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by Frondo 7y ago
Agreed. If you follow any high-profile women in tech on Twitter, wade into their mentions to see sex-based harassment directed at them. It's consistent and ongoing and must be exhausting for them to deal with. (I know it would be for m
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't believe they were making a case that it has merit, only that it a long history and is a specific writing conceit for its audience...which I suppose gives it merit as being appropriate for its audience.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Heh, funnily enough, a few years ago I was at a rodeo with some friends, and this was in rural Oregon. One of the announcers was a radio personality on some country station in the Portland area (I think -- something like that, at least). Fo
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by Frondo 7y ago
No. The architects are all already employed. You don't build a big building (or even a small one) without hiring them for the design process to begin with. In fact, for a lot of small-enough construction work, architects can follow a p
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by Frondo 7y ago
I think the thing my architect friend was getting at is, these structures are here for a long, long time, and they take up a finite (and heavily constrained resource), so it's not like there's an opportunity for people to realis
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by Frondo 7y ago
That's fair, I've never lived in LA so I don't know what problems it caused; only that the architect I know who's running for mayor liked it and felt it improved the city. He said that one of the problems he sees with de
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by Frondo 7y ago
A year ago the right-wing militia types took over a bird sanctuary and ended up getting in a shootout with the state police. It's not unreasonable to feel unsafe around these people; maybe the burden of safe and civil governance should
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by Frondo 7y ago
The rain runoff can flow into the bioswales the city is already building all over; it won't just run into the city sewers. As for needing to build wider driveways, and that making it boring, I realize there's a certain kind of sub
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by Frondo 7y ago
People exaggerate. Portland's already been transformed by row houses, lots of apartment and condo structures, and dense building. Unsurprisingly, a lot of old-timers hate it, and their complaints all boil down to "it's differ
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by Frondo 7y ago
I was also around and never heard of anyone describing "crash" to mean "need to reinstall OS". Always in the same Linux sense, which absolutely was a breath of fresh air by comparison.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Here's a short read about why it'd benefit nearly everyone reading this here to unionize... https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/why-95-perce...
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by Frondo 7y ago
The same thing happens at technical jobs, too. In the programming world, how many people are convinced that white-collar desk labor is qualitatively different from assembly line work, such that unions apply to factories but would never ap
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's really not. The one guy in this thread who keeps trying to say that is, I think, either mistaken (from movies or whatever) or is trying to paint an exaggerated portrait of rural life such that it seems extreme to urban-living folk
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by Frondo 7y ago
It is not within the rights of Texans or Americans anywhere to shoot people on sight merely because they're on their property. Edited to include the relevant laws: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/ht
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by Frondo 7y ago
This is preposterous. This kind of tone-policing doesn't belong here. A charitable read of what he said doesn't "tick off a checklist of a troll". The time to back down was a few posts ago.
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by Frondo 7y ago
It also feels like, at this point in history, "Best steak in town!" is, even if pretty widely untrue (e.g. the steak is leathery, very few people would consider it edible let alone the best, etc etc), that's a benign kind of
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by Frondo 7y ago
This is absolutely the story of the American ideal. We're a nation of Horatio Algers -- the quintessential "rags to riches" story. Poverty, in the US, is a personal shame, not a systemic failure. The successful end result of
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by Frondo 7y ago
That's worse than weird, that's downright dangerous. There are no sidewalks on that street, and cars travel at 55-75 mph on it. There's also no way to get from the street to the station; the overhead bridge is the only way. T
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm planning a wedding and we're taking a decidedly non-traditional route. Because we both grew up on the internet, our friends are scattered across the seven continents. Having a wedding would mean most of them wouldn't be a
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by Frondo 7y ago
Whoa! Was he Uzbek? The Khivan khanate thing sticks out at me. I lived a year in central asia, I'd love to hear more.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't think any janitor working for an outsourced company is learning about problems. For the most part, people try to ignore that the cleaning staff are there at all. They don't talk to them and they certainly don't engage
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by Frondo 7y ago
People also didn't have a great deal of privacy at either end of the phone conversation, anyway. The phone would've been in a central location in a house, attached to a wall. Back then you wouldn't be hidden away in a bedroo
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by Frondo 7y ago
Signal isn't particularly inconvenient, but it is ugly compared to every other mainstream app -- and looks matter. The reason I stopped recommending Signal to anyone is that its message delivery is abysmal compared to everything else.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Cheap LED bulbs actually flicker significantly, which I realized when I filmed using my camera's "slow motion" capture at 240 frames per second. In our bedroom, I put in some LEDs, not realizing there could possibly be a diff
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by Frondo 7y ago
So let them argue and let this go to court and be clarified there. Rather than cynically dismiss this, imagine a less shitty world for a moment and imagine how we get there.
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by Frondo 7y ago
There has always been a market for mass-market doomsday prediction material; whether religious or secular. A population bomb leading to famine has never been the result of prolonged scientific discussion, just one guy's theories (publi
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by Frondo 7y ago
According to the Cato institute, the most free countries in the world are mostly in Western Europe: > The jurisdictions that took the top 10 places, in order, were New Zealand, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands a
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by Frondo 7y ago
Funny, my brother lives in Kensington and he had fios installed literally this morning. I asked and he said they ran it to the front of the building.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Literally once every 4 or 5 years I've heard a layman say "second world" referring to "poorer than America, richer than Ethiopia"; the lay usage is probably still first/third world, but people are slowly cotton
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by Frondo 7y ago
"prevents hostile monetary policy" -- except this isn't true. Crypto has just taken monetary policy decisions out of the hands of the electorate, however tenuous a chain of authority that is (voters -> president -> Fed

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