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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No I'm not getting into this. I've done this so, so many times and there's no value for anyone. You, or someone else, will move the goalposts, or find some hyper specific counterexample and claim it disproves the entire thing
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yes I know where you stand on this, I don't need more information about your opinion. I asked if you see the conclusion of this view, and if you endorse it. To be very very clear it goes like this: if poor are fat because they make bad
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yes this is exactly my understanding as well, from inside the US.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
If it's not hard to avoid being overweight when poor, and most poor people are overweight... what is happening? Do you see the obvious conclusion here? Do you endorse it?
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah I think I've been pretty clear that I think that conversation is possible and also that I think that is not the conversation that is happening in this thread.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't know I'm not thrilled to be this negative or correct about this but it's been pretty much exactly what I expected.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I was trying to be nice. It's worth discussing I just don't think you contributed anything useful to the conversation with that comment. To me it reads like you're dismissing the author's experiences based on a technical
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I only got into tech a bit over five years ago and that was the first time in my entire life I had been above the (demonically low) US poverty level. There is absolutely a difference in how rich and poor people treat poor service workers. I
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
It's normal and cool actually that we can take something that affects a MAJORITY of Americans and is tightly correlated to poverty and make it a matter of individual responsibility and moral weakness.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't really see this as a valid criticism of the list though. A person identified a bunch of ways they are not like almost all of the rest of their coworkers. Do they have the information, experience, or responsibility to accurately
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Haha fair enough, sorry I was kind of snarky about it. I thought you were intentionally misinterpreting to start an argument. Good lesson about giving people the benefit of the doubt for both of us I guess.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Huh interesting. Must just be an accent thing. I have a southern US accent in English and American accent with SW France influences in French. To me they aren't that similar but I do see how they could be. You're the native speake
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Interesting angle that I hadn't considered but I think you're right. I'm reconsidering my position on this one, thank you!
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
To be clear unprogrammed worship is absolutely still a thing in the US. In my large metro area there are I think five active meetings and two of them of them are unprogrammed. The reason it was interesting to me is that before I decided to
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
This is a lot of really well expressed information that completely fails to grapple with the fact that most developers write code for the web and apple computers are extremely popular among web developers. All of the things you mentioned ar
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Did it not register that the very first sentence of my comment was calling the other poster out for that sort of self-congratulatory introvert framing? Did you read anything in what I described of the book that seemed overwhelmingly positiv
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
If introverts focus on getting things done what do extroverts do in your eyes? Just hang out? There's a book about this called Quiet, I it. It's an overview of the like social history of the concepts of intro- and extroversion, an
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
It's actually the opposite as far as I know. There have been several well-researched articles in the last few years about this. The automated flagging they use is tuned to find the common mundane violations, which tend to be by normal
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Your last paragraph I get it but I think that's also a sign of racism? Like say I'm Russian because I kinda am, no one holds me accountable for Putin's actions. The geopolitical positioning of Russia's regime at any give
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Code switching. Super common with southerners living outside the south in my experience. We all have various degrees we let the accents out depending on who we're talking to. I can almost completely hide it at work if I want but I let
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
This stuff varies quite a bit by denomination and just tradition honestly. I mean you also have mainstream preachers telling you that if your faith is strong enough god will reward you with riches, which has been considered a heresy for at
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
The eye of the needle thing does not represent his entire full viewpoint on wealth right? It comes up quite a few times. Regardless of how you interpret the camel bit, there are other moments where he clearly tells the wealthy to give it al
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah I am an atheist these days but at the same time life is complex and I guess in some ways I am not not a christian. I have no respect for wealthy christians! At all! Yer boy Jesus was extremely extremely clear about what is expected of
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah I don't know what to do with the assumption that going to meeting in meetinghouses in what quakers do either. I've been to a lot of quaker meetings and the venue has been pretty evenly split between traditional meeting houses
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah "high degree of internal consistency" and "approachable" are things I want in a test suite not a novel.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
> If you go to a California black neighborhood and talk to people they are v suspicious of BLM's motives. Have you done this? I live in a majority black neighborhood but not in California and I talk to my neighbors. I have heard a l
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I'm not an insider in the music industry so I can't comment on this teacher's view but that seems... possible sure yeah I can see it. That's totally separate from the algorithm/genre issue though. The genres have ne
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
"People don't like me because of my actions, which says a lot about them but nothing about me somehow."
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yes this is one of the great advantages of the "some might say" move, love that shit.
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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yes, I am not disputing that. I am talking about the difference between giving someone advice about a situation they're in, and telling them how to feel about it. "When I was your age, I didn't appreciate certain things so I&

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