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by memling 5y ago
> It's less about one term being "privileged" (I must confess that word seems slightly unclear to me in this context) over another and more about the ease of treating people the way they would like, with no real downsides
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> It's possible to be against the idea of trans women competing in female competitive sports without intentionally misgendering all trans athletes/humans. Genuine question, one about which I haven't seen much in the way of
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> Their "best effort" would be to change the filibuster and get it done. This seems like an iffy proposal. Changing most judicial nominations to simple majority has had a significant impact on the judiciary. Eliminating the f
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> All truths and history are interpretations within religious (or ideological) frameworks. Truth as we use the word is not attainable. Is this statement in the set of "all truths ... within religious (or ideological) frameworks&quot
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by memling 5y ago
> It’s hard to take seriously an article that purports to teach about moral decision-making and doesn’t reference any kind of utility theory Can you clarify this a little? Utility is helpful, I would think, but there are cases in which
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> If someone is so biased that they become angry at the simple mention of a very abstract philosophical stance like atheism, is it really a good idea to placate them by pretending you are something else? I'm not sure what you mean b
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Indeed, the business was well over ten years old when I joined and had excess of 1M USD in sales. My boss matched my 401k contributions dollar for dollar without limit up to the maximum you can contribute. The health benefits were chancie
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As a student of German I was introduced to the Trabi through jokes, e.g., "How do you double the value of your Trabi? Fill it with gasoline! Why does a Trabi have a rear defroster? To keep your hands warm while pushing it!" etc
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Seconded. My first long-term job out of school was as the 7th man in a well-established telecommunications company. It had easily the best retirement benefit and work-life balance. Second to working from home, it was the best commute (sev
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> If just feel you must give, give food If you have the time, consider taking them out to eat if they're comfortable with it. A little food and time goes a long way.
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by memling 5y ago
> "Finessing" the conversation and telling partial truth is also lying. No one ever got hired without some lying, whether they exaggerated some part or left out another. I suppose that's an opinion, though I disagree. Ther
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> But it's going to be very difficult to explain why you left all of those jobs in a way that doesn't scare an employer. If you work at a place for two months, don't put it on the resume? If you have a gap in your employme
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> For instance, if they ask you why you left Amazon, you'd better not be saying "I found an important problem and I didn't get recognition for it." Tell them you had a personal emergency or something. Can I push on th
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by memling 6y ago
> Does M3 support carddav properly? No. This would actually be a pretty killer feature, and if they've implemented sync properly(?) maybe that's something they'll add in the future. > Also, can I add multiple mail acco
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by memling 6y ago
> What I DONT care about is the Email client they are working on. I'd rather see them focus on the browser features. Like you, I've used Vivaldi for years. I downloaded because of the email client. Opera's M2 was a gre
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by memling 6y ago
> The profession existed before the scientific method so there is a tendency to value authority over science. Anecdotally, my pediatrician has an inverted "trust pyramid" in some of their examination rooms. At the bottom—least
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by memling 6y ago
> The etymology is not even close to being relevant. Conflating two different meanings of the word "worship" and implying their equivalence is dishonest and deeply unsound. That is true even if it is the definition of worship f
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by memling 6y ago
> What exactly is there to unpack? You have modern-day humans going around believing that an omnipotent God impregnated a human female so that his son could sacrifice himself for the sins of humanity. It's patently absurd (though re
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by memling 6y ago
> Kind of sickening, to be honest. This kind of sorting could actually be a good thing if resources were adequately devoted toward helping problem students find better outcomes. I wonder, for example, if trades education would be better
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by memling 6y ago
> If you are a generalist and you feel undervalued, you're likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can't move the needle significantly anymore. Generalists could also be the pe
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by memling 6y ago
> Plus it doesn't make sense from a Christian perspective. The Roman Catholic branch and derivatives all believe everyone is genetically predisposed to sin through Adam's lineage, and that is a bad thing, and we don't have
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by memling 6y ago
> But that's always been a fucked up idea. It shouldn't matter whether it was predetermined or otherwise not in your control. If it's constructed then it's constructed. If it's not then it's not. People shou
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by memling 6y ago
> Going to the store in person? Or calling them on the phone??? It's not 1874 anymore, nobody wants to do either of those things. Signal-to-noise. I'd love having a knowledgeable consultant to help cut out the noise. For insta
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by memling 6y ago
> Maybe a good basis for differentiating “drugs” vs “medicine”? Perhaps, although I don't think in the way I'd take your statement. Chesterton was quite opposed to the idea that drinking would be medicinal (although maybe he w
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by memling 6y ago
> Nobody is arguing that. The debate is around whether manufactured public praise is tasteless I suppose it can feel that way, but on the other hand forcing oneself to find and appreciate others efforts and good qualities—even if there a
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> Expressing gratitude and accepting compliments are nice skills to have, but making of it a public show is just bad taste, IMO. I wonder if this is a culture or generational difference. I've found my employer's incentives &#x
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by memling 6y ago
my first programming job out of school involved working on a simulator with replay scenarios. a subtle bug arose due to what I assume was an optimization in which whenever a getter was called the value was incremented. during replay it woul
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by memling 6y ago
> Correct, as to my intent (I probably should not have capitalized the P). The taboo nature of facial tattoos is simply the evolution of a revulsion towards tattoos in general among "polite" American society. Until very recentl
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by memling 6y ago
> Facial tattoos are a traditional practice for many ethnic groups. Many modern practitioners feel that they're reclaiming a practice that was persecuted under American Puritanism. I'm curious about this: is there any record o
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by memling 6y ago
> The economy will also collapse if climate change keeps going, the oceans are empty, topsoil is gone, aquifers depleted, insect populations decimated... Yeah, there's a tension here it seems. But it's harder to fix a pension

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