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by courtf 5y ago
Ole Pete needs more time on this earth getting corrupt, criminal politicians to take chunks out of the nation's democratic foundations. He's running neck and neck with the CCP on that goal. What a race!
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The Luxury Trap(erenow.net)
3 points by courtf 5y ago|0 comments
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by courtf 5y ago
In the absence of actually knowing how youtube tabulates likes/dislikes, this website just substitutes a guess and calls it the "real" number. Surely there could be no other reason why these numbers might change other than a
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by courtf 5y ago
The article is full of direct quotes from primary sources at many points throughout history, and actually makes some very illuminating points about the origins of racism, namely that slavery helped create racism because it was (and is) more
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by courtf 5y ago
That the point I made in the original comment.
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by courtf 5y ago
...that's exactly what I wrote
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by courtf 5y ago
> Giving money to other people who promise to fight for your cause on your behalf won’t do anything. The only reason this doesn't work is because someone else is giving even more.
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by courtf 5y ago
A glimpse into the not-so-distant future for a lot of professions, programming including.
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by courtf 6y ago
I enjoy his blog posts, primarily because they show just how your brain can turn to pudding when it's more profitable to be willfully ignorant than otherwise. No one can read his recent obtuse entry and come away thinking his conclusio
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by courtf 6y ago
Love Paul's line in the notes of his post about labor finally defeating capital. Complete and utter detachment from reality.
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by courtf 6y ago
Life expectancy is dropping like a rock, and that's a number with a little more rigor behind it than PG's moronic hand waving. The guy has no idea what he's talking about and comes across as incredibly desperate to justify ob
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by courtf 6y ago
I'll say whatever the hell I please, this is well within forum guidelines. Take your busybody nitpicking elsewhere.
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by courtf 6y ago
HN is anti-union because HN is a weird little bubble of people who have bought the idea of meritocracy, mostly by being born wealthy and desperately needing to explain away the growing gap between them and the rest of the world. They have b
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by courtf 6y ago
I agree with all this, but it's not like the alternative actually solves these issues. Instead of a boring list sorted by seniority it becomes a boring list sorted by arbitrary internal politics. There isn't a company on earth tha
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by courtf 6y ago
The real magic behind that bug triage anecdote isn't the tedious work it took to get there, it's that a year later anyone noticed, gave a shit, or gave credit where it was due. In 9/10 organizations, such outcomes never mater
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by courtf 6y ago
Sorry for contributing to the awfulness of the past week. Not sure I have it in me to stay civil with these topics so I'll just have to avoid looking at them I think.
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by courtf 6y ago
BLM protests were attended by tens of millions over the course of a year. I won't defend violence or looting or even property damage (the poor insurance companies!), but you must admit there's a difference between attacking a Targ
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by courtf 6y ago
HN has always had a libertarian/right leaning nature, but this whole thing just shows how easily people can be pulled into supporting outright insanity. I'd love to take a time machine and transport folks directly from the recent
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by courtf 6y ago
Nobody is switching sides, I don't care one bit about corporations getting hit with regulation. In fact, I'm for it. That has nothing to do with enjoying watching this chickens come home to roost.
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by courtf 6y ago
I think you got it right, just wanted to provide some supporting data, even if polling is a little fuzzy.
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by courtf 6y ago
There's a straightforward argument for gay marriage based on bans essentially being discrimination based on sex: A woman may marry a man, but a man may not. Chief justice Roberts made this point during arguments in obergefell v. hodges
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by courtf 6y ago
This lays out the timeline of the shift in popular opinion for gay marriage: https://news.gallup.com/poll/117328/marriage.aspx Here's polling on interracial marriage: https://news.gallup.com/p
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by courtf 6y ago
Now fly my scrumlings! Bring me their estimates! Eeehehehe
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by courtf 6y ago
haha wow suppose I should have guessed there were already layers above and beyond the scrum master it's like the leaning tower of bullshit
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by courtf 6y ago
I've done both of these my entire career and no one ever cared, mostly because it's not remarkable. Do you work somewhere that has a large management apparatus? These behaviors are sort of bare minimum expectation in smaller compa
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by courtf 6y ago
> scrum Pope his holiness will make his presence known in due time
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by courtf 6y ago
I've long imagined a position just above the scrum masters: the scrum lord. I see this position as a critical component of any agile strategy that seeks to maximize scrum master productivity, while still allowing scrum masters all the
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by courtf 6y ago
Exactly. The funny thing is the same people making the counter to your argument no doubt don't bat an eye at 8 figure annual salaries for the best sports players. The argument is the same in either case.
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by courtf 6y ago
Because no one is "coming" for you friend. You sound deranged. If you really need a place to scream about killing leftists, go to the park. The homeless vets will probably yell at you to shut up but I promise Amazon won't try
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by courtf 6y ago
This was before he got a taste for Goya. Funnily enough, China also promised Trump some magic beans if he would legitimize Kim Jong-un.

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