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by jjj123 5y ago
If you’re interested in getting into civic tech I can’t recommend this book enough: A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell ( https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1040593 ). I read it about 6 months in
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by jjj123 5y ago
Yeah I think most understood the parent comment’s “it’s not about money” to mean “it’s not about money lost on illegal refills.” We hear your point that it could have been a bit clearer, but you’re agreeing with the OP.
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by jjj123 5y ago
Do you disagree that someone who’s gone through something traumatic _off_ the battlefield (sexual abuse for example) could develop PTSD?
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by jjj123 5y ago
From what I’ve seen you’re right, but I think it’s a case of incentives distorting people’s beliefs. I would assume there’s also a correlation between the “don’t do anything about climate change” folks and limited government/capitalist
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by jjj123 5y ago
No, because it doesn’t apply to bezos’ first ~$50 million either. I’m good with him keeping that if we can redistribute the rest.
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by jjj123 5y ago
There are two main disagreements I have with this point. They’re values based, so I don’t expect to change your mind, but to give you some perspective on why people roll their eyes at these stunts: 1. I don’t think we should be looking tow
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by jjj123 5y ago
I’m not sure you can make that assumption. Part of what makes these social networks echo chambers are the unconscious ways we navigate them: how long we linger on a post, stay in the site, etc. I’m not sure whether conscious decisions like
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by jjj123 5y ago
First paragraph claims that hostile architecture discourages “anti-social” behavior. Skateboarding and sleeping in the park is not “anti-social.” Instead, these activities don’t make anyone any money, and might even lose money. That’s anti-
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by jjj123 5y ago
The parent comment was helpful for me, a developer who hasn’t written much C and didn’t read Variable Length Array as a proper noun.
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by jjj123 5y ago
You’re getting a lot of comments along the lines of “aren’t you being inconsistent by letting your dog eat meat?” And I just want to add one point (not for you, OP, but for the group of replies). We don’t have to be perfectly consistent bei
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by jjj123 5y ago
I hear that and I do think that raises the ceiling for pay, since you can pay engineers a ridiculous amount of money and they’re still a net positive. If there was a surplus of engineering talent I guarantee you our salaries would drop sign
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by jjj123 5y ago
I mostly agree with you but I do think you’re missing the most important piece: who has power and leverage. Low level employees don’t have much power (in the US at least) so they’re overworked and underpaid. Senior leadership are literally
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by jjj123 5y ago
That sounds great! Who’s paying you to take a 15 month sabbatical?
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by jjj123 5y ago
I think you’re being a little too literal. I can’t speak for the author, but when I think of poverty in the US I think of the inability to pay for or access basic needs: housing, food, healthcare, education, free time, etc
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by jjj123 5y ago
The article says 1900 of the 2500 unruliness complaints over the last year at one airline were due to people not wearing masks.
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by jjj123 5y ago
Relatedly, I had the same concern as the OP (not about security, but about privacy and selling my data), and I read the “security” page on your site and totally balked at how there was not one word about selling data. I would drop that whol
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by jjj123 5y ago
Wouldn’t something awful’s “main claim to fame” be that it shaped internet humor as we know it today?
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by jjj123 6y ago
Since when is that the only purpose of taxes? I have no idea how efficiently the Korean govt distributes capital, but there are other reasons inheritance taxes are a good thing. Primarily because they limit the concentration of generational
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by jjj123 6y ago
Suicide by cop is different, and refers to when the person killed wanted to die at the hands of the police. No idea how common it is, I’ve only seen it in media.
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by jjj123 6y ago
If you have trouble concentrating while reading, consider reading while exercising lightly. Pre-covid I would read while on the elliptical at the gym and I could go for 90 minutes or so totally engrossed in the book, which was pretty much u
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by jjj123 6y ago
Well they are doing some of it for just that reason, like they raised the minimum wage to $15 (which is actually pretty good) and wave that around in their anti-union propaganda. I bet they’ve done all kinds of risk calculations around incr
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by jjj123 6y ago
It’s not just about the bottom line, it’s also about power. Without unionization, Amazon has complete control over their workers wages, benefits, and work contracts. Unionization shifts some of that control to the workers themselves. Amazon
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by jjj123 6y ago
What are you talking about? Lots of people in stem complain about women being unrepresented in top tech organizations.
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by jjj123 6y ago
I don’t think the OP is being downvoted for saying a bad trip can be a really awful experience. OP got downvoted because bad trips aren’t bad enough to put people in prison for possession over.
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by jjj123 6y ago
What do you mean by “it’s just skin tone”? I’m going to take it you’re asking if I think all inequalities between white and black people in the US are based on interpersonal racism regardless of class? Obviously that’s not true. However, th
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by jjj123 6y ago
Well in the US race is inextricably tied to class. We have a long history of limiting the economic opportunities of Black people that’s led to a pretty extreme black/white wealth gap. So in the US at least, class issues are race issues
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by jjj123 6y ago
Is that when they stop caring? In my experience discovering your own racist behaviors is when you can actually make a positive difference by changing said behaviors. Much better than drawing a line between racist and not racist people and a
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by jjj123 6y ago
Who’s canceling MLK?
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by jjj123 6y ago
There is no need for sources on this. This is how design works in modern tech. You build UIs in a way that improve your own metrics, which in this case is probably ad spend. They’ve likely run hundreds of A/B tests on the way ad data i
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by jjj123 6y ago
I have no doubt I’m disconnected from a large part of our society, but genuine question: is Jordan Peterson mainstream? I know he’s very popular but doesn’t seem like he’s broken out of the right wing/apolitical young white male demogr

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