How is “martial tradition” related to protest effectiveness? You know there’s more to building long lived protest movements than street fighting, right? The doc itself lists many forms of effective action that had nothing to do with “martial tradition”.
While I agree that the opsec here is bad if nyancrimew doesn’t want to get arrested, I think you should disclose here, as you do in your twitter bio, that you work at Okta. Accusing the person who just breached your company of having a mental illness is not great form.
This episode brings up the psychological issues that transgender people face. It is not inappropriate to call it mental illness. This acting out against the world is a cry for help. This person admits the connection with their quote "be gay, do crime". It is possibly a response to being visibly transgender, and coping with everyone constantly reacting to you. None of this is helped by the egging-on in their social media bubble. It is not good optics, but it needs to be addressed.
To clarify, I think (or hope) this is what you're trying to say; being transgender is not a mental illness. The effects of either pretending to be cisgendered, or attempting to live life as the gender you identify can definitely lead to mental illnesses (depression, low self-worth, anxiety, etc.). I can't think of one trans person in an unaccepting household who didn't develop a few bad coping mechanism for their gender dysphoria. Luck decides if that coping mechanism leaves you scared for life (physically, mentally, socially), or if you're able to eventually unlearn it after you've gotten away from your toxic childhood environment.
That's fair. I mean that if this person's claims are truly dubious and they seem to be seeking the spotlight, then giving them the spotlight could exacerbate their derangement. That's useless for Okta, sad for this person, and dangerous for others.
Just use “they” without any of that nonsense. Show some basic respect to the hacker who popped root shells inside Cloudflare and Tesla networks, without leveraging it to enrich themselves in any way.
It would be nice to have a bit more detail about the equity part of the total compensation, since it does seem like, from reading the paragraph describing how equity fits into this, that the amount of equity granted to employees is not equal.
I believe they had to release their source code in order to comply with the AGPL, because they forked off mastodon right? I’m not sure if they decided to go with mastodon as the basis for their codebase in the beginning or if that was a later decision.
I just looked it up and the history is that they did it so that users could access the site using fediverse clients, because their own clients were getting pulled from app stores.
ofc there is that whole discussion about whether open sourcing actually affects application security, having your security model assume that attackers already have access to the source code, etc. Not to mention it looks like they did make quite extensive modifications on top of the mastodon code. Some of the code that people have discovered lying around in the gab codebase is really embarrassing.
Earlier when I was looking for what backend stack they used (I had forgotten they forked from Mastodon) I found an article from last November about their new CTO, and had a lol moment: "its newest CTO…former software engineer who spent more than seven years at Facebook…Gab is happy to introduce our new CTO…With 23 years of industry experience, he brings extensive backend infrastructure knowledge and insights from across the stack…worked as a “production engineer and developer advocate” at Facebook"
Netflix and FAANGs in general can get away with employee unfriendly practices due to the obscene compensation they offer which provides them with an endless stream of talented candidates knocking on their door.
The problem is, I see these practices slowly creeping in European tech companies, but without the glorious compensation to make up for them: i.e. companies wanting to put you through 3-6 rounds of interviews, full-day on-site interviews, leet-coding, long un-paid take home tests, and all this for 40k/year?! How about no thanks and GTFO!
I wouldn't consider FAANG comp to be "obscene", in fact many of the lower-paying FAANGs - Amazon, and recently also Google - are not paying much above market pay.
Facebook has already committed to supporting more remote work, as has Microsoft.
Ok, but you missed my point, my point wasn't that FAANG pays best in SV, my point was that employee-unfriendly practices from SV, which pays best in the world, make their way outside but without the compensation.
Yeah, easy to say but unless you're in the top percentile of highly sought-after specialists in a hot area, you're not making a dent.
The problem is, due to the hype of tech careers, free education, easy immigration and lack of VC funding in (most of) Europe, there is an oversupply of entry to mid level talent and a shortage of good companies, so if you refuse to bend over to each company's bullshit then it's no problem as they have 99 more candidates waiting in the pipeline and some will.
