JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
My father doesn't live in California, but he's one of those baby boomers that drives me crazy with this kind of crap. There are no jobs or industry anywhere near where we grew up but people like him make sure that stays a reality
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by JPKab 5y ago
I assure you, it wasn't intentional. I read Mr. Sampson's blog, and I literally got tears in my eyes. I regretted engaging with him in the way I did, but HN doesn't let me delete posts. It was also too late to edit them. He
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by JPKab 5y ago
Just because you're passive aggressive doesn't mean I am. I meant what I said and there was no insinuation at all. I don't compliment people's software lightly. I would advise you to take your negative filter off.
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by JPKab 5y ago
He seems like a good kid, and very smart. Homeless as a teen, white mom kicked out as a teen due to dating a black man, clearly unstable upbringing which is brutal for any kid. Taught himself how to code at the library. He was a recipient
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by JPKab 5y ago
I read your blog. You and I share a common life experience: Spending part of your childhood homeless. Have a nice day.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Apparently gender inequality exists in policing as well. Why do police almost exclusively murder males, in your opinion? I'm asking in good faith, because I think you have insightful comments and I'm curious, even if I disagree w
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by JPKab 5y ago
Why not just compare caricatures and get this over with? Extremes in both blue and red states are equally stupid. Average iq doesn't differ between states. Education level does, but as any techy knows, that's an overrated proxy f
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by JPKab 5y ago
Why isn't California enforcing this law? Is there any explanation?
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by JPKab 5y ago
It was very weird having my last company's CEO talking to us about his focus on equity, when the mandatory company report showed his salary was 111x that of the average employee (at a tech company with no hourly workers). At some point
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by JPKab 5y ago
This was an excellent and informative post. The USPS really gets hosed by the fact that they are required to have a fixed price for the most rural, low-density locations that UPS and FedEx would never deliver to.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Is there a way for me to go back and delete my offending comments? I'd like to do so, because I don't want to be a part of diminishing the community, and would like to make amends.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Sorry. I'll end my comments in this thread.
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by JPKab 5y ago
You have no idea how much software I ship, but like your ideology, you make assertions without data. You act as if the only people who are killed by police are "one of my brothers and sisters". Let's unpack that, shall we? h
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by JPKab 5y ago
White supremacy is so baked into American culture that over 90% of immigrants to the US are non-white. The US is the least racist nation in the world according to Pew surveys. What we have an abundance in the US is people who, if racism dis
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by JPKab 5y ago
No you really don't get it. At my company that I was formally employed at before moving on to my current startup, we had a minority of employees very aggressively and vocally demanding that the CEO issue an anti-racism statement after
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by JPKab 5y ago
I disagree with name calling. And I think you are arrogant and probably young. You form an opinion and cling to it. This ideology probably suits you.
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by JPKab 5y ago
CRT is essay based, not science based. Think Foucault, not Pavlov.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Context always matters but context isn't fixed at your national level. If you get jumped by several guys from an oppressed group at that moment in time and in that place they have a lot more power than you do. Just like in code that c
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by JPKab 5y ago
And yet this whole ridiculous movement is isolated to the United States and not at all popular in nations like Brazil which got dramatically more African slaves brought to them in the time of the slave trade. When you get sucked in by a US-
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by JPKab 5y ago
I agree with you 100%. Utilization of the pyramid of hate in this way makes me feel like it's just a retroactive justification of hypersensitive behavior amongst overly fragile employees. Honestly a lot of times it's not even hyp
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by JPKab 5y ago
Respectfully, I view these explanations as a retcon. Race is a social construct and the reason these newspapers chose not to capitalize white was because it's historically been capitalized by white nationalists. It's also histori
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by JPKab 5y ago
That's exactly how it went down in one of my companies HR "listening circles" in February. The blind employee is married to a woman who immigrated to the US from Japan. He was being lectured by a young semi-useless data scie
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by JPKab 5y ago
No, it's not. Where do you think this ideology and hypersensitivity originated?
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by JPKab 5y ago
Academia is where this ideology originated. It's where virtually all of the terminology came from. It's also where these employees were taught that collective identity dwarfs individual identity.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Do what I did in February: Quit. Life's too short to waste time at a company that's forgotten it's purpose. This ideology borders on cult like. A good sign that you are dealing with an irrational ideology is non-sensical, il
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by JPKab 5y ago
"But Fried and his co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, had been taken aback by an employee post which argued that mocking customer names laid the foundation for racially-motivated violence, and closed the thread." Children under
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by JPKab 5y ago
Legitimizing people's status would definitely help to a degree, but not fully. The wage to earn a significantly higher standard of living than that found in the poorest Central American nations where most of these human beings come fro
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by JPKab 5y ago
I don't disagree with you at all but unfortunately without population growth the social safety net in most industrialized countries would completely collapse. Imagine what it would look like for a politician to try to tell the American
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by JPKab 5y ago
Cheap labor lowers wages and undermines unions ability to negotiate. In the long term the additional demand generated by immigrants balances out and things are fine. In the short term many forms of labor are devalued and people who are al
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by JPKab 5y ago
The confidence you express in just denouncing this person as being divorced from reality is pretty shocking. I'd hate to break it to you but your grasp on reality isn't any better than most humans meaning it's pretty poor. It

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