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by jazzyk 11y ago
So, you cannot possibly offend white males? In your world, apparently only women and minorities have the right to be offended.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I don't particularly like the sweatpants and the puppy rooms, etc. but I can live with it - they will grow out of it over time. What I am much more worried about are two things: 1. More students are joining the constantly-offended-by-e
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Make no mistake, it is all by design. Counselors, puppy rooms, etc. - the "higher education" industrial complex needs to keep growing and justify the ever-increasing tuition. I put "higher education " in quotes because i
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You can enjoy wonderful, flavorful food (including fats, etc) and be healthy and look like a model. Just ask the French. I visit France every year and I am always amazed how well they eat while staying slim. They don't obsess over heal
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by jazzyk 11y ago
The theory you brought makes no sense for two reasons: 1. If all women mated with the same small group of genetically-gifted men, there would be much less gene-mixing and variation in their offspring. Not good for evolution. 2. Monogamy was
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by jazzyk 11y ago
A beautiful aspect of our lives reduced to narcisistic, transactional, dehumanizing consumption. I realize the article was exaggerated, but I have run into people like that in real life. Depressing.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I believe the proper term is statism, no? Collusion of big business and the state.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You were downvoted (not by me) for not providing anything meaningful to the discussion, not because of your bias. Stop being a victim, don't blame other people every time you screw up (as we all do from time to time)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Exactly. Pop-culture in the US (and high-school/college kids are drowning in it) is very anti-intellectual in general. And getting worse every year (reality shows, etc). But a lot of discrimination comes from female peer-pressure, not
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by jazzyk 11y ago
She got a well-paying development job despite apparently being incompetent. On what planet is this a "disadvantage"?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Doing management right means your team does not have to work until 8pm every day.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
She obviously was not socially disadvantaged (as many people in inner cities, etc are), since she had a decent paying developer position at GitHub. Perhaps, just perhaps...instead of spending time dealing with the rug, she could have brushe
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by jazzyk 11y ago
"women who are trying to make things better for women" Please explain how removing a rug promoting meritocracy makes things better for women.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
s/union/guild/ just like doctors, lawyers. A good doctor/lawyer is not easily replaced, and lawyers have fantastic negotiation skills by definition :-) Yet they have very powerful guilds (professional organizations)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
This. Limit the supply based on skills/qualifications, not who your Daddy played golf with (as it often happens in blue-blood law firms).
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by jazzyk 11y ago
On paper. In reality, there are many loopholes (the more money involved, the more fully legal loopholes)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
There have been many proposals on the table. Most republican proposals called for cutting the nominal rate, while getting rid of all the loopholes. I like it because it introduces transparency. What good is a high nominal rate, if nobody ev
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by jazzyk 11y ago
The number of people who can choose their job based on how they want to live is dwindling rapidly.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
No, it is a bit more complex. Within the Warsaw Pact, there were essentially two levels of utopia: "socialist" and "communist". "Socialist" countries (Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia) allowed limited private owners
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by jazzyk 11y ago
There is a difference between petitioning and bribing. Oops, excuse me, I meant to say "donating to the campaign". Or paying $300K to hear them speak for 30 mins: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-03/
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by jazzyk 11y ago
"There also is a shortage of high-skill developers. Compensation north of $250k-$500k is becoming standard" I don't see it at all. At least in Boston, salaries seem to top out at $170K, perhaps a bit more if you have a _reall
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by jazzyk 11y ago
An upper middle class lifestyle is not going to happen on $180K in SF either - if you are senior level, but have a family and want to have an adequate place to live. Median home price just hit $1M. We are talking _median_, not a mansion. h
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I think he added an extra "A" there at the very last minute. :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
There have been FinTech meetups in Boston and NYC going on for a while now. Predictably popular (given the two cities' role in finance) Will not comment on whether it is a fad/scene word :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Just like the NSA spying on US citizens, right?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Call me cynical, but I think most of the legislation introduced is driven by lobbyists from the start anyway. General public may have the illusion that these regulations are in the interest of citizens, because of clever wording and names u
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I disagree that the "meritocracy rug" story at GH is irrelevant. It is another example of political correctness taking place (at GH, and elsewhere), but with a strong feminist-driven aspect to it. Fervent feminism absolutely tries
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You did not get his point: what is offensive to one person may or may not be offensive to other people. Where do we draw the line?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Down-voting can be used as censorship, if not used properly. As in downvoting because you don't agree with the opinion, rather than because the post is irrelevant, ad-hominem, or content-free. If you don't agree, post a rebuttal.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
>"Fortunately, you don't own GitHub." The above comment was downvoted (not by me) because it does not contribute anything to the discussion (everyone knows he does not own Github)

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