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by glesica 13y ago
One very common meaning for the term "bigot" is basically someone who dislikes a group of people for no good reason. The term is often used as an umbrella term for "racist", "sexist", "xenophobe" and
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> "Sir, I disagree with you whole-heartedly, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." Yes, but this applies to censorship. No one was censoring Eich or asking for him to be censored and, even more import
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> ...despite the complete lack of evidence or accusations of him using his position at Mozilla to advance those beliefs. No evidence was necessary, because it doesn't matter. I refuse to buy products from companies owned by
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> What specifically did he do recently? Refused to apologize, even fake apologize, meaning he hasn't changed his views. He also came across as weirdly combative, trying to justify his homophobia by pointing out that homophob
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> ...you might be the one receiving this treatment. If at that point I'm wrong, then good. If at that point I'm right, then that will be an injustice, but whether Eich was forced out or not will have had zero bearing on
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I see you've never worked in a large organization... ;-) Bullshit jobs are largely jobs that managers create and defend in order to expand their managerial fiefdoms. A manager's influence in an organization comes partially from ho
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No, you missed the point. The information in the LAT article (sourced, on-the-record from NSA) was literally the same information NSA had apparently asked the Washington Post to redact just days earlier, "national security" bein
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I don't think that's how protected classes work. "Person of color" is a protected class. "Racist" is not. "Christian" is (perhaps, I'm not sure) a protected class. "Person who hates Christia
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But for a CEO, group memberships could easily be seen as part of his or her qualifications. I would see nothing wrong with boycotting a company that hired a neo-Nazi CEO, and I see nothing wrong with boycotting a company that hires a homoph
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That's against employment equality... Is it though? Are homophobes a protected class? Would a company be forced at the point of a lawsuit to hire a goose-stepping neo-Nazi if he or she had impeccable credentials?
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You can't be oppressed by someone who has no power over you. The powerful oppress the less-powerful, that's the definition of oppression. Speaking your mind (as the authors of the article did) cannot, in any way, constitute oppres
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True, but then you're talking about legislative votes, so more important than voting is action by pressure groups. Maybe it's accurate to say that they are "lobbying" themselves money.
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I don't know that it has anything to do with voting since, as I pointed out, the bloat-causing rules come from both parties.
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I had a professor who assigned his own book when I was an undergrad, but he specifically didn't get royalties on those copies of the book (they were sold to school, we had a textbook rental system), and he explained this fact on the sy
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- increasingly top-heavy administration (hey, let's add another $300K Assistant Deputy VP of Student Diversity, etc) providing a path for faculty to 'advance' in their careers I'd like to point out that much of the adm
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But if he doesn't know what a centrifuge is, then how does he know that most people wouldn't know how to use one? Maybe he's an outlier... Also, I don't think anyone is saying the prosecutor should be an expert at infose
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> need to at least understand the basic details in order to maintain their ethical obligations to their position, the court, and the defendant. So, if he didn't do this, and knew he didn't do it, couldn't one argue
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> My point is there is such a thing as too much regulation. Or just poorly constructed regulation. I agree with you. I want taxi regulations, because I've got enough historical and international perspective to know what wi
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Just because the regulation and political system failed doesn't mean they must fail. Iceland did pretty well for itself in the aftermath, even having let the bad behavior slip past them. And Canada apparently never let the bad behavi
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But again, you are proposing that all power be given to the larger, more powerful entity. And I totally disagree about the usefulness of "what ifs". Without "what ifs" we would all be stuck wandering around waiting for f
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Instead of whining about it, why don't these companies negotiate with cities to find ways that they can raise revenue for the cities and generally help the communities they operate in? They do drive on public roads, etc. Why not prop
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But I think the point the article is trying to make is that people who are good at politics will end up with power whether you officially have a flat structure or not. So then management needs to be used as a way to keep the whole thing in
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> ...very, very talented people... But what does that mean? People who are very, very good at building software aren't necessarily good at interacting with others or following basic social rules. Same goes for any field (rep
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> It's unfortunate TechCrunch and Valley Wag posted the story without first corroborating at least some piece of it. I think we have to be careful with statements like this. Yes, they could have tried to find a Github employ
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I understand the concept of a signal, my point is just that there is more to college than creating signals (or even "education", however you define it) for the individual students. There are social issues involved that, in my opin
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Well, first, I don't have a CS degree. Second, I don't see myself as servile, and I don't see how pointing out the logical and statistical fallacy in your comment indicates that I'm somehow "servile". I mean, m
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> Law school has been the fall-back for moderately smart liberal arts students... So what happens to the "smart" liberal arts students if the "moderately smart" go to law school and the "not smart" p
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It depends on what you want from college. For me, I got almost nothing from the "getting in" but a ton from actually "being there" (in fact, I liked it so much I went back after a few years). One of the problems I see wi
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So you have a sample size of one and you think you can draw conclusions from that? Sounds like maybe you should have gone college, or at least taken a stats class on Coursera... ;) Literally no one reasonable is saying that it is impossible
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The progressive media? Really? If anything, they're reporting on the class warfare, sure, but hardly "drumming" it up, conservatives and capitalists have been doing that all by themselves, both intentionally and unintentional

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