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by jtr1 7y ago
The phrase "there are multiple papers" with no attribution should be considered as something analogous to a code smell.
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It means drool
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Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies(washingtonpost.com)
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I'm intrigued by this and definitely open to learning more about de-growth models. Would you mind providing some examples of the policies implemented in these countries?
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Good lord, what a schlocky piece of propaganda this is.
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Cory Doctorow on Library Socialism(boingboing.net)
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The author seems to be describing something like a multi-stakeholder cooperative. Instead of members just insisting that you give away the content free, you could also directly involve members in the governance of organization, giving them
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Geo Group Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector(forbes.com)
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Absolutely agree. The idea that competition will drive up wages rests on the assumption of a labor market with enough liquidity for employees to jump freely between roles. I do not understand the purpose of pinning health care to employers
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> No, you add value to their labor and in return get to keep some of it. How much value? Who determines how much you get to keep of it? These are highly charged political questions that have driven a lot of economic history! > But to
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> And what happens to society as a whole when we abandon a person's right to own the products of their labor? You don't acquire a $100 million fortune by performing 1000x the labor of a person with $100k, you get it by skimming
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Yes! Tech employees are responsible for keeping some of the biggest engines of the economy running. You have influence, especially if you band together with your colleagues.
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Lifelong english speaker, American. Never heard this one in software until today.
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Doesn't it seems like a bit of an abuse of language to refer to former bitbucket users as "refugees"?
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I'm not saying OP made a stellar point, but "drivel" is an unnecessarily aggressive descriptor here. Try to assume good faith and draw out an argument that elevates the overall discussion. You're raising a worthwhile co
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Please stick to the community guidelines and respond directly to the argument. Calling a response "sanctimonious drivel" does not make your reply more compelling.
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The fourth estate is critical infrastructure to a functioning democracy. I know that in the US, we've kind of accepted a certain level of decay in the system, but I can't see how this does anything but accelerate the transition of
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This has been NYT’s schtick for as long as I’ve been reading it: pick up some trend among the young trust fund class of New York and breathlessly report it as a generational shift. It’s a decent ad-mover.
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by jtr1 7y ago
A few years ago I worked at a ~50 person startup, where an informal poll revealed everyone on the engineering team to be in an age range of ~24-30. One day we interviewed an insanely qualified dude in his mid-50s. He’d worked with technolog
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Perhaps you’d be willing to share an example of an idea about which he has convinced you to change your mind?
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Real socialists very much distinguish themselves from liberals. If the labeling seems inconsistent, it's likely because the spectrum of American politics is so narrow the two get collapsed into each other. Socialist politics have been
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The Race Is on to Build a Better Battery(fortune.com)
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I did not call it evil _because_ they support free speech. I call the specific content of that speech evil, and I call the act of promoting that specific speech evil. I would call ISIS recruitment videos evil. If someone created a social ne
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by jtr1 7y ago
> ...they were getting censored from other social platforms so they built their own. It just so as happens that over time they have attracted vile users to the platform who have way more unpopular views. My point is that there is not muc
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Certainly. And here I am, pointing at some speech and saying "that's bad."
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A fair request. I did sign up some months ago to see for myself, but you can get a good idea perusing the references on their wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
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Yes, yes, we're all familiar with the Patrick Henry quote. If my statement is so ridiculous, then point out why instead of making bald assertions. I made no argument about the value of free speech. I am arguing that, given the fairly o
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Ah yes, freedom from slavery, the politically correct flavor of the moment.
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I don't share any such appreciation for Gab. IMO, "free speech" in this case was a thinly veiled excuse for white supremacism, which has plenty of other homes on the internet. The developers of Gab chose to devote substantial

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