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by Lutger 4y ago
I would call that gaslighting yes. Basically you're declaring their judgement incapacitated in some way and try to convince them to abandon their views or change their behavior by distrusting their own sanity. You may think you are rig
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by Lutger 4y ago
Exactly, I tried to sneak in that nuance with 'if adequately compensated', but apparently it was not clear enough.
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by Lutger 4y ago
You see it a lot because there has been extensive empirical research that led to this conclusion, which does get summarized in discussions to a point where nuances have been lost. If you earn a really low wage, a little bit of extra money b
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by Lutger 4y ago
Of course, a shitty coop is worse than a well managed corp. All I'm saying is that money isn't top priority for a lot of people.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Another interesting fact: the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia that was supposed to alleviate hunger in the poorest of African countries led to the import of almost 800K ton of grains to the Netherlands. Some of it for further distribu
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by Lutger 4y ago
Dutch agriculture is completely broken, and these kinds of marketing pieces don't help putting it together again. No, we don't produce more than enough food to feed all our people, because importing stuff is often still cheaper (w
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by Lutger 4y ago
Regardless of the commercial success of coops, your premise that the main reason for work is money does not hold up to scrutiny. If merely adequately compensated, money turns out to be really low on the list of things that actually motivate
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by Lutger 4y ago
Maybe if you don't have the infra, but here in the Netherlands its perfectly normal to do this.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Absolutely. I remember we build a unimaginably brittle application many years ago, I think it was running on Windows XP and glued together a complex system with COM calls into this single page webapp even before react was a thing. It was bu
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by Lutger 4y ago
I read it as the exact opposite: the reason Twitter is still ok* is not because all these people were just browsing reddit at work. You can't just gut Twitter to run on only a couple of hundred people and still expect the same results
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by Lutger 4y ago
I'm puzzled by this statement. Do you think of resiliency as waste? That twitter would have been fine without it? The article makes a point that the reason Twitter is running ok on 20% of personnel at this moment is exactly because i
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by Lutger 4y ago
I doubt that the mentioned 'psychological experiments' are just A/B testing. There is a very strong case to be made that Trump and Brexit would not have happened without Facebook, and those are just two examples.
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by Lutger 4y ago
I never really understood the toxicity around open source. It was my first interaction around something I published when I was still learning things - being burned to the ground. I don't think I published anything ever since that exper
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by Lutger 4y ago
If you think the bannable offenses on Twitter only gave enough room for the left, you are not just to the right of that, but more like far right extremism. Twitter did and does, in fact, tolerate right-wing and conservative views. It is ful
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by Lutger 4y ago
So you're saying it's a nice to have? /s For all its pretense of wanting to be the Town Square, somehow I don't expect it to be a very inclusive one. Getting rid of a11y team is exactly what I would expect, crisis or not
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by Lutger 4y ago
I don't think 'arguments' about Jews is a me-problem. Of course, that is exactly where we disagree. But your framing is dishonest.
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by Lutger 4y ago
It's the other way around, obviously.
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by Lutger 4y ago
It's a signal you need to pay a bribe, sorry. That's the only way to get something done.
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by Lutger 4y ago
I personally love docker. Almost all of it makes sense to me. It's not perfect, but very pragmatic, almost in a blunt way. On a workstation level, people who really know their way around stuff tend to dislike docker in my experience, a
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by Lutger 4y ago
Eventually we need to outlaw 99% of plastic use. We just can't keep doing this. The earlier we start with the easy stuff, the better, so why not start with it now?
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by Lutger 4y ago
DevOps is bullshit in the same way that Agile is bullshit. So, it's actually not at all, but just has become so fashionable that the term is sufficiently abused to become almost useless.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Huge waste of money that could have been poured into public transport to actually solve our problems and improve our lives. What a tragedy.
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by Lutger 4y ago
It is probably in the job definition of a parent to worry too much. Seriously, I always thought my parents were constantly overreacting, but now I get it. Because for the parent its also often tough to tell, and its also really easy to unde
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by Lutger 4y ago
Mastering a skill doesn't imply being in the top 10 or even 100. It simply means acquiring expertise to a point of diminishing returns and being recognized by your peers as very skilled. It's perfectly possible to become really go
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by Lutger 4y ago
One word: security updates. Ok that was two. Most software had dependencies, those tend to surface vulnerabilities over time.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Isn't teams just a reskinned SharePoint with messenging and conference capabilities added? Does it use tech from the Skype acquisition? I do remember everybody using Skype, it was so popular it created a verb of its own, we used to sky
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by Lutger 4y ago
A negative response would be ridiculous, as is the clickbait title, and I don't think losing those users will actually be a great loss. LibreOffice is free as in beer. Not only the source, but also the binaries, and also for MacOs, are
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by Lutger 4y ago
I don't really understand why not doing it to US citizens makes it ok. I can imagine one would find it permissible to use such techniques against your enemies, but this is very clearly also about your allies. To the US, American lives
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by Lutger 4y ago
Disagree, you probably think it's unreadable because you don't know the language and/or concepts in this snippet. But does that mean we shouldn't, for example, use destructuring in javascript because some devs might not
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by Lutger 4y ago
> If you can’t say global warming is bogus because it’s particularly cold out today, you also can’t blame global warming on it being hot or rainy. And yet, we care a lot about the impacts of climate change, of which a particularly impor

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