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by matrix87 2y ago
> This is a terrible take, and one I generally see as a signal of lack of seniority in a software dev. It is absolutely everybody's job in the company to make sure it is profitable, unless you work for a non-profit. There's a t
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by matrix87 2y ago
Mexico has the same big metros like the US does, just look at Monterey and CMX > but it's not a prudent or even realistic option for most people. It may not be right now . But at the current rate of letting corporations do whatever
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I wonder if Mexican executives are also cheaper Maybe we should just buy from Mexican tractor companies instead if that's the case?
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by matrix87 2y ago
Maybe we should all move to Mexico then, I'm sure the government won't mind, so long as corporations get to do whatever they want
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> cheap goods john deere isn't known for being cheap
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by matrix87 2y ago
I really like Joyce but the one complaint I do have is his harder works require a bunch of homework Like if you're going to read Ulysses, there are a bunch of companion books that are entirely footnotes for the thousands of unexplained
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by matrix87 2y ago
Portrait of the Artist is also a good starting point It's way more approachable than Ulysses, the hard parts of it are more self-contained, and if the reader decides to go on to Ulysses they'll have a good understanding of Stephen
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by matrix87 2y ago
Keep pushing, it really starts to pick up after oxen in the sun Circe definitely makes it worth it. Even though that chapter is huge, it feels very short
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by matrix87 2y ago
Right when you're starting to think it's just nonsense, you catch some hint that there might be some sense behind it And it sucks because sometimes I really just want to write it up as nonsense and put it down, but is seems like t
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by matrix87 2y ago
It probably will be after this ruling Local municipalities couldn't get away with it because there's a very vocal and litigious activist crowd Considering how obsessed people are with property values out here, this is probably goi
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by matrix87 2y ago
> bottom-up, student-directed techniques Personally I'm kind of skeptical of "bottom-up" anything. People only bring it up in a negative sense whenever they're criticizing some "top-down" system but the alte
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Whenever there is an abhorrent state of affairs people try to justify it as natural or inevitable. They've been wrong enough times that I simply don't accept it as an excuse. Just curious: who gave you the right to decide how
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I mean, considering who runs this forum it really doesn't surprise me
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I don't think they're going to hunt them down like the gestapo If the homeless just kept to themselves and weren't actively causing public disturbances in places like SF, this wouldn't be an issue And it's an issue
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> who have nowhere else to go I call BS, there's thousands of other places in the country aside from downtown SF or other areas where they decide to congregate SC isn't banning homelessness nationwide, I highly doubt every muni
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> Fundamentally there’s nothing wrong with the position of supreme court to push the responsibility of lawmaking back on congress. One could argue, similarly to overturning Roe, they're diverging from a very critical precedent which
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by matrix87 2y ago
I have no idea why these publications are attacking him so viciously, like yeah he stumbled at the beginning but it wasn't that bad It makes me think that they all collectively decided beforehand to shit on Biden right after the deba
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I wonder if companies like coinbase use these authenticators as some kind of liability shield
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by matrix87 2y ago
I feel like actually getting rich people to behave in ways that benefit the general public is a lot less straightforward Suppose schools get funded like that. There's several other ways that the rich could ensure that their kids get a
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by matrix87 2y ago
Whether or not it's worth it financially isn't clear. The guy got 100k after legal fees. Not sure if that 100k gets taxed and to what degree. This was after the police department spread his mugshot around and tried to smear his re
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by matrix87 2y ago
The way you describe it, it sounds like the problem is a lack of parental involvement and not necessarily the schooling system itself
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do you have any specific examples?
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> Every public-school kid has to learn exactly the same things, in the same timeframe, in the same order, at the same pace. Standardization isn't a bad thing. If there are no standards, then how could the state identify poor educati
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by matrix87 2y ago
As an early career I agree with almost everything you say except doing it to quit and not work in industry I mean, I save quite a bit (more than a third after taxes) just because consumerism is annoying. But at the same time getting paid to
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by matrix87 2y ago
It seems like the barriers for becoming an expat are lower now than what they were in the 20th century. There are plenty of online expat communities. You can find maps, living arrangements, and machine translation all online In general, the
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The thing with bud light though, the beer is so bad that they have to compensate for it with some kind of marketing. Pretty sure someone mentioned nike above, the same people boycotting bud light are probably still buying nike. Even though
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> but that outrage wasn’t actually based on anything real What? This is marketing, if the customer stops buying, nobody gives a flying fuck if it's "real". You think the VP's boss or the shareholders cared if it was &
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> should cater to you bring in the word "should"... there's plenty of things that corporations shouldn't be doing that are far, far worse than not depicting some minority in an ad Like apple, nike, etc relying on bo
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> The term “virtue signal” is the backbone of the argument here and I have to confess I don’t understand. I don't think corporations have any standing to lecture regular people on what's moral. Corporations have literally zero
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From their VP of marketing... > Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach Two things: frats buy a lot of beer, so sneering at frats is essentially s

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