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by a_puppy 3y ago
I have a different perspective on this: I'm a man who's currently deeply lonely, depressed, and struggling with poor self-esteem. I hear feminists talking about "toxic masculinity". But none of what they say feels applic
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by a_puppy 3y ago
"Punching up" is still punching. While men are on average more privileged than women, being a man also has disadvantages, and many individual men are actually quite vulnerable. "Punching up" at men causes real harm. Pl
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by a_puppy 3y ago
Negative stereotypes about men are not okay. Please stop making excuses for negative stereotypes about men. Yes, men are more privileged than women in many ways. But men are also disadvantaged in many ways -- many individual men are actual
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by a_puppy 4y ago
https://parkchicago.com/about/ > CPM does not – and never has – set pay station parking rates. The City retains exclusive authority to determine and establish rates, set hours of operation, and place, add or remove
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> Price hikes when bought by VC for no reason (other than profit) The company doesn't actually control the prices. See https://parkchicago.com/about/ > The City Of Chicago retains control over pay station pa
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by a_puppy 4y ago
I found the actual statements by searching "chicago parking meters llc" on chicago.gov: https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/fin/supp_info... In 2021, Chicago Parking Meters LLC
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> No, universities are not accountable ... If you want to fix education, you kick them in the gut where it hurts, the money. I agree! Universities today are dysfunctional, and the current system of "expect students to hold universit
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> The universities were complicit, in that they charged exorbitant amounts of money... Get rid of bullshit colleges that offer no promise of a bright future. That's a great idea, but student loan forgiveness doesn't do that! It
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by a_puppy 4y ago
I think it's interesting how many people on the Mastodon thread are saying "I think it was fine for Raspberry Pi to hire an ex-cop, but they should have been more polite to the people who are angry at them for hiring an ex-cop.&qu
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> Unfortunately, one of the specific examples that gets the most attention is to go into high-frequency trading (instead of another career) so you can earn money to donate. If this is the argument, then the criticism should focus on HFT,
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by a_puppy 4y ago
SBF wasn't just giving money to political candidates and journalists, he was giving it to a wide range of causes. The FTX Foundation was spending a lot of money on global health and welfare, for example: https://ftxfoundatio
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by a_puppy 4y ago
Right, but this was before the fraud was exposed; at the time the recipients had no way of knowing it was fraud. Obviously nobody would accept money from SBF now that the fraud has been exposed. So I don't think the journalists did any
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by a_puppy 4y ago
No, you haven't gotten it right. Sam Bankman-Fried donated money to a wide variety of causes, the vast majority of which weren't journalists. If you want to read more about where he donated, here's the article where the quote
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by a_puppy 4y ago
The allegations against NYT are quite a bit worse than you're making them sound. Here are the original allegations: > a few years ago the New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage. Instead of covering the
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by a_puppy 4y ago
It works because management is bought into the politician's bullshit. So if another team member tries to call it out, then the manager labels the other team member as "hard to work with" ( https://lethain.com/h
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by a_puppy 4y ago
Yes, and this all cuts both ways. > There’s a difference between what should be and what is. Yes. For example, ideally less-powerful people should have great interpersonal skills and would always phrase their insights in exactly the way
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> Or alternatively, to make sure they have opportunities to acquire those skills. I think it depends what level of interpersonal skills we're talking about. If we're talking about baseline interpersonal skills like "being
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by a_puppy 4y ago
I have mixed feelings about this kind of advice: * In a healthy team, you ideally shouldn't need special skills to disagree with someone more powerful than you. * But it's very common for teams to have some degree of egotism and d
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by a_puppy 4y ago
Wow, this is a wild read. Some of the most shocking parts: - Lack of development and testing environments; engineers build, deploy, and test code directly on the production environment - >50% of employees having access to the live produc
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by a_puppy 4y ago
There's a common anti-pattern that goes like this: 1. A higher-ranked person (e.g. Agrawal) is screwing up in some way (e.g. not addressing security issues) 2. A lower-ranked person (e.g. Mudge) tries to get the problem fixed (e.g. add
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> or maintaining as much team cohesion and not "stirring the water" too much. On an individual level, yes, that's the choice I had. But on an organizational level, it's possible to do much better! In a healthy organiz
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> How do we know who is "objectively right"? I don't think we have enough information about OP's situation to say for sure. I agree that many disputes are highly subjective, and there's no way to say who's o
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by a_puppy 4y ago
I sympathize with the OP. Particularly this part: > A typical piece of advice I receive is that there comes the point where you need to "give in," especially to people in authority. This preserves peace in the workplace and hel
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by a_puppy 4y ago
> I think people can mean either one by "giving in", I am wondering whether the OP, in rejecting "pretending I agree when I don't" is accidentally being the person who "always insists on getting their way ev
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by a_puppy 5y ago
> When people have different standards, they need to communicate and work together to solve problems in a mutually acceptable way. I agree! I don't mean to imply that the "relaxed" standard is better than the "tidy&qu
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by a_puppy 5y ago
This is an interesting point of view. I don't know enough about their relationship to know whether that's what was going on. But, I do want to point out something else in your comment: > She now has to wash and put away the gla
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by a_puppy 5y ago
I've had mixed experiences working with staff engineers. Some of them are great. Others seem to think having a "staff engineer" title means whatever they come up with is always correct; and when I point out problems, they dou
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by a_puppy 5y ago
This essay has a grain of truth, but then he stretches it way too far. The grain of truth is that mainstream news doesn't live up to the standards they like to claim they do. The news typically gets the literal basic facts right, but t
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by a_puppy 5y ago
> But I get that many women are not in a place where they feel comfortable doing this yet. Saying no is a skill that many of us are very bad at, especially doing it gently and unambiguously. This is a totally valid point, and I don'
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by a_puppy 5y ago
I appreciate you trying to help, but I don't think your advice is really applicable to me personally. My problem isn't that I'm ugly; in fact, I'm probably slightly above average attractiveness. My problem is that I have

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