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was publicly being rude to the point of making other contributors leave (even after being asked to stop) and at least one case of using a slur

they said it themselves in this post

> Yes, I know I am hard to work with. Yes, I know that I pushed certain OSS contributors away.

generally the kind of person that gives open source a bad reputation, you can be critical or anti-social without being an asshole


what about linus torvalds

You can be Dr. House MD only when you have the rep and skills of Dr. House MD. I think Linus definitely cleared that threshold.

Boy i wish that principle held up in real medicine and other parts of life; "rep and skills" may in some ways equal power, but that false equivalency is how problematic behavior is excused in unfit individuals.


he's the guy that created the linux kernel

agreed, I may learn slower as I age... but I spend a lot less time making stupid mistakes as I do it

Same with most productivity gains in tooling historically, I think one way we should consider reckoning with this is through workers rights.

The industrial revolution lead to gains that allowed for weekends and the elimination of child labor, but they didn't come for free, they had to be fought for.

If we don't fight for it, what are we gaining? more intense work in exchange for what?


We absolutely can, and I reckon we will... this is like a fraction of a percent of science funding which is a fraction of a percent of GDP, we spend more on maintaining warheads we can't use

10% of the US military budget for one year could build a 100km collider, RHIC is 4km


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The point is that there's so much bad spending that by comparison this is practically nothing to shake a stick at, and it produces actual science.

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No, you just asserted that you think existing arguments are invalid, then accused a person who disregarded your assertion of being "dogmatic".

and the failure mode for some of them are steep drops off of cliffs

how do you feel about self control in the face large companies that are spending billions of dollars to intentionally trick you into not having it?

you can't even be aware of what they're doing, because the algorithms they're using to do it are black boxes

youtube algorithms have shown evidence that they've lead to radicalization

would you not draw a line on any of this?


Probably simpler to assume all ads are scams and work back from there

> This sounds like YouTube taking actual steps to improve the situation.

And yet here we are years later without change. So we've got proof that they knew this and have done nothing. Don't need to speculate at all.


No, they actually added a bedtime reminder feature for all users that they couldn't verify to be adults: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1pmcr04/what_the_h...

lol yes, every software company's answer to a problem, no matter how pervasive: a new setting

but I guess you're right, it's a little more than nothing


> The moderately paid worker barely making rent in SF needs the money as much as anybody

You should look into how not true this is. Financial strain is not financial insecurity.


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