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alrehn
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alrehn
7y ago
If left-handed people were way more dexterous or something and they had a huge material advantage in life over right-handed people, that might make sense. There is no desire to take something away from a minority that the rest of us have. J
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alrehn
7y ago
Well I consider what makes "the individual" that is me the composition that makes up the brain and body I have. If you can recreate that composition I consider both people to equally have my individual point of view.
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alrehn
7y ago
Yes
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alrehn
7y ago
Using vim keybindings with emacs has been way better then any other vim keybindings thing I've tried for other programs. And if there's anything missing you can customize it.
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alrehn
8y ago
Because it's making this statement about what others should do based on a personal preference, and not taking into account at all why people stop eating meat? As someone who was raised vegetarian I also have next to no interest in meat
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alrehn
8y ago
What's wrong with canned chickpeas?
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alrehn
8y ago
Removing agency is exactly what you should do when you're talking about a widespread problem. If I have a personal friend I'm absolutely going to tell them they can make the right choices and overcome their problems, but you can&#
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8y ago
Not super familiar with that example but another one is all kinds of technology not working well with darker skin.
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alrehn
8y ago
If you've got a lot of experience and connections, finding freelance work on your own is easy. The thing that feeds sites like upwork is people with less of that, people that will work for pennies, often from third world countries. For
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alrehn
8y ago
Good on you for having that attitude, and not the "I had to do this bad thing, so they should too" line of thinking that is all too common.
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9y ago
Like I said, I don't think working more than 40 hours is the end of the world, I just don't think a company that expects that can list work/life balance as a core value. It's ok to sacrifice that for high salaries or oth
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alrehn
9y ago
Also they accompany it with a picture of a fun work outing. Those can be great, but should go with some other key value. When I think of work/life balance I think of having time to myself, to relax, see friends/family and work on
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alrehn
9y ago
Not sure how much you can consider Work/Life balance a key value when you expect people to work 50 hour weeks ( https://www.keyvalues.io/kite ). Not to say that 50 hours is awful, there's certainly a lot worse out t
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alrehn
9y ago
I think most people can change their sleeping habits. If you actually practice good sleep hygene and make consistent habits around sleep and you still can't get to sleep at a reasonable time, then you are not the norm and may have a me