hw-guy

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by hw-guy 5y ago
"Gov. Gavin Newsom, in signing the bill into law, proclaimed it a victory for racial justice and empowerment." I'm trying to understand what requiring LGBT board members has to do with racial justice.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Looks like Russia is reverting to tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...
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by hw-guy 5y ago
You have some unbelievably immature co-workers. I have worked at many jobs over 30+ years and have never once seen anyone in an engineering environment laugh at someone's disability, including stuttering.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
And I'm sure the management will keep yammering on about the "difficult conversations we need to be having."
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by hw-guy 5y ago
This is similar to the claim that an orange, say, can be cut into pieces that can then be put together to make two oranges. It turns out some of these pieces would be infinitesimal, and hence smaller than the atoms making up the orange (or
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by hw-guy 5y ago
The other problem is that every job goes through phases when it becomes a slog and you just have to put your head down and do it. If you are only motivated by passion, it can be a real struggle to stay motivated during these periods. This c
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by hw-guy 5y ago
A much better analogy would be a record store that stocks good music and terrrible music, and allows the customers to make their own choices. Nobody is made to listen to terrible music.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
So what if they do? Nobody is forced to attend. They can always invite speakers to give opposing views.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
I'm old enough to remember when the "Free Speech Movement" came from the left, and conservatives were the censors.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Of course, several times. This was in public school in redneck Jacksonville Florida, in the 60's and 70's.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
It is if Israel, the only Jewish state, is consistently singled out for criticism when other states with far worse human rights records are excused.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Many nations have an official religion, often enshrined in their constitutions or even their names; for example, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and several others are officially defined by adherence to Islam. Many of these nations have terri
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Also, without a fixed number of days that you are entitled to, the manager's decision about how many days you can actually take is too easily influenced by favoritism.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
That's probably already happened. The next step will be to take offense at the rewritten version on some other grounds such as "ableism."
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by hw-guy 5y ago
My brother is very hard to shop for, so we have reached a compromise: he puts together a prioritized Amazon wish list every Christmas, and I order as many of the items as my budget allows. He's unsentimental, so it works. Whenever I&#x
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by hw-guy 5y ago
It's not clear how they define the measure of "remote job opportunities." Wouldn't this score be, almost by definition, equal across all the cities?
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Knock on wood.
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by hw-guy 5y ago
I always thought it was a joint (what the New York Times calls a marijuana cigarette).
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by hw-guy 5y ago
It seems that this software predicts higher levels of crimes in areas that have had higher levels of crimes in the past. That's not bias--it's realism. And it would be inefficient to send police in equal numbers to all neighborhoo
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by hw-guy 5y ago
This article makes the common and facile error of assuming that Hispanics cannot be white. My South American relatives, and millions of U.S. immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries, would disagree. Hispanic/Latino are cultural and l
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by hw-guy 5y ago
You're absolutely right--I had misremembered the outcome of the trial--but it set in motion the idea of separating religion from science education, which now seems obvious to most Americans. And while the U.S. does have a wide continge
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by hw-guy 5y ago
The Scopes trial only settled things in the U.S.; presumably other nations and institutions needed at some point along the way to have their own equivalent. It's sad that New Zealand, normally regarded as a "developed nation"
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by hw-guy 5y ago
My wife corrects me when I use the word "girl" for any female over 18. Can I show her this to let her know it's OK now?
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by hw-guy 5y ago
As much as I would like to uninstall Edge--and in the past, Internet Explorer--I am hesitant to do so. I have frequently been forced to use various state and local government web sites that only work with IE. One time I even had to revert
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Once I concluded that I have ADHD, I made an appointment with a psychiatrist, although it's still about a month out. I expect he will put me on medication. Actually, it took me quite a while to get the appointment; many therapists have
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Sounds very familiar! I realized much, much too late in my career that I have ADHD; you might want to get checked for it (there are on-line self tests you can take first). I wasted many years underperforming in just the ways you've des
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by hw-guy 5y ago
The article mis-characterizes the politics of many of the founders. They are against the intolerant ("woke") style of much of the recent Left, but that does not make them "conservative."
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by hw-guy 5y ago
Reads like a parody of wokeness, complete with all the jargon: "colonized," "racialized," "BIPOC," etc. China has over a billion people; in what world is it a "minority culture"?
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by hw-guy 5y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-g...

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