etripe

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by etripe 5y ago
> Lack of imagination is not our problem. Perhaps not in developers, but it is where it matters: most upper and middle managers. There's an incredibly conservative, risk-averse attitude. If you're risk-averse, all you see are c
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by etripe 5y ago
Ah, the awesome flavour of Markov chain nonsense that is auto-generated docs. I think the existence of this phenomenon shows the danger of strictly adhering to policy that was written by someone who never suffers its effects.
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by etripe 5y ago
If all you have is a ban hammer, everything looks like a flame? I'm not sure that criticism is entirely valid, as it looks at European institutions exclusively. Surely lobby groups and their perpetual pressure on legislators play a rol
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by etripe 5y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. The other linked studies are, too.
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by etripe 5y ago
> A mere photo can be used [to] guess political preferences fairly well Really? Could you provide me with a link? It seems counter-intuitive. I look pretty much like my barber, but he's right-wing tradcon and I'm oldskool left-
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by etripe 5y ago
> you can admit to yourself that you are attracted to a variety of genders without thinking of yourself as being queer. Sure, I can think of myself as bisexual instead, which I do. (tongue in cheek) I can't speak for anyone else, bu
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by etripe 5y ago
The private sector has one sole motivator: the profit incentive. All else is incidental, including the oft touted "making the world a better place". Some companies do make an impact, like pharmaceutical companies developing a COVI
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by etripe 5y ago
> That doesn't translate to the job being useless or BS Did you read Graeber's book? I have seen a lot of the mechanics described in every job I've ever done, including roles like the Box Ticker or the Flunkie - or whate
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by etripe 5y ago
That sounds a lot like Sweden's approach to prostitution, where the clients are punishable but sex workers aren't. The result is sex workers are less safe than they are in countries where prostitution is legal or decriminalised, b
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by etripe 5y ago
I can empathise with your experience, as someone who is either just inside or outside of Asperger's. If you're on the diversity and inclusion committee and no one is challenging the return to the office, can't you? Or is th
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by etripe 5y ago
> No employee ever genuflected to me You're arguing in bad faith by making a caricature out of my argument. Please don't. I meant there is a clear dependency, like in software. Your app isn't free of dependencies if it imp
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by etripe 5y ago
> Under freedom You're confusing freedom with capitalism. Understandable, since we need to spend 40+ hours a week to earn our "right" to shelter, survival and general health. In other words: the right to exist and particip
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by etripe 5y ago
> Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future And, by extension, from a carbon light future through better nuclear in small form factor and molten salt reactors. Renewable is great
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by etripe 5y ago
Also, EU citizens aren't expected to pay tax to their home country when they live abroad. I've been led to believe Americans are.
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by etripe 5y ago
Liking this kind of thing correlates highly with being extraverted. In the general population, off the top of my head, "you people" (tongue in cheek) represent about 60%. In tech, I'd wager it's skewed heavily in favour
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by etripe 5y ago
Additionally, it might be cross-pollination from Germanic languages, which I think all have the word.
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by etripe 5y ago
Thanks for planting the image in my head of an evil empire behind a Geocities site. Just a small thing to add: you can be highly intelligent and still gullible or conformist. A lot of the evils in the world are also caused by those: naivité
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by etripe 5y ago
Isn't that also what people said about Flash?
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by etripe 5y ago
> it gives them a tiny - compared tot he dodged taxes - tax benefit for basically free. Well, if I remember correctly, the Dutch government enabled avoiding something to the tune of 30-40 billion euros last year. The benefits for the Dut
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by etripe 5y ago
> I've occasionally heard that Swedish is the closest in simplicity Speaking English and Swedish fluently, I'd say Swedish (and Danish/Norwegian) is simpler grammatically, as it just has the one conjugation per tense regar
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by etripe 5y ago
It's not entirely so black and white, and it's definitely no XOR. You can work hard and fail due to being unlucky - as far as I understand it, that's most people who start their first business. You can be lucky and fail upwar
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by etripe 5y ago
> feminism means "believing in equal treatment / equal opportunity / etc While this might be what feminists like to tell themselves, that is untrue. Feminism is (and can only ever be) the movement asserting women's ri
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by etripe 5y ago
Have you never seen people decrying unequal representation in, say, tech? I've seen plenty of people make that claim and expect the distribution of groups to match the distribution in the general population. That's equality of out
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by etripe 5y ago
> not present in the article at all Did you find any evidence of sexism in her first example? Is it unreasonable to say she jumped to her own conclusions there? Do you think there might have been more going on in her second example than
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by etripe 5y ago
I'm disappointed the best she could do summing up her 20-year experience as a woman in tech is high baseline agression, cynicism, two examples of violence on her part, one genuinely off-colour remark and one piece of unacceptable behav
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by etripe 5y ago
Is it at all possible Teams is coming back due to a company group policy?
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by etripe 5y ago
I haven't personally heard of that job title before. How technical would you say you are? Do you advise on or design technological solutions as well, or is it about org charts, BPMN, etc?
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by etripe 5y ago
Well, the first outbreaks in Europe were in Italy and Spain, too, so I'd say they had more of an excuse than the rest of us. A big contributor (at least according to local epidemiologists) was the numbers here in Belgium were over repo
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by etripe 5y ago
What are your reasons for assuming business travel is a necessity outside a pandemic? Why do you think remote work is only feasible during a pandemic?
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by etripe 5y ago
Thanks, didn't know about that shorthand!

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