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“In October 1946, President Harry S. Truman ordered his attorney general to bring federal charges against Chief Shull. The trial began a month later and was presided over by Judge J. Waties Waring, whose father was a Confederate soldier. After deliberating for less than 20 minutes, the all-white jury in the trial acquitted Officer Shull.”

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/12

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 7:10 PM

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I was 15 when this came out, and newly moved (1965) to California (LA & San Diego areas). I wuz in awe, Mr Reagan wuz not (see 1967 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act ).

attitudes towards firearms control in the US have long been associated with who bears the firearms in question.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 6:46 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So they're literally saying "were trying to find product/market fit because we don't know who are best users will be, and to do that effectively, we're going to reject a huge pool of potential users."

This is what passes for argumentation in SV in the year of our lord 2023.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 6:41 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And nearly every startup I've talked to that swears they need slow tech because "product velocity" or "pre-P/M fit, it's ok" lack any sort of data to back up their specific choices. No market analysis. No thesis that even suggests a reason why marginalised users couldn't be their growth segment.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 6:38 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Most managers were, instead, promised "blazing performance" and "100 on lighthouse" (nevermind that the Todo app under test was a toy).

And this is numerate!

Why don't I encounter teams that have an explicit fiscal model for this tradeoff?

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 6:36 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's cool that we finally got to the "picking frameworks that lose users is an intentional choice" part of the discourse, but, like, has anyone told the PMs? Or the marketing team?

Because I've talked with a LOT of managers that didn't sign up to lose money when they managed out the CSS-knowers and byte misers to hire JS folks.

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Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:35 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@philsherry I'm afraid you've lost me here, but I did go back and edit the toots to make sure I was consistently quoting (had assumed it was obvious from the first, but know that Mastodon threading might not make that plain).

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:15 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Nevermind the tiny problem of explaining why I spend > 50% of my time working with teams to help their products improve. Who would do that if they thought the person on the other side of the screen was "stupid"? Wouldn't that be a sort of pure horror?

Again, for the avoidance of doubt: I'm lucky and privileged to get to work with incredible teams. I'm writing these posts because I'm *apoplectic* that these *incredible* engineers that I respect deeply were sold rotten construction materials.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:11 PM

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_benui@mastodon.gamedev.place ("ben🌱ui") wrote:

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Bingo card listing a bunch of common issues with newly-released technology. Squares include "destroys well-paying jobs", "horrifying military applications", "ceo is a real piece of shit". The free square in the middle is "ads!" (remote)

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:09 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So, even if you don't agree that this can happen - say, you believe developers have perfect information at every moment and are at all times dispassionately considering all possible alternatives - you must still admit that *I* don't think that, and further, that I don't ascribe malice to having less information.

So *you* might call developers dumb if you think they are making perfect choices, but at least do the intellectually honest thing and acknowledge that *I* don't call them stupid.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:06 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is such established econ that the co-developers of the mathy bits of the theory shared an Econ Nobel (which isn't a *real* Nobel...anyway) in 2001:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2001/popular-information/

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 5:03 PM

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Folks, if you think I'm calling developers "stupid" by pointing out an information asymmetry and a market failure, then you literally don't understand what information asymmetries *do*.

In a broken market, pricing is wrong not because buyers are stupid, but because they have less information and nobody is stepping in to correct that gap.

So, even if you think can't happen, you should acknowledge that *I* (and most of modern economics) think that happens *all the time*.

Mastodon FeedFeb 12, 2023, 4:54 PM

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autismsupsoc@neurodifferent.me ("Autistic Voices United (El)") wrote: