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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wikipedia agrees with me? So it's hardly an outrageous position.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Wikipedia disagrees? Yes, the colloquial usage often implies poor/lower class or physical labor, but it's not the only use of the term. (Just like the phrase 'Middle Class' has really fuzzy boundaries in the US.)
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> No one uses 'working class' in casual conversation to include doctors, hedge fund analysts and lawyers. Plenty of folks do. Yes, 'working class' is often synonymous with lower class in the US, but I regularly hear a
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> If they had achieved suburban middle class lives, what made them working class Did they earn their living by working? Then they are working class. If you make a salary or a wage, if you have a boss, you are working class. Did they make
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
"Right" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Reagan was correct that the strikes may have been illegal, but I wouldn't say that Reagan was "right" to fire all the workers.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The military and police have a long history of being deployed against workers in the US. In at least one case firing upon striking coal workers. Companies like the Pinkertons have been using violence against striking workers for a long time
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Every one of those examples applies to academia, I chose comments but I could easily replace it with academic criticism. > The point I was making was that people in the CRT circle in particular are arguing that by definition, criticism o
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's not so simple, unfortunately. Yes, in an ideal world I would agree with you -- criticism, when deployed reasonably, is not harassment. But let's look at some concrete ways this could break down. I'm going to use HN as an
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Big citation needed on the 'movement across Academia'. Most Academics I've ever worked with, and folks who are serious about their work invite critical thought. I do see some folks dress up intolerance in the trappings of cri
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
XState is incredible when combined with something like Svelte. I've seen it used to power videogame UIs (huds, health bars, menus, etc.) for a AAA shooter. The really nice thing about working with it is that all your components get muc
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Our biggest growth happened after those times. I believe the bend in the curve happened closer to the 70s in the US.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
A quick infrastructure service (from what I understand.) If you are building a JS single page app and want to be able to deploy it and some backing cloud functions without really worrying about CDNs, gateways, etc. Git push, code runs tests
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You have, at best, a high school level understanding of biology. The current scientific and medical consensus absolutely supports the idea of gender as a more complex system then which parts you have. Everything you've said in the abov
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
English may not be your first language? I think you have perhaps unintentionally said something extremely offensive. Trans women are women. Trans women were born men, but they are not pretending.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is that due to education? Lack of understanding of the trans experience? Given that the number of trans people out there is already fairly small (single digit percentages), I wouldn't expect trans awareness to be wide. Especially inter
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Genuine attempt to answer: It's seen as humorous or weird that a man would want to appear to be a young woman. It's unclear in this case whether the person being photographed is trans. This article is not a tech demo or deep dive,
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
FYI, you've used a slur -- Tr*p is a slur for transgender folks often used in association with porn. You may want to either clarify your meaning (in case you are using the word in a different meaning) or choose a different word.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's not just that Amazon is not contributing back -- they are not contributing back at scale. They are consuming at scale. They have the scale to distort the established understanding of how a thing works. Like, we've all seen th
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
First, software absolutely rots, second, software isn't the commons. The people contributing to it are.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I don't think I claimed it was categorically true, it's just a useful essay to read and understand. I don't believe a frog gave a scorpion a ride across the river or that Paul Bunyan chopped trees out West either, but they ar
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
There's a famous essay about the Tragedy of the Commons -- the high level idea is that if there is a resource that is commonly available for free then some users will exploit it for their own gain. It originally referred to ranchers wh
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, but it's not sufficient to stop there. We need to ask the five whys -- why did this vendor get chosen? Why were the criteria developed that led to this vendor selection? etc. etc. Yes, they are responsible to their users, but I&#x
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You might be broken if this is your world view.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
On the flip side, gig work, tipped minimum wages, and unpaid labor (e.g. unpaid internships) is extremely common and can definitely bring in pay less than minimum wage. I can only imagine what would happen in cases where the backstop of min
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> their entire purpose is to form a cartel in order to extract rent from the buyers of labor. Wow. I find this take to be so twisted as to be laughable. A union's entire purpose is to advocate for the needs and desires of the member
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Solidarity with all those who are voting to unionize. Hopefully they can all vote without threats or interference from Amazon.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Maybe the gasoline contains ethanol and it formed some compounds when exposed to the environmental moisture?
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It makes intuitive sense to me. Studying a thing and practicing a thing are different. We practice fire drills for a reason. And you may have intellectual understanding of what plays to run on the football field but it doesn't make you
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Dr Seuss books weren't cancelled, a rights holder decided not to continue printing some books they held the rights to. The title of this article is hyperbolic nonsense.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You can add the word fact after a sentence, that doesn't make it a fact. Fact. ;)

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