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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I'm missing the part how suffering chronic distress (over financials) is part of a "good" or "okay" QoL. I’m highlighting that a minimum wage hike is not the answer. And depending on your constitution chronic s
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Not to mention the skyrocketing costs of college, increasing rent in a lot of major cities where jobs are, and the constantly increasing cost of healthcare. I hear you but you are looking at it from a very skewed perspective. Look at c
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> $10/hr is not "okay". I had a good quality of life on around that as a single man. Of course if you live in SF where a coffee can set you back $5 or $6 and you eat out for half your meals it’s hard to really understand.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Because the US now gets no new jobs but the price for the cars will go up as the labour cost increases Over the long term it will help drive automation which will lower the cost of cars and bring jobs to the countries with high levels
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> which referred to the protests led by MLK as “riots” as well. Were there riots along with the protests? Because there are now. > I posted a link to a reputable news source. The right wing militias are well known, and the “boogaloo”
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> What makes you think so? Most reputable people I know consider them stupid. Do they consider them stupid before they learn about their flat earth beliefs or after? I found a few of my work colleagues are into it - and they are high per
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by iateanapple 6y ago
What kind of conspiracy theory? If it’s the “people” kind then what you have to realize is actual conspiracies happen all the time - there are many interwoven plots, ulterior motives, and hidden agendas going on all around you. People are g
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Ok, but what's your point in bringing that up here? To foster solidarity amongst the working class.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I see someone isn’t a fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. Organizations change. In the same way that just because the democratic party has a horribly racist history doesn’t make the current party horribly racis
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> In my current Fortune 500 job, I was hired for my expertise then was moved to a new team where my expertise didn’t even matter. Every issue that came up that I had qualifications for I was passed over for a lesser skilled White man How
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> but then it's really interesting to see that so many people repeatedly pick the very-moderated HN over places like 4chan. Do they? HN seems small compared to 4chan and tiny compared to Facebook. I’d say more than three quarters of
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> What is relevant is the opinion of actual experts on the topic of autocracy. What happens to the “experts” when they are wrong?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Most often these objectives are very clear to the rest of the team. > Also I can’t believe you “know” something is “important enough to interrupt them” > “junior” dev is worth a quarter of a million dollars a year So the objectiv
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I am definitely not knocked out of the zone when someone asks me a 5 second question and I give an even shorter reply I’m not understanding how you can possibly understand and prioritise your colleagues requests for help in 5 seconds.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> no amount of downvoting by the alt-right fringe lurking here will make the facts go away. What facts? What alt-right fringe? Trump was voted in by tens of millions of Americans and still has tens of millions of supporters. > At the
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by iateanapple 6y ago
The tech giants are the biggest risk to democracy of the decade - and you are equating them with being a library. You can’t talk about nuance when we aren’t even reading the same book. ISPs have a tiny fraction of the power of big tech.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Is there no gray area allowed for organizations dealing with literally millions of people? There is plenty of grey area - but as soon as you start pushing politics with your platform you have well and truly crossed the line. The tech g
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> A prominent person lied If what he said was a lie then all the tweets about the gender pay gap are lies (as an example). Where are the fact checks on those tweets? Choosing who to fact check based on political alignment certainly seems
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by iateanapple 6y ago
Agreed - so why not deal with the bad eggs individually? Because at the end of the day most managers aren’t really concerned with productivity - it’s far easier and less emotionally draining to just proscribe blanket bans. That’s one of the
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> It is, you are putting your own issue in higher regard just because you don't know someone else’s situation. Most of the time the communication is within the team and we do know the other team members situations (work wise). And
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> The person asking for attention will communicate what topic they want to discuss. I can then evaluate if that topic is more important than whatever I am working or focused on. I think that’s how the vast majority of office communicatio
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You tell them politely that you are focused on a task, and to wait until you are free. If I’m coming to talk to you then I think it’s important enough to interrupt you. You are in effect gimping local communication.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> If you prioritize the local coworker over your remote coworkers simply because they're nearby So the right answer is to answer calls etc from remote colleagues promptly - not to ignore local coworkers who walk over. It’s not to ma
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> He's failing at that to. He'll go into the history books as the worst president the US ever had by a wide margin. Unlikely. Once the constant negative media coverage dies down the hate will fade as well.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Working with a largely distributed team, I trained myself to treat all of these requests the same. Why?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> the deplatforming efforts have been comparatively minimal Compared to what? From my perspective the tech censors are already on thin ice - I actually don’t see how they could ramp up efforts much more without facing serious opposition.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> If you look at a basket of well-being measures as opposed to raw GDP it's hard to argue It is too soon to argue any of those measures. You can’t take a single moment in time in the middle of a crisis to judge.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Number of his supporters arguing that objectively there's no such thing as a good president :-p That’s probably a bad metric because his supporters love him. It’s the swing voters making those kinds of comments because they want
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> who is a complete and utter failure as a businessman yet people keep throwing money at him. Perhaps you are judging him by the wrong metrics? Trump has always wanted to be a “great man” of history while being able to live a life of exc
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them Despite huge deplatforming efforts over the last decade fringe views have grown to become mainstream and there is less trust between people than eve

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