting voices have been crushed.

(Pre-emptive retort to attack on libertarianism: Yes, I know Twitter is private property. Yes, Jack can do whatever he wants with his business, within the laws for a publicly-traded company.)
Screw Twitter.
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A parser is a big step towards building that interpreter, however. Who knows what the long-term goals are or what remains closed source software.
It's interesting, in the time it took me to read through the comments this went from #4 to #33. The discussion isn't crude or a flame war, so why does it get flagged?
It's a simplistic analogy, sure.

> to an action that is inherently hurting people?

Which action is that? The original biases which has been hurting people for hundreds of years or the current attempt at bias correction which has been around for, let's say, 5 years?

> The problem here is that you try to compensate injustice done to some people by doing injustice to others.

No. What's happening here is that people are trying to balance the scales by helping up the lower pan and the people on the higher pan are bleating about this "injustice".
The lawsuit insists on putting diversity in scare-quotes, so I guess fair’s fair?
Patients in other countries don’t do their own medical research, yet most countries do have half (or less) the medical costs per capita compared to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
An interesting (probably leads nowhere) way of defining this question is in reverse, how would a company that is to be owned by employees going to get started?

It's an easier question to answer these days, when many companies are like Google or Facebook. They don't really have "capital assets." No stock to buy or factories to build. Just people that need to pay rent.
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As much I can see every single point you make in my daily tweeting, this is ignoring all the positive things happening.

On twitter, I also see:

- people helping each others

- people apologizing (yes, it happens)

- people sharing creations, ideas and news

- people encouraging each others

It's not all flowers and rainbows, but let's not forget about the good parts of it.

Twitter is not a hate machine.

People have a lot of hate in themself, and they just use whatever convenient medium there is to express it.

I would actually more complain about twitter being riddle with bots, advertisers and scammers.
> That will never happen. Life isn't fair and never will be

And that's why "we should just judge people on their merits" is a bullshit statement.

> We can and should do our best to clear the way to ensure equal opportunity

I am 100% behind this if it actually results in equal opportunities (spoiler: it never will.)
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It's a question of fundamental incentives. Doctors and hospitals are paid for procedures, treatments, and appointments. Is it any surprise that there's incentive to undertake these activities? You don't even need to believe that your doctor is greedy to understand that if there's a borderline case, they might order the test or treatment "to be safe", or "because there's no downside", or because "we have the available capacity". Even if they aren't explicitly considering payment as part of the equation, it's not unreasonable to think that subconsciously the monetary incentive will tip some of these cases in the direction of overtreatment.

IMO, the only way this is going to change is a movement away from the "pay for services" model that is dominant in US healthcare today.
Plus of course that the West in general and the US in particular are standing on shaky ground when making any moral argument.

I believe that on the balance the systems as currently in place are relatively moral. Especially compared to historic precedent (also compare Russias war in Syria to the US wars, having to convince a domestic audience that you're the good guy puts real constraint on the use of military power). But the level of immoral behavior even just focusing on past WWII/Post-colonial times is still staggering and easy to point towards for others.

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One thing I never understand is how people claim to support both equality and pro-minority/anti-majority actions at the same time. It's like saying you support democracy and kim jong un.
I haven't read the article yet, and I was not mislead by the title. I guess it helps to be familiar with the way reinforcement learning agents are hooked up to a simulation environment.
It’s not. The idea is that when evaluating/interviewing an applicant it’s strictly merit based. But when reaching out to potential candidates on LinkedIn, choosing how to represent the company on campuses and at conferences the company can choose to act in ways to bring in more underrepresented applicants. So without changing their hiring standards, they can hopefully still increase the diversity of the pool of applicants and in turn increase diversity of the company. A lot of tech companies right now are adopting this diversification strategy.
Accusing people of not reading the memo doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation. If you share Damore’s views, just say so rather than trying to distract.
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> Human society will NEVER provide absolute equal opportunity to everybody.

I know. Which is why "just judge people by their merits" is a nonsense argument.

> We should aim to get all kids high quality education, not social engineering in the job market.

But since there's little chance of the former happening within the next decade or two, we're stuck with the latter.
Here's an idea for a (European) art work: collect the subsidy, cash it out in 50 euro notes and put the notes on a pedestal.
This is a highly localized problem, but I've wanted to read the past couple articles by Allison and cannot, because my org has to block gists.

Allison we know this is a lot of work for a very small group but, if you see this, a couple of us here would be super stoked if you could mirror your articles somewhere else as well!
First, faith doesn't have to be religious. You can have faith in something without having to bring in god.

But secondly, even if you do, it's a positive feeling, as long as it doesn't replace thinking and acting. Which this comment clearly doesn't.
I think it's less about intuitive understanding, and more about having a flat, numerical representation of a sentence that (qualitatively) satisfies some properties.
> One thing I never understand is how people claim to support both equality and pro-minority/anti-majority actions at the same time.

