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by Veelox 4y ago
> When I see that it always seems to me that the real issue is the CEO has made a conscious choice to pick profit over doing the right thing Just going to toss my hat in the ring and say that I think selling data to ICE falls on the righ
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by Veelox 4y ago
It's amusing to me that you comment complaining that fascists will seize power given the chance. I have seen the same thought process but pointing at wokism instead of fascism. The parallel is so strong I had to reread your post to dou
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by Veelox 4y ago
Suicides are an informal measure of how unhappiness. The thinking is that if people reach a certain level of unhappiness they opt out of life. The implication is that there is a lot less unhappiness in Greece.
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by Veelox 5y ago
It depends on what you are counting as interviews. Normally there is 1 recruiter/hiring manager initial call. Then there is 1 phone screen of some sort. If you pass that it's normal to have 4 onsite interviews in a day. That gets
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by Veelox 5y ago
> I think people would generally agree the user experience of Uber is an improvement over taxis even if the labour conditions are a regression. I am going to make my point bluntly. Do you think the people driving for Uber are dumb? Every
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by Veelox 5y ago
Reading it as gun-icorn lead to extreme excitement which was crushed to find the link had nothing to do with gun unicorns...
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by Veelox 5y ago
Hey, let me see if I can play this game! We have the same problem in the US. Certain "Equity loving" sects applaud disregarding national boarders, easy release of multiple time offenders, shouting down those who disagree, and the
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by Veelox 5y ago
Forget tolerance I want liberty back. What makes tolerance so good that it should be prioritized over everything else? I want everyone granted certain inalienable rights and then allowed to live how they want as long as they abide by their
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by Veelox 5y ago
Hot take If that's what your interested in go work at Tesla or SpaceX.
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by Veelox 5y ago
>Trump's leaked plan Can I get a source?
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by Veelox 5y ago
In C++ there could be 7 or 8 different ways go about implementing similar functionality. This is powerful in that it lets you do exactly what you want because each of those ways is subtly different and sometimes you need each one. Go's
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by Veelox 5y ago
"All men are created equal" is a pretty compelling reason to end segregation. "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is a pretty compelling reason to end gun control. "nor shall any
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by Veelox 5y ago
You seem absolutely certain you are right about certain issues. One of the big draws of America originally was that is was huge and open and you could join a community that agreed with what you mostly. Yes some people view abortion as a rig
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by Veelox 5y ago
> I do think the ending political metaphor doesn't quite fit, however. Literally none of my immediate family has gotten the vaccine. I know several more people who haven't gotten it. I have been reading Scott since around 2015.
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by Veelox 5y ago
Just as a random aside, I don't know why but Dan is putting out some great articles at an absurd rate late. I really appreciate it. Keep it up Dan!
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by Veelox 5y ago
By reputation, University of Michigan has a very good engineering program. It's good enough that if you finish you can get a job anywhere else. It's kind of sad that if the school was worse more people would stay in state. Long te
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by Veelox 5y ago
Oh it's not fool proof and there are would probably be cost over runs and you would probably need to make power produces whole for their capital out lays. There might be an nuclear incident. I feel like if the world was going to end in
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by Veelox 5y ago
I forget where I saw it but I remember someone on the right criticizing those on the left by saying "I will start treating climate change like an emergency when they start acting like it's and emergency". A lot of the "s
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by Veelox 5y ago
14th Amendment violations are only in play when a government tries to advantage or disadvantage based on sexual orientation and thus we have fully resolved the issue of if you have to make a cake for a gay wedding. You don't since you&
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by Veelox 5y ago
I feel like this argument only ever gets used in this specific situation. Americans are granted freedom of speech, if companies are large enough they are meaningfully infringing on that right we should do something about it. >People don&
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by Veelox 5y ago
Quick question, without checking the numbers, about how many black people do you think were killed by police last year and how many of them were unarmed? I'm interested in knowing what you think the numbers are in reference to them pos
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by Veelox 6y ago
Trump's out of office, can we please stop spreading unfounded anti-Trump propaganda now?
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by Veelox 6y ago
Trump did plenty of dumb stuff. It bothers me when people misquote him so bad they are practically lie about it because it makes people doubt all of the bad things he really did. Did Trump do something improper by calling the Governor and p
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by Veelox 6y ago
>calling state officials to ask them to "find votes" Fyi, the Washington Post offered an official retraction of that quote recently stating it wasn't based in reality.
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by Veelox 6y ago
>there needs to be a positive bias for minorities who were historically disenfranchised >I absolutely think we need affirmative action to relieve historic deficits, but at the same time this affirmative support is in itself discrimina
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by Veelox 6y ago
> And the values from the mission statement does sound like something every company should aim for For the record here is the second listed value > Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioriti
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by Veelox 6y ago
Their second listed value is > Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim. Social justice is a progressive view normally running
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by Veelox 6y ago
From the official union website's list of values > Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim. For my eyes, that is absolute
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by Veelox 6y ago
I would pay $20 to hear the story from her manager's view. It probably has a very different spin to it.
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by Veelox 6y ago
So I am not going to update my opinion, this was legal but morally dubious on Google's part. On her part it sucks but she easily could have avoided the situation.

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