jayventura

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by jayventura 7y ago
Well, yes, you're excluded from discussing that oppression if you exclude matriarchy/patriarchy from parenting. As a society, we deem matriarchy/patriarchy in parenting as part of raising children. The entire idea of patriarc
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by jayventura 7y ago
Look up the concept of "natural slavery".
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by jayventura 7y ago
I'll give you a couple very extreme examples that you can hopefully find parallel in: Do slave owners get a seat at the table when discussing whether or not and how slaves are oppressed? Do white people who support Jim Crow laws get a
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by jayventura 7y ago
You have the right and freedom to disagree. But at least ask yourself why you disagree and why you think someone is wrong about their oppression. And then apply that lens of thinking to another era, say Jim Crow, and how your lens of thinki
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by jayventura 7y ago
Who decides whether or not evidence is based and sound? During the slave era, white slave owners believed they were doing good for the black man. That this was their optimal role in society. If you are not the oppressed, you cannot objectiv
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by jayventura 7y ago
Food for thought, something can be political without directly referencing domestic politics and political parties. Definition: "the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area , especially the debate or confli
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by jayventura 7y ago
Where would we be today if people stayed silent about discrimination in the workplace and society at large (racial, gender, sexual orientation)? Silence is a privilege . Silence is what perpetuates power inequity. Silence says to me: &quot
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by jayventura 7y ago
This is literally that NULL license plate problem! I wonder how many other systems this bug may exist in. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 )
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by jayventura 7y ago
> so any bio-accumulation of heavy metals or similar should be minimal What is "minimal"? Bioaccumulation isn't a magic meter that says "everyting below this trophic level is safe to eat." It depends on the persi
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by jayventura 7y ago
You'll see a similar thing in branding and advertising. For all the new yorkers on here, have you all seen the consumer brand ads on the subway? Almost every brand looks the same. I'm imagining it has to do with the way designers
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by jayventura 7y ago
Unless the original author doesn't want to endure going to court over this for a settlement check but still wants to try to invoke change by telling the world (or at least all Google employees) her story.
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by jayventura 7y ago
Even if we aren't irrigating crops directly with seawater, we may have to engineer crops to thrive on high saline irrigation anyways, as there is seawater leeching into aquifers in many agricultural centers around the world, including
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by jayventura 7y ago
"Socialize the costs, privatize the revenue." Sounds like most industries actually, where externalities are passed on to society. E.g. resource extraction.
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by jayventura 7y ago
I work in the agtech space and the way we look at indoor farms are that for now they are only a solution for expensive speciality crops (leafy vegetables). There's a lot of value in improving the production of leafy greens near urban c
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by jayventura 7y ago
What if Github was specifically optimizing for that end-goal though? It is hard to definite what productivity means unless you had inside knowledge of the goals of the business. Amazon took 14 years after their IPO to turn a profit, but tha
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by jayventura 8y ago
Interestingly, although 70% of New Yorkers felt positively about the Amazon HQ2, I wonder what that percentage looks like for the actual current inhabitants of LIC. For many of the folks I know who rent in Queens, they were very much agains