almostdeadguy

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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
Testing me about the things I enjoy in my personal life that are unrelated to how I perform my job is a gross practice that shouldn't be tolerated. I have pretty regular hobbies, I like reading, movies, board games, I play drums, I lik
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
> I'm no special snowflake and I am definitely not a White male and I can say with almost certainty that I haven't been discriminated against in all of the many interviews I've had. I know because I've always gone thr
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Yeah it sounds like we have different experiences w/ how this works and how much input engineers have into the hiring decision. This isn't really the main point of what I'm saying.
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> You don't need to work at a job for 12 hours a day to wind up spending more time with your coworkers than with your partner though. I work 9-5, my partner works 10-6. I leave before she is awake and when I get home we have about 6
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
Frankly an organization's "style" is a bunch of unexamined, calcified social biases that companies screen in interviews for because they don't like to be challenged on them. Or in the more malevolent cases its outright b
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> I spend more time with my deskmates than my partner during the week Why would anyone willingly work at a job like this. Why is this ever accepted to be a good thing. I've done this as well, I've worked 9-9 at a startup and ha
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
Oh give me a break, read my other comments below if you think I'm talking about "small talk". I recently had an interview with a 45 minute section for answering questions about my interests (with questions as trivial as what
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
I just went through a slew of interviews where I got several questions early in the on-site technical interview about my hobbies. Actually had an interview a couple months ago where there was a dedicated part for a "cultural fit"
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1. I'm talking about professionalized in the sense of being an occupation that generally requires college credentials and specialized knowledge to participate in. Not always the case for software engineers, but often. Professionalized
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Interviews for software engineers are the most nepotistic bullshit and full of every variant of petty bias and discrimination possible. It's absolutely horrible. If I start getting asked about my hobbies in an interview, I walk, and yo
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Yeah I gave you a lot of criticism about your framing of the "ethical systems" underlying these two modes of production from a philosophical perspective and you refused to discuss those as well. And this isn't "your thre
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And the convictions of revolutionaries, their interpretation of what was required for a transition to socialism, etc. is extremely salient to a discussion of how socialism plays out in practice (despite the fact that you shrug this off as &
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It wasn't "one bad man", but it was a product of history. It's not a fucking coincidence that the Gulag system strongly resembled the Tsar's Siberian prison camps. There are pretty obvious reasons for what happened
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lol buddy you've patently ignored every reference to history I've made, you're not entitled to a captive audience. Engage in the discourse or don't. If you want to go back and actually address all the points I've ma
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> Looks like I hit a nerve. Set aside all the BS and answer the question. On what moral grounds does Socialism justify confiscating property and sacrificing lives? We can certainly disagree about what is or is not Capitalism but this is
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> Politics and economics presuppose an answer to what is the good. Socialism, in all its variants, holds that sacrificing individuals for the benefit of "society" is the good. Since "society" is just a collection of i
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> I identified the basic principle by which to judge societies, i.e. individual rights, regardless of what the social/political/economic system is called by their advocates or detractors nor the details of their legal manifesta
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
One thing I meant to add before the edit window closed - this is the most baffling part of your argument to me: > Explain to me; what does Capitalism, historically the freest and most productive and pro-life political/economic syste
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> The end point and most consistent form of Socialism is Communism which is an evil system of sacrifice of all to all. Almost every "communist" state perceived themselves as a state in the socialist mode of production for which
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
Sure, but a concern about growth and technological revolutions is just as easily found in Keynesian economists works. The conception of socialism here is just regurgitating Hayek's understanding of socialism in "The Road To Serfdo
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It superficially resembles the Marxist account of the bourgeoisie as responsible for their own downfall ("what the Bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers"), but he ascribes it more to a philanthropic
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Infuriating interview for almost any socialist today, by which I mean the majority of people who identify with the marxist or (real, actually non-hierarchical and anti-statist) anarchist conception of the word. Not to mention an embarrassin
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This Programmer Scraped LinkedIn to Find People Who Work at ICE(motherboard.vice.com)
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lmao buddy it probably has more to do with the "potential rapist" thing
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by almostdeadguy 8y ago
lol the awesome thing about incels is they make it immediately obvious to everyone as to why they've been unsuccessful at finding a partner because of their revolting personalities