denverkarma

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by denverkarma 8y ago
It would be fascinating to see a meta study that ignores the traditional definition of organized religion and instead looks at “religious” characteristics. What are the behaviors that make Buddhism and Islam both religions? Beliefs that a p
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by denverkarma 8y ago
But the study specifically says that the data may indicate that people become more religious as they age.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Don’t gloss over all the atrocities committed by the Soviets and Chinese in the name of aetheism. Evil people will harness whatever philosophy is convenient to justify their actions.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
The irony is that there’s nothing more offensive to an observing Christian than when politicians try to quote the Bible. They don’t believe it, they misquote it and take things out of context all the time. The second most offense thing is h
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by denverkarma 8y ago
There may be some of that but I think you’re misunderstanding the predominant conservative view, which has two crucial parts: 1. Most conservatives believe that the government forcibly taking your money via taxes and using it for purposes y
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Kind of a circle jerk of poor summaries of the conservative positions on welfare. Generally the conservative argument is that welfare money should be earned in some way, essentially by doing socially constructive things (ie staying off drug
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Perhaps the post itself is too clever by half. It was about “why Bitcoin is going to fail” and yet all anyone is discussing is its well-told animal analogy.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
I’ve had Amazon Prime since the day it came out, but I’m seriously considering abandoning Amazon now. The ability to search and find items has deteriorated noticeably in the last two years as a hundred similar knockoffs appear for every sea
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by denverkarma 8y ago
These are amazing, thanks for sharing!
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by denverkarma 8y ago
But also wealthy single family owners being heavily subsidized by prop 13.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
It’s the government dictating who can live where and do what via egregious over regulation that bans people from the city. If they’d cut the red tape and let housing be built the economy would normalize toward construction cost over time.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Prop 13 is just a phenomenal transfer of wealth from the young and working class to the old and wealthy. Don’t kid yourself that it was ever about anything else.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Because the left thinks that the fix for housing shortage caused by governmental regulation starving the market of housing is for the government to intervene further and subsidize the thing they made unobtainable.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
I disagree that Amazon is not considered evil. But really I don’t think anyone deeply believes that these companies are good or evil in the personal human sense, rather it’s a question of incentives and interests. Google makes money by sell
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Google is so creepy.
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by denverkarma 8y ago
If you look it up you’ll find various reports that strongly link home prices with homelessness. First hit on google, for instance: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/As-rents-rise-so-does-Cal... To reinforce this
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by denverkarma 8y ago
Sounds like you’re trying to network people who want to “do something” but don’t have anything in-flight. How do you feel about engineers who already have a side hustle going and would like to find help to ramp it up?
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Americans Might No Longer Prefer Sons Over Daughters(nytimes.com)
2 points by denverkarma 9y ago|1 comments
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by denverkarma 9y ago
I suspect there are a lot of current hiring practices in tech that are going to be ruled illegal over time. I know first hand the university recruiting policy of at least one major tech company is specifically not to recruit anyone who is m
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by denverkarma 9y ago
One of the very best programmers I've ever worked with is female. She said almost this exact thing to me, basically: "On the one hand it's awesome that I can have my pick of any job in the business, on the other hand it sucks
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by denverkarma 9y ago
"Pushed out" is an odd narrative for an industry that is bending over backwards to try and draw more women in. Is it even possible that women (on average) are less interested in tech work and thus have chosen (on aggregate) to p
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by denverkarma 9y ago
Brutally worded but I get what you're saying. Our collective ability to not care about mens issues really amazes me.