GrayTextIsTruth

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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
its more accurate. targeting the underrepresented cohort.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
more consolidation. at least its competition for github. I could see IBM/Redhat acquiring Gitlab at this rate.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
and specifically targeting men with free food and housing, who have higher rates of homelessness...
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
there are more homeless men than women. So that's like targeting men to give free food and shelter because more men need it, which wouldn't happen.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
how much do cheap plastic clothes (polyester, spandex, elastic) contribute to the micro-plastics epidemic I saw on HN recently? I've been trying to get 100% natural materials (cotton, wool, leather) and they seem more comfortable, less
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
I keep seeing "wework isn't a tech company", yet there is definitely an obsession here as if they were.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
huh. i didn't know this was a thing: https://www.automotivelinux.org/ part of the linux foundation
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
Where's the regulation? I'm upset that the democratic party has been increasingly more focused on social issues than worker issues in the last decade. Once neither political party cares about the working man then you'll start
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
i would say an update to the std lib to bring LWT into the language. something as simple as reading a file without an external lib is verbose
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
Capitalism is too efficient of a system. It doesn't do enough to keep growth in check. We are on a speeding train that is going faster and faster. Any new system that tries to keep capitalism in check will be villainized by those who b
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
i wonder if your tendency to cut corners is reflected in your code (assuming you're a developer) if you've never read an RFC or grinded through technical documentation. Do you enjoy reading other people's code? >Didn'
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
How long until low-tech cars are outlawed?
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
Crystal has been very nice on a project at work. Ruby-like syntax but statically typed, compiled language so a lot of the things that bites ruby programmers don’t even come up. It’s what I was hoping Go to be, it feels clean. It beats Go i
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
maximalism: maximizing the amount of stuff you have with hopes of getting SOME value out of them. minimalism: minimalizing the amount of stuff you have with hopes of getting LOTS of value out of them.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
Ted was on point in most of his views except for the “killing people” thing. Lots of business execs have graduated from Harvard and probably done worse for the country overall than TK.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
why not? best kind of humor
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
what if humans collectively aligned with populist ideologies and stoped caring about equality, democracy, capitalism, materialism, consumerism? systems that maximize human rights and equality were created in a vacuum and ignore external sid
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
> this is an elitist point of view putting the environment before humans will always be an "-ist" point of view to somebody. > Taxing will only serve to make travel a luxury for the elite, as it once was. sure but why not us
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
>we are "mindless bacteria in a Petri dish" we're not, but we are. There's a lot of potential but currently we are acting more like a cancer than bacteria.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
tourism dollars wouldn't be concentrated right around tourist destinations if it were normal. Its not that its uncommon, its just a tiny fraction of total tourism.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
> That would work well if... no "if". its worked for thousands of years. weak communities will die off. people will have something to live and fight for, humanity will get a renewed vigor, and the water crisis will fix itself.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
> This is likely an unpopular opinion no, just an opinion of a unrealistic dreamer. why wouldn't the govt be more corruptable by money than the current? The real unpopular opinion: the solution is simply less people. we need less in
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
well just increased globalization in the last couple of decades. California produces lots of crops and most of it isn't even consumed by Californians. The California water crisis is basically just a product of a globalized economy. Non
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
Going up the food chain, you have major governments, political bodies, entire industries that depend on a control of a narrative. They say history is written by the winner. When many things are broadly painted as good or evil then there is
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
I work at a 100% remote company, but i think there should be a concept of "company hubs". If you don't live 3 hours from one of the few hubs (or maybe there is a single hub), you're out of the area. Require the employees
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
they did neither.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
> YouTube is a privately owned and operated proprietary delivery platform. Are there any public online social platforms? There literally isn't the equivalent of a "public space" online so many view it as a de facto public
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
There are comments being removed from this thread even though they are not supremacist. People need to wake up to the control of big tech, big govt, etc.
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by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
> other bigoted ideologies That's not specific enough. What about people who want to preserve European culture but don't think its "superior" to any other culture?