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by Udik 5y ago
Obligatory Gary Larson: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/b5/27/1db5279f8a07f1601bf7...
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> In my observation, white men telling minorities what is and is not racist is one of the surest ways to enrage those who feel passionately about racial justice issues. Might well be, and yet this doesn't mean the "white men&qu
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The Middle East (where Jesus was born and crucified) doesn't have anything to do with the Iron Curtain and is, quite obviously, not the center either.
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I was reading this essay nodding, until the revelation: the author isn't Christian at all. He's raised in Judaism. My knowledge of religion (despite being born and raised in a Catholic country) is entirely intuitive, but Judaism a
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> I think it is the consequences of closing such a discussion that he leaves unaddressed. Does the company still value your opinion? Do you matter? It seems he clearly proved that those opinions matter, if he recognized the mistake, reco
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Yes, and that's referred to a list of funny names. It's still not clear to me in what the "ground fact" (the list of funny names) is different from the links posted above. I'll be frank- and I know that I'm ris
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They're lists of funny names, same as what Basecamp did.
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I'm not sure where you read all this. In his post [1] DHH says: 1) that the list was a mistake and that they've learned and moved on. 2) that "I was dismayed to see the argument advanced in text and graphics on [Employee 1’s]
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People making such a fuss over a list of funny names? Yes, that's office fun you wouldn't want your customers to know about, which I guess makes it a bit unprofessional. But still it's absolutely innocent fun. Whoever makes i
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Seen the generous buyouts offered, it's probable that several of them left just because they liked the offer.
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I don't think a political discussion now and then at work is an issue per se. As long as you remember you're talking with colleagues, and you have to keep a respectful tone and be friendly and collaborative with them all the same
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Sounds like he's using it in an entirely different way from what used to be Facebook's focus. It's not keeping in touch with other people any more, but rather a collection of small local-centric services. (Take away restauran
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I expect the medium term survival of the participants to this particular trial to be zero.
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Just click on "translations and more definitions" at the bottom.
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Kafkatrap(en.m.wiktionary.org)
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Yep, Ofxord Languages (the one provided by google) https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/
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Enables distant parties to be confident that there is only one specific version of the document that is valid, even when each of the parties could have an interest in creating and spreading its own version.
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It's not guaranteed to be unique. Blockchains are.
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(in neutral use) large size or scale. "I began to get a sense of the enormity of the task"
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> buyers plan to sell for more money, and eventually can't. This also holds for all those shares that don't pay dividends: Alphabet, Amazon, etc.
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Look, this is from an analysis document presented at the Italian parliament: "The criminal density of Calabria [region where the 'ndrangheta comes from], when comparing the numbers of official affiliates to the population, is of 2
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> Lying about being in the mafia can have grave consequences, obviously What do you mean? I hope you don’t seriously think that there is a mafia entity that is going around chasing people who casually claim to be part of it. Except for t
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I think the mafia is overhyped and an easy way of keeping up the fiction of a clear separation between good and bad, citizens and criminals, oppressed and oppressors. In this specific case, there is no need whatsoever for the threatening em
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> A random employee threat to a manager isn’t normally swept under the carpet Do you think that managers in Calabria actually check if the threat came from an actual 'ndrangheta affiliate or not? I think it's simply a matter of
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It seems so.
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> the ratio is 53 likes to 15,486 dislikes. Don't worry, Youtube has already proposed to hide dislikes numbers. That would be a good place to start. Edit: wow, 3 comments saying the exact same thing and all 3 starting with "don
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> Tourism can decrease housing supply, making is less affordable for long-term tenants. I'm not sure what's the size of this effect though. I've heard people making comparisons like "1/3 of the apartments for ren
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Airbnb has become synonymous with cheap tourism and overcrowded capitals, but is it correct to put the blame on it? Or it is simply cheap air travel and higher affluence (think of the entire eastern block of Europe, China, etc.) that brings
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Sorry, you're right, I should have googled. Those methodologies don't strike me as particularly insightful- in the end what they try to do is to give some structure to the guts feelings of the (however chosen) reviewers. Anyway, t
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I'm not sure what the methodologies are. There is no objective "left" or "right", the two camps are just defined in relation to a supposed center. Where you place a newspaper depends on your perception of what the c

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