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by fatjokes 5y ago
Yeah, obviously Twitter for me. Twitter is a clout machine. It is purely for brand building and very little else. After all, there's only so much you can do in a hundred-or-so characters/words/whatever it is now. The result i
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by fatjokes 5y ago
The University of Spoiled Children may not be the best example for counterarguing nepotism/cronyism ;)
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by fatjokes 5y ago
Korean hangover soup is where it's at! Nothing beats a hearty stew for me.
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by fatjokes 5y ago
A bit O/T, but a few things from that blog jumped out at me: 1. I clicked the we're hiring link. Most roles are in EU (particularly UK and Spain). Is that for cost reasons? I know hiring engineers is cheaper in those two locations
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by fatjokes 5y ago
Company-wide month off sounds amazing. Would you be willing to name it (would be great PR for them). If not, would you give a sense of geography, industry and size?
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by fatjokes 5y ago
They had an IPO and their user count spiked. The former requires a ton of work on the finance/management team (great writeup here on HN recently. The link evades me). The latter probably necessitated some rearchitecturing.
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by fatjokes 5y ago
I'm skeptical. If the minority gifted* students could change the culture of the regular classroom the bullied nerd wouldn't be such a trope. *Let's say that by definition, gifted = a small top percentage of students.
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by fatjokes 5y ago
I'm curious who that one UBC prof is claiming to be victims of the "racist" honors programs. Vancouver is like 80% white or Asian (including South Asian) [1]. The disadvantaged groups in California: Latinos and Blacks, make u
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by fatjokes 5y ago
As a former "honors"-program student, I found that the main value of the program was the group of like-minded peers, whom took their educations seriously, were competitive on academics, extracurriculars, and other achievements. Th
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by fatjokes 5y ago
Love the obscure reference.
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by fatjokes 5y ago
Yet that is not what we see happening. Indeed this is affecting those who look Asian, let alone Chinese. (The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes is now well reported and easily Google-able in both right- and left-wing media). The issue is calle
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by fatjokes 5y ago
"We're free market!" ... "Whoa whoa, not like that." Seriously just pay these people more.
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by fatjokes 5y ago
I consider myself pretty progressive and am a paid subscriber to both the NYTimes and WaPo, but it's pretty gross and obvious that there are newsworthy items (usually with a conservative bent) that they avoid. I find myself reading the
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Twist: all of this was a very expensive Apple TV ad! In all seriousness, if what you say it's true it really makes me want to watch Tehran.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Boy... QAnon is gonna love this.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Man, look at that clean, readable HTML source! Growing up View Source was how I learned the bulk of my HTML/Javascript. Miss those days...
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I hate to be that guy and I know this is not the point of the article but... > Pat is a programmer at a large software company. At best, he’s a middling performer; his code is a mess (initializing variables that are never used, using var
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by fatjokes 6y ago
> Then why post? ... Seriously? Because it's the Internet and I have a few minutes to kill here and there.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
> I mean, as you point out, it's not always all that great for those within the US's pole, either. But to me, China and Russia seem to be more aggressive in asserting themselves in dominance over others. Tell that to Latin Amer
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by fatjokes 6y ago
>> False equivalency; no one is arguing that. >Really? Can someone clarify what my earlier quoted passage was referencing then? I wasn't trying to straw-man the OP. IIUC, OP's quote just means that a lot of existing books
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I'll try to make a good-faith response. > does anyone seriously think that a Chinese global hegemony would be better False equivalency; no one is arguing that. However, a multi-polar world is appealing. The US is certainly not alway
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by fatjokes 6y ago
> At the end of the day it seems to me that any free society that supplies energy as a service shouldn’t be dictating what individuals do with that electricity as long as they pay for it. This doesn't compute for me. We can (and do)
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by fatjokes 6y ago
What's wrong with letting people live how they want to?
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Oh God I'm glad it's not just me that was feeling this. It's been pointedly obvious that there are narratives they want to push and there are clear newsworthy items that they do not cover for fear of making some groups look b
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Based on Elon's tweets I hope he starts accepting Dogecoin soon...
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by fatjokes 6y ago
It wasn't because of a meme stock. It was because RH took on a huge risk. Up until the last few weeks that gamble paid off in spades, but the chickens have come home to roost. Take the good with the bad.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
My personal bigger fear which leads to cooling isn't that big corps extract data about me and try to sell me things, but rather small, dedicated Twitter mobs (I'll say it, wokes).
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I imagine it may not be that simple, given the segregation of ethnic populations. I.e., people probably interact more frequently and closely with others of the same ethnicity, so the average effectiveness may not be sufficient.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I'm not saying he (Jennings) is wrong, just that it's a douche thing to say. I'm not sure how I feel about cancel culture and I don't think Jennings needs to get "tarred" for a tweet. That said, I also don&#x27
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted. I wasn't aware of that comment. A real surprise given his image as a dorky guy.

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