briholt

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by briholt 9y ago
I've got to agree with you. The whole thing is vague, boilerplate corporate speak. Half of it could've been copied-and-pasted from any large company's press release about their new diversity initiative.
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by briholt 9y ago
I think this is the DSM's criteria for high functioning autism.
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by briholt 9y ago
That's delusional. When a criminal reaches for a gun, or aims it at a person, or even tackles an armed cop, cops absolutely have the right and the obligation to shoot. And when BLM lies about criminals in the act of threatening cops, t
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by briholt 9y ago
BLMers will scream "murder" and "hands up don't shoot" at the top of their lungs at every chance they get, but when confronted with the evidence that the alleged victim of a police shooting was in fact a violent cri
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by briholt 9y ago
Interesting. I just Googled some stats about happiness in developed countries over time and then queried nearly ever person I've ever met on Facebook for their thoughts. But I can't seem to get a solid an answer to this question.
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by briholt 9y ago
You're enthusiastically providing a case study of my original comment. The reason you rarely see personal gripes of black lung or factory layoffs or opioid overdoses or IED injuries or the myriad of other ills plaguing humanity, is
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by briholt 9y ago
Those white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks and dying of black lung will never understand the plight of middle class office politics.
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by briholt 9y ago
"My boring tech-related journey..." isn't quite analogous to the "cat hair in my v----a" type article. I was going to search Medium for articles about animal hair on male genitalia, but then I thought maybe I'l
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by briholt 9y ago
Absolutely. It's a NY/LA/SF media-socialite elite echo chamber. The rest of the country is screaming for these people to get some perspective, but they frankly have no incentive to do so. Publishers know dishwashers don&#x2
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by briholt 9y ago
This is an interesting meta article, but it skirts the bigger picture. "Personal essay" seems to be a euphemism for "first world feminist problems." Note all of the examples in the intro are wealthy(ish) women drumming u
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by briholt 9y ago
Yeah, looks like most of the West is tied for #52.
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by briholt 9y ago
You seem like someone who is way outside of the autistic spectrum. Imagine the sound of other people talking sounding like nails on a chalkboard. Now imagine working a job in sales, biz dev, marketing, customer support, investing, legal, ma
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by briholt 9y ago
The reason men are more inclined to program is autism. Thinking systematically and enjoying some level of solitude are traits that make a good programmer. It's no coincidence that men are 4.5x more likely to be diagnosed with autism[1]
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by briholt 9y ago
Seconded. Paypal froze my account with $2K for no apparent reason. They did not reply to numerous emails. Their "upload documents to verify your identity" form literally did not work. They've deliberately made it easy to get
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by briholt 9y ago
I'm in Portland right now. The number of breweries in Oregon is mind blowing. I just visited a town of 7,000 people that has multiple craft breweries[1]. The reason Oregon has so many is the hipster foodie demographic, good water, a
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by briholt 10y ago
YouTubers aren't imploding, rather they're growing so large that mainstream journalists think they can get clicks writing smear pieces about them.
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by briholt 10y ago
Last I heard the Reno Gigafactory is still half empty. Tons of land and cheap housing. No income tax.
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by briholt 10y ago
I would guess fashion-interest is a better selector for positive interaction than female. Try an all-female board about veganism and watch them eat each other alive in a race to the righteousness bottom.
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by briholt 10y ago
It's a worrying trend that tech and Silicon Valley are increasingly politicizing. Excepting direct regulations, I'd like to keep business and politics separate.
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by briholt 10y ago
If a sub banning someone for reporting members' rape threats doesn't convince you, nothing will.
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by briholt 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/4j1ehl/exposing_r...
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by briholt 10y ago
This now the default social media censorship tactic. Apply the TOS harshly to your opponents and loosely to your allies. When an Alt Right sub doxxes people, they get banned; when an SJW sub doxxes people, they get ignored.
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by briholt 10y ago
> there's a disproportion of immigrant attackers vs the total US population There is a willful ignorance of this among some political groups here. Attack after attack, they refuse to acknowledge the problem and thus refuse to entert
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by briholt 10y ago
I suspect the outrage has less to do with a rational analysis of polices and world events and more to do with virtue signaling and groupthink.
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by briholt 10y ago
The anti-online harassment industry is becoming a toxic den of snake oil salespeople. Those offering "solutions" tend be politically-motivated cash grabbers who line their own pockets by manufacturing vague and amorphous problems
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by briholt 10y ago
This is a discussion about closing chapters isn't it? Are we merely disputing the date on which a billion power screwdrivers can direct themselves and then Instagram pics of their accomplishments? I give it 50-150 years.
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by briholt 10y ago
The undeniable math is that machine productivity will grow exponentially faster than human productivity. Organics have had a few billion year head start on machines, so it's of no consequence that we've been able to scramble in fr
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by briholt 10y ago
I suspect Greenwald has been on an anti-Hillary-media kick in retaliation for Bernie's perceived mistreatment. He sees the Russia story as a scapegoat for Hillary's loss, and he'd rather see a mass media mea culpa about backi
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by briholt 10y ago
It's the subtle racism of low expectations. They see communities self-destructing, but rather than expecting them to improve as responsible individuals, they expect them to fail like helpless invalids until the more capable communities
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by briholt 10y ago
I suspect Sokal-eque hoaxes could get published one-by-one in every single postmodern journal and each would be deemed "not a major journal" in rotation. Postmodernism is some kind of academic alternate reality that exists only in

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