NeverFade

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by NeverFade 4y ago
> It removes the degree of freedom to restart supplying gas. Have you been following the news? The current Russian regime is threatening the use of nuclear weapons, and massacring thousands in war crimes in Ukraine. The EU has already
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by NeverFade 4y ago
This is not "gas production in the EU", these pipelines used to transport gas produced in Russia to the EU. The termination of their operation has been a done deal for a while. The US has no interest in sabotaging them: it's
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> The next question is, who did it? The Russians. > It doesn't seem like something in Russia's interest, they've been wanting to get that pipeline approved and operational. Once their invasion faltered, and with the
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by NeverFade 4y ago
It's easy to scapegoat the Fed for the ongoing recession and inevitable layoffs.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
In a free market with healthy competition, a company can't just raise prices and increase its profit margins, because its competitors will keep their prices low and get all the business. Thus, indeed, companies can only afford to raise
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Let's start by defining what Free Speech isn't. There is no Free Speech if you can't speak freely where speech is actually happening. So if nearly all speech is moving online to massive social media sites, and you can't
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Freedom of Expression is a core value in the US: > Freedom of speech, of the press, of association, of assembly and petition -- this set of guarantees, protected by the First Amendment, comprises what we refer to as freedom of expressio
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by NeverFade 4y ago
If you're not protecting free speech in the places where free speech actually happens, then you are not protecting free speech at all. If speech has shifted online, to massive social media websites like Twitter, and you don't prot
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> I don't see how the heck my website is a public square but my home or café isn't, this argument sounds self-contradictory. If it's a website with over 50 million users, and it's designed explicitly as a place for
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by NeverFade 4y ago
That's why the key point for me isn't that it's illegal (though it is): it's immoral, even if it was legal. Discrimination against blacks in the South was legal. Plenty of people defended racism on these grounds back the
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> I don’t disagree with your overall point but I also don’t think anyone is going to win a lawsuit over this without a huge case that makes it to scotus because the practice of diversity hires is common and currently tolerated. Accordi
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> So in the end, it was a bunch of privileged white people patting themselves on the back for hiring privileged Latin and Black people. While whites and Asians born into poverty, who struggled all their lives against overwhelming odds,
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> Change the framing from “white person was fired” to “black person was retained” and you’re suddenly back into affirmative action Change the framing from "a victim was robbed of $1,000" to "a poor person gained $1,000&q
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Yes, as mentioned above, there is (unfortunately) a controversial ruling (Grutter v. Bollinger) that allows for a form of discrimination in college admissions specifically. This is wrong and should stop. It's an example of SCOTUS judge
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by NeverFade 4y ago
A company (Twilio) is executing a mass layoff, and is implying that it will protect certain racial minorities from this layoff. Doing this, they are necessarily discriminating against any employee who does not belong to these racial groups
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by NeverFade 4y ago
You are wrong. There is one judgement that upholds a form of affirmative action in very narrow circumstances (education) and only in very limited form, and even that is challenged in SCOTUS and likely to be overturned: https://ww
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by NeverFade 4y ago
It is absolutely illegal. It violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which: > outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 Ye
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by NeverFade 4y ago
If the layoff was done through the lens of racist consideration, and minority races were given preference, then the odds of a white or Asian person getting fired were higher. That's already illegal. Even if you can somehow prove in cou
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by NeverFade 4y ago
1. Attack a person incessantly. 2. Some people come to his defense. 3. "Why is there so much effort to defend this person?!"
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by NeverFade 4y ago
It's apparently quite possible to keep supporting the WebRequest API in Mv3, since Firefox is doing just that.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
IIUC, the only problem with Mv3 is that they disabled the WebRequest API. A fork of Chromium that solves this problem will just have to re-enable the WebRequest API, which seems doable.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
As a technical hiring manager, I was involved in some teams that did use homework assignments. Their fatal issue on the hiring side is that they take too much time to properly score. If you ask a good candidate to work for 4+ hours, they&#x
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Most companies that use take-home tests don't use such systems. Also, such a system does not prevent cheating, which is really the worst issue here.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
How do you know they clearly took over two hours? We love talking about productivity here. You're telling me employers will systematically fail the candidates who performed most productively in their process, because of a speculation
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> Then the candidate doing it at home using their system and their tools gives you a more accurate picture of their actual capabilities than a whiteboard or doing it on your hardware in an unfamiliar setting with a stranger giving every
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by NeverFade 4y ago
How is that different from the old default, which was MOBI?
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I'm as anti-regulation as anyone here, but the government should protect its citizenry from harms that are not always obvious or easy to resist. That's why we regulate highly addictive and harmful substances. > teach the young
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> Aragorn explains that there are evils older than Sauron Caradhras contained Durin's Bane, a Balrog, which sufficiently explains this comment. There are certainly many evils predating Sauron, notably Morgoth.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
If Trump was still the president, these headlines would be "we are in a recession" (which is in fact the case), not "fears of recession". Which we are, per the definition that existed so far. The media has no reason to w
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by NeverFade 4y ago
You'll get upvoted and I'll get downvoted because your political bias is the orthodoxy here, but the NBER has officially called a recession every single time we had 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth. It's unreasonable

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