If you believe that the status quo is systematically biased, you cannot meanignfully support equality without supporting action to correct the bias.
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Looks pretty cool as an educational exercise. Therefore, if the author's reading: how would you distinguish this from MINIX?
I'm somewhere between those two extremes in pay - but I'd negotiate something that was fair for everyone.

I'm just trying to relo to another market from where I am.
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They will stop hiring level 3 engineer who are Asian and white according to this allegation. The discrimination against asians matters to me even if you're perfectly happy with it in your social justice utopia that discriminates against me.
I think modern times probably need nurturing mothers (and fathers) more than fear of snakes.
They should not have offered a web form for generating private keys, and instead should have educated their customers on how to generate their private keys and CSRs on their own servers.

If they had done that they wouldn't have had access to any private keys in the first place, so all their subsequent mistakes in mishandling those keys would have been impossible to make.

As for the whole "arbitrary Remote Code Execution as root" on their web server, that's got a pretty obvious solution: sanitize your data inputs, and don't run your web application server as root.
Searching for the needle is a hell of a lot harder than searching for the haystack.

I think 1-5% is fair to find a job for me - 20% seems reasonable to find a person to take a job.
I love the way the headings and their 'anchors' are styled on this blog post. I don't know, it just looks so pleasing.
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Through its core design—short messages, retweets, engagement metrics—Twitter incapacitates the safeguards necessary for civil discussion. It eliminates context, encourages us to present each other out of context, prevents us from explaining ourselves, rewards the most incendiary messages and most impulsive reactions, drives us to take sides and build walls.

Well said. You could hardly build a better system to discourage thoughtful and productive dialogue if you tried.
Subsidizing poorly paid work. Work that on the median, if the research is correct, does not even make 50% of minimum wage.
Sounds like a typical American family doctor's office?

All of them in my area have long waiting lists. You don't just show up at the front door like it's an auto mechanic's shop, you call to schedule your annual physical. They're typically booked solid for a few months in advance. Calling to book an appointment requires being a registered patient or member of that office.

If you want to change your primary care physician, you call around and see which offices are accepting new members. If they are, they'll get your medical records transferred and set you up for an intake appointment where they check to make sure that they know your status, and then you are able to schedule future visits.

You certainly don't just call any convenient office and expect to get an appointment in the next couple days, that would be anarchy.
I recently read this great article about this:

http://time.com/4649914/why-the-doctor-takes-only-cash/
You must not read much technological news. From the top of my head, I can cite Quantum, Photonics, the Neurosynaptic chip, the 5nm chip fab process, POWER and Z, ...
... and not even Google, but YouTube. Even if it looks like to be Google, there is still a separate YouTube LLC and last time I checked, it was also a different organization career-path wise.
> which, sorry, isn’t surprising coming from an Amazon employee

This is in fact a little unfair (can't edit anymore so I reply to myself). In my experience Amazon employees are very courteous and want to help; the problem is, they usually don't know how the system works and can only read back policies (that are otherwise available to anyone -- we can read!)

Maybe it's just a lack of training (not their fault), or maybe nobody really knows how all the parts of the system work together. Anyway it's incredibly difficult to get a clear answer.

And seller performance is the worst, because they never answer or do any follow-up.
Have you tried to create one?
Are we counting reviews by pushing the same narrative that was being pushed by the people he originally offended? What I've seen is a number of scientists (in the specific fields that are related to it) backing his work, others attacking it, and all agreeing it doesn't rise to the muster of a peer reviewed paper/meta-analysis (though that seems a pretty insane bar to begin with).
Is 'allowing for variance' up to and including racism and sexisism in hiring? Because it seems like you are giving them a pass, because there are many hiring managers.
My point was more that the basic characteristics of our modern economy (our modern economy = capitalism) also apply to early human societies. Working a profession, cooperating with colleagues and trading goods are inherent human nature. Even if you are a hunter-gather.

I wasn't referring to specific theories. My point was more about observing how the world is.
The article pins part of its argument on the claim that advances in diagnostics have not changed the death rate for (e.g.) breast cancer during the past quarter century, but a superficial search immediately suggests this to be grossly false.

"Death rates from female breast cancer dropped 39% from 1989 to 2015." - all other things being equal, it ought to have increased: age is a risk factor for cancers, and we have an older population. Instead, it has greatly decreased.

So I dispute the veracity of several of the article's claims, but also: what is considered unnecessary changes with the benefit of hindsight.

I would argue that it's expected that a majority of diagnostic tests deliver a negative result (i.e. turn out to be "unnecessary"), and this is actually a mark of a healthy healthcare system.
Yup. Funny how on their status page it shows everything is normal, but the logo in the header also returns a 500 error. https://status.atlassian.com/
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