TremendousJudge

I think that the mistake is thinking that corporations can have ethics in the first place. A person can have ethical and moral codes, a corporation can't. Execs can write as many documents as the…

It's the clipping back that's more dangerous

Not sure about the specific video, but it can be done[0]. It is extremely dangerous of course, which I guess is why most people don't try to do it. It may also even be against regulations. [0] Ex…

They are all the same way, maybe even worse. Google is notoriously allergic to having real people in any step of a workflow, even for paying customers. Twitter is currently going through its own battl…

Yeah, I completely agree. I wasn't trying to imply that I condone their behavior.

They need to argue that, because otherwise it would eat into their bottom line to the point of unprofitability. You can't run a service for billions of people with less than 100k employees that a…

Yeah I got into writing with a fountain pen in college, making taking class notes a pleasant experienice helped me pay more attention and retain more information

I'd say "owning" rather than "buying", but collecting has existed as a hobby for a long, long while.

I can only speak for my own experience, but the cheapest Focusrite outperformed my builtin soundcard with ASIO4ALL drivers both in latency and quality. On the builtin, getting the latency lower than 1…

Another use is rendering virtual instruments with low latency, so you can play with a keyboard and render sounds live. Built in sound chips usually have unacceptable levels of latency, even with custo…

And they already exist under these conditions: automated subway trains.

Yes, but unlike a ladder and a rocket, they are not fundamentally different. This is why I don't think the analogy holds. Evolution iterated over the same model, never starting again from scratch…

>most of them built a pile of crap and/or damaged the places they built in and the people they nominally built for Some examples from that time period: leaded gasoline, CFCs, shock therapy, su…

Not sure if the analogy holds. Human brains work on the same principle as lizard brais, no change in strategy was needed to go from lizard intelligence to human intelligence. I'm not saying that …

If it's anything like other codebases I've seen, yes.

Yeah sadly it's pretty common (not only in the US) to talk about "politics" and people instantly think you mean "party politics".

I didn't say that you must support a party -- not being from the US myself, I hear pretty awful things about them all the time. But most political causes are not party politics (you'll never…

In Barcelona you can go to many places without a car, but has awful traffic everywhere (and they drive really fast on the big streets). Plus, the police kicks you out of the street at night. I don…

A billionaire donating to a political race? I don't find that very noteworthy.

Anti-political just means pro-status-quo. You can afford to be anti-political because the current state of affairs is convenient for you.

Yeah if you are going to work for a US company with US salary, be prepared to take US "vacations". They'll look at you weird if you ever mention that you want to take three weeks off.

https://xkcd.com/1462/

Sounds like the country is regressing to the mean then. Thanks to the empire they are used to being on top of the world, but all their advantages are gone now except for the tax havens and an old cult…

>so quickly it's been 43 years, as the author points out

I disagree. If you ignore the actual value your product provides to the final consumer "this banana is delicious", you'll come up with solutions that diminish that value. The only reaso…

Do you believe that worker unionization is more state power and intervention?

Outright bans have historically never worked to discourage drug use. They only create a very rich criminal class that thrives in selling illegal products.

>I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case with other former colonies of Europe. In Latin America, the central extractivist structure was kept after independence, only the owners changed. No…

Mandatory voting doesn't fix all the problems, but it's better than the alternative. Instead of campaigns focusing on "go vote" you get campaigns focusing on the actual voting.