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by hashberry 8y ago
> We haven’t seen a lot of open source projects doing well after the parent company had been acquired. Seems premature. Often the project gets forked when the parent project goes downhill. Right now NGINX is an excellent, stable, perform
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by hashberry 8y ago
Is anyone disturbed by the amount of media coverage by the mainstream media? Here is how the New York Times is covering it, multiple articles saying the same thing. They want their own content to go viral: http://nytimes.com&#x2F
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by hashberry 8y ago
This "sex censorship" includes child pornography, since the availability of it caused Tumblr's app to be banned from iOS.[0] [0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-
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by hashberry 8y ago
I'm curious about this as well. From her Wikipedia article[0] and experience in online sales, maybe it means this: > Author Shoshana Zuboff called Sandberg "the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism." [0] https:/&#x
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by hashberry 8y ago
Some theories: 1. Rebranding Facebook as secure and private 2. If this increases usage, more opportunity to display ads 3. Their data shows they gain more information by monitoring what people publicly share, not say in private 4. Removes a
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by hashberry 8y ago
Interesting spin from the NYTimes ("Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox"[0]): "The departures follow two years of scandals for Facebook around data privacy and disinformation. The issues have buffeted the Silic
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by hashberry 8y ago
Look up James Damore. When men comment on women's career choices, they get fired. And now men are getting banned from Twitter. Probably because "sexism."
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by hashberry 8y ago
I think sexism is also involved. Media professions attract more women (my journalism and marketing classes were filled with women). And the media loves to cover the gender gap in STEM. So now it's a bunch of guys tweeting to women tell
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by hashberry 8y ago
He is an infamous provocateur. I'm pretty sure this is the real reason why he was banned: https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/6/27/15880582/anita-sa...
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by hashberry 8y ago
I find I change my language depending on my audience. Sargon was addressing the alt-right in an interview and using their own racist and sexist language against them, to insult them. It doesn't seem like he was attacking the black comm
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by hashberry 8y ago
I had many summer warehouse jobs doing picking and shipping/receiving. I busted my ass off with lots of manual labor and strict timetracking. But my co-workers were not exactly the brightest of the bunch: alcoholics, ex-cons, high scho
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by hashberry 8y ago
An interesting tidbit on minimum wage: > According to the Pew Research Center, when adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum wage in America peaked at $8.54 in 1968. If the federal minimum wage had kept up with increases in worker pro
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by hashberry 9y ago
> The state only exists to keep capitalist enterprise in check. John Locke would disagree. The state exists to protect the rights of people and the public good. "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins."
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by hashberry 9y ago
I understand that cult leaders can be problematic. But do you think his followers are becoming a danger to society?
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by hashberry 9y ago
Jordan Peterson became famous after a student tried to debate him about his "Nazi followers" and gender pronouns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP3mSamRbYA Many people see him as an enemy because of his conserva
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by hashberry 9y ago
My problem is that my procrastination is an addiction. There is a voice in my head telling me of all the productive things I need to do, and I enjoy rebelling against that voice and doing my own thing. And then there is the nature of workin
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by hashberry 9y ago
The original Star Wars was about a son and his father, with redemption, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice. "I am a Jedi, like my father before me" still gives me shivers. But now Luke Skywalker says: "It's time for the Jed
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by hashberry 9y ago
This debate is called Great Ape Personhood[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood
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by hashberry 9y ago
There are two important aspects for successful remote working: - Your company culture - Your personality For example, there is no way I'd participate in "very, very chatty" non-work meme sharing. First, people in my company
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by hashberry 9y ago
Yes, skin color does matter, read up on Critical Race Theory. To be colorblind is to be racist because it ignores the disadvantages one can't see due to one's own privilege. The theory states that inequality is due to racism and a
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by hashberry 9y ago
> Depression has to be about something more than just beliefs; it has to be something fundamental to the nervous system. Is he saying thoughts and beliefs aren't fundamental to the nervous system/CNS/brain? What if people
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by hashberry 9y ago
University degrees are a form of social signaling. It's a status symbol. I've met many self-taught developers with liberal arts degree from top ranked schools. I have no doubt their degrees helped them get their foot in the door a
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by hashberry 9y ago
I dated someone who worked an administrative position... she would complain of coworkers who would do nothing all day. She said her job was being done by three people when only one was needed. The lack of oversight and actual work being don
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by hashberry 9y ago
Bernie wanted to tax daytrading/Wallstreet to fund college education. I like this idea but it would probably cause the stock market to crash.
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by hashberry 9y ago
"The alt-right didn’t invent ‘alt-left.’ Liberals did."[0] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/0...
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by hashberry 9y ago
> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology. For those interested in more info behind this statement[0]: In a post, [The Daily
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by hashberry 9y ago
I'm skeptical of blaming education. For example, 69% of developers say they are partially self-taught[0]. I've worked with many talented developers with liberal art degrees. The main takeaway of the memo is that women are filterin
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by hashberry 9y ago
Yes... for the first time in my career my desk is next to a window with natural light and fresh air. All previous positions have been in cubicles or stuck in the middle of an open floorplan.
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by hashberry 9y ago
> I just dont understand how people who are supposed to be so smart can be so dumb. Aspergers or something similar. Watch the Jordan Peterson interview. He's not well-spoken and he's not even that passionate. It's a joke t
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by hashberry 9y ago
Yep. Teens (ages 13-8) lose 1 percent of their grey matter every year[0]. [0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work...

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