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Veelox
6y ago
If she had used a company printer to print pro-union fliers and then shared them I'm 90% she could be fired for misuse of company resources. At to my intuition this feels like using the company printer without permission.
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Veelox
6y ago
Google does https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/google-... Apple does "For the past five years, we’ve continued to hire more women and underrepresented minorities every year." http
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Veelox
6y ago
I mean you have articles like these https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-24... being written.
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Veelox
6y ago
You can only claim tech isn't diverse if you ignore the massive overrepresentation of asians. Going off of Google's diversity report (because it's easy to find), non hispanic whites make up 43% of Google but 61% of America. F
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Veelox
6y ago
Wow. I am surprised to see someone here such misleading and uncharitable claims. What is your definition of mass murder? What evidence do you have that the right has a strategy of it aimed at black people? Also, I assume you are objecting t
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Veelox
6y ago
>If your boss (or their boss, or their boss, etc.) makes it clear they don't support that: that's not a political statement, it's workplace discrimination / harassment. I am going to speak plainly. I don't think
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Veelox
6y ago
I would estimate Sr. or better is possible for someone who is able to independently run a OSS project. Going off https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi... that comes out to ~$350k/y
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Veelox
6y ago
I might be late to the threat but you have a very insidious assumption left unstated. You seem to think certain ideas are to dangerous to be shared. That they could infect people and corrupt them. If we silence all the wrong think people wi
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Veelox
6y ago
john_alan asserted that hiring where having a specific skin color is required is racist hiring. Your response is black people have been treated poorly so it isn't racism. Your argument more reads like a justification for treating peopl
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Veelox
6y ago
I will agree it's a bit of a stretch and I pattern matched to other arguments I have seen but "massive-scale abuse" and "real and actual harm" is language that presupposes a negative moral judgement about what is ha
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Veelox
6y ago
I know this isn't what you intended to say but it what your statement implies is that everyone who disagrees is uncaring, idiotic, or evil. It might do you well to spend some time finding people to respect on the other side and listen
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Veelox
7y ago
> The truth as of late has a strong preference for left leaning positions. Can you give 3 examples?
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Veelox
7y ago
> What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? I think looking up why #OkDude was trending in the last few days would give you one example.
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7y ago
> I truly believe the left-lead media largely acts in good faith I would like to raise to your awareness that when Bernie was accused of saying a woman couldn't be president, his talking point we're very close to what people on
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Veelox
7y ago
> If you can convince enough voters that immigrants are the problem and you are the solution then you can do anything you like. You can do better than such a low effort swipe.
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Veelox
7y ago
> ... a sexist and a racist, there is no excuse for voting for someone like him. I will concede that Trump has sad a did some awful stuff. Even with that, there are people who feel just as strongly about abortion as you do about sexism a
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Veelox
7y ago
In a way, I envy you. You have a simple and straightforward explanation for how Trump got elected. At the same time, I pity you. You seem to have lost the ability to see good in people that disagree with you. There are a lot of loving moms
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Veelox
7y ago
>While wearing a MAGA hat is not illegal in itself, it is a violation of any kind of professional conduct. To reduce your argument a bit, in the name of inclusion and diversity we must ban anyone who wears a MAGA hat. Something seems off
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Veelox
7y ago
@ mods I 100% understand why this is flagged and it is already being a mess but it has 100+ upvotes in <1 hour. If possible I think this issue is important enough to some such as myself in the community that this post should be allowed o
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Veelox
7y ago
It's all good. Just wanted you to know and fixed it before to many other people saw the 404.
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Veelox
7y ago
That also 404s for me...
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Veelox
7y ago
The FAQ button goes to https://stripe.com/docs/capital/faqs which currently 404s for me.
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Veelox
7y ago
I have found that the best way to educate people on the importance of no government backdoors in encryption is to use the example of TSA approved locks. Everyone knows when they put a TSA lock on their luggage it does almost nothing to impr
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Veelox
7y ago
While you are taking the idea to the extreme to make a point, I agree with the underlying argument that we should work to modify behavior to improve outcomes. A lot of money has been spent reducing tobacco use which has paid for itself in b
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Veelox
7y ago
I would like to point out that you have a very privileged position in life to be able to say that cost is no object to the quality of care you receive. Not every has that luxury. Also, there are some people in some situations that would be
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Veelox
7y ago
>Why don’t all obese people just change their behavior and then we don’t need to worry about cheap insulin anymore! For type 2 diabetics, behavior changes should be a part of the treatment plan. That said, if you currently have diabetics
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Veelox
7y ago
> a life saving drug I think you are technically correct that Truvada is a life saving drug but I feel you are being dishonest. If you exclude occupations where you could be exposed to HIV, most of the US users of Truvada could choose to
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Veelox
7y ago
People I know who have worked in commercial aviation have claimed that it takes more paperwork to put a bolt on a plane than into a human body. While this may or may not be true, commercial aviation is a counter example of a tightly regulat
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Veelox
7y ago
>when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop You argument seems to be that since this doesn't work in all situations, it is useless. I strongly disagree. On my current commute to work, I drive by a
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7y ago
>at least three mass shootings in the past two years by Ben Shapiro fans. Citation needed
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