I think it is more the obvious ubiquitous hypocrism. Everybody is anti racist and anti sexist, but blames the white man. Looting and burning buildings is ok, as long as the ideology behind it fits the narrative. Everybody is anti fascist, but if you have a different opinion you will get fucked up. Who in his right mind wants to argue with this bullshit?
I used to think this. I used to watch a lot of media from youtube creators that were previously part of the atheism movement and gradually transitioned into right wing content. Once I started also consuming media from people on the left, I found that this was a caricature designed to prevent me from listening to people on the left that did have good points.
Yes there are extremists that like to shout, but they are in the minority or a person in riled up circumstances.
For many people, the idea that black people don't commit crimes at a higher rate than others goes against their every-day experience in the USA.
Maybe your response is ironic: I genuinely can't tell. But clearly "my every-day experience justifies my actions regardless of the facts about (my view)" is not a fair rebuttal, because anyone can make that claim about anything.
It’s not an opinion, it’s basic logic and arithmetic. Shrinking the hiring pool by eliminating both Trump voters and also the non-Trump voters who don’t like the implications of the question. That’s a very large negative and is based on math, not opinion.
I'm not sure that I share the assumptions here about the distribution of talent throughout the American voting population, in particular given that the venn diagram of the tech hiring pool and the American voting population is not a circle.
Make a list of the distinct demographic categories in your hiring pool, ordered by size. You may be surprised. Depending on ___location and role, “Trump Voter and offended non-Trump Voter” could easily be second only to “Male non-Trump voter”, i.e. ahead of “Female non-Trump voter”. In many places it would certainly be the largest distinct demographic. That should give you pause.
Unless you define “tech hiring pool” as “recent college grads living in the Bay Area”. But even there the numbers are material.
You're being needlessly patronising, but I'll answer in good faith in case you are actually interested.
Ceteris paribus, reducing your hiring pool is a negative.
Can qualitative factors counteract that? Sure, it's possible. But there is no evidence for it here, only assertion. And the quantitative problem is very large, so those factors would need to be very powerful.
Aside from that, it's naive to believe that the qualitative factors will only work in the positive direction. Whatever is gained from excluding the wrong-thinkers could easily be dwarfed by legal or reputational problems, blowback from boycotts or other "cancellation", inability to address the whole market due to a lack of diverse viewpoints, etc.
No. The negative impact is a certainty. Any compensating factors are hypothetical and there’s no evidence for their existence or their impact pro or con. So in this argument, given what we know right now, they can be ignored.
I'm also pleasantly surprised by this transpiler discovery.
4 years ago I was managing a Feed The Beast (A heavily modded and themed Java Minecraft version) server and in that mod packages was OpenComputers (https://ocdoc.cil.li/) which exposed a lua api and in game computers to the players. The OpenComputers Package Manager (https://github.com/MightyPirates/OpenComputers/blob/master-M...) became a limiting factor to my players as they wanted some ability to load from other sources so I converted the program to MoonScript (https://moonscript.org/) and maintained a fork with modifications for them.
MoonScript was certainly more pleasant to write and maintain (compared to Lua), but type safety would've definitely helped squash some of the weirder side effect driven bugs. That said, I still think MoonScript is a great middle ground for things that are written in Lua but need some extra organizational tools.
Eh, the cheapest M1 Mac is the Mac Mini at $699, $100 less than the outgoing model and offering better perfromance at some tasks than the iMac Pro. Keep in mind that there is the whole 'profit margin' factor. At $699, the mac mini offers much better perfromance than the outgoing model while costing $100 less. Why chop even more money off it?
Apple's cost in manufacturing has always been rooted in quality components and Software Engineering. They just don't build low end models and likely never will. The fact that you can buy a $300 iPad is actually kinda weird for Apple.
They are probably binning a lot of product right now. They'll eventually need to do something with all those chips that didn't make the cut. This is apple we're talking about. There's surely a 5+ year plan to develop this ecosystem fully. I'd be more surprised if we didn't see a complete line of custom chips across all apple products within the decade.
At least in the US market (I don't have experience in other markets), Apple is definitely not the cheaper laptop company. The average laptop sold in 2019 sold for ~$700.[0] The cheapest laptop Apple currently sells is $1,000. Apple only sells high-end luxury laptops. Most laptops sold are cheaper than even the cheapest Mac.
When you compare similarly spec'd machines from other manufacturers then yeah they're usually in the same ballpark numbers. I don't know I'd say Apple is always more expensive or always cheaper when looking at only the high-end price range.
And now Trump is considering starting a "Patriot Party" due to his lack of support in the GOP for overturning the election. Spitting image of the failed Putsch when Hitler realized, in Jail, that a coup d'état wasn't going to work and they needed to attack at a different angle, a democratic angle, and be seen as a legitimate political party.
It's happening just like it was always going to, like clockwork. Americans aren't out of this yet.
