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by bsanr2 6y ago
The holy grail for cheap-ass networked audio is a surround-sound set constructed from random (or a set of) Bluetooth speakers and some sort of wireless receiver. I can't tell you how many people came into my old workplace expected that
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>You wouldn’t fire them for getting that one answer wrong, you’d fire them because that one wrong answer is emblematic of a serious cognitive deficiency that permeates everything they try to do. You’d never have hired them in the first p
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Creating new jobs is the answer. The question is whether you think rich CEOs and capital owners or a wide, empowered middle class are the best to come up with those jobs. Tech should know better. The best thing Apple et al. ever did for the
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Well, it would be you and several of your peers making $6000 a month, one or two people making an order of magnitude more per month, and a whole heckuva lot of people making $3k-$4k a month, contributing a progressively bigger portion to th
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This assumes good faith tested to the point of cynicism, on the part of the police, when it's been shown time and again that police are indoctrinated into a regime of institutional bias from the moment they enter the force. I see the l
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I think shame is an important, unspoken driver of much of American politics, and in particular our shame with regards to our history of oppression of, apathy toward, or membership in our society's lower class. It extends past open remo
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>Unless the system is highly unmeritocratic The system is highly unmeritocratic.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
By that same token, why do we have any faith in Kentucky citizens to not vote for a Republican? Frankly, they're both "lost causes" from the majority of possible vectors. I would wager equally so, forgetting ideology and just
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by bsanr2 6y ago
At the risk of being a downer: I'll be so happy once we move past the "preschool playset" era of hand-tracked software. I wonder what it is that's keeping us from moving past these dull tech demos. Is the issue the inter
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I just want you to know that this is not a compelling argument.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The cynical part of me is thinking about the people who never had a chance at a decent livelihood. Demi-employment didn't sneak up on us, we just thought we were too classy and sophisticated as workers to have it ever effect us. This i
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by bsanr2 6y ago
We have elections coming. I am all for arrests, impeachments, and the like, but boy, it would be super helpful if we coul prime the pump by removing some of these ghouls at the top. That signals a mandate. Many of you live in San Francisco.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
No, seriously, why does it matter that poverty has "improved" over the years? It still exists. It still leads to suffering and brutal, undignified deaths. Is collapsing in your trailer, abusive nursing home, or city street any bet
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Why does this matter?
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Can't edit, but if this seems non sequitur, parent originally said something along the lines of, "Websites that use GIFs seem to have low-quality content."
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I'd really rather not we go down the rabbit hole of "class"ifying websites by their method of serving animated clips. GIFs have trade-offs, but on balance they're the most useful for their purpose.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I tried this yesterday. It seems biased towards the interests of the curators, and, like Google in regards to "some ideal average consumer", is therefore useless if you fall outside a certain level of similarity to the target demo
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by bsanr2 6y ago
"Individuals acting in support of the rule of law" is generally the exception, but there is something useful in the implications you've brought up. That is, the uncomfortable proximity unlawful judgment and execution has to l
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The prototypical school shooters (the Columbine duo) filled their notebooks with misogynistic, white supremacist screeds. If you ever thought it strange the hysteria over video game violence and Satanism that emerged from that attack, it&#x
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Or, he could have taken a step back, let the media do its thing, and then come back in a few months with his own view. This is actually the strategy many PR firms suggest, because it suggests moderation and makes people more likely to have
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Layman here, but IIUC it's the exact opposite. Nintendo in particular had massive problems with crapware and knockoff devs adopting the traditional 70s/80s PC game distribution paradigms, if you know what I mean. It was difficult
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Having known people like this, I think it moves beyond instinct. They definitely have a more finely-tuned inborn sense of themselves and other people, for sure. But they also have developed a calculated and astute sense for what part of the
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Why are people obsessed with turning disease into a chance to pass moral judgment?
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I'm not sure why you would think it odd. All I did was ask you about your word choice. I'm curious to know what you think I'm implying.
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And this is if you're working for someone else. If you have a stake - if it's something you are an equal partner with your collaborators on, something you believe in and stand to draw immensely from and have true decision-making a
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Why not just say, "loud music," then? I'm not questioning the validity of your experience, just what about that aspect of it made it feel pertinent to communicate.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
It becomes more reasonable to assume the intention when you realize how much of national infrastructure policy was meant to engineer specific social outcomes - particularly with regard to segregation. Also in how much of regulatory policy -
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>R&B music bumping One wonders what this characterization is meant to imply.
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>the premiums would go up because it's no longer a group policy, and I would have to pay for it with post-tax income. But there would be no premiums.
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It's especially ironic in that people are regularly ruined by health or mortgage issues even with insurance and a steady job. Once you realize this, it becomes a lot easier to look at your situation with clear eyes. More Americans shou

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