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by listless 5y ago
I think two things can be true at once here… 1. We have GOT to close some of these loopholes now that we know what they are and… 2. Someone should go to federal prison for this leak We can’t undo what we now know about avoiding taxes and we
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by listless 5y ago
I can only add with my own anecdote. My son dated a girl when they were both 14. This girl had gender dysphoria. She was suffering from a lot of other externalities, but she swore she was a boy. Fast forward 3 years and she is now mature, o
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by listless 5y ago
I support this. My kids have had a single zero on occasion for a missed assignment and it demolished their grade. No way to recover. This is not a good measurement of whether you grasp the concepts. It’s a good measurement of whether you ma
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by listless 5y ago
Yeah - you can’t beat an indifferent 3rd party. They’ll find all the stuff that you either code around or innately know not to do.
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by listless 5y ago
This is a great article from Jess - as all her writing is. The only rejoinder I will make here is that in my experience doing enterprise dev, the software is bad because there is little or no QA. I only worked in one enterprise where the de
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by listless 5y ago
This is a troubling trend that I see in my sons and that I battle in myself. Why go out and compete for money, success and sex when those things are at your fingertips. I really think it’s as simple as “turn off the TV”. The problem is that
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by listless 5y ago
“Instead, they ask to "defund" the police, and then redefine "defund" to mean that many of their daily services should be given to others more qualified for peaceful resolutions, without carrying weapons, and police shou
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by listless 5y ago
This is true and one of the reasons I remain religious. Faith in an ultimate resolution allows you to persevere the suffering you will invariably go through. The loss you will certainly experience. It seems to me that without faith in somet
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by listless 5y ago
I agree with the “class” part. And that’s what it always is. Everybody looks down on somebody and that almost always gets conflated with racism.
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by listless 5y ago
You gotta come visit rural Appalachia and see if you still think they have any power. We have turned our poorest, most vulnerable populations into the enemy. We did it in the 80s/90s with young black men, then in the 2000s with Muslims
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by listless 5y ago
Right?! That’s the real story here. When the heck did that happen and why did it not work?
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by listless 5y ago
I got downvoted into sweet oblivion for making this exact point in another post. This whole thing is religious. In fact, it’s so religious that it’s caused me to question my own religious beliefs now that I’ve seen an actual religion assemb
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by listless 5y ago
Maybe, but you’d have to back that up with at least an anecdote. I agree with OP and the fact that most racists are extremely poor and rural with no power makes them a downward punch for most people.
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by listless 5y ago
Why frightening?
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by listless 5y ago
I understand the frustration, but the comment is very “us vs them”. I also feel like you do, but we can’t operate on that because it’s pure bias. That kind of thinking has gotten us in to a proper mess as a culture.
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by listless 5y ago
The guy might be an asshole, but his advice is rock solid and it’s worked wonders for me. The thing is, Dave showed up at a time when credit cards were how people lived. Leveraged to the hilt and no savings. He will be the first to say that
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by listless 5y ago
Fair point. Maybe we could say “labor competition”?
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by listless 5y ago
Then the media is utterly and in conspiracy theory fashion lying about the situation on a daily basis. I’m not saying that’s not the case, just that it’s not the message the rest of us are getting, maybe and including these counties wanting
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by listless 5y ago
Objectively, it doesn’t seem to matter if an area is masked or not. The virus won’t be stopped. Just compare Florida to California or Georgia to Washington state. I know what the models say. But my eyes deceive me.
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by listless 5y ago
Another _could_ be letting people in Portland tear the city apart with impunity.
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by listless 5y ago
That’s the “Walmart” qualification I made. And I agree 100%. Big corps that can pay should absolutely do that. But they aren’t going to. I know that because if they were, they would have done it already. You could force it up with this stim
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by listless 5y ago
Your competition gives away free money. That’s, hard to compete with. Also, I’m not sure what people think the margins are in most industries, but there isn’t a lot of wiggle room to raise wages unless you are Walmart. If you want wages to
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by listless 5y ago
These tech publications are so biased that it’s hard to get through even the first paragraph. In the first two sentences they talk about violence on only one side and the call Venmo “petty”. I hope we get to a place some day where we as con
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by listless 5y ago
I think this is the key: We need to skill/educate these folks. I know that sounds counter-intuitive because they are supposed to be punished. But if we don’t, they will come right back. And every prisoner is a burden on the tax payer.
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I want to print this out and nominate it for a Pulitzer
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Yes, but the important thing is that the vaccine is available. They chose not to take it. The argument that we need to keep each other safe no longer holds.
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I agree. The economy is complex. You can’t tie 12 trillion of spending directly to inflation. Negative side effects manifest in ways we don’t expect. In this case, drastically increasing wealth inequality. It’s interesting to me that softwa
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by listless 5y ago
By “agenda” I meant it in the sense that this isn’t about accessibility as much as it is this person getting points for a call out. That’s a bad faith interpretation. So not presenting that as irrefutable fact.
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I think it’s the “harmful” rhetoric that signals “I have an agenda”. We really need to get passed this charged way of conveying perfectly valid feedback. Because come on. It’s a chat app.
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by listless 5y ago
It does certainly verge on being a tabloid at times. While I don’t know that it’s a reputable source, neither is the NYT, or public health for that matter, when it comes to matters with clear elements of race. When you sign an open letter s

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