ivojp

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by ivojp 6y ago
I don't think it's wise to impugn an app or service because we find their investors unsavory along political lines. If that's the case let's not forget Facebook is also funded by a Trump supporter and people live stream
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by ivojp 6y ago
It doesn't take any spin to get that message from the graffiti all around Portland; it's pretty explicit about what to do to cops.
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by ivojp 6y ago
Ok now do Twitter. And Facebook. And Gmail. And the US Postal Service.
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by ivojp 6y ago
No rational person could possibly see where you might be going with this. The relevance of the assumption is that I made the statement "the education in this country has failed us" - us being you and I. So the relevance is that we
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by ivojp 6y ago
Holy hell, calm down, bro. I never assumed everyone, I am replying to pmiller2. And yes, I am assuming pmiller2 and I both live in the United States. There is a pretty good chance I am correct about that. How fun are you at parties?
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by ivojp 6y ago
The fact that you think "surveillance communism" would be for society's benefit and that the idea of communist countries mass spying on their subjects is hypothetical shows how much education in this country has failed us.
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by ivojp 6y ago
Is imperialism unique to capitalism? What about capitalism necessitates imperialism? Was Soviet Russia not imperialist when it conquered much of eastern Europe? Is China's expansion and One-China policy not imperialist? Is quality heal
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by ivojp 6y ago
I believe it is a bad expression to use because what should be a critique of the data economy now is impugning aspects of capitalism. If the end you wish to effect is better privacy rights on the internet, you've lost more than half of
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by ivojp 6y ago
Well, counting up all the times in human history that governments had to violently force their subjects to accept private property rights or their ability to alienate their labor... let's see 0 + 0...carry the 1....um I've arrived
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by ivojp 6y ago
I hope this isn't the beginnings of a "true communism" type of argument. If it is, let's save some time and acknowledge the same can be said for "true capitalism" where the latter lacks the body count of the fo
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by ivojp 6y ago
I'll start with that I am all for the idea of intellectual privacy and the need for safe guards, but even I could only make it part way through this article (and if these are the people who are supposed to be leading the charge for eth
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by ivojp 6y ago
This is pretty narrow thinking; it assumes communism was some failed 1950's Soviet experiment and has no modern implementation. I doubt China limits it's surveillance to wiretaps and human agents.
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by ivojp 6y ago
Don't forget the part where you translated all 7 Harry Potter novels into flawless Latin because you've been both leaning Latin and brushing up on wizardry on the side.
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by ivojp 6y ago
I'm going to pose this question more in the context of their analysis and without consideration to anything else. There have been a myriad of studies which try to link minimum wage to worker productivity and the default assumption is a
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by ivojp 6y ago
I've been informed the term is "denylist" now.
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by ivojp 6y ago
I won't contest that history is not replete with examples of management failing to listen to warnings from their employees, but the leadership model most places employ is effective because history is also replete with management stayin
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by ivojp 6y ago
Because most companies are private enterprises started by some entrepreneur that had some vision for the good/service that is being produced. Presumably, you and your employer entered into some contract in which you are compensated fo
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by ivojp 6y ago
If not for the racial context, what other motivation would there be to change the terms? In what other context would someone object to arbitrarily assigning one color as good and one color as bad? Had they historically been called bluelist
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by ivojp 6y ago
I think it's a misrepresentation of my argument to say that because I mentioned that they appear in the dictionary that I am conceding that they are not good terms (although by your exclamation point at the end I am reading that part a
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by ivojp 6y ago
This is patently false. Anecdotally, I've never heard of CS students having trouble over figuring out what the terms mean, and furthermore, these are not strictly CS/software engineering terms. These terms appear in the dictionary
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by ivojp 6y ago
This cuts both ways; your ability to demand higher pay is contingent on that you can get that pay elsewhere. If other companies at your new LocalRate are paying substantially less, then your remote employer only has to beat those offers to