mkirlin

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by mkirlin 11y ago
>Rampant competition for talent and nowhere near enough awareness, coordination and collaboration. Oh no, businesses aren't collaborating enough to successfully push down wages and monopolize sales in their field. How terrible. We m
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by mkirlin 11y ago
Also an excellent point. The selling of non-lethal weapons has been a several-decades long exercise in manufacturers lying about the safety of those non-lethal weapons. Rubber bullets, tasers, it's all bullshit.
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by mkirlin 11y ago
Or better training and actual accountability. It's not like cops use tasers judiciously and intelligently.
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by mkirlin 11y ago
Yep. Watch the Walter Scott footage: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/shot-and...
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by mkirlin 11y ago
"$1b+ in sales" == "has failed"? Christ, I hope everything I do fails so well.
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by mkirlin 11y ago
Nope. A guy is a man, multiple guys are multiple men. Gender-neutral equivalents: people, folks, team, friends, colleagues, you all (and various similar regionalisms - yoounz, y'all). Good on him for making the effort.
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by mkirlin 11y ago
Yep. If anything like this actually happens, there isn't a chance in hell that money's getting funneled into the pockets of the employees.
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by mkirlin 11y ago
I more or less agree with your reading of this. I found it a little curious that the author didn't mention anything about researchers taking a slightly different tack, like the people who designed the Pronto, a South African-designed c
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by mkirlin 12y ago
"It's crazy how, in our company that's entirely white dudes in their mid to late 20s, we don't really have many issues with sexual harassment, ageism, or racism. We've moved beyond those concerns!"
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by mkirlin 12y ago
Valve always gets brought up as an example of a flat structure that works (and it already has been in this thread). Here's an interview with a former Valve hardware engineer describing how the system works in practice: http:/&#x2
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by mkirlin 12y ago
Subject-verb agreement for the internet age will have to wait for a while.
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by mkirlin 12y ago
Just Google the title and click the link to the story. Goes right around the paywall.