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by einhverfr 7y ago
Living in Europe and being a bit closer to the war zones, I can tell you it has affected my life in a large number of ways. It is a big reason why a lot of my voting in the US is for whoever seems more anti-war (within reason).
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I will admit to having avoided arguing with one of my colleagues about whether it is irresponsible to have more than one child in the current state of the world (he thinks it is, and I have three kids).
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Its worth noting my colleagues and I have very different political views when we talk over lunch but I find it very insightful to see different views and we are all on good terms over it all. And I think we do think about eachother's
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Can you discuss with your SO why the vegetarianism without getting into political questions like: 1. What are our obligations to organisms we eat? 2. What are our obligations to each other? 3. Is vegetarianism an obligati
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by einhverfr 7y ago
But you can't go into depth very far on any of these without reaching political topics, can you?
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Look up WL Gore and Associates. They have thrived on a very different company power structure. Or maybe their founder was right and the power structure wasn't different (he thought official power structures were not where the power
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by einhverfr 7y ago
All opinions can be rationalized through a particular lens can they not? Are you asking Google to be a voice of reason in the debate over global labor markets and liberalization of SE Asian economies for example? Doesn't that give you
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I think the problem is that the US has developed for various reasons (including a lack of discussing politics) a series of echo chambers and people don't connect politically beyond their echo chambers. In urban California, among softw
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by einhverfr 7y ago
The larger problem is that the IP assignment clauses are way too broad in the US. When I worked at Microsoft I had one that theoretically covered everything I wrote regardless of when, where, or on what devices. As an hourly worker, thoug
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I just checked my contract again. If the patent is outside the scope of my work activities, and I don't write up the application while I am at work, I don't see how they could claim it. But then Americans have these funny "a
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Private conversations are protected. So even in Germany if a report to me confides he admires Hitler I can't fire him for that. If he says so on a public channel, that is different (and depending on what is said might be criminal, bu
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by einhverfr 7y ago
A useful way to think about this is that the Supreme Court ruled the state cannot punish someone for advocating genocide in the abstract at a KKK rally, not because advocating genocide is somehow a natural right or that free speech is absol
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Yeah, it is what my colleagues and I often do over lunch break. Since it is a break, it is outside of work, right?
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The issue was that tying political opinion to jobs was what the Fascists did in the 1930s. So it's kind of a "Never Again" category. It isn't entirely enforceable but companies cannot use it to fire people based on pri
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by einhverfr 7y ago
In the EU, freedom from discrimination on the basis of political opinion is considered a fundamental right, and is mentioned as such in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Private conversations about politics thus is entirely outsid
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by einhverfr 7y ago
One thing I learned in Europe is to discuss politics over food. Food is like CS Lewis said about smoking a pipe: It gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth. What that means is that people get to spend time t
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Also if we can't discuss politics over disagreement in a civil way seeking to learn from each other even where we find the other points of view difficult, then all hope for a better future is lost. Nobody ever learns from mere agreeme
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Very insightful reply. I think there is a specific problem in the discussion of how class is discussed in the US today, which is that Americans think of class in quantitative terms, i.e. it is about how much money you make. But these the
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by einhverfr 7y ago
> that religions hinge on explaining the unknowable I don't think that is right. Mircea Eliade suggested that the primary function of mythology was a series of stories our lives could participate in and experience, and I think tha
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Very interesting and provocative read, so another book on my reading list. I grew up in small town America myself. I now live in Europe because in part it reminds me of the nice life I experienced there -- focus on family and community rat
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This was also the original idea of Object Oriented Programming before people thought the real world was a good analogy.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Indeed the rise of ESPP's due to ERISA are why I consider Nixon the closest President we've had to being actually Socialist.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
My experience is you want to move fast by reusing good software. This means that well understood components should be well engineered and documented components, while poorly understood problems might reserve documentation for the future. A
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by einhverfr 7y ago
One additional principle is this: When faced with a standard solution, use a standard component if you can. If you can't use a standard component, build a standard component. Keep your components simple, well-understood, and easy to m
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by einhverfr 7y ago
As an interesting note, my time in Indonesia introduced me to Sukarno's writings, which introduced me to Gandhi's writings on nationalism. These have been firm influences on my view that the choice is not between nationalism and
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PostgreSQL: Table Inheritance – What's It Good For?(ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)
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by einhverfr 8y ago
The problem is we have not found good ways to market and attract technical writers. Documentation is harder than testing and having people who are both good business analysts and good writers on a project are really important. In my view c
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by einhverfr 8y ago
For most of my time as a software developer and engineer I released code under GPLv2 and BSD licenses. It paid the bills because I knew how to sell what I was doing. I charged enough to cover the time sink. Now I am a world-class expert
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by einhverfr 8y ago
I have made my living doing open source software development for a number of years now. My perspective here is a little different than the article's. There are, in reality, three ways that open source software comes to be. The first
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by einhverfr 8y ago
As an American residing abroad, and married to a non-American, I tend to get a lot of trouble from FATCHA and the like. These laws effectively force me to put all savings in my wife's name because that's the only way I can deal w

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