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by blueline 6y ago
the linked blog post for that gave me some serious raised eyebrows > Within the first week, we had over 100 applicants for our content manager position. We easily passed on 90% of applications that: >Opened with something like: “Dear
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by blueline 6y ago
>If you are low income worker in California, every homeowner with a 401k is Richie rich. how many low income workers do you actually know and talk to in california?
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by blueline 6y ago
> Wanting to see the economy fail to punish rich people and corporations. does anyone really believe that a failing economy will hurt rich people and corporations more relative to... literally anyone else? i would expect the exact opposi
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by blueline 6y ago
how is this remotely relevant to the eviction moratorium?
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by blueline 6y ago
they used to own 100B of alibaba i have to assume bytedance has/will work out favorably for them.. maybe im wrong there
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by blueline 6y ago
for anyone interested in some history between the author of the first link and graeber, in his own words: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164707
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by blueline 6y ago
you criticize society yet you participate in society! how curious!
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by blueline 6y ago
Depends what you’re looking for, but there are some pretty good boutique shops like notre and gallery aesthete. those cater to pretty particular styles though.
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by blueline 6y ago
how do you populate/maintain the synonym/stemming database? is this something that “standard” datasets exist for? asking because this problem will fall on my plate at work sometimes in the next few months :-)
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by blueline 6y ago
unfortunately not, but luckily with this new api it shouldn't matter for too much longer :-)
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by blueline 6y ago
> This makes it impossible to build tools that, say, allow you to visualize a tweet thread it is possible -- it unfortunately happens to be part of my job description to do so one of the sibling comments basically has it right. you can b
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by blueline 6y ago
yep. this and the change to the file browsing, where the lines that delineated files/folders are now gone, causing me accidental misclicks of the wrong file, are two very glaring annoyances. everything else i feel neutral on
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by blueline 6y ago
taxes aren't a silver bullet. if the affected companies were to just pass the extra cost to consumers (why wouldn't they?), then you effectively have implemented a regressive tax that affects the poorest consumers the most. clearl
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by blueline 6y ago
you think that police misuse of force is due to a lack of better alternatives?
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by blueline 6y ago
your claim is that the atlantic is failing _specifically_ because they post too much anti-trump content? it would be pretty easy to disprove this to yourself by observing that magazine/newspaper sales have been in decline since before
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by blueline 6y ago
that's... a sweeping statement without much evidence beyond your personal experience. do you really think that people buying Saint Laurent jeans last year are now worried about "fast optical networks, clean drinking water, and a r
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by blueline 6y ago
i'm going to leave all the minutiae of this response aside, because i don't want to get lost in the weeds. the REALLY important part that you're missing is that the gestapo were an _arm of the state_. some blue checkmarks on
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by blueline 6y ago
literally in the article, in his own words: >At the end of the day, the big problem isn’t the specifics of Covid-19 response,” ... “It’s that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only t
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by blueline 6y ago
having money means you aren't allowed to critique capitalism? what kind of logic is that?
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by blueline 6y ago
> Based on my observations, SJWs are the modern day gestapo really? are you sure? "SJWs" are comparable to the state-sponsored secret police of nazi germany, which had unilateral power to imprison (physically imprison, you know
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by blueline 6y ago
cassandra supports TTLs as well
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by blueline 6y ago
this is an extremely stressful and worrisome time for many people. many are also dealing with loss from death of loved ones due to the virus. it's great that you are apparently able to use this extra time positively. but for many, righ
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by blueline 6y ago
why should anyone try to "contradict" what amounts to you posting anecdotes about people being mean to you on twitter?
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by blueline 6y ago
the vision fund is like $100 billion right? you don't think that's enough resources to bring about some big change? why are only 4 tech companies capable?
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by blueline 7y ago
its hilarious that comments to this effect have been posted multiple times, when the actual content of the article specifically quotes/supports ideas by people like Terry Eagleton, a marxist (/religious) thinker who specifically o
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by blueline 7y ago
>$25K - one can survive a month or two on that US median yearly household income is about $61k
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by blueline 7y ago
the median household income in NYC is $57000. there is a huge amount of people in NYC who make up what you're calling the "underclass".
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by blueline 7y ago
>To be fair, after being the first team in the NBA to be eliminated from playoff contention last night, they probably weren't going to draw very large crowds anyway. it would be shocking if several thousand people at the least weren
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by blueline 7y ago
there are prebuilt binaries https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v0.5.4
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by blueline 7y ago
>You always need to pay for like 40% of the house to start a mortgage anyway in the united states, literally the exact opposite is true. you can get a mortgage with almost nothing as a down payment. By agreeing to take on PMI, private mo

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