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by kls 6y ago
It is a well thought out and well put together article. In todays day and age and current climate, classical enlightenment era spawned liberal thinking is a nice change of pace.
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by kls 6y ago
Also wanted to note that I find this to be a well thought out rebuttal.
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by kls 6y ago
To be clear I was not advocation for the removal of the banks right to remove him and certainly not arguing for the government to have the ability to step in. Just highlighting that I personally believe it is a bad path we are trudging alon
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by kls 6y ago
I don't understand why society is so hell bent on punishing people for thought crimes. To the extent that they make trouble for corporations, in effect forcing their hand, into the position of separating that person from their liveliho
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by kls 6y ago
I am really not up on copyright law, but I see this as analogous to someone writing a book. Say I wrote a book and titled all of my chapters the same as another book, the book was given a different title and the chapters themselves where ve
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by kls 6y ago
To clarify, as I read this situation, it would be more analogous to you host a party, someone at your party tells someone else that I killed a person, it is a factually untrue statement, it ends up having real world ramifications for me. I
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by kls 6y ago
My understanding, and I could have misread the article, but my understating is, that this is a private party that wants the data in a civil matter. Free speech has it's limits and in this case it appears that limit is libel. The govern
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by kls 6y ago
If this former Citi employee can successfully argue before a court that his views are the result of a sincere religious belief then I believe he should get his job back. To be clear on my position, I am not advocating for the government t
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by kls 6y ago
As a further note on this, I am of the opinion that loosing ones security and safety net pushes them further to the fringe. I think this is a problem with modern society no one is listening, everyone is pushing when they should be pulling a
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by kls 6y ago
In court filings, attorneys for the social media giant claimed such a disclosure would violate the First Amendment rights of a user to be anonymous. That ship has sailed, it seems convenient to argue for their users first amendment rights
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by kls 6y ago
I think a better example is Westboro Baptist Church they are a protected class and I think there are more individuals on this site that would disagree with their protected class status due to the fact that they more reflect the ideals of QA
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by kls 6y ago
I am not advocating for the government to step in, if anything I believe their is overregulation of certain business relationships (not all). I was making the personal observation that I do not like the practice and that the pendulum always
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by kls 6y ago
I am in no way arguing that you cannot, just making the observation that social contracts change and a secondary and personal point that I find the practice detestable. I do not want someone to loose their livelihood because I disagree with
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by kls 6y ago
If they have not committed a crime or aided in a crime, I personally don't have an issue with it as if they have not committed a terrorist act they are by definition not a terrorists. Lets move the hypothetical situation a little what
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by kls 6y ago
I am not inferring that their politics or cult like leanings are acceptable, but if he is not bringing it into the workplace then I find the practice reprehensible. At one time this was done to people of other belief systems / politica
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by kls 6y ago
"Within days, Citi had put him on administrative leave and his name was removed from the company’s internal directory. He was later terminated. “Mr. Gelinas is no longer employed by Citi,” the company says in a statement. “Our code of
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by kls 6y ago
Right, while I don't live in that area, I do live in an area with a similar cost of living (Key West), rent on a decent home running near or above 3K and an apartment / townhome in the Key West Oldtown area can run up to 4K. Avera
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by kls 6y ago
Also follow up tip, welded metal does not look hot but it can be very hot far away from the weld. When learning try to not pick it up with you hands, use a welder clamp or some grips. Assume all metal is hot, but when learning you are inevi
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by kls 6y ago
It really does not have to, equipment is a tradeoff for time. The ancient civilizations produced a lot of masterpieces with simple hand tools. Not to mention the French periods of fine furniture such as Louis XIII which was the late 1500&#x
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by kls 6y ago
There is an old saying in construction and woodworking, all defects can be covered up except for a board cut too short.
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by kls 6y ago
Or you just cheat and epoxy the thing and then poly it for UV protection. Gives a nice glass smooth surface, but every woodworker will know you cheated and took the easy route and you loose the feel of a nice oil finish but everyone who is
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by kls 6y ago
I learned to weld when I was a kid, I was raised on a citrus farm by my grandparents and when you grow up on a farm you are by virtue a farm hand. My grandfather was past the age of "I want to learn new stuff" and a lot of modern
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by kls 6y ago
Malcom X gave a great speech on the dangers of these people and their use and co-opting of black and fringe causes. It's crazy to think that he gave that speech almost 60 years ago, and it sounds like he is talking about modern politic
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by kls 6y ago
My mentor was a professor at MIT for a time and then founded his own company. I joined his company as a young hot shot that thought I knew it all, I was a good hacker but not a good developer and I learned that quickly working with him and
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by kls 6y ago
I have a cousin who is a travel welder, he is young and single. He is making over 100k but he has to relocate for work about every 6 months. It's a great gig for a young man, but ones lifestyle would have to fit how the work comes to t
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by kls 6y ago
Wood working, classic automotive restoration and several other hobbies tend to scratch a similar creative itch that software does. They each have a element of perfection above perfection, unlike software success in a project is easy, but si
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by kls 6y ago
I think it is funny you mention 10 years because I would agree with you, in the last 10 years we corrected a lot of the sins that we did in early web dev, but I think the lament reaches further back. Move back 25 years ago and it was much e
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by kls 6y ago
My house was destroyed by Hurricane Irma and I had to gut the interior. I found an area where, I am assuming the previous owner repaired as I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine a licenced electrician would do it, anyway the area, was an ar
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by kls 6y ago
I have the same reaction to THC, smoked the stuff once, and convinced my friends that I was actually dying so they dumped me off at the hospital. Never touched the stuff again. If you have anxiety issue THC can spike them and cause you to g
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by kls 6y ago
I will never understand this mentality, I mean if the child is an out and out slacker maybe I could understand, but to this day, if I fell on hard times I have a host of family members that would take us in, no questions asked. We as a fami

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