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by mason240 12y ago
I was actually let go from my job this morning; I'm so glad I came across this today.
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Mark Cuban: Why this tech bubble is worse than the tech bubble of 2000(businessinsider.com)
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by mason240 12y ago
I'm not saying that working world has to be competitive rather than collaborative. The OP is talking situations that are presented as being competitive.
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by mason240 12y ago
>attracts a certain type of person, and intimidates another. And it may be that it intimidates more women than men. This is classic horseshoe theory, where extremists on both ends of a spectrum actually wrap around and start to sound the
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by mason240 12y ago
What company is not going to check that box? I've worked for a company that claimed they did and it was always talked about internally in their "look how great our culture is" corporate-speak. Some developers even had the tit
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by mason240 12y ago
np
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by mason240 12y ago
I meant "just like," not "just" in the sense you mean.
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by mason240 12y ago
By far the biggest thing that surprised me after entering into the CS field 3 years ago is that being a programming just like a white collar version of being an electrician or plummer. Looking at the from the outside it seems like a career
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by mason240 12y ago
Making cops wear body cameras is the big fad issue right now, but it's kind of weird how no one is pointing out the public access to all police cam footage means ever interaction you have with the police will available to the public f
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by mason240 12y ago
They also had very different motives and methods for what they did.
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by mason240 12y ago
> Why would people expect Google to commit resources toward helping them do those things? Because Google doesn't care how people use the web and they want them to use it as much as possible, whether it's with FF, IE, or Safari.
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by mason240 12y ago
Accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a paid shill is pure FUD in itself.
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by mason240 12y ago
Google's new service is even better.
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by mason240 12y ago
Security is their objective; using all encompassing communication spying is their strategy for accomplishing that objective. This comment is not an endorsement of any NSA policies.
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by mason240 12y ago
Given the politics of any gender-issue related topic on Wikipedia, there is little reason to bother reading it, much less use it as an appeal to authority.
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by mason240 12y ago
When you are with your doctor there is a distinction between the two, but in general vernacular "female" is simply an adjective for "woman." They both mean the same thing, they just two different word types. For example,
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by mason240 12y ago
>A holy war is being fought I guess I know which side I'm on.
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by mason240 12y ago
>You can't control the internet. I don't think this true at all, and by telling ourselves it is we will be complacent when it happens.
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by mason240 12y ago
It is a new law that just passed last year, and I'm not sure if it has taken effect yet.
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by mason240 12y ago
In fact it's actually illegal in several states (MN is one) to ask about it on job applications.
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by mason240 12y ago
Most transparent administration ever?
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by mason240 12y ago
He explicitly addresses #2: >We are not going to escape this crisis by putting ourselves in a cage. There is no opt-out anymore. You can draw the blinds, deadlock your door, smash your smartphone, and only carry cash, but you’ll still ge
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by mason240 12y ago
Also this: But what many [communes] had common was a cascading systems failure of their foundational hypothesis — that social change could be achieved through self-transformation and the problems of power could be solved simply by ignoring
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by mason240 12y ago
Socialists hate the idea because it's still based on capitalism.
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by mason240 12y ago
BI is NOT socialism at all. We still have private property and capitalism based economy, just like now. If anything this is the pure form of the mixed capitalism/democratic economy/government model that every Western nation alread
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by mason240 12y ago
>And it didn't reach nearly your $30k a year - I have no idea where you came up with that number. The whole point of BI is to be a low-middle class income, which is currently about $30k/year.
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by mason240 12y ago
Is that why I have been seeing a Cloudflare redirect message at most sites I've visted this week?
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by mason240 12y ago
Which is why I don't feel bad at all. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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by mason240 12y ago
I seem to be getting that at about 30% of the sites I go to today.
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by mason240 12y ago
>A lot of people seem to be OK with dull, boring jobs, I'm a little shocked to see this sentiment, and even more to see support for for it from other commentators. Has anyone here actually worked jobs like this? I've had severa

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