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by kodah 4y ago
I would err on the side that this benefits Stripe somehow. Corporate entities don't "do the right thing because it's the right thing to do". They do the right thing because it's strategically advantageous to them.
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To conflate political alignment with investor opportunism is astonishing.
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I could be wrong about vows of celibacy, but I was pretty sure they have at least commitments to celibacy. Here's a story that backs up what I've said: https://archive.ph/ehobt
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Appreciate your input and outwardly not stomping on my experience. For what it's worth, the last paragraph of what I wrote agrees with you, not all experiences will be like mine and I've learned that as I've gotten older. I&#
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My school had non-Catholic pupils as well. After leaving I realized that a lot of what Catholic religious education is centered around is "acts of contrition". You're almost always guilty of something. They use these feelin
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by kodah 4y ago
I went to Catholic school. The indoctrination is non-stop. Seminary I would gander is doubly worse. I don't know how true it is but I've long heard that many gay priests discover that fact in Seminary after they've taken a
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by kodah 4y ago
Pre-IPO stock is about as secure as super glue based on toothpicks and bubblegum.
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It's worth reading this persons Twitter: https://twitter.com/ParetoOptimal_
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Your definition is correct under international law, but that definition mainly aims to serve policies governing war, so it's not especially apt here. Civilian in law enforcement jargon means a non-sworn position: https://www
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by kodah 4y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian It specifically mentions armed services, police, and firefighters are not civilians.
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I would rather that the incentive system be geared towards balancing quality of life with affordability. Clustering businesses together is how we go to paying for "Cost of Labor" which systemically advantages already very rich peo
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If someone is constantly projecting relationship advice social media topics on you'd I'd venture to say you're in an abusive/manipulative relationship as opposed to a healthy one. Glad you got out. I've learned more
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> The report identifies at “least a half dozen” active gangs and cliques — and names them: the Executioners, the Banditos, the Regulators, the Spartans, the Gladiators, the Cowboys, and the Reapers. This list isn't exhaustive but ma
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Yeah, I still don't agree with this. Skills become irrelevant, worker burnout and churn in tech is high, geocentralization and the requirement to move are also detrimental, the requirement to live in vastly expensive cities with reason
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> We are in IT business for God sake. We make crap ton of money, we can work from pretty much anywhere in the world and the market is still undersaturated by a lot. Obviously loosing job always sucks, but this social movement of caring a
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by kodah 4y ago
Small Jira instances usually aren't a problem. It's the ones with thousands of projects or plugins. It's the way enterprises force developers to use Jira so they can have "visibility". The problem with the visibil
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Tech isn't and hasn't been a meritocracy, I think a lot of people are having to grapple with this idea this year. Worse, a lot of people are also finding out that high salaries of tech often aren't worth it when you're f
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The GC iterations they were talking about were during incredibly high throughout. Most users would not notice this. It's not some general indictment of Go.
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All of these takes ignore the fact that college shouldn't be a privilege. As long as we keep to the point that only a select few can go to college then we'll keep fighting over scraps. Nobody in this debate wants a meritocracy bec
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by kodah 4y ago
The logic you used, if I may summarize: "There's lots of accidents, some of them have been ignored for decades, why care about this one?" Frankly because it's high time people cared about what's happening to their e
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Hackers steal gun owners’ data from firearm auction website(techcrunch.com)
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> but provides little help if you're writing for a broad audience and want to minimize blowback Does writing a guide or policing language that causes blowback provide help? If you're speaking to a room full of people and half f
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Personally I've read enough blog posts off that domain to not click that link. YMMV.
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> The guide also rejects the disabled in favor of people living with disabilities, for the same reason that enslaved person has generally replaced slave : to affirm, by the tenets of what’s called “people-first language,” that “everyone
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I told my partner about this and she replied, "That's literally how they talk to the AI in West World."
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The first stage of this is almost always executives that get comfortable smiling while lying to your face in townhalls. Next is when people start talking about "culture" as if its a tangible, ownable thing. Once the dominoes start
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Personally, I'm not a fan of the answers that amount to a cloud-hosted thin client. I use these at work, they're absolute technological marvels, but they suck. The real answer is a zero trust network that implements: - multi facto
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In what way is gain of function not bio-engineering? You're modifying a virus and subjecting it to human-like tissue to observe the results. Lab leak and gain of function are inexplicably tied. I don't know what point the quote
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Scientists can definitely make mistakes. What circles around lab leak that's most interesting was the rampant indictments that discussing it made you a conspiracy theorist, which prevented it being discussed or investigated for over a
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Lab leak involves bio-engineering because it involves gain of function research. Bio-engineering can be used in a testing setting but it could also be used to make a weapon. I highly doubt China was stupid enough to make a bioweapon and not

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