When I was living in Munich it baffled me how some companies there could get away with paying experienced people only 50k and still run a successful business and not have everyone straight-up walk away from them.
> When I was living in Munich it baffled me how some companies there could get away with paying experienced people only 50k and still run a successful business and not have everyone straight-up walk away from them.
I heard before that the European tech scene sucks, and my only advice is: relocate.
Pay in Switzerland for example is more competitive.
Incidentally, one reason I heard for low pay in Germany, specifically, is that it's very hard to fire people.
You heard wrong, it's just an internet myth. Difficulty of firing people or high taxes are not the main cause of low pay in Europe.
The main causes are: lack of VC funding, lack of innovative disruption and entrenchment of traditional businesses with old-fashioned boomer MBA mentality that consider tech as an expensive cost center and devs as replaceable factory floor cogs that should be offshored whenever possible, risk adverse investor mindsets, complex bureaucracy, fragmented market with various languages, laws and cultures that make scaling a product/service nearly impossible, a broken EU-grant funding system where the focus is producing documentation instead of successful products/services and an overabundance of low- to mid- level talent due to hype, free education and easy immigration.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the pay in Europe, I'm complaining about the shitty SV practices that some entitled employers here adopt but without the compensation because "If Google does it then it must be good so we should do it too, who cares if we pay only 40k/year vs 200k+, we deserve only the best hoop-jumpers and nothing less."
I know people who worked in Europe, and Germany specifically, and they all said it's much harder to fire employees in Germany (and Western Europe generally) compared to the US.
The number and variety of knots “rationalists” will tie themselves into when trying to explain away the existence of discrimination and organized structures for enforcing that discrimination is really funny, and sad, and absurd.
How about showing that there actually is discrimination, and structures for enforcing such discrimination? It's usually claims about demographics (#women < #men => discrimination!) or constantly moving the goalposts and redefining STEM as "fields where there are less women" so that they always get the expected demographic outcome. See: https://youtu.be/tbnVAE3BwiM?list=LL&t=936
Why is there never outrage the other way around with fields dominated by women, e.g., psychology?
Because, generally speaking and on balance, a least in American society, women have things worse off than men. The pay gap, gender roles, access to reproductive healthcare, representation in government, no paid parental leave, violence against women.
None of those things are evidence of discrimination in tech hiring. When we send 100 applications to Google for engineering positions, do we see male resumes selected where otherwise-identical female resumes are not?
Is that really true though? Men are overrepresented by multiples among the Homelessness, prison sentences, assult victims, suicides, gun deaths. Often by factors of 2-3x
They're also deeply underrepresented in college, and the gap between men and women going to college is growing. Among young people, especially in cities, women actually out earn men.
Figuring out who's "better off" seems to be entirely dependent on what ruler you're using to measure "better", and which subgroup you're using to do the measurement.
The simple response to your whataboutism is that we're not talking about other fields like psychology or education or nursing. If you want to discuss sexist attitudes towards men in those fields be my guest, but it's a different conversation.
The less simple response is that cis white men haven't been systematically kept from participating in the full economy, unlike women and people of color until about a generation ago. Systemic sexism and racism were built up over centuries and have not been evacuated from society yet. When engaging in discussion about it it's impossible to look at the entire scope and walk away with concrete actions to reduce its impact, which is why productive discussion needs to hone in on specific issues or else we get in meaningless argument over semantics like "#women < #men == sexist" when it should be obvious that something is wrong there
Frequency and severity of those symptoms are considered for the diagnosis. Everyone shows symptoms of depression sometimes; not everyone has depression.
Have you tried the vscode-neovim (https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim) extension? It uses an instance of neovim to provide the vim behaviour rather than emulating it, and I’ve found it to be more responsive than VsCodeVim.
