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Yes you are missing a lot. But you aren't alone. Everyone else is too. This is becoming a characteristic feature of the internet.

There is huge information asymmetry at play here that just cannot be communicated through the media, social media or a hn post.

Or as I would say to a second grader, if you want to understand things your cousin in college is talking about put in 10 years of work. If the internet gives you the impression that everything that you can't make sense of is one ted talk/one reddit ELI5 post away, that's just wrong.

This expectation has to change. Otherwise we end up with more and more people who don't understand the work it takes to know anything deeply.


I actually did put in the work, however, and I agree with parent. You also don't become an authority by pretending you're some mystic wise man without saying anything of substance.

It's unconstitutional for many reasons, one of which is that the executive has no authority to block the entry of legal visa and green card holders without due process.

And yes, it deals a massive blow to the rule of law and faith in the stability of the nation when legal visitors and immigrants are blocked from entry due to an arbitrary dictate from POTUS.


You managed to write a lot about the fact that they are missing something, but didn't even provide an avenue to help them start to try to understand.


And you failed to understand, that you have to pay your dues.

Don't expect others, to do your work for you. This includes 'starting' or 'understanding' anything beyond ELI5.


Its constructive but not enough.

Tech CEO's have to address the outsourcing/factory shutdowns and visa misuse that has happened for a couple decades now. Using the Obama line of "well those jobs have gone and wont come back" creates space for characters like Trump to exploit.


Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer


The "hack Google" through web inspector reminds me of an experience I had a while back.

The plan was to teach kids about how websites works/HTTP basics, basic HTML/JS etc. I had all the material and code ready. When I reached the school I found out their internet had been disconnected!

Google's "browser is offline" T-Rex game popped up and I ended up spending the entire week with them teaching them how that game worked. It was a big hit! By the end of the week they were busy modifying the t-rex sprites with each others faces and stuff :)

Basically have a back up plan for no/limited internet!


It serves another purpose usually.

Anyone else planning to leave and poach people will have to do "a little more covering their bases".

It really comes down to what top level leaders within the org think the longterm payoff is.


They are making a case against Google's narrative about teams. Which makes sense. Most orgs don't resemble Google at all.


I think they build a strawman instead of really making a case against the Google theory "great teams require psychological safety" [0]. The first example of the article is "no one played the relationship-building role", which might also be the main problem within Google. This article can be considered a generalization which applies to more environments.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html


EU porn tech does beat US porn tech in many metrics. I have always wondered why, when the rest of their tech sector is way behind.


I imagine that the industry is under comparatively little scrutiny by regulators and the public, and can therefore be as fast-moving and rule-bending[0] as the top SV startups. This combined with less (at least perceived) prudence in Europe might give them the edge over their competition.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855554


Makes sense.

Even in areas where they do match up tech-wise Auto, Nokia, Airbus/Ariane etc maybe they need a Elon Musk type to do some ass kicking.


References are the basis of all material on Wikipedia. It's the only way to deal with bias at a global level. Your friend might be a decent person but there are lots of Commissioners of Public Works that aren't and have agendas that take a non trivial amount of effort and time to discover.


Printed references are references, and they shouldn't be rejected just because they aren't on the internet. But even when the author went to the trouble of putting those references on the internet, they were still deleted.

There's just no justification for that. Even if a policy required all references to be available via the internet, the author fulfilled that requirement.


sigh...there is justification. Which doesn't mean your friend and his content were treated shabbily.

If this was allowed, and Donald Trump is putting up his documents on the internet and referencing them on his wikipedia page would you allow it? It can do a lot of damage and people and organizations do this all the time and every day.

This is the kind of behavior the policy exists to prevent. Its well known that it isn't perfect Please read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest


If something has has been officially published, and is available to the public, it's a reference. That's entirely distinct from someone citing their own stuff.

Edit: ... their own unpublished stuff.


He said that there were references, just print ones not available online. They are supposed to have equal status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources


Trump is going to be making news every couple hours. I foresee a lot of over worked and burnt out mods by the end of 4 years.


Its called Wikipedia [ https://youtu.be/ESVQknHESuA?t=2209 ]

The paid versions are called Google, Palantir, the CIA etc.


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