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by dnissley 5y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...
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Because stocks don't always go up
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Personally, I'd like to see the ACLU take up the issue of "hostile work environment" legislation. The ambiguity of this term and the various ways different courts have interpreted it seems to be one of the greatest threats to
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by dnissley 5y ago
I disagree. Those things seem big when you first discover them -- there's really nice feeling that comes with finding them out. "Ohhh, I'm X, so that explains why I have preference Y". But some people try too hard, to ha
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by dnissley 5y ago
To be fair, that's a rather large topic. Not to mention one that PG wouldn't be terribly qualified to answer I don't think. How do you go about your life knowing that some sizable portion of it identifies you in a way that af
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by dnissley 5y ago
Definitely not, although any grouping of beliefs with a concept mapping to original sin strikes me as religious. So kind of a "not all rectangles are squares but all squares are rectangles" situation.
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I suppose it's too soon to tell if they take off, but they seem to fit the bill to me: Priests, holy writings, dogmatic beliefs, original sin, etc. As a way of bounding this definition, I don't think javascript would count as a re
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by dnissley 5y ago
I don't think it does, so long as one uses a sufficiently broad definition of religion (e.g. crypto, wokeness). Also my impression is that there was a spike of js hate ~3-5 years ago that has since subsided. I think it grew alongside t
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A more modern analysis can be found in The Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri. His hypothesis is that what was once an information trickle has become a virtual tsunami with the internet + cell phones + satellite television, etc. Governmen
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If sellers didn't receive purchasers email addresses through Amazon, they wouldn't be able to pull back channel crap like this.
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A related angle I haven't seen much investigation on is to what degree we'll see negative excess deaths (surely there's a better term, but I'm at a loss) in the coming years due to how much covid impacted older folks.
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It occurs to me now that this somewhat resembles the squabble over the “commons clause” and whether or not software using it is open source.
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I've worked under several women who have let it be known that they detested the particular archetype of the "techbro". Yeah, they didn't go and write a book about it, but even if they had I'm not sure if I'd re
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by dnissley 5y ago
It just means that they are brands that got their start selling on Amazon.
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by dnissley 5y ago
There's a tricky balance that needs to be struck between personal agency and the mechanisms which society puts in place to prevent aggressors from victimizing people. One such mechanism is the mentality of "believing victims"
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by dnissley 5y ago
Let's talk about the individual and collective consequences of mass data collection. Are you saying you know something about those? Do tell! Maybe I'm just terribly dense, but I seriously can't think of any reasonable objecti
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by dnissley 5y ago
To awkwardly extend the metaphor: If a group of people trying to boil the ocean are convinced that the basin of the ocean is just a really big pot and argue that anyone who argues otherwise is a BAD PERSON obviously it would be great if we
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by dnissley 5y ago
The problem is the definitional issue is the foundation of many of their arguments. If you give in here, then it's much easier for them to convince you that something must be done. "There's not much we can do as a company to
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I'm a pretty left leaning person and I mostly agree with the things he's quoted as saying in this article. I hugely disagree with the way that white supremacism has had it's definition widened within certain circles and how t
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Hadn't considered that -- but has there been a rise in childhood psychological trauma? There's definitely been a shift in the way we talk about trauma, just in the sense that we open up about it more, so that could be part of it.
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by dnissley 5y ago
Yeah, for the most part I agree, I just think that it's possible to frame the fact that a lot of guys simply being at a loss of how to go about this can be framed as a societal failure of some kind. These kinds of skills are rarely tal
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by dnissley 5y ago
I think it's taking it's naming from "Reddit Enhancement Suite". I've seen a couple other extensions also go with that naming convention such as "Google Meet Enhancement Suite".
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I think the answer would go along the same lines as answering the question "whose fault is it that you can't get a job?" when aimed at an identity category such as women or minorities. Basically: society has failed them in so
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Revealed preference doesn't always work well as an explanation for why people do what they do though. E.g. if someone falls for an investment scam a-la Madoff, the person obviously didn't want to end up destitute because of that.
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Yeah, that didn't come off as dismissive in the least. It's a thoughtful ~500 word response.
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The default in my experience seems to be companies that have a generic policy about what is acceptable to talk about in the workplace, which usually excludes the topics of politics and religion. Some articulate it better than others, but wh
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Of course they do? The alternative often mentioned in this context is to have some kind of democratic system for setting a definition and then resolving disputes around it, but certainly you can see how we've already started down a pat
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I don't have much experience with the MAGA folks. I know far fewer of them than the wokes. In my experience they are more likely to live and let live, at least outside of their incessant facebook posts, but that could just be my bubble
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I think people get confused because many on the right use cancellation to refer to both firing people who have done something that's truly vile, as well as those who have been fired for simply having an unorthodox opinion. E.g. Harvey
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by dnissley 6y ago
Here's a list of the alternatives to goodreads I collected from this thread, along with some thoughts on how each compares with goodreads. 1. OpenLibrary: https://openlibrary.org/ No user reviews, but they do at least

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