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by adamsea 6y ago
I feel like that's kind of a manager-conversation thing, plus, like many policies, will depend on the workplace culture to begin with. IMHO the tricky bit is that, there is both an honest and genuine way to express concern around using
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by adamsea 6y ago
I appreciate your response. To be honest it's a bit of chart/graph overload for me. If you've got the moment I'd appreciate and find helpful your take on this - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. I think the question is what does the empirical evidence say in this case. And, for complex issues where drawing conclusions from data is nontrivial, using judgement.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Well, I draw informed, qualitative conclusions which take quantitative data into account. I think everyone who read my comment understood what I left unsaid, even if they didn't agree with it. And, as the saying goes, there are lies,
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by adamsea 6y ago
"You too can become an NBA player!" You have the opportunity if you work hard enough. Isn't it incredible ; ) But not everyone can do it. Wait -- if not everyone can do it, then is it really an opportunity? Or only for "
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by adamsea 6y ago
Why am I not convinced?
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by adamsea 6y ago
I don't know enough to comment one way or another and so would love a critique of this comment from a downvoter's perspective so I can learn more.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed : )
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think the parent's point was not that privacy is unimportant , but rather that, if we want to seriously discuss what is most important, there are a number of viable candidates in addition to privacy. The whole most important i
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by adamsea 6y ago
Don’t have kids myself but I’ll point out that due to the natural social filtering of those around us whom we spend time with being more similar to ourselves than not, your perspective may be more valuable as a data-point .... though I supp
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by adamsea 6y ago
On a recent project we decided to use the term “main” instead of “master” for our primary branch. At first I was like “ugh” - not a big fan of that kind of language change, but then I was like, well, if it does matter to some people, what i
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed :). I mean I think it’s both. When learning new social norms, or, in certain environments there is a game-like aspect. But I don’t use the word game as a pejorative.
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by adamsea 6y ago
I didn’t say filter out. Churchill was a combination of a realist and an optimist / idealist.
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by adamsea 6y ago
A list to support my argument :)
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by adamsea 6y ago
What is the situation at your company currently?
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What Can Tech Do to Aid a Free and Fair Election?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> ... and if a company can refuse to accommodate the basic needs of a worker without breaking any laws then the laws needs to change, which of course is politics. Voila :) Now, to take another example - paternity leave in the United Stat
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by adamsea 6y ago
First - the neutrality of a judge is political. It is an expression of their support of the law of the land - namely the system of justice. Judicial neutrality, is in fact, special. > This seems like a fallacy. X may be undesirable, bu
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think the answer is, you both use your own intelligence and judgement, and both talk with and listen to other people.
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by adamsea 6y ago
You’re constructing a hypothetical “what-if” that sometimes could be true, but is not guaranteed to be true. I could just as well say “no one should ever argue anything because then people could argue about every little thing and it wou
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by adamsea 6y ago
No one said equally active. This is an extreme example but imagine someone knocks on your door and says “help, the secret police are after me.” You don’t help them, and, you don’t turn them in.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education. Can you summarize the ideology, instead of merely demonizing it? ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The problem is that they only teach Marxist ideas about the 20th century To you, what is a "Marxist idea" about the 20th century? And if your teacher really did gloss over the crimes against humanity committed by Stalin &#x2F
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good luck with James Joyce's Ulysses ... or Samuel Beckett. Or Thomas Pynchon. Or -- the author you didn't even know existed until the domain expert (aka professor) assigned/suggested it. Or, you know ... history ? Or even
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by adamsea 6y ago
Education determined by private employers will have less groupthink than education determined by a democratically elected group of legislators?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Because you don't get to stick around if you abuse people to the extent described in the article. I feel like you must have worked hard to not give credence to things you've heard from folks about their jobs, Phds, etc.a Or p
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It's a nice thought, but proves to be difficult to implement long term ... It's actually the only long term approach -- literally. It's not ignoring reality, rather, it's choosing not to lose hope that we can c
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thank god humans invented culture and society ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is ... based on your own observation and experience?
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by adamsea 6y ago
This never made sense because people are different . Plenty of awesome people with valuable skills would be unable to do half of those things.

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