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by cmdshiftf4 7y ago
It's toxic because people wanting power insist their position is necessary, others adhere to it (mostly in the name of censoring dissent) and those granted the power, like with politics, are often the last people you want having it. Ba
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I like the idea and implementation, but wouldn't use it in production. I can see pretty solid value in it being a QA/Beta tool to shorten feedback loops on non-prod releases. If the motive is to help people achieve a product/
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by cmdshiftf4 7y ago
This is historically revisionist. Google was a money-making behemoth with its tentacles in many areas of innovation before it became the politicized entity we know it to be today. Google only really became politicized a couple of years ago
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On a number of fronts, I appreciate this. When I was first assessing whether to get into Go, and as a team lead whether it would be fit for future efforts, some of the questions answered on this site were some of the first I queried to see
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In a time where a belligerent crowd of rowdy people with a shallow education in social pseudo science, a penchant for social atomisation and self-victimization has our industry by the throat, you'd have to be a fool to do anything, eve
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>But what if your coworker likes attending KKK rallies and you're African-American? Or your co-worker is out there on the weekend holding signs that say "Death to Gays" and you just happen to be gay? Yes yes, we can all dr
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>Family planning how? Who will decide who can have children and who can't? Governments? A global one child policy? That's insane Without a steady flow of migration from the undeveloped world to the developed world, the populati
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People are living in pod houses, only due to metropolitan convergence and the consequent increase in the cost of land they've been stacked on top of one another, called condos and are sold for multiples of the proposed Futuro.
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At this point I'm very pessimistic about the future of the open World Wide Web, and see little in the works in terms of securely replacing it when it does come apart. We, its users, are all to blame. We've stood idly by as the con
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It's not really though, it's just a description of a formal relationship within the business context. I'm a manager, I report to someone (my manager, who also reports to someone) and likewise I've people who report to me
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>that for some people start ups are a fashion or a "thing to do" There could be a vast array of underlying reasons for them simply wanting to try doing a startup. Maybe working for someone else 40 hours a week isn't giving
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>When you post something you get that happy feeling seeing the like count of it, it makes you feel good and then you keep checking on it regularly which is a problem, and why I don't post anymore. I stopped using Instagram altogethe
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>I also noticed a bunch of health agencies took advantage of the headlines to stir up fear around using them, they never specified what types to watch out for. They'd no early insight into what was causing the issues, only that it a
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>As much as I support states refusing to wait for the feds to end our disastrous war on drugs policy, this is a reminder that unless we legalize and regulate marijuana at the federal level and make serious efforts to make the legal marke
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The motivation is to check off items on the "Top 10 Things To Do In Paris" list, get a few selfies to prove to peer that they've been there, and move on. If the crowds at museums and galleries hosting tourist traps such as th
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Who could have seen this coming? You can only laugh.
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The definition of a "bad" boss is totally subjective and at the mercy of an individual's motivations at a given point in time. Some bosses are bad in a sense that they conduct or behave themselves in ways that transgress laws
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Population decline in and of itself is not a bad thing. The societies and structures we've created, such as public pensions, do rely on continual growth though and without it will face a crisis.
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We're in an odd state of paralysis as a society. On the one hand, we acknowledge that there are birth rate / population-related issues coming rapidly down the pipeline at us, problems we acknowledge can only be solved by either su
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>Why are companies so intent on turning this planet into an auditory hell hole? Their leaders are looking for ways to get off the planet or secure themselves in fallout shelters in New Zealand, while their companies fuel rampant consumer
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When disagreement almost ensures punishment (further indoctrination sessions with some career damage taken, on the "least harsh" side of the spectrum, to the loss of one's job, income and a heavily tarnished reputation on the
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>But no one who wants to succeed dares bring that up. Nor should they. The pursuit of equality has been replaced with a demand for equity and the talking heads espousing this demand have become sufficiently skilled at publicly shaming co
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>To make it clear, we should definitely support everyone who is in tech, and make it an inclusive environment, but the continued push for 50/50 isn't going to happen so perhaps its not worth the huge money sink it is. Not worth
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The social costs of the US directly meddling in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and elsewhere, along with the subsequent fallout that came from this meddling, has not fallen on the USA. It has fallen almost solely on Europe. If the US
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The ultra-wealthy Middle East, USA and China should start doing their part so.
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Wanting to protect your own civilization and way of life doesn't make one a bastard. It's this kind of divisive rhetoric that has spurned the division we see today and the rise of hard-right nationalism. Please learn to be somewha
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Someday the general populace may come to recognize the true cost of demanding the "convenience" of smart voice assistants, automated photo-tagging, relevant product suggestions, etc. and maybe then we'll see outrage. Or we&